Jack Horkheimer is a great man for two (2) reasons:
1) He is the only person that has ever sat on a ring of Saturn. Observe:
2) When he looks up, he sees only stars. He doesn’t see his own hubris reflected back down on him. That’s because Jack Horkheimer is not an asshole, at least [...]
I found the enormous, rotting, and vivisected pig in my neighbor’s front yard about two months ago, along with its attendant 5 gal. bucket of guts. Now, aren’t you lucky that somebody didn’t pick your yard to dump it in?
My Internet Semiotics Scoreboard now reads
STREET SIGN: 1
PRINTED PAGE: 0
I think that one of the things that has slowed me from blogging more is the inherent difference in textual guide-posts between paper and e-paper. Words in books, on street signs signs, across a television, etc., inhabit distinct milieus, each with their own rules for being interpreted. The milieu in which words interact on the [...]
Phil “Punxutawney” Marmota Monax did not see his shadow(http://www.easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?4961), which I believe means that the troop surge will come early this year.
I do not live in Boston nor do I watch much Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but if you think that this looks like a bomb, you are an idiot:
I have been given the chore of writing five facts about myself and, in time-honored chain-mail fashion, select five other people to do the same. Thanks to Sara and the very long list of others who created the conduit by which this directive has reached me. Its actually kind of neat following the chain [...]
My dad was twelve or thirteen, thereabouts, when my grandfather had him drive a car up to Lake Village Arkansas. I don’t remember the reason why; they were selling it, I think. The stretch of road between Tallulah, Louisiana, where the car was, and Lake Village, Arkansas is mostly flat, but there is a [...]
Once upon a time there was no such thing as science in Western society. There were sciences, but no rubric that could be called science, singular. It was a time of silly, ignorant people not at all like we modern folk. Thankfully, Great Men, like Galileo and Newton, came along to invent Science.
That story, [...]
We had a seminar in our department today. It was titled something like “your happy and assured future at the doctoral program of your choice.” You get the idea. I think that my professors would like to see me go on to a PHD program, and, honestly, so would I. But there are always flies [...]
