August 2010
11 posts
Better Book Titles
I found this on Better Book Titles. One of my favorite books - but a real pain to read. After the first ten to twenty pages you start to understand what the characters are saying (it doesn’t help that the main character is the narrator…), and then it isn’t so bad. Most of the slang used in the book are either pop culture references or phonetically spelled Russian terms. The...
"For In Dreams We Enter A World That Is Entirely...
It’s been about three weeks since I saw “Inception” and earlier tonight I stumbled upon an article from the Huffington Post discussing some facts about sleep presented in the movie that are not just science fiction. It is revealed that, although people cannot enter other people’s dreams, you can be in complete control of what you are dreaming (it’s called lucid...
I miss this...
Me and my brother have this exact same castle. I used to think the trap door was the coolest thing ever. I wish I could remember some of the stories we made up while we were playing with it. Someone should have written them down.
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Vacation Please?
Apparently, over the summer the dorms at Oxford and twenty other British colleges are transformed into bed-and-breakfasts over summer holidays. And they cost just $37 to $60 a night. Can I go now? Please?
Read more in the New York Times article: In Britain, Dorms Have Summer Jobs
Keep Calm and, well... you know...
With the recent resurgence of a popular British motivational poster, I found myself really appreciating the simple motto. Not that you can really escape it: it’s found itself emblazoned on everything from coffee mugs to door mats. Anyways - I was going through google image results to see what some of the parodies were of the poster and found one that applies to my life even more than the...
Curiosity...
I’ve always been curious. I’ve wanted to start a blog - but felt like I had nothing of interest to really write about. But then I realized that they don’t really need to be about anything. So this blog isn’t about anything. It’s about everything. Or nothing. So it goes.
