December 2010
10 posts
NYTimes.com: Kafka's Last Trial →
This quote from Israeli writer Etgar Keret sums up the article and the strangeness of the situation it covers nicely. It may be applicable to Franz Kafka’s works as well.
The next best thing to having your stuff burned, if you’re ambivalent, is giving it to some guy who gives it to some lady who gives it to her daughters who keep it in an apartment full of cats, right?
I wonder how...
mental_floss on tumblr: Who's the Murphy of... →
mentalflossr:
Murphy’s Law is less of a law and more of an old saying: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” It is named after Edward Murphy, who was an American aerospace engineer who worked primarily on safety-critical systems. Most of his efforts went into developing escape systems for experimental aircrafts, such as the F-4 Phantom II and the SR-71 Blackbird. Murphy thought that...
Christmas!
Done before. Don’t care. As appropriate as ever.
Merry Christmas!
Oh, Santa! You do love the liquor!
Seriously, though, I’m lying right here until I get the cookies. Because it’s Christmas, after all. What else would I do?
io9: Four-hundred-year-old king's head identified →
[T]he head has been ‘in private hands’ for some time. Which means that some poor grieving relative walked into a lawyers office clad in black, with downcast eyes, perhaps musing on the fragility and beauty of life, and walked out with a mummified head under their arm.
I have no doubt that this is exactly what happened. None at all. Supposition be damned.
“[M]an is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.”
– Job 5:7 (ESV)
“[F]or I never did know what women mean, and never shall, unless they tell me,...”
– John Ridd, Lorna Doone
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A Dramatic Exchange
Dr. Rumack: What did you serve for dinner tonight?
Elaine: Well, there was a choice -- steak or fish.
Dr. Rumack: Yes, yes, I remember. I had lasagna.