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Soda Popinski

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About Me

"For the animal to be happy it is enough that this moment be enjoyable. But man is hardly satisfied with this at all. He is much more concerned to have enjoyable memories and expectations--especially the latter. With these assured, he can put up with an extremely miserable present. Without this assurance, he can be extremely miserable in the midst of immediate physical pleasure...There can be no doubt that the power to remember and predict, to make an ordered sequence out of a helter-skelter chaos of disconnected moments, is a wonderful development of sensitivity. In a way, it is the achievement of the human brain, giving man the most extraordinary powers of survival and adaptation to life. But the way in which we generally use this power is apt to destroy all its advantages. For it is of little use to us to be able to remember and predict if it makes us unable to live fully in the present."
--Alan W. Watts The Wisdom of InsecurityCreate or get your
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My Interests

Symmetry, entropy, puzzles, spelling, and green.

I'd like to meet:

Spelling bee champions and marginalized geniuses.

Music:

Current Obsessions: Find out exactly what I think of everything I'm listening to right now at Seedy B

Movies:

Casshern, Glengarry Glenross, Ravenous, Dark City, Streets on Fire, anything by Christopher Guest, Out of Sight, Pi, Snatch, Big Lebowski, Buffalo 66, Clue

Television:

Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters

Books:

House of Leaves, Einsteins Dreams, Maus, The Angle Quickest for Flight, Harry Stephen Keeler, A Journey to the East, Fairy Tales, Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven, The Wood Beyond the World, Don Quixote

Heroes:

My bro, Jim Henson, Dr Seuss, Mike Watt, John Mcentire

My Blog

Ruminations on gentrification as elicited by Eula Bliss (Issue 51, page 3)

This post can also be viewed over at The Believer Reader. It's funner. I was quite happily surprised to read this article, not only because I am completely enamoured of Chicago and wouldn't miss an op...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 PST

Some memories of reading and such inspired by a similar discussion by Nick Hornby

I cannot with any clarity identify the moment when I first became a reader. Becoming an active reader later in high school was an altogether more memorable and personally enlightening moment, but this...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST

Lance Armstrong should be glad he only has one ball

... Because balls just weren't made for biking. They get in the way and the knobby part of the seat crushes them.Anyway, I recently bought a bike (Trek 950--$100!) and so I took it for a spin on the W...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:28:00 PST

movement

ok, so that new blog thing i started moved to a new address.it is nowseedyb.blogspot.com(seedyb=cdb=cdblog)so really go and look at it this timeand follow the less obvious links...theyre funnew review...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:30:00 PST

thing

i've got some kind of music review blog thing happenin over athttp://metaphorgasm.blogspot.com/i am trying to add new content each fridaywe'll see i guesstell me what you think
Posted by Soda Popinski on Fri, 11 May 2007 11:46:00 PST

you know what is so satisfying?

stretching saran wrap so tight over something that you cant tell that its there except for the shiny-ness. thats so good. also, the sound of a metal spoon stirring hot cocoa in a ceramic mug. an...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:29:00 PST

i am totally not a car guy

i know nothing about cars. i know not where the manefold is, nor what it does. ditto on the carburetor. i dont care about horsepower, i dont care what size my rims are, and i do not need ground effect...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:43:00 PST

for those that don't already know

took a trip to maine this weekend. first vacation i really remember having since the dude ranch last year, but i could be wrong. ive been working long hours for a long time now and things sort of ge...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:45:00 PST

discovery

ok, so, if you discover something that has already been discovered but that you honestly had no prior knowledge of, does it make the discovery any less awesome? i mean, today i was just being a dork ...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:31:00 PST

festivus

so, angela and i held the new years eve festivities at our new apartment this year and, of course, it was awesome. it was basically just people from work, but we filled up the place quite nicely. th...
Posted by Soda Popinski on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:59:00 PST