Month: July 2013

  • At the end of our three-year relationship, my ex stopped showing up in my Gchat contacts list. I figured he’d blocked me or gone invisible. The breakup had been acrimonious, the kind where you refuse to attend parties until you’ve been assured your ex was not invited, and even then you insist on reviewing the…

  • cursivebuildings: cursivebuildings: “After the Lunar Module had landed … and as we breathlessly awaited the first steps on the moon, I was casting about for some novel way to record that moment. … I walked across the road and positioned that sign with its greeting so that the moon was peeking over its top right…

  • hnnhmcgrth: Poem by Man Ray

  • mayhap: From 2001, not 2013: “White supremacy has taught him that all people of color are threats irrespective of their behavior. Capitalism has taught him that, at all costs, his property can and must be protected. Patriarchy has taught him that his masculinity has to be proved by the willingness to conquer fear through aggression;…

  • fyprocessing: Eyeo 2013 – Karsten Schmidt (by Eyeo Festival) Tower of Babel – Drawing an arc spanning past, present & (near) future, personal and global histories & philosophies, this talk takes a closer look at the confusion of tongues in computing and argues why more is more in the case of learning languages and aiming…

  • pixelatedcowboy: fishtrek replied to your post “pixelsaac replied to your photo “hotel lobby for kin, first version…” i used to do a lot of my work in RPG Maker XP and found i preferred it to VX because there were more layers to work through. Is VX Ace similar/have there been any issues you’ve run…

  • todaysdocument: Apollo 11 Flight Plan The flight plan for Apollo 11 was a minute-by-minute time line of activities for the mission crew—Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Edwin “Buzz" Aldrin—and Mission Control in Houston. The flight was launched July 16, 1969. Touchdown on the moon took place, as scheduled, on July 20, 102 hours, 47 minutes,…

  • The stage winner, the King of the Mountains, the winner of the youth classification, the second best rider in the 100th Tour… it’s no wonder Nairo Quintana is happy after stage 20. “I do not believe it. I am very happy, and I must thank all my team-mates who worked today but also throughout the…

  • rafaelfajardo: Critical Toy work in progress