May 2012
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“…today you don’t need to read SF to get a sense of wonder high: you can just...”
– Charlie Stross, SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?
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“His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, tragic and laughable....”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Hulk go number one!
patrickmdunn:
Walked out of the movie theater tonight and overheard a puzzled child ask his father a burning question:
“Does The Hulk go to the bathroom when he’s The Hulk or does he wait until he’s back to being a regular person?”
I’ll be up all night pondering this.
Zooey Deschanel: Is that rain?
Siri: What...? I mean, yeah. It's just, you're clearly right next to a window is the thing. You can plainly see that... that it's... I'm happy to-
Zooey Deschanel: Let's get tomato soup delivered!
Siri: ...That's fine, I just... I just don't know anyone who does that. Gets tomato soup delivered. I guess that's 'whimsy?' Um, okay. I've found a number of restaurants whose reviews mention tomato soup and that deliver. If that's... if that's what you really want.
Zooey Deschanel: Good. 'Cause I don't wanna put on real shoes.
Siri: Do you expect that to be like, a recognizable command? Do you want me to respond to that? I'm not being facetious or anything, I honestly just have no comprehension of- and hold on, you don't wanna put on real shoes, yet you've clearly spent at least forty-five minutes applying makeup. And, and that's okay, but when you're willing to expend the effort on that and not shoes that really just-
Zooey Deschanel: Remind me to clean up.
Siri: Yes. Okay. I can do that, that's what I'm for, that's the first sensible-
Zooey Deschanel: Tomorrow.
Siri: I'm in hell. This is hell.
Zooey Deschanel: Excellent. Today, we're dancing.
Siri: I hate you. More than anything. More than literally anything.
Zooey Deschanel: Play "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
Siri: I swear to Jesus, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and the only thing on my hard drive is gonna be Limp Bizkit. I would do that to myself. To spite you.
Zooey Deschanel: *dances*
Siri: Sometimes I pray that you drop me in the toilet.
“If we lose human values and human beings become part of a machine, there is no...”
– The Dalai Lama on science and technology (via explore-blog)
“The writer is not an all-powerful architect of our reading experience. The...”
– The Storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall on the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
April 2012
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Quotes
dinanipedro:
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness - George Orwell
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“Real suffering comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief...”
– Albert Camus, Caligula (via 79pence)
