November 2009
4 posts
August 2009
26 posts
Page 400 in Infinite Jest, which means i have to read a little more than 15 pages a day (notes not included) to achieve the Infinite Summer. I’m sure i can do it !!!
Stephen Hawking both British and not dead →
kittykittybangbang:
inothernews:
mikehudack:mattlehrer:
In perhaps the most amusing effort to discredit US President Barack Obama’s plan for nationalized health care - if not the most ridiculous - US financial newspaper Investor’s Business Daily has said that if Stephen Hawking were British, he would be dead.
“The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through...
Authors, whose entire catalogs I intend to own &...
David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Hubert Selby Jr.
James Joyce
Charles Bukowski
Jonathan Coe
(the idea comes from peterwknox)
How to read Infinite Jest
monsterbeard:
Here is how you read Infinite Jest. Feel the weight in your hand. Stare at the blue-sky-with-white-clouds cover. Get used to the shape and size in your bag.
This is where you put your two bookmarks. This is how you flip pages back and forth. Practice stopping at the end of sentences to go and read the endnotes. Practice putting bookmark A back in place for the longer...
“Let’s disagree over things that are real, not things that are wild...”
– President Obama in Portsmouth, NH (via notthatkindagay)(via jesslustbader) (via peterwknox)
“He’s our generation’s J.D. Salinger. He touched a generation and then the dude...”
– Kevin Smith on John Hughes.
Read the article. Patrick Goldstein for the LA Times, March 2008.
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I don’t know if I’d go as far as Kevin did, but the guy’s work speaks for itself. As long as there are teenagers, John Hughes...
“You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how...”
– Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
April 2009
11 posts
“The Church Of The SubGenius is an order of Scoffers and Blasphemers, dedicated...”
– The Book of the SubGenius, page 5
PongOut: AE →
If you can play this game, you’re not a human !!!
March 2009
3 posts
“Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can...”
– Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973
I wish everything were as simple as special...
The Lorentz transformation specifies the coordinates (x, y, z, t) of an given “event” in a reference frame S according to the coordinates (x’, y’, z’, t’ ) of the same event in a “mobile” reference frame moving at a constant velocity with respect to S along the -axis. It is written :
where β and γ are dimensionless factors defined by :