It feels unfair to have lost so many people before the age of 30. Life isn't fair blah blah blah...but things like these punch right through your heart. He had a wife and kid...and friends that are all hurting. No reason, really. Just cancer. Roll of the dice ( Read more... )

"I turned my chair to the fire and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. I could distinguish long rows of them twisting and twining in snakelike motion. Then one of the snakes grabbed hold of it's own tail and began rotating before my eyes."

Friedrich Kukele, on discovering the ring-shape formation of the benzene molecule.
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A) Excel is sexy. I mean....really. Stick up a few beginning numbers in an amortization table at effective interest, and drag the formula down. BOOM. An entire table of numbers magically pops up. Sexy ( Read more... )

I got into a discussion with my father about the basic ideologies of the religious trifecta (Judaism, Christianity, Muslim), and he asked the interminable question - why? Why do these religions find it necessary to avoid the certainty of mortality, and create a flimsy reality in which their existence is guaranteed indefinitely?
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"I lost sympathy with many of my patients. After twenty five years of listening to their complaints I finally snapped.  I woke up one morning bent out of shape with this client who was forty-three but acting sixteen.  Every week he'd come in with the same complaints. Someone hurt me. Life is unfair. Its not my fault. For three years I'd been making ( Read more... )

Movie production and public media have been consolidating for years. Specially since Telecommunications act of 1996. We all know that most of the information we see now on tv and radio is produced by a handful of companies. Viacom, AOL/Time Warner, etc. We also know that the consolidation of these companies results in limited access to information ( Read more... )

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Why exactly is it that almost every Nintendo DS game is a shitty port of some awesome game? It's like perpetual gamer blueballs.

New pet! I want a capybara. They're fuckin cute. (Name means: "master of the grasses")

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I just don't know about Marilyn Monroe. I keep coming back and checking her out - I've known girls who had posters of her on the wall, cultural icon, etc. There's all this push to celebrate her as the true example of beauty. Just watched the 7 Year Itch again. Tom Ewell's physical acting is fabulous. But Tchaikovsky playing while a blonde bombshell ( Read more... )