Massless Particles

Good fortune

tb — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:08:47 +0000

How To Feel Miserable As A Human Being

tb — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:02:35 +0000

Loomings

tb — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:07:31 +0000

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.”

~Herman Melville (from Moby Dick, Chapter 1: Loomings)

National Geographic Photo Contest Awesomeness

tb — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:29:33 +0000

You might forgive National Geographic the clunky interfact to their photo contest website when you drink in the deliciousness of the photos themselves.

“It’s not the volts that get you. It’s the amps.”

tb — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:05:44 +0000

The music was playing again. She felt the lightning bolt, the supernova, the black-hole-collapse in her chest. Can you feel this way and not attach it to something, to someone? Is that why we seek? Because in its unattached, free-floating form, it’s just too much? Like a too-strong electric current which, if not grounded, converts luminance to immolation? Burns you to a crisp?

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