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humansofnewyork: Knotted Up

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:31:52 -0400

humansofnewyork:

Knotted Up

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Tue, 21 May 2013 11:16:04 -0400

jiminxir: There is that simplistic phrase that holds no correlation, yet somehow brings you to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:55:49 -0400

jiminxir:

There is that simplistic phrase that holds no correlation, yet somehow brings you to mind. I can never escape our moment, I can always find you near.

I feel like Frank Jr. from Catch Me If You Can

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:01:12 -0400

I feel like Frank Jr. from Catch Me If You Can

Get on my level

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:23:36 -0400

living-in-gmajor:

I have a pile of smarties on my stomach, and am eating them one by one. Left a bit of chocolate dust on my shirt.

Someone stop gr 12.

I haven’t put on pants and it’s 3 in the afternoon. Also just waved to my neighbour.

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:26:17 -0400

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

great metaphor. the last to leave get dragged down too

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:10:23 -0400

great metaphor. the last to leave get dragged down too

ABC: Every so often, if you ride Moscow’s crowded subways, you notice that the commuters around you...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:49:35 -0400

ABC:

Every so often, if you ride Moscow’s crowded subways, you notice that the commuters around you include a dog - a stray dog, on its own, just using the handy underground Metro to beat the traffic and get from A to B.

Yes, some of Moscow’s stray dogs have figured out how to use the city’s immense and complex subway system, getting on and off at their regular stops. The human commuters around them are so accustomed to it that they rarely seem to notice.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:45:44 -0400

humansofnewyork: The “Humans of New York Community” received a...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:36:18 -0400

humansofnewyork:

The “Humans of New York Community” received a proclamation yesterday at City Hall for its “outstanding support of the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA and of all of New York City.” And the proclamation didn’t even mention the timeless Christopher Walken Rex that we bequeathed upon our fair city.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:29:46 -0400

Why you no respond?

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:13:59 -0400

I is technology illiterate

By the time you read this, YOU WILL HAVE DONE FIRST YEAR. WAHOO! YOU ROCKET SPROCKETT.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:40:03 -0400

WOOOOOOOOOO

come home muahahaha

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:39:54 -0400

muahahahah okay! :D

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:19:57 -0400

How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:06:22 -0400

nique:

Ten tickles.

What do you call a sidekick who’s not really a sidekick, they’re like your equal. like...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:23:58 -0400

What do you call a sidekick who’s not really a sidekick, they’re like your equal. like mutual sidekicks?

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:32:39 -0400

xombiedirge: The Usual Suspects by Jempix

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:29:52 -0400

Joker

The Penguin

Two Face

Mr. Freeze

xombiedirge:

The Usual Suspects by Jempix

AUSTIN KLEON: Why most academic writing sucks

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:22:32 -0400

AUSTIN KLEON: Why most academic writing sucks:

austinkleon:

Richard Dawkins claimed that unintelligibility was a way to obscure a lack of ideas:

Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content.

Peter Elbow has a more sympathetic take:

When we academics were in graduate school, we were trained to write badly (no one put it this way of course) because every time we wrote X, our teacher always commented, “But have you considered Y? Don’t you see that Y completely contradicts what you write here.” “Have you considered” is the favorite knee-jerk response of academics to any idea. As a result, we learn as students to clog up our writing with added clauses and phrases to keep them from being attacked. In a sense (a scary sense), our syntactic goal is create sentences that take a form something like this:

X, and yet on the other hand Y, yet nevertheless X in certain respects, while at the same time Y in other respects.

And we make the prose lumpier still by inserting references to all the published scholars — those who said X, those who argued for Y, those who said X is valid in this sense, those who said Y is valid in this other sense.

As a result of all this training we come to internalize these written voices so that they speak to us continually from inside our own heads. So even when we talk and start to say “X,” we interrupt ourselves to say “Y,” but then turn around and say “Nevertheless X in certain respects, yet nevertheless Y in other respects.” We end up with our minds tied in knots.