Sorry, I’m not usually political around here.
Currently the FCC is reviewing possible regulation to prevent discrimination against traffic on the internet. At the same time two bills are in congress to prevent the FCC from regulating this new medium. This battle is pretty vital to fundamental rights and the economy. Even from a purely consumer [...]
Category Archives: thoughts
Something I’ve been working on for the last few weeks (along with several other attempts):
@kholinar Beneath the soft eddies, my arms struggle deeper, restless ’til I find your current, aching to be caught in your sweet maelstrom.
Megan and I recently went to see Bright Star, a period piece about the tragic romance between John Keats [...]
Really interesting study on how the mind reacts to nonsense. Apparently they tested students by reading each group a story (one nonsensical, one conventional) and the nonsense group tested 30% higher in identifying patterns.
Might be worth thinking twice before saying, “That’s just nonsense,” next time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html
via Carrollian @ the http://alice-in-wonderland.net forums…
A few years ago I posted something about how lucky I was to have found my wife (then fiancée) because of her unusual taste in TV. It was tongue-in-cheek, of course, because there were and are a lot more reasons to be thankful for her. At the time, however, it seemed funny to me so [...]
There’s something amazing about falling asleep at night with someone clinging to you, their head resting on your shoulder. It brings me awake and sets all thoughts of sleep aside for those first moments in our darkened room. It is a time of being loved in repose. Not with a thought, but in existence. Simple [...]
One of those strange dreams that you can’t release. I had to jot it down at 2:00 am:
In the back of the church property, around the bluff and down the path to the lower plain, there was a cave. We went to open it to maintain the lake within with its creatures of all types. [...]