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Monthly Archives: January 2006

The Rabbit Gives Good Advice

I think so, anyway, that this is spot-on:
Here’s the main thing I want to say to you: Most women are fucking moody and weird, particularly the smart ones. I don’t know a smart, interesting woman who isn’t a big, complicated pain in the ass, myself included. I do know one woman who’s relatively low-maintenance, but [...]

Cattle and the Creeping Things

A nice lyric:
i was seeing double for 3 straight days after i got born again it felt strange but it was nice and peaceful. it really pleased me to be around so many people. of course half were just visions but half of them were friend from going thru the program with me.
It smells [...]

Ludvig von Mises

Quote (from this week’s Economist): “It may sometimes be expedient for a man to heat the stove with his furniture. But he should not delude himself by believing that he has discovered a wonderful new method of heating his premises.”

Judge Loren Smith

From anecdotage.com:
Smoky Suspense
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Loren Smith was a maverick smoker. He became a legend at a certain out-of-town meeting on election law:
The other participants in the elegant, white-carpeted conference room in which the meeting was held, watched in disbelief as Smith repeatedly declined an ashtray for use with his eight-inch cigar - [...]

The Entropy of Everything

After three weeks of disuse, the printer doesn’t want to acknowledge anything the laptop has to say.
Three weeks is, apparently, the time it takes for the second law of thermodynamics to work its course.
More ominously:

“Nevertheless,” continued Callisto, “he found in entropy, or the measure of disorganization for a closed system, an adequate metaphor [...]

Fisher: SSRIs jeopardize feelings of romantic love

Hmmmm…
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
Foremost,
as SSRIs elevate serotonin they also suppress dopaminergic pathways
in the brain. And because romantic love is associated with elevated
[...]

Today we learned how to iron…

No, it wasn’t a resolution or anything, but Good to Know nonetheless.
Later, Melissa is coming over to demonstrate the Ironing of Shirts, as we have comprehended only pants so far on our own.
Tomorrow: navel lint update.