david ¹¹

About me:
geek n. slang. 1. a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination * 2. me
i always try to know what i want, why i want it,
and most of all, if i should have it.
biting wit + biting swimmer's legs = sharkasm.
observation: beautiful people, as isotopes,
seem to have a half-life of about, eh, five years.
everything physical decays.
wikipedia is my favorite verb.
it's never healthy to manage any relationship
with notions of indebtedness and scales to be balanced.
i used to hate orange. but we worked it out and things are ok now.
i slip often. i seldom fall.
a very short essay on the dearth of vocabulary:
"ubiquitous", isn't.
what would be different if our founding fathers were norwegian?
hundred dollar bills would have a picture of sven freynklin.
i can lick my eye... P:
you are not as fabulous as you think you are. sorry.
someone once asked me if leann rimes and busta rhymes are related.
i'm pretty sure they're not.
i heard vanna white had to quit wheel of fortune.
irritable vowel syndrome.
i wonder if john kerry has a bumper sticker on his car that says,
"don't blame me, i voted for myself."
i had lunch the other day
at a japanese hibachi (teppanyaki) restaraunt.
the chef had a patch over one eye, and i was a little worried
about having shrimp tails flicked at me
by a guy with no depth perception.
if a commercial went on for ever, would that be ad ad infinitum?
everyone should sing "father abraham" once in their life.
exactly once. then never, ever, ever again.
don't say "literally" when you mean "actually".
or, even worse, when you mean "figuratively".
whenever i hear people do that i literally go insane.
bad day: you toss the quarter in the toll basket and it bounces out.
good day: the quarter bounces out of the basket, back into your hand.
abercrombie & fitch probably sells
more shirts to guys than anything else,
which is the one article of clothing
you almost never see a&f models wearing.
i think that's kinda funny.
nike should use barefoot models to sell shoes.
"this hard-core ghetto gangster image / takes a lot of practice
i'm not black like barry white / no I am white like frank black is."
-tbhg
Things of recent interest:
illegal numbers /| anaglyphs /| farbrausch /| tone mapping /| foucault's pendulum /| occam's razor /| ulam's spiral /| shor's algorithm /| lake wobegon effect /| tropes /| the problem with travelling salesmen
more...
My rules to live by:
• boy scout's motto: always prepared.
• stand right. walk left.
• if you interlock the legos, your building will be sturdy.
• zydeco, not so much.
• always saying everything is "good times" is not, in fact, good times.
• words have gender, people have sex.
• beetle bailey is never funny.
• life might give you lemons, but if you're going to make lemonade, life also has to give you sugar.
• "the queen of spain's not got legs, dear, she's got limbs."
• oh the tangled web we weave, when first we practice to conceive.
• a proper ichthys always faces left.
• rule of acquisition 44: never confuse wisdom with luck.
• i go up stairs two steps at a time. because i can.
• a dog is just a dog. a cat is stupid.
• the timid do crossword puzzles with pencil.
• corollary: a proper ichthmus also faces left.
my photos (click on an image to open larger in a new window)
[ philadelphia 2007 ]
[ water & sky ]