June 2011
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Prompt
Champagne is served. Now what?
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Gardening
God damn weeding and god damn raking and city trash removal and yard waste ordinances. The approved plastic bags—plastic? really? for compostable lawn clippings??—are no longer distributed by the trash men—some genius decision by the powers that be—and can’t be had for love nor money in half the grocery stores in town. The ones that do carry them keep them behind the cash register, with the...
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Prompt
Who taught you how to make a bed?
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Olympic National Park →
This is where my grandparents used to live.
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Manifesto
I tire of portents and the search for meaning in the universe, the notion that every gesture has some deliberate intent, that there are no coincidences or accidents.
I believe in entropy and gravity, the electromagnetic force and rationalization. Other organisms may have neurotransmitters, but what differentiates humans is surely the ability or even need to impose structure after the fact. Some...
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Of all the people in the world who have miserable lives - - and, as I’m...
– The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket (book 2 of A Series of Unfortunate Events)
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I need one more tool to do this properly. #amwriting
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Science & cutesy junk: Carl Sagan's Baloney... →
methknk:
Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric
Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument.
Argument from “authority”.
Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an “unfavourable” decision).
Appeal to ignorance (absence…