December 2010
31 posts
Python module to locate haikus in unstructured... →
“As is typical,
the Pope stayed above the fray
and did not comment.”
– http://haikuleaks.tetalab.org/
Lucien is not aware that I am headed for infernal regions. I still like to go where he takes me. How much more intoxicating, to the point of dizziness, falling and vomiting, would be the love I bear him, if Lucien were a thief and a traitor. But would he love me then? Do I not owe his tenderness and his delicate merging within me to his submission to the moral order? Yet I would like to bind...
“I cherish these ferris wheel revolutions.
It’s not because the ride...”
36) Metaphor drift will become pandemic
Words adopted by technology will increasingly drift into new realms to the point where they observe different grammatical laws, e.g., “one mouse”/“three mouses;” “memory hog”/“delete the spam.”
“I don’t try to forget about the failures. Nor do I feed upon them. There...”
“Take a look a look of what we have in the White House. Instead of Patton we have...”
– youtube comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY&feature=player_embedded#!
Sharks Wary of Drunk Serbs
Dragan Stevic of Serbia is the new Egyptian hero who killed a large shark which had previously terrorized numerous tourists (injured 4 and killed 1) at the famous Egyptian resort Sarm El Sheikh.
The Serbian hero was too drunk to remember what had happened, though one of his friends who witnessed the incident explained it all for the Belgrade based media. Dragan Stevic was dubbed by the...
“The new urbanism calls for higher density — more houses per acre, closer...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96sep/kunstler/kunstler.htm
“bohunk:
A nasty term of derision for Eastern European Caucasians. Sort of Like...”
