+Playlist: Hilltop Hoods
Still Standing
Chase That Feeling
it’s been so long were glad we came before we gathered fame or had a name our story hasn’t changed with acolades we’re still standing and we’ll be back again
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Bordemography.
I’ve been looking for a multi-lens action camera for a while since I first saw the Oktomat a couple years ago but forgot what it was called. Now that I know what it’s called again, I think I will get it. (Or ask for it for Christmas.)
<--- This is just an odd picture I found when clearing out my memory card
Update: I found a 3-lens camera (2 action shots and one in-between wide angle lens) and a 2-lens camera (2 action shots) The 2-lens should be fun to fit with different hand-made filters and such.
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.The Kids Are All Right (2010) Review
I’m not really a family drama movie type person, but I really enjoyed this one. It flowed really well and just kept getting better. The ending was so and so, a bit unfinished, but I think it suited the story. I’d give this an 9/10.
Name Ideas…
Sinclair
Bartholemew
Emilian
Hanzi
Upton
Philomena
Juniper
Aisha/Aishe
Aisling
Luminița/Luminitsa/Luminitza
the thing II
I need words, something that sticks,
something that will echo through the radiant void. When their presence means life or death, and
the sisters dangle my lifeline
next
to
their
immortal
scissors,
they escape me, fluttering away as if they are missing some important appointment or tea time with biscuits.
Later … they come to me cooing in the night, dressed in another bird’s feathers.
Tempting me,
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I take them, I find all the right things to say, I fall asleep, and I forget.
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.Nabokov Interview 1964
Some of my favorite snippets:
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.The few times I said to myself anywhere: “Now, that’s a nice spot for a permanent home,” I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth.
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: it is the individual artist that counts.
A contribution to society?
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don’t give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth. Although I do not care for the slogan “art for art’s sake”– because unfortunately such promoters of it as, for instance, Oscar Wilde and various dainty poets, were in reality rank moralists and didacticists– there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.
Failure as a writer:
Lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
You’re doing rather well at the moment, if we may sayso.
It’s an illusion.
Dostoevski, who dealt with themes accepted by most readers as universal in both scope and significance, is considered one of the world’s great authors. Yet you have described him as “a cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. ” Why?Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevski as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not
as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous, farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his
sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment– by this reader anyway.
Arsenic, a building block of life?
All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. We assumed that was true, until today. In Mono Lake, about a year ago, researchers began testing a bacteria known as GFAJ-1. Today, their published study came out that this bacteria could survive using arsenic instead of phosphorus. There are many birds and other organisms that can “tolerate” arsenic, but this bacterium actively uses it in it’s cells.
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.Many of these bacteria are known to be able to tolerate high levels of arsenic, but GFAJ-1 can go a step further. When starved of phosphorus, it can instead incorporate arsenic into its DNA and continue growing. By introducing radioactive arsenic into the growth medium of some of the microbes, Wolfe-Simon learned that approximately one-tenth of the arsenic absorbed by the bacteria ended up in their nucleic acids. Within the DNA extracted from GFAJ-1 cells starved of phosphorus, arsenic bonded to oxygen and carbon in the same way phosphorus bonds to oxygen and carbon in normal DNA, and found that when cultured in arsenate solution it grew 60% as fast as it did in phosphate solution — not as well, but still robustly.
While some of the key properties of phosphate such as its thermodynamic instability as well as its kinetic stability make it advantageous for Earth’s biological life; Arsenic may be more thermodynamically realistic for life on other planets or moons such as Saturn’s moon Titan