Taphonomic Hyperthymesia

Aogashima Island, Japan

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:52:00 +0200

"I was much cheered on my arrival by the warden at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:13:14 +0200

“I was much cheered on my arrival by the warden at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied ‘agnostic’. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: “Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God”. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.”

- Bertrand Russell – Portraits from Memory pp. 33-34

Millions Irrationally Feared Dead In Minor Train Accident

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:42:00 +0300

Millions Irrationally Feared Dead In Minor Train Accident:

Today Now! with Jim Haggerty and Tracy Gill:
– Millions irrationally feared dead after train derails
– Nation concocting increasingly improbable reasons loved ones died in crash
– Family members as far as Alaska, Hawaii now being pictured suffering
– Before crisis is over, entire U.S. population may be believed dead
– Federal Emergency Management Agency urging population to avoid derailment footage, just be rational
– FEMA officials being sent to homes of most hysterical grandparents
– Evening rush hour traffic could double number of spouses feared dead
– FEMA: Train derailment low on list of threats to loved ones’ lives
– Breaking news: Department of Homeland Security warns against national existential crisis

In other news:
– Popular candidate running on conservative family-values, pro-religion, pro-gun, anti-gay platform outed as Islamic terrorist
– Gigantic bowl of fruit makes man want to be the type of person who likes fruit
– Season of Congress halted as legislators scatter over loose change dropped on floor
– Justice Department doesn’t even want to bring it up, but we should really figure out how we’re going to put those Al-Qaeda guys on trial
– Report: Almost no plot on TV makes sense if you remember that the Internet exists
– David Koch’s severed hand regenerates
– Congress votes to permanently bar Newt Gingrich from congressional gym
– Smoking marijuana legalized if it’s with a professor
– Hurricane picked up for hurricane season
– Safeway rolls out new “Safeway DON’T SELECT” brand for rancid products

Coming up:
– How to keep your teens from having risky sex by spreading disgusting rumors about them

Tonight on The Beltway with Lee Decker:
– Are we on time or are we running out of time? We’ll look at the nation’s timetables, don’t miss it.

"You are about to embark on a great journey across an infinite ocean of possibilities, unless of..."

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:13:52 +0200

“You are about to embark on a great journey across an infinite ocean of possibilities, unless of course the more cynical theories about the afterlife are correct.”

- Your Horoscopes - Week Of February 8, 2011

"Although you feel as if you are all alone in a cold, brutal, and uncaring world, there are in fact 7..."

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:02:33 +0200

“Although you feel as if you are all alone in a cold, brutal, and uncaring world, there are in fact 7 billion other people there.”

- Your Horoscopes - Week Of February 8, 2011

Appendix 2[K]

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:49:00 +0200

Appendix 2[K]:

I have now “liked” a round 2048 things on tumblr; they’re listed taphonomically in the appendix section of this log.

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:30:15 +0200

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

- Pablo Picasso

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident."

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:04:08 +0200

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.”

- Charles Lamb

Scandinavian LandscapesThe result of a 6 week road trip up...

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:18:00 +0200

Scandinavian Landscapes
The result of a 6 week road trip up through Norway, flying to Svalbard & returning through Finland & Sweden.

Doodletown is a poster calendar and a playful way to remember:...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:10:00 +0200

Doodletown is a poster calendar and a playful way to remember: you color in/draw on the trees and houses to represent what happened that day.

Potential energy Simple Science: An ongoing photographic...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:07:00 +0200

Potential energy

Simple Science: An ongoing photographic exploration of the beauty inherent in simple scientific concepts and experiments.

Sun Pictures: A Full Year in a Single Frame

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:34:31 +0200

Sun Pictures: A Full Year in a Single Frame

The Kings Firecrackers jump-rope team conduct a high-intensity...

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:14:00 +0200

The Kings Firecrackers jump-rope team conduct a high-intensity performance at the US naval academy.

Holiday lights

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:30:23 +0200

Holiday lights

I wasn’t, and will never be, this cool.

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:28:08 +0200

I wasn’t, and will never be, this cool.

"TIME’s person of the year is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry Julian Assange, I guess you didn’t violate..."

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:33:07 +0200

““TIME’s person of the year is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry Julian Assange, I guess you didn’t violate enough people’s privacy.””

- Stephen Colbert

Candy. Take one.

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:47:00 +0200

Candy. Take one.

"Taleb introduces the Hayekian and almost taoistic metaphor of the anti-library: A library of the..."

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:42:00 +0200

“Taleb introduces the Hayekian and almost taoistic metaphor of the anti-library: A library of the books you haven’t read, of the things you don’t know. A massive collection of unknowledge, the anti-library contains all the books that may still change your life. Most of your favourite books are there, hidden and forgotten. It has facts you need to know, authors you’d worship. Only people who read very little can think the anti-library doesn’t matter. To book-lovers, and especially generalists like me, who jump all over the place without focus, the stacks of the anti-library loom higher and darker for every book we read. Every book that changes me reminds me of the ones that still might. The Black Swan is not about unread books as such, but about all the important, life-changing, world-changing information that we don’t have. Unknowledge is an unsettling concept. Like the Death of Discworld, our eyes glaze over it and hurriedly find something more comforting to focus on. Taleb asks us to look at it, and acknowledge that it’s there, a massive source of wild randomness that will eat your predictions for breakfast, and change your world again, and again, and again. As it has done so often in the past.”

- Bjørn Stærk, Lessons from the anti-library

Peanuts strip for Oct 31, 1963

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:23:22 +0300

Peanuts strip for Oct 31, 1963

B.C. strip for Oct 29, 2010

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:41:00 +0300

B.C. strip for Oct 29, 2010