I’ve been thinking about how the story I posted here earlier this week doesn’t stand up to mathematical scrutiny. But anyways. Some things I liked recently:

Fiction Volante: The Separation - Repairmen shake their heads, refuse to enter the front door.

sevensixfive: Dettifoss - Six days on the Eimskip container ship Dettifoss.

Apples are the Only Fruit - [...]

It’s nothing. It’s an abstract idea with no relation to anything, ever, and no inherent meaning of its own. In a meeting someone would say “OK then I need X and Z by Tuesday.” Maybe X and Z were the Paterson Report and the Svetlana File, or maybe they were a cup of coffee and [...]

So I turned 18 and my father took me aside and said And now you will go to college, and you will earn a degree. And the degree will grant you a certain station in the workforce, and an according wage. The wage you earn will have no bearing on your worth as a human [...]

Reading How To Say I Love You when something Scott David Herman wrote popped into my head. Drawing an analogy between Roger Federer and David Foster Wallace:
I gather that his own experience is not that he is particularly intelligent or observant or articulate, but rather that the things he wants to describe, imagine, evoke, etc., [...]

is bloggers learning about their bodies. You guys this is what happens when a person touches me in person. This is how I act when particular beverages go into me through my mouth. Certain things I did last night caused me to feel ways X and Y this morning. (I will provide more updates later.)
Internet-based [...]