Tag Archives: Quotes

Run of Everything

By alex | Published: 12/20/2010
When asked about where the Camiroi playgrounds could be found: Oh, the whole world. The children have the run of everything. To set up specific playgrounds would be like setting up a table-sized aquarium in the depths of the ocean. It would really be pointless. - RA Lafferty, “Primary Education of the Camiroi”
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A Damned Shame

By alex | Published: 10/2/2010
Hunter S. Thompson from the best cover letter ever: As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what [...]
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Will free with purchase

By alex | Published: 6/26/2009
Had a strange dream last night. I was at a job interview, and rather than asking normal sorts of interview questions (even for an academic job) they were going right for the “deep” questions. I know why I had this dream–I took the “what philosopher are you?” quiz on Facebook before bed AND had pizza. [...]
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Of late

By alex | Published: 5/22/2009
Of late there has been a new spirit manifested in the youth which is growing up with the depression. This spirit is more purposeful though still confused. It wants to create a new world, but is not clear as to how it wants to go about it. For that reason the young generation asks for [...]
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Against assessment

By alex | Published: 12/20/2008
When you assess something, you are forced to assume that a linear scale of values can be applied to it. Otherwise, no assessment is possible. Every person who says of something that it is good or bad or a bit better than yesterday is declaring that a points system exists; that you can, in a [...]
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Close your eyes and think of Merkel…

By alex | Published: 8/10/2008
ATTENTION EDITORS – CAPTION CLARIFICATION U.S. President George W. Bush playfully pats the back of U.S. Women’s Beach Volleyball team player Misty May-Treanor (L) at her invitation while visiting the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Grounds at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, August 9, 2008. Teammate Kerri Walsh (R) watches. - AP corrected [...]
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7 Year-Old Vengeance Ed

By alex | Published: 8/10/2008
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Our seven-year-old guest was literally on the edge of his seat, watching The Princess Bride for the first time, and seeing Inigo Montoya fulfill his lifelong pursuit to avenge the death of his father at the hyperdactyl hand of Count Rugen. “This [...]
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