February 2012
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David Foster Wallace's Letter to Don Delillo,... →
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(Source: Harry Ransom Center)
10-10-95 Dear Don, Since it’s clear from your letters that you’re a person nice, and since it’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice, I again want to implore you not to feel any obligation to read the BM any…
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“No matter how often I tell myself that chance happenings of this kind occur far...”
– W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn (via marginalgloss)
“Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive. Forget trying to form...”
– codacorolla.
It’s a sad thing when you realise the depth of the digital divide and how one of the great hopes of the internet has in this way completely failed itself. But that’s just one of many reasons to continue reading codacorolla’s epic metafilter comment.
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“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really...”
– David Lynch (via kateoplis)
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High Scalability: Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion... →
I’ll be reading this several times over. Studying, in fact. I have to admit that I’ve complained about Tumblr availability in the past. Though I understood the challenges they faced in scaling this post is mind-blowing.
Just thinking back to all that tumblr downtime now. Is the internet generation the most collectively demanding in the history of humanity?
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“That’s the wonderful thing about excellence, James, it’s the option...”
– Siegfried Farnon
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January 2012
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
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Birthday dinner: Bottle of Bonny Doon Red (Calif), Oysters, Chateau Briand, Onion Rings, Chocolate Tart-Salted Caramel-Vanilla Marscapone, Espresso.
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Aurora borealis. Preparing now for the next opportunity: camera, film, packed bag, escape route to the northern wilds of Scotland (or Finland if I can swing it).
Teabags of two. Two bags of tea. Per cup.
5 months of living in the UK and I’ve had to increase my dosage.
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“Never before have so many people understood so little about so much.”
– James Burke, 1979. I sure wish I could sit down and have a good old chat with James about the last thirty years.
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