May 2009
49 posts
“Patience is the art of hoping.”
– Luc de Clapiers
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Ladurée made the pastries for the film Marie Antoinette, directed by Sofia...”
– Ladurée - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the...”
– The Black Swan (N. N. Taleb)
“Although induction is not made by reason, Hume observes that we nonetheless...”
– Problem of induction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Falsifiability (or refutability) is the logical possibility that an assertion...”
– Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively...”
– Henry S. Haskins (via willmccloud) (via quote-book)
En-Eitch-Es
No sane person wakes up at 5 in the morning because they want to. In fact, probably no one my age goes to bed at that time but that’s a different story. I’m somewhere in a park running at 6 because I woke up at 4 and couldn’t sleep. And either way, I tried really, really hard to fall asleep in the first place.
The most weird thoughts I had these days were probably in Boots...
“Rebellions of the belly are the worst”
– Francis Bacon
Things #2
Things which are good: catching up with reading and my life in general after exams Things which are not good: period pains and the subsequent lack of sleep and appetite
BBC iPlayer - 10 Things You Need to Know About... →
“Most of human evolution took place before the advent of agriculture when men...”
– Sherwood ‘Sherry’ Washburn in The Tipping Point by M. Gladwell
House: And what do I do if my only option doesn't work?
Dr. Wilson: You don't give up
Humble pie
Things
Some things will never ever stick with me, such as simple maths and direct marketing or anything with numbers in it, not even a ‘next in’ series of numbers;
I think custard and Marmite is delicious;
I like Manchester but I don’t like the weather, especially not following all the days in which I considered not taking my coat with me only to be hailed on and blown dry by the...
The balloonist
Direct marketing course book is full of cheeky jokes:
A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a man below. He descended a bit more and shouted ‘Excuse me, can you help? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.’
The man below replied ‘You’re in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately...
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.”
– Phyllis McGinley
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Herman Hesse
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And...”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“Each time you turn a newspaper’s pages, you are confronted with six or...”
– Can a Click Replace a Glance? | The American Prospect
“First you decompose somebody into a matter stream, although taking a person...”
– The Final Frontier: The Science of Star Trek: Scientific American
The time has come to talk of many things; of... →
“Theory of Receptivity. It’s the idea, often stated by young people and applied...”
– FADE TO ORANGE: The Theory Of Receptivity And Some Thoughts On Ethan Hawke’s Face - The Rumpus.net
“Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, of what I did, of who I...”
– Dirty Dancing
“There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...”
– Chuck Klosterman
