The sum of evil in the world reduced yet again.

And on the 4th of July! Ha!!

I think I'd recognize this passage in any language. Terribly beautiful and sad, I find it ( Read more... )

"Cette idée la fit haleter de convoitise..."

- from Madame Bovary

Found one of these at the library; bought it for a buck. Not a first edition, unfortunately, but still, a pretty cool find.


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I saw clouds like these (November 25, APOD) on this day. Except that they were about four times more dramatic when I saw them.

Also, the moon has been stunning this week. Halos and everything.

this

It's James Watson's answer to the latest Edge question. Every time I look at it I get chills.

Rhymes with Lewd Ball.

He radiates charisma. Really amazing. He was a few people ahead of me at the grocery store, and everyone was completely cool about it, except for a minor bit of celebrity flutter action spreading in waves around him. I actually made eye contact with him, too, but that's probably not hard when my eyes expand to the size of

If I see this, it means I'm online, and that means I should immediately:

GET THE HELL OFF THE INTERNET.

There's something really unnerving about seeing your US dollars lose 20 percent of their value in the space of two short years. Fortunately, we don't have many of those rapidly-becoming-worthless scraps of paper left.

This news is a few days old, apparently, but I stumbled across it today.

Since a lot of the people on my friends list have been on lj for six or seven years, this will mean more to you than to most of the newer users: Brad is leaving Six ApartWhat a ride, eh ( Read more... )