Archive for the ‘ snippets ’ Category
… is one with which you can do this. [ READ MORE ]
"Based upon my years of painstaking metamathematico-theological research, I can confidently state that the good doctor is mistaken, and that the number of angels capable of dancing on the head of a pin is countably infinite, given Riemannian assumptions with regard to the fine structuring of profane spacetime..."[ READ MORE ]
Spotted this little Achewood reference at a cafe by my place. ‘Hell of’ is probably my favourite Roast Beef-ism. [ READ MORE ]
Usually it seems that when there is a crazy snarl of traffic it has something to do with a TTC vehicle crashing into something. While walking back home I came upon this scene at Beverley north of Dundas: bus parked in middle of road with mystery object wedged under tire, surrounded by police tape and [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes, every road between my apartment and where I park the car just becomes a parking lot. Once, it inspired rage, but now I can just play with my phone. I say that you can totally text (or blog) while driving, at least when your speed never exceeds single digits. [ READ MORE ]
I’ve just spent about half an hour in line for roti at Island Foods in the food court underneath my apartment. They’re always struck by these enormous lineups around lunchtime, and yet still they are closing at the end of the month. Certainly worth the wait though. [ READ MORE ]
I set up an app on my android phone called PostBot so that I can post from out-and-about. It lets me upload images on the go as well, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Here’s some aerogel at the Air and Space museum in DC. [ READ MORE ]
Essentially Emily is a new blog by Emily Brill, the newly-thin ’socialite’ daughter of Steven Brill, the erstwhile founder of multiple defunct enterprises you’ve likely never heard of. Perhaps you remember his ‘media watchdog’ magazine, Brill’s Content, if you’ve got a maddening memory for the irrelevant like myself. Excited yet? I hope not. This should be [ READ MORE ]
Possibly the finest statement of overtly ‘political’ philosophy of the twentieth century is to be found in Bakunin’s God and State. I recently finished a paper on Derrida, Deleuze and onto-theology (by way of some Heidegger and Nietzsche), and at one point I went looking for a quote from the text which I had long [ READ MORE ]
so, on the last day of my holiday freedom-of-thought, i’ve been catching up on a favourite comic book of mine, Bill Willingham’s Fables. and comic books have long been a guilty pleasure of mine: i’m not the kind of dogmatic comic-book booster who is endlessly trying to lift their preferred medium onto a pedestal alongside [ READ MORE ]