Through the Brier

With a certain currently popular Black Eyed Peas song playing in the background, my son cocked his...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:47:25 -0500

With a certain currently popular Black Eyed Peas song playing in the background, my son cocked his head to listen for a bit and asked, “Is he saying, I Just Can’t Get It Up?”

"We’re the kind of species that needs a frontier — for fundamental biological reasons. Every..."

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:12:00 -0400

“We’re the kind of species that needs a frontier — for fundamental biological reasons. Every time humanity stretches itself and turns a new corner, it receives a jolt of productive vitality that can carry it for centuries. There is a new world next door. And we know how to get there.”

- Carl Sagan

Happiness is a cold nose (Taken with Instagram at Salem, MA)

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:19:20 -0400

Happiness is a cold nose (Taken with Instagram at Salem, MA)

Deluxe Wooden Kitchen & Laundry Center aka...

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:35:08 -0500

Deluxe Wooden Kitchen & Laundry Center aka “Daddy’s Bane”

Or, as has been heard around the house during this last week of assembly, “that mother #@$&ing kitchen.”

"Read. Read lots of different things. Read the King James Bible, and Dickens, and poems by Shelley,..."

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:03:17 -0500

“Read. Read lots of different things. Read the King James Bible, and Dickens, and poems by Shelley, and Marvel Comics and thrillers by Chester Himes and Dashiel Hammet. Look at the astonishing things you can do with words. Note the way they can conjure up whole worlds in the space of half a page.”

- Tim Radford

Sad Bungle (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:15:56 -0500

Sad Bungle (Taken with instagram)

"It will be there when the icecaps melt and the cities drown, when humanity destroys itself in fire..."

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:48:00 -0400

“It will be there when the icecaps melt and the cities drown, when humanity destroys itself in fire and zombies, when the roaches finally achieve sentience, take over, and begin using computers themselves -at which point its various Ctrl-Meta key-chords will seem not merely satisfyingly ergonomic for the typical arthropod, but also direct evidence for the universe’s Intelligent Design by some six-legged, multi-jointed God.”

- Kieran Healy on Emacs.

I may have to quit Facebook. I don’t think I’m ever...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:07:00 -0400

I may have to quit Facebook. I don’t think I’m ever going to have the heart to change this.

(via rebelalliance and joshuamurphy)

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:30:56 -0400

(via rebelalliance and joshuamurphy)

There is nothing quite so cheering as an infectious laugh. (via)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:41:00 -0500

There is nothing quite so cheering as an infectious laugh. (via)

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! (via)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:21:00 -0500

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! (via)

"At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:27:17 -0500

“At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to hunt down ideas, bringing them back all warm and bloody between its teeth.”

- Warren Ellis (via)

Sometimes an overextended dad needs a diversion...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:17:00 -0400

Sometimes an overextended dad needs a diversion guaranteed–**guaranfreakingteed**–to keep his kid occupied for a few minutes.

Play the music and stare into the enigmatic eye of the piranhamoose.

Works every time.

When did they let Willie Aames into The Velvet...

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:19:00 -0400

When did they let Willie Aames into The Velvet Underground?

(via whokilled)

hangoeuvre

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:16:51 -0400

noun /hæŋœ'vrə/

The sum of an inebriate’s lifework.

40 years ago a 38-year-old man took mankind’s first step...

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:45:00 -0400

40 years ago a 38-year-old man took mankind’s first step onto another world.

I’m 38, and I’ll consider it a grand accomplishment if I can get my son to stop picking his nose and handing me the contents.

"He’s gone. Hard to believe. He was a brilliant man – a wondrous combination of literary..."

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:42:20 -0400

“He’s gone. Hard to believe. He was a brilliant man – a wondrous combination of literary skill, honesty, humor and the occasional burst of pure heavenly bullshit. In other words, an Irishman.”

- Dave Barry on Frank McCourt

"Made the boys laugh so hard at dinner that one vomited up part of his hamburger. That’s..."

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:58:00 -0400

“Made the boys laugh so hard at dinner that one vomited up part of his hamburger. That’s fatherhood, right there.”

- Greg Knauss

I have a new milestone to achieve.

Time to Boldly Go Once More

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:47:12 -0400

Time to Boldly Go Once More:

I think matthewb sums it up nicely:

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, achieved on less processing power than a cellphone, Buzz Aldrin thinks further afield in The Washington Post.

To infinity and beyond, Buzz.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:21:05 -0400

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

- Leonardo da Vinci (via amplequotes)