February 2012
16 posts
You can pretend to be impartial/empirical, *or*...
have an argument that isn’t really supported by your evidence/data. But don’t try to do both at once or everyone will get really pissed off. — Jared Diamond
sometimes it can be hard to tell whether your...
is that you’re a sword chopping daisies or a flyswatter plowing the sea
The strong inhabit messy individual suites
Seeing the disease, overcrowding and rampant circulation of drugs, the Doctor realizes much of the prison is controlled by the inmates. They decorate their cells and have an established pecking order. The strong inhabit messy individual suites and the weak are jammed together, as many as sixteen sharing a 100-square-foot (9.3 m2) cell. — Wikipedia
You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond..
“just because they say action doesn’t mean you have to do something”
– Brando (via magnificentruin
)
SUBLET FATIGUE
in table tennis, a forehand slam
is performed by facing the table straight on, and then whipping the paddle in a right-to-left motion, almost as if one were quickly turning a steering wheel or throwing a right hook.
in chess, when facing a king and pawn vs. pawn endgame, the kings must race to reach the end of the file which the pawn is moving down.
in poker, before making a bet, one should have a plan about what one is going...
inspired to play up their success
“It is important not to draw conclusions based on Taliban comments or musings,” Colonel Cummings said. “These detainees include some of the most motivated and ruthless of the insurgents, who are inspired to play up their success. It is what they want us to believe they think.”
