March 2012
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February 2012
25 posts
my stress dreams about written comprehensive exams at the end of the summer have ALREADY STARTED. but in my dream, my comps consisted of drawing my classmates eardrums by memory. at one point we were all standing in separate showers and I started washing my hair. when I looked around and realized no one else was taking a shower, I became very embarrassed and started crying.
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My mom and cat, new best friends.
Mom: She's doin' doughnuts. Is that what you call it?
Me: You mean baking biscuits?
Mom: Oh yeah, biscuits!
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Mom: Putter, you can relax. We're stuffed.
“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete.
Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry. (via jtotheizzoe)
An Ode to Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats’ →
TV’s smartest chef, Alton Brown, is ending his blockbuster show after more than a decade. A history of his unlikely hit.
Famous ISFJs
I, for real, just found this list of famous ISFJs. Saints next to convicted criminals next to fictional characters. I’m in, ah, some sort of company.
Barbara Bush
Charlie Brown
Ed McMahon
Elijah Wood
Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and crafts
Johnny Carson, comedian
Julianne Moore
Marie Osmond
Mary Tyler Moore (Dick Van Dyke Show & Mary Tyler Moore Show)
O.J. Simpson
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Food Feud: Why Chick-fil-A is trying to squash... →
chick-fil-a is the worst
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“But the moment you start thinking of yourself alone, absolutely alone, and...”
– Nick Joaquin, The Woman Who Had Two Navels (via bookmania)
"No seriously, I’m dead." - Cotard's Syndrome and... →
jtotheizzoe:
What if you woke up tomorrow and you believed you were dead? Like really believed it? That’s Cotard’s Syndrome.
It’s almost a Camus-level existential mindwarp. Believing that you do not, in fact, exist. James Byrne writes about its history and recent work to uncover its cause at Scientific American:
The first described patient was presented in a lecture in Paris in 1880 by Jules...
