- "…there is a dignity in defeat that hardly belongs to victory."" — Jorge Luis Borges, from his talk, "Word-Music, and Translation" #
- @mynameis_shoe yes. i do this occasionally, and it never fails to tint my day gray a bit #positivethoughts #inexorablepassageoftime #itburns in reply to mynameis_shoe #
- RT @themattlondon: My first short fiction sale! @johnjosephadams posts the ToC for "The Living Dead 2" http://bit.ly/bma4UR #
- "…there is a dignity in defeat that hardly belongs to victory."" — Jorge Luis Borges, from his talk, "The Telling of the Tale" #
- not to fixate too continually on borges, but i've been stuck on his poem, "el otro tigre." es: http://bit.ly/9QBOIi en: http://bit.ly/asXGXz #
- in #brizzly trending topics have a crowdsourced explanation box by them. the entry for "costa rica" is especially hilarious. #
- @nicoletaylor28 virginia hasn't been included in the south since robert e lee left. in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- @tofermoran @mynameis_shoe there is a special dispensation of earnestness for child gymnasts. AND SALUTE. in reply to tofermoran #
- didn't realize that notorious b.i.g. died today in 1997. a sampling of his arts: http://bit.ly/9LzN09 #
- @tofermoran contrast with: http://bit.ly/cle7Je in reply to tofermoran #
- death by creeping mass of breakfast cereal. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/07/galls-creepy-and-bea.html #
- @mikejoosse RT @milkjönessé: Not naming any names, but if you're gonna RT or @ me, spell my name correctly. Otherwise the terr'ists win. #
- just had the urge to create sculpture. weird but welcome. #
- SCULPTURE MADE OF ROBOTS. ROBOTS MADE OF SCULPTURE. #
- group picture? what is this, debate club? (if it were i'd be able to resist more effectively) #
- man, chile is getting hammered. three aftershock-ish quakes within a half hour (7.2, 6.9, & 6.0 magnitude) hit south of santiago. #
- i just used the Pythagorean theorem at work. #science #mathcults #
- "Later I stumbled to my bed all alone in the branches. /
I laid in the dark thinking about all of my friends and their changes." — j newsom # - ("have one on me" is growing on me. still detest that vibrato, but i forgive it like a friend with annoying quirks. my love overlooks it.) #
- RT @elleeffect: Subtlety with clarity and articulation speaks volumes that volume itself cannot. #
- trichotillomania — compulsion to pull out one's own hair. #
- RT @gralinnaea: Hahaha: Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer http://is.gd/alZak (by way of @Keffy ) #
- Shane MacGowan's new teeth. so odd. http://j.mp/bjCk8N via @serafinowicz @debonbon @McKelvie #
- RT @McKelvie: What if Wes Anderson directed Spider-Man? http://bit.ly/c6kTpO via @adamcadwell (LOVE the Owen Wilson) #
- expansive place photography from Karin Bubaš: http://bit.ly/byjuaC #
- rain is hammering the skylights at work. if the world ends today, i'll be angry that i spent today at work. #
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