January 2012
18 posts
Curse of the Colonel →
Curse of the Colonel (カーネルサンダースの呪い, Kāneru Sandāsu no noroi?) refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot Colonel Harland Sanders. The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the Colonel’s anger over treatment of one of his store-front statues.[1]
“Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by...”
– larkin
The Problem with Gamification... →
b2kn:
…is that it tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. We already have a universal points system, across all aspects of life, that represents status and is redeemable for real world prizes. It’s called “money.”
December 2011
9 posts
“There will be not a grain left bearing my marks, just as my mother has now,...”
– Michael K, Coetzee (via objectoquase)
The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids... →
rabidchildstaysathome:
“It was surreal,” he recalls. “Here I was dealing with matters of international security, and I was half-baked. I didn’t know anything about the situation in that part of the world. But I was a central player in the Afghan war — and if our delivery didn’t make it to Kabul, the entire strategy of building up the Afghanistan army was going to fail. It was totally killing my...
“A: But I love my irony.
Q: Does it give you pleasure?
A: A poor … A rather...”
– isso é do kierkegaard unfair to schlegel, não é? esse conto tem ums dos meus trechos favoritos da história do mundo.
“Because that is not what I think at all. We have to do here with my own irony. Because of course Kierkegaard was “fair” to Schlegel. In making a statement to...
“Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters...”
– William McDonough on designing something as elegant as a tree (via hm3
)
ACTIVITIES
tou semi-nessa esses dias tb. subi várias rampas na reitoria, inclusive, mas comigo constava algo na BCE (dívida do joão paulo de 2009). e só acentuei coisas na minha monografia.
bruna-elisa:
hoje barbarizei na vida adulta. pedi 2 via de tudo que é documento que um ser humano pode ter, resolvi receita federal, banco do brasil, aluguel e unb. peguei muitos papeis com números de protocolo. paguei...
deixa eles gente.
yuhuang:
falameia:
a culpa é do 9gag, né, esse console das webs para brasileiros
sim, isso reina no im aqui da empresa o dia todo =/
November 2011
7 posts
o pequeno aqui dentro: mentalist horses and dogs →
eu ia destacar trechos, mas é tudo excelente.
não sei porque neguinho precisa de guerra pra querer ensinar cachorro a falar.
rabidchildstaysathome:
1 - Clever Hans
Clever Hans (in German, der Kluge Hans) was an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.
After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst...
“As belief in the divinity of Christ decreases, there seems to be a preoccupation...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via honkshu
)
Donald Barthelme, The Art of Fiction No. 66 →
The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude. As when you attend a funeral and notice, against your will, that it’s being poorly done.
ETAOIN SHRDNU →
“And a footnote to “.)eatondph 1/8 ador dorador douradora” {Ulysses, 16.1257} should record that “eatondph” is the grope of James Joyce’s memory toward “etaoin”. He was trying for a plausible “line of bitched type” in a newspaper, and it’s one of the few things he didn’t get exactly right.”
(o trechinho é do hugh...
October 2011
21 posts
Der letzte Große aus dem 19. Jahrhundert →
tinha visto esse link e nem dado bola, só agora que fui ver que ‘tode’, que o bicho morreu ):
rabidchildstaysathome:
Er lauschte dem Grundrauschen des Geistes: Zum Tode des Berliner Medienwissenschaftlers und Universalgelehrten Friedrich Kittler.
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Thomas Urquhart
Works Trissotetras (1645) Trissotetras treats plane and spherical trigonometry using Napier’s logarithms and a new nomenclature designed to facilitate memorization. Urquhart’s nomenclature resembles the names medieval schoolmen gave the various forms of syllogism, in which the construction of the name gives information about the thing being named. (Urquhart would make use of the...
