It got down into the single digits last night – I won’t get above freezing for at least another week – BURH! I made my first loaf in the bread machine. It was not hard. Just dump in the measured amounts as specified in the recipie. I did not add any gluten and got a very dense loaf. It is good for toasting. I burnt the pizza and ate it anyway. I had indigestion all night long. The truck is still missing (bad fuel probably). I bought some stuff to add to the gas tank as Dave had advised – supposed to clean the carburetor and the fuel injectors. The rear view mirror came lose. My Crazy Glue does not seem to stick (either it got to cold or it got too hot sitting in the truck over the summer – either way it will not set). So I unhooked the electrical connection for the cab light and took it off – it was just hanging there banging against the front window glass.
Verse makes up for what languages lack – Stephane Mallarme – Selective Poetry and Prose, 1982
Factoid: There are and estimated 400,000 (1 million worldwide) ‘Gold Farmers’ in China. The total trade in virtual gold probably exceeds one billion dollars (in real currency). There are perhaps ten million online game players worldwide who buy gold or services from these farmers. In “World of Warcraft” 1,000 gold units is currently selling for around $10. The average monthly earnings of a “gold farmer” in China is about $150 (12 hours a day, seven days a week).
Niche construction creates a new evolutionary loop in which the transformed environment begins to put new selective pressures on the organism that made those modifications – Robert Aunger – Electric Meme: a new theory6 of how we think, 2002 p279
Factoid: The top three generators of online paid revenue: music downloading, gaming and dating. Online matching services generate almost one billion in revenue
The control of sex and pornography is a major part of promulgating a puritanical political culture without ever imposing an overt censorship regime. Sexual repression, often through the allegation of “deviate”: fantasy crimes, is the designated stand-in for violations of the social order that are hard to crush in a courtroom – Alexander Cockburn – The Nation (Nov 16, 2009) p9
It is bitterly cold
I had a dream
Saw a city from a hilltop
I crept along on the ice
To avoid falling
I imagined what I would eat
Then I fell asleep
When I awoke I drove
A car into the dark
It was bitterly cold
Economist are tempted not to take economics seriously when their political predisposition or personal ambition assumes cenrtre stage – Poatha Dasgupta, “Science as an Institution: Setting Priorities in a New Socio-Economic Context”, 1999 The same could be said of Suprem Court Justices
Factoid: The virtual gold bubble popped earlier than the subprime bubble. Between 2005 and 2009, virtual currencies were devalued by 85% against the US dollar
We caught the sleeper-train north from London…. The romance of the train, its Edwardian miracle of conjuring you to a different land while you sleep, was still perceptible. We left Euston Station… and woke to chilly air, white mist and a stag disappearing into the drizzle – Robert Macfarlane – The Wild Places, 2009 p73
Bark – Pay – Root
Dig – Lick – Fly
Dogfuck
Shine on moonbeam
Linger on honeybunch
Live my dream
Cry yourself to sleep
Successful personal blogs… are not about events, they’re about emotion. Grrr, I hate people who talk on cell phones in public places.! Arrggh, I forgot my labtop! – Ned Niedziecki – The Peep Diaries, 2009
We tend to live our lives as if the first time around was merely a dress rehearsal
The Germans have a term for it – Dopplegedanken, perhaps: the sensation, when reading, that your own mind is giving birth to the words as they appear on the page. Such is the ego that in those rare instances you wonder, “How could the author have known what I was thinking?” Of course, what has happened isn’t that at all, though it’s no less astonishing – Leah Hager Cohen – New York Times Book Review (Nov 29, 2009) p1
Factoid: Between 2003 and 2009 there have been 145 journalists killed in Iraq
The white moon takes the sea away from the sea / and gives it back to the sea. Beautiful, / conquering by means of pure and tranquil, / the moon compels the truth to delude itself / truth become whole, eternal, solitary / through it is not so – Juan Ramon Jimenez – Diario de Poeta y Mar
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