What I thought would be a civil and short gathering with perhaps talk of rent control and the difficulty of finding proper cheeses, turned out into an event where I drank all the booze, slow-danced with anyone not quick enough to escape me, and stared at women just like the old dirty man I am. Good times, in other words.
Metafilter user xlcus created a Flickr project that mirrors images. Put in your own search terms and lol away.
Have I told you already that Jonas is picture blogging Berlin? Pardon my wandering eyes.
And a short time lapse of the bridge from the other night. Sooner or later I’ll do something original with this function, but for now I’m happy just emulating what I’ve seen on Discovery Channel.
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Yes! David Reeses Get your war on, the bestest political satire the fat side of the Atlantic, is going to be published as a video once a week. It’s double-plus-good! The videos are going to be available here: www.236.com
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Earlier today there was a partial solar eclipse. I folded a strip of red filter and stood gaping at the sky. I got that naive “wow, the universe is awesome” feeling, and felt comfortable being a small dot on a slightly larger dot circling a yellow pea in the big great nothing. Then I went running and successfully completed week 5, day 2. Awesome!
As I’ve told y’all time and again, you ought to be listening to Radio Lab:
[audio:https://monocultured.com/blog/blog_uploads/2008/07/finger-wiggling.mp3]The above clip is from the episode on stress, but it offhandedly dismisses a great chunk of our free will by a small experiment. I had to listen to it thrice before going “oh” and “shit” and then telling my friends of this story while drunk and not able to convey the meaning.
I mean, seriously? our conscious selves are ad hoc rationalisations of our bodies’ behaviour? How is that not awesome and neat in how it turns our self image on its head?
