November 2009
17 posts
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be...”
– Max Ehrmann
In the Lakes of Minnesota
In the lakes of Minnesota I believe there bodes a Quiet beauty like none other on this earth. When morning breaks, The flat glass lakes Reflect the sun across their freezing glacial crowns. In the skis above the trees Rain clouds billow in the breeze, And the downpour could rip apart a house. The wind rips across the shore, Against the land it wages war, Crashing waves into its side as...
“I think I’m just going to turn the furnace on low one night and gently...”
scary thought
I apparently jumped out of my bed onto the futon this morning around noon and confusedly said that I needed to wake up. After reassurance from my roomate that it was “noon on a saturday” and he was “pretty sure i didn’t need to get up. I returned to bed. The scary part is that i don’t remember any of this and suspect that I was sleepwalking/sleepdivingoutofmybed. My...
a chair with 4 legs is a chair
a chair with 2 legs is not
a chair with 4 legs can hold you up
a chair with 2 legs can not
Runner's World
When all disappears except the pounding of feet My mind can turn off and sleep to the beat, It’s a time out of time; I don’t know when it ends, But when I return I am happy, wherever I’ve been.
Math --> Paths to contentment
Do you ever get the feeling that math is really fun, until you reach a piece of content matter you don’t understand. Then math isn’t fun anymore and you long for the times when it was fun and for the next time it will be fun.
On that note, why is anything fun; besides the fact that you are good at it, or have the ability to learn to be good at it without undue strife? Why do people...
Creative Crop from a Dream Harvest
And now I retire to the land in my brain with spirals and swirl, there’s no logic, it’s insane. My creative crop is dwindling I must harvest some more, with dreams of things I do not know until I shut my eyeball’s door (When one door closes another opens) I open the door to my soul and fantastic things arise, all reason is gone from my head as soon as I close my eyes. When I...
XKCD →
best webcomic around. I discovered it when there were like 300 and spent 4 hours reading them. there are like 600 now.