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parasitic wasps &c

2007-08-20T22:36:49Z

I keep memorizing and forgetting this line by Darwin: "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"

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Sweet, so sweet, so slow

2007-08-09T19:33:01Z

I've been in the mood for Jean Paul Sartre recently. "Existentialism is nothing less than an attempt to draw all the consequences of a coherent atheistic position. It isn't trying to plunge man into despair at all. But if one calls every attitu...

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Mystic

2007-07-21T16:27:06Z

They call all experience of the senses mystic, when the experience is considered. So an apple becomes mystic when I taste in it the summer and the snows, the wild welter of earth and the insistence of the sun. All of which things I can surely tas...

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I was procrastinating

2007-07-10T23:51:14Z

I mean, I do need to have fun, but I was really just having a subconscious fight with my work and self-esteem. Funny how perspective materializes some days. I love summer! Eighty degrees and muggy feels like an embrace. And I love great journalis...

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Hope = xkcd

2007-07-06T03:01:50Z

You should be reading xkcd on M, W, and F.

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Rediscovered sadness

2007-07-04T20:22:50Z

I've been tearing through my house looking for my old map of Vientiane. I'd like to frame it. I've been searching for weeks now; I probably filed it somewhere dumb in a moment of laziness. I searched through a folder of correspondence with a fri...

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Oh, stop it! You're too cute!

2007-06-28T03:40:34Z

From this month's Ann Arbor Observer: "Green roofs may be a quintessential Ann Arbor phenomenon. Like hybrid cars, they combine environmentalism with cool technology. Plus, they're a little bit on the fringe." I hate this place. I should elabo...

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Memory

2007-06-25T16:02:43Z

When I was much younger, I worried intensely about my memory--that it would one day fill up, that it would be distorted, and so on. Without good memory, how could we improve ourselves? Wouldn't we end up in repeating patterns of learning fact B, c...

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More fun but unnecessary items for the house

2007-06-24T21:03:29Z

I think something very romantic could also work. Peer Gynt suite, maybe.

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Longing for home

2007-06-23T17:52:42Z

I wish I could go on a proper hike now.

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