February 2011
174 posts
Hey, Tumblr!
Please add a feature that shows who I’ve recommended, of those I follow. It will help me keep track and I would be grateful.
Also, could you bring back the purple? I’ve asked a few times and you seem to be preoccupied with Tumbeasts. Call Jack Hanna and get this under control!
Thank you very much.
Now, back to the snowpocalypse.
What Is Binary Code?
fakescience:
January 2011
218 posts
crimsun:
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse,...
Sparrow
Sparrow
Posted: 29 Jan 2011 10:23 PM PST
I have always loved the verse that says God cares about us more than sparrows.
I’m not sure I’ve always believed it, though.
For the longest time I kept it to myself, always nodding at the right time while in Christian circles, furrowing my brow in agreement when it was brought up. As if I was considering the depths of this unfathomable love,...
Well - this explains a bit
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Who do I follow and why? Continued....
So yesterday I clearly remember checking and noting that I follow 60 blogs but mysteriously one disappeared and now there are 59. I don’t know how these things happen. Anyway, here are thoughts on 10.
http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/ This is a really new one to me. Photos of an owl or owls are posted and then given captions. All captions operate with the premise that the owl(s) in...
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present,...”
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Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (via quote-book)
Oh my goodness. Of course.
A Paris Notebook by C.W. Gusewelle →
This is a good read and paints a practical and still lovely picture of what living in Paris is like for an American family.
Circulation
bookofecclesiastes:
Circulation
By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke up, moonlight flooded the room. My arm lay paralyzed, propped up like an old anchor under your back. You were in a dream, you said later, where you’d arrived early for the dance. But after a moment’s anxiety you were okay because it was really a sidewalk sale, and the shoes you were wearing, or not...
Who do I follow and why?
I follow 60 blogs. Is that a lot? Don’t know. Started to write about all 60 and got tired. It must be a lot. I’ll try to do this in installments. Here are thoughts on 10.
http://katherine-mansfield.tumblr.com/ I’d not heard of Katherine Mansfield before I started following, but I like her writing. This page posts excerpts from her books and letters and the occasional...
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
– Plato (via kapi)
“There must be a million people all over the world who never get any love...”
– Charlie Brown (via thoughtsdetained)
Stanislav Petrov →
bestofwikipedia:
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who deviated from standard Soviet protocol by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm on September 26, 1983. This decision may have prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies. (via Ry-Guy)
Excessive Amounts of Lead Found in Reusable... →
Washington, DC—Today, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) released new lab results showing that a number of major retailers’ reusable shopping bags contained excessive levels of lead. Of the 44 organizations whose bags were tested, 16 are selling or distributing reusable bags containing lead in amounts greater than 100 ppm (parts per million), which is where many states set the limit...
