Archive for the 'Elsewhere' Category

Learn To Live With What You Can’t Rise Above

December 29th, 2007

A couple of super cool things about the internet lately:

If you missed the last Layer Tennis (like me!) you missed one of my favorite things that happened on the internet this year: commentator Josh Allen completely hijacked the entire competition. I won’t say the artwork the designers created was lacking, I’ll just say that Josh […]

Perfect Teeth & Wouldn’t Know

November 30th, 2007

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 - […]

8:30 AM, waiting for the Ftrain

November 17th, 2007

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., […]

The Things We Did Last Summer

November 3rd, 2007

I feel my friendships more acutely these days. I read things online my friends have written and I think: I am going to miss these people when they’re gone. Gone away from the internet or gone dead. I’m clinging to things that are important to me while it feels like the internet is reaching critical […]

Was It Something You Did

October 10th, 2007

Some things that made the internet a better place recently:

dirtynerdluv : I Tried - Make sure to read Andrew’s comment.
Fiction Volante: The Pornographer’s Daughter
Henna and Coca-Cola by Pasha Malla - Actually just start here and read the whole series, each chapter is more amazing than the last.
One Hit Wonders by Matthew Baldwin - The Grammarian […]