Rhetorical ammunition. 3 hour games of Tic-Tac-Toe. Expressing uncertainty over Heisenberg's principles. Writing my name in water. Laying down fresh beats. Harvesting mistletoe... in July. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Leech gathering on lonely moors. Being witty at _ALL_ times. Even when I'm not. Exhibiting wave-particle duality. Not knowing when to quit.
Lighthouse
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who is not afraid of life despite the fact that it is often scary. Anyone with an open mind and a willingness to challenge themselves. Anyone who challenges me, makes me grow or otherwise makes life a little more interesting.
Quotes I Like:
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom - but it is the farthest thing from it - because cynics don't learn anything. Cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
-Stephen ColbertI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
-Henry David Thoreau
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
-Plato
The phenomenon of the profound and anxious demand of the human soul to be liberated from its daily hypocrisy by the assumption of an anonymous, dionysiac, new hypocrisy is most ancient. The carnival clown is a tragic figure. He seeks to be liberated from hypocrisy by pretence. He seeks to dissolve all the various masks which he wears every day by a new, more fantastic mask. He seeks to expel what has been thrust down into his subconscious and be liberated, but there is no liberation; the tragedy of the carnival clown remains unresolved. His deepest demand is to be transformed.
-Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon
Cool Videos:
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, The Godfather 1&2, The Shawshank Redemption, LOTR, Star Wars (OT), Harry Potter, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Memento, The Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, The Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American History X, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Crash, Garden State, anything by Wes Anderson, Guy Ritchie or Quentin Tarrantino... old school Kevin Smith is good too.
But the greatest movie of all time is without a doubt: Wagon's East. RIP John, RIP.
Television:
C-Span, The NASA channel, C-Span 2 and anything with Mark Thompson. I'm waiting for Fox to bring back the Glutton Bowl and Celebrity boxing. I'm beginning to have withdrawals.
Books:
I'll be honest, I don't read many books. I merely gather information through various epistemological means - chiefly analytic, constructive fallibilism dashed with a touch of synthetic, rational contextualism.
I've actually listened to the British version of the first 6 Harry Potter audio books - twice. I've also read the English versions. Ya, I'm cool like that.
Heroes:
People who make a positive difference in the lives of others.
My mom never ceases to amaze me.
