January 2012
Let the New Year's existential crisis begin!
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One of the things on my ‘To Do List’ for today is ‘Complain About New Year’s Eve’.
I’m on Pacific Time and I’m going to a party with my parents where everyone is too tired to stay up until midnight Pacific, so we celebrate at 9 pm Pacific and everyone but me goes to bed.
I then stay up alone and wish myself a happy new year at midnight.
… I...
The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost right...
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via ticktockdeathclock)
December 2011
So confused by the missing e message D:
Don’t delete my tumblr in revenge, David Karp! :(
Half of all the films in the Silent era were written by women. All of the top...
– These Amazing Shadows, streaming on Netflix (via kateoplis)
irmajor:
NY TIMES: In moving across the International Date Line, they’ll skip this Friday, Friday, getting rid of this Friday… in Samoa.
The politics of time zones.
inothernews:
The Pacific island nation of Samoa and its even tinier neighbor Tokelau are skipping Friday this week, jumping westward in time across the international date line and into the shifting economic balance...
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman (via trua)
It’s that time of year again for this quote.
I didn’t do any research at all on Adam Smith. I just read him. There’s no...
– Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance) I think it’s important to attach The Wealth of Nations to his work in ethics. They’re inextricable. (via nomind-allthought)
Cutting myself off from tumblr for the night.
Good night, all.
EDIT: woops.
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...
– Carl Sagan (via illusions-of-eternity)
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Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil...
– Rick Perry. Knob (via liberalsarecool)
My new favorite Rick Perry quote.
(via evangotlib)
“Foreigners. They look like Canadians, what with all that fur.” — Rick Perry
“Montreal is the seat of a worldwide global conspiracy against America, except there they take dollars.” — Rick Perry
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