Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent. 2009-02-20T17:47:00+00:00 693 2009-02-20T17:47:26+00:00 Vulcher: A person who makes lame kills in an online game, usually when the opponent is low on health of fighting another player. I have played online against Barack Obama, and he only makes kills on the strongest [of] opponents. 2008-11-19T06:53:00+00:00 618 2008-11-19T06:55:25+00:00 http://www.threadbombing.com/details.php?image_id=3070 i want to make sweet, sweet love to america 2008-11-11T13:12:00+00:00 606 2008-11-11T13:12:58+00:00 this is worse than a divorce... I lost half my net worth and I still have a wife 2008-10-13T14:54:00+00:00 583 2008-10-13T14:54:43+00:00 By now it should be painfully obvious that crawling and indexing the web is a hard problem. Google and Yahoo have a lot of competent engineers working on this (praise be to Cutting), and you expected to do it in six months? One does not simply walk into Mordor. 2008-10-12T17:06:00+00:00 582 2008-10-12T17:07:35+00:00 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/uncov/~3/415989135/210 I don’t know about you, but every time I have to program with threads and shared resources, I want to remove my face incrementally with a salad fork 2008-08-03T16:36:00+00:00 551 2008-08-03T16:36:55+00:00 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/sun_dziuba_tm/ There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. 2008-07-08T03:13:00+00:00 533 2008-07-08T03:13:48+00:00 Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday 2008-06-30T13:27:00+00:00 530 2008-06-30T13:27:47+00:00 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080629/twl-iran-military-us-israel-3cd7efd.html Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn’t take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that’s taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can’t handle that one tiny thing. “What ‘pile’? It’s just a pebble! 2008-06-23T15:19:00+00:00 525 2008-06-23T15:20:24+00:00 http://spicefish.vox.com/library/post/the-email-phenomenon.html?_c=feed-atom I hope the waves do not touch you when they fall so that you cannot turn them to crystal, I hope that the rain ceases to be a miracle that falls down your body, I hope that the moon can rise without you, I hope that the earth does not kiss your footsteps. I hope that your constant gaze will taper, your precise word, your perfect smile, I hope something will happen soon to erase you: a blinding light, a gunshot of snow, or that at least death might carry me away so as not to see you always, so as not to see you often, in every second, in every vision I hope to not be able to touch you [play you], not even in songs ... 2008-06-19T04:39:00+00:00 518 2008-06-19T04:42:24+00:00 it's odd, how barely anything is as i think it ought to be, yet by nature i assume everything is in its right place 2008-06-16T14:21:00+00:00 511 2008-06-16T14:22:12+00:00 Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. 2008-06-12T15:33:00+00:00 505 2008-06-12T15:34:03+00:00 All sunshine makes a desert. 2008-06-12T15:22:00+00:00 504 2008-06-12T15:23:05+00:00 they shootin? nobody dyin / somebody better put somebody body on somebody iron sometime soon or somebody lyin 2008-05-22T14:00:00+00:00 425 2008-06-02T05:05:06+00:00 &#8220;At first the truths Phaedrus began to pursue were the lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye. In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can&#8217;t make head or tail out of anything, you start looking <em>laterally</em>. That&#8217;s a word he later used to describe a growth of knowledge that doesn&#8217;t move forward like an arrow in flight, but expands sideways, like an arrow enlarging in flight, or like the archer, discovering that although he has hit the bull&#8217;s-eye and won the prize, his head is on a pillow and the sun is coming in the window. Lateral knowledge is knowledge that&#8217;s from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that&#8217;s not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one. Lateral truths point to the falseness of the axioms and postulates underlying one&#8217;s existing system of getting at truth&#8221; 2008-05-13T23:49:00+00:00 426 2008-06-02T05:05:16+00:00 &#8220;You go up to the mountaintop and all you&#8217;re gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it&#8221; 2008-05-06T14:05:00+00:00 427 2008-06-02T05:05:31+00:00 &#8220;Everything turns out fine in the end. If it isn&#8217;t fine, it isn&#8217;t the end&#8221; 2008-05-05T00:15:00+00:00 428 2008-06-02T05:05:43+00:00 &#8220;Son of a bitch was right. She tastes like a peach.&#8221; 2008-05-02T02:18:00+00:00 429 2008-06-02T05:06:04+00:00 between the greenhouse gases and earth spinnin off its axis got mother nature doin backflips the natural disaster is like 80 degrees in alaska you in trouble if you not an Onassis it ain’t hard to tell if the conditions is drastic just turn on the telly check for the news flashin how you want it bagged, paper or plastic? lost in translation or just lost in traffic? yo i don’t wanna floss i done lost my passion and i ain’t tryin to climb yo i lost my traction they makin me break my contents under pressure do not shake i’m workin while the boss relaxin here come mr. taxman he leavin a fraction, gimme back some, matter of fact, next paycheck it’s like that son i fuck around and have to hurt a few men, they probably chalk it up as a disturbing new trend 2008-04-30T01:25:00+00:00 439 2008-06-02T05:09:13+00:00 &#8220;steph: Steph went away steph: Steph came back steph: Steph disconnected steph: Steph connected steph: Steph went away steph: Steph disconnected steph: Steph connected steph: Steph came back bigo: jeez you are ms. connecty-disconnecty steph: yeah, that is cuz i am trying to print something&#8221; 2008-04-08T22:58:00+00:00 431 2008-06-02T05:07:02+00:00 one of my cat&#8217;s regular habits is to jump onto the table and dip his front right paw into my water glass. 2008-04-07T22:57:00+00:00 432 2008-06-02T05:07:32+00:00 In my dream I saw<br/> the spring wind gently shaking<br/> blossoms from a tree;<br/> and even now, though I&#8217;m awake,<br/> there&#8217;s motion, trembling in my chest.<br/> Quiet mountain hut,<br/> by a rice patch&#8230;till a deer&#8217;s cry<br/> just outside startles me<br/> and I move&#8230;so startling him:<br/> we astonish one another!<br/> &#8220;Detached&#8221; observer<br/> of blossoms finds himself in time<br/> intimate with them-<br/> so, when they separate from the branch,<br/> it&#8217;s he who falls&#8230;deeply into grief.<br/> If I settle here,<br/> pine, you be left again<br/> alone, when I<br/> tire of this place and<br/> wander off forever.<br/> We&#8217;re both afflicted<br/> by drafts and winds, and spend our days<br/> getting up and lying down:<br/> young bamboo weak at its core<br/> and I, ill and disheartened. 2008-03-24T22:52:00+00:00 433 2008-06-02T05:08:02+00:00 Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Women I Learned From My Smooth-Brained Cat 2008-03-24T14:59:00+00:00 434 2008-06-02T05:08:17+00:00 <pre> I thee, read see that me<br/> Love is down will I'll have<br/> But that and you have you'll<br/> One and up and you if </pre> 2007-10-26T00:06:00+00:00 435 2008-06-02T05:08:42+00:00 Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. 2007-10-04T14:18:00+00:00 436 2008-06-02T05:09:03+00:00