October 2011
246 posts
I have major issues with the alcohol culture we live in.
That said, I respect your right to make your own choices. Do what you enjoy. But if your stupid hangover interrupts my train of thought, my frame of mind or my productivity, you can go fuck yourself, the horse you rode in on and count yourself lucky I don’t bumdrag you the length and breadth of the goddamned suburb.
priorities:
Reading, writing, learning, working out, stretching, discussing, water, lean meat, vegetables, fruit, (a lot of them), sleeping, dreaming, planning, adventuring, leaving things open for more…
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”
—Glenn Clark (via neobutterfly)
“People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.”
—
Lionel Fisher (via middlenameconfused)
Rather, “An awful lot of people who need people…”
(via bridgettelizabeth)are you religious?
A thousand times no.
“Here’s my nightmare scenario,” Kirschvink began. “And it really is a nightmare. It’s chemically unreasonable. But I suppose the microbes living 2.35 billion years ago would have said the same things about oxygen.” Warming to the topic, he spun out microbial death tale. “Let’s say that there’s some damn diatom that learns to grab a photon and take salt,” he mused. Instead of grabbing a photon and taking H2O like the cynaobacteria, this microbe takes salt from the ocean waters instead. Salt, if you recall your basic chemistry, is NaCl, or sodium chloride. The diatom breaks this in half, leaving a sodium metal which Kirschvink says it could store in “a little organelle.” And instead of releasing free oxygen as a byproduct, this new diatom releases chlorine gas — a deadly poison.”
—A plausible end-of-the-world scenario you’ve probably never thought of | io9
“Part of the reason we’re so fucked up is that we don’t know what the fuck we’re doing here.”
—Graham Hancock
“We hypothesize that the shonisaurs were killed and carried to the site by an enormous Triassic cephalopod, a “kraken,” with estimated length of approximately 30 m, twice that of the modern Colossal Squid Mesonychoteuthis. In this scenario, shonisaurs were ambushed by a Triassic kraken, drowned, and dumped on a midden like that of a modern octopus. Where vertebrae in the assemblage are disarticulated, disks are arranged in curious linear patterns with almost geometric regularity. Close fitting due to spinal ligament contraction is disproved by the juxtaposition of different-sized vertebrae from different parts of the vertebral column. The proposed Triassic kraken, which could have been the most intelligent invertebrate ever, arranged the vertebral discs in biserial patterns, with individual pieces nesting in a fitted fashion as if they were part of a puzzle. The arranged vertebrae resemble the pattern of sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle, with each amphicoelous vertebra strongly resembling a coleoid sucker. Thus the tessellated vertebral disc pavement may represent the earliest known self‑portrait.”
—Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using ichthyosaur bones | io9
“Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.”
—Ralph Fiennes, on language and social media
“That’s the next war. The war for consciousness.”
—Joe Rogan
the floor is made of lava.
go!
