January 2012
2 posts
“Above all, she is the girl who ‘feels’ things, who has hung on to...”
– Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Here is this fictional character who is now suddenly interacting in the real...”
– How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? - NYTimes.com
December 2011
1 post
“I thought over and over again about my chances of surviving through all this....”
– The Emperor of All Maladies
October 2011
1 post
“Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life,” he said. “If you cannot...”
– The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami - NYTimes.com
May 2010
1 post
“My celebrity bagel breakfast was over. I scooped up my son, said my goodbyes and...”
– He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It - NYTimes.com
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
3 posts
The effects of laughter on post-prandial glucose... →
doi:10.1016/j.lfs.2009.05.002
wtf??
October 2009
1 post
“Within 36 hours, my daughter was dead, and the very word — daughter — suddenly...”
– To Mother Again, With Courage - NYTimes.com
August 2009
2 posts
“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”
– Junot DIaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
July 2009
11 posts
“At least one person…said the dog should not be blamed. Albany, he said,...”
– NYTimes.com
wow…
“Why the hesitation to follow puzzles online? Theories abound. For one, the...”
– NYTimes.com
I am determined to be an outlier!
“It would have been like any other night except for the fact that we were both...”
– Raising a Princess Single-Handedly - NYTimes.com
ahhh
Infographic: Elements of an Ideal Burger →
Yummy and informative! I wish they’d covered fries, too.
June 2009
6 posts
“And Dr. Kessler reports that the Snickers bar, for instance, is “extraordinarily...”
– NYTimes.com
*drool*
“Mr. Brotherton, the consultant, wrote in an e-mail message that it was customary...”
– NYTimes.com
I’m glad someone mentioned the self-masturbatory aspects of smartphones.
“…this profound stillness…seemed now for no special reason to stay...”
– Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen →
May 2009
8 posts
Not your grandma's Antiques Roadshow →
the parents’ latest obsession
“What’s the weirdest drink request you’ve ever received?
“A sidecar followed by...”
– nymag
that’s us!
“You’re not fooling anybody. “No one thinks someone on the cellphone can really...”
– The Etiquette for Texting at the Dinner Table - NYTimes.com
put down the crackberry
“No list of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There...”
– Cormac McCarthy, in The Road
Affirming the H Bomb
“Suppose, during a date, you casually say, “The sugar maples in Harvard Yard were so beautiful every fall term.” Here’s what you’re signaling, as translated by Dr. Miller:
“My S.A.T. scores were sufficiently high (roughly 720 out of 800) that I could get admitted, so my I.Q. is above 135, and I had sufficient conscientiousness, emotional stability and intellectual openness to pass my...
April 2009
2 posts
2 tags
Blogging Their Way Toward the Altar →
[via NYTimes]
March 2009
3 posts
Posting from the touch!
February 2009
1 post
“I know he’ll burn himself one of these days, no matter how many times I warn him...”
– (via nytimes)
January 2009
1 post
How Harvard beat Yale in the Democratic Party →
December 2008
4 posts
The Energy Challenge - No Furnaces but Heat... →
This sounds cool— it sounds like it would be difficult to renovate an old house to be passive, though. It’s good that they’re building these houses now in cold climates so that in a few years we’ll potentially be able to know how effective they are.
the real deal
perfect rendition of poor english, cantonese-style
kittens + kimwipes...
the other use for kimwipes!
3 tags
justin doesn't believe
Eber: it will be a repository of things we find on the interwebs
Justin Keenan: yeah why would you link me to an empty page
Amy: i could post this conversation on it right now
Justin Keenan: it looks like a shitty google knockoff
Eber: you could.