February 2012
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Scale of the Universe 2 →
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January 2012
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Nerdy Pickup Line
“You’re glowing…. in infared.”
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Argon walks into a bar...
and the bartender says “Hey! We don’t serve noble gases here”.
Argon, doesn’t react.
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Antigonish - Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away… When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn’t see him there at all! Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door… (slam!) Last night I saw upon...
December 2011
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“Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present… the name for this...”
– Paul (the pedantic one), Midnight In Paris
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No Surprises (Radiohead cover) - Regina Spektor
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Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. GAS! Gas!...
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“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
– Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
November 2011
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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October 2011
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“Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every...”
– Dr. Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters
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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing...”
– Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by...”
– Paul Dirac
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you are here
here you are are you here?
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“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with...”
– Rob, High Fidelity
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“My heart is your piñata.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this...”
– Richard Feynman
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September 2011
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Louise: How did you get here?
Johnny: Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.
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