July 2009
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beer and bratwurst
cthewell: …We find some empty seats and I volunteer to save them while Tooth and Ratcliffe go order our food.  It’s amazing how small decisions can change what happens next.  I’m sitting there enjoying my giant beer and pretending to text so I don’t look like a complete loser (you know you do it) when a guy and girl take a seat at the table.  After a only a couple of minutes it’s obvious...
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
9 notes
5 tags
WatchWatch
the 7th annual camping trip overcame some rain and was a good time as always.  katie let me borrow her camera and film that was about to expire.  i took a lot of “party favors” and let people take their photos home with them.  i kept a few more.  it’ll be interesting to see who scans their stuff and who doesn’t.  i have various digital stuff (photos & video)...
Jul 20th
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A Good Day’s Busy Work  →
What does it mean, exactly, to “embrace the medium”? Apparently, it means a compulsive dedication to what essentially amounts to busy work: checking in with your followers or friends repeatedly and often, authoring bursts of quasi-communiqués at all hours of the day, continually updating your statuses, tending a limitless onslaught of friend requests, managing an unyielding firehose of...
Jul 15th
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“Goldman Sachs may just possibly have used security access codes and built a...”
– WHOA. So this is not insanely far from the plot of Superman III.  Basically Goldman Sachs is monitoring the flow of stock trading information for the entire New York Stock Exchange, and making trades to their advantage in the tiny periods of time from when someone says they want to buy stock, to...
Jul 13th
24 notes
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“Tennis is crazy.”
– Roger Federer
Jul 5th
3 tags
Re-
lonelysandwich: lowindustrial: We spend our lives rereading and rewatching and relistening and relearning. We eat the same things over and over. We end up loving people who remind us of other people. We perform these rituals, this spacetime origami, because the basic fact of our n-dimensional existence is this: Most things can be recalled and some things can be revisited but precious little can...
Jul 2nd