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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
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https://www.obscuresound.com/2007/04/reflecting-on-the-acclaimed-blonde-redheads-23/
Even more reason we should be together, if circumstances force the great reassortment.
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/21/books-you-should-read-david-macaulays-architecture-series/
Being a childless millenial, one is rediscovering the assortment of signposts reclaimed in physical form from one's burdened youth. I always buy a Macaulay book when I trawl the finding before seeking bins.
Les réassortiments. Les commandes en cours [en coeurs]
Kowloon - Wake up
Marianne Faithfull - The Mystery of Love
Blonde Redhead - Top Ranking
Benjamin Biolay - Personne dans ma lit
Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange
Kodomo (Loscil cover) - Orange Ocean
Michael Torke - Green
Molly Nilsson - Every Night is New
Michael Torke - Time IV
https://neurosciencenews.com/crystallized-memory-practice-26135/
" Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the region of frontal midline cortex that is related to learning and control [31]. A recent study [32] found that growth mindset was related to both ventral and dorsal striatal connectivity with dorsal ACC. Dorsal ACC and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are critical to error-monitoring and behavioral adaptation. Growth mindset was strongly associated with dorsal and ventral striatal connectivity, as well as DLPFC. Learners with growth mindset are efficient in error-monitoring and receptive to corrective feedback. Hence, growth mindset has the potential to encourage intrinsically motivated behaviors in schools and promote lifelong learning."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836039/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-discover-new-color-thats-impossible-to-see-without-lasering-your/
"What, exactly, did olo look like? Ng describes it as 'blue-green with unprecedented saturation'—a perception the human brain conjured up in response to a signal it had never before received from the eye. The closest thing to olo that can be displayed on a computer screen is teal, or the color represented by the hexadecimal code #00ffcc, Ng says. If you want to try envisioning olo, take that teal as the starting point: Imagine that you are adjusting the latter on a computer. You keep the hue itself steady but gradually increase the saturation. At some point, you reach a limit of what your screen can show you. You keep increasing the saturation past what you can find in the natural world until you reach the limit of saturation perceptible by humans—resulting in what you’d see from a laser pointer that emitted almost entirely teal light. Olo lies even further than that."
Topical items:
I was introduced to Blonde Redhead through "Elephant Woman" (2007), and I have followed their work ever since. It is an anachronism, but as far as I can remember, my descent into perversion began with a fan video of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) set to "Elephant Woman." I finally viewed the film, and became very upset about the ending. It was a nightmare, and I asked the person who recommended this to me, who I once loved very much, is this what you think this is?
The following year, I remember The Reader (2008), a film adaptation of Bernard Schlink's novel. He is the Julian Barnes of Germany. Kate Winslet is not lustry to me, but the scenario was then, the ascent up the stairs with a solitary person who is later found to be wounded in some way. This is why they live on the margins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1erN5JitEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9RgKiGwgVw
I keep seeing this name pop up in Bon Appétit magazine. Resy for a table for two. To be continued. A hole-in-the-wall with lots of fish options, not pig-head terrine.
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/fooddrink/review-le-comptoir-du-vin-station-north/
Indocyanine green (ICG) to pair with a fluorescent yellow underscrub is the next Figs iteration. The age and weight bias is real among women in my profession. Being faster, taller and thinner than the other women, as well as having my hair done every six weeks, is a requirement.
It is a losing battle. No comparison here, but an exhibit: A wonder-woman surgeon is always late for rounds because she gets weekly bleaching treatments for her face, which is photoburned and maculated from the surgical lights. Her lower face is white, but her forehead is dappled. No comparison. Just an observation. It is rumored that she stays in the chest too long due to the lack of dexterity or due to perfectionism because there is the indicting catalog of all the intraoperative blood products, bleeding reversal agents to testify to her surgery times. They cascade when anyone opens the chart. The jibe is "oh, she only needed five bags of blood this time." One imagines the consternation of the scrub nurse suctioning out one canister of blood to pressure-bag in another donor bag.
An off-topic observation is that Danielle DiMartino Booth of QI Research often wears green to dice fundamentals. The kabuki of the markets, the spooky movements at a distance. Not an inspiration (Danielle); only an observation
ICG was first known to me as the ophthalmic dye instilled to view retinal vasculature. It is used in cardiac and hepatic angiography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqicm3MwkU
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81903-z#:~:text=Indocyanine%20green%20(ICG)%20is%20a%20non%2Dtoxic%2C%20water,data%20regarding%20its%20safety%20profile.
It is blessing to be able to move and to do so with grace. One should aspire to work all of one's life without prolonged periods of retirement because that is what keeps one in the world. With the move to the new building in July (after my June vacation), half of the staff have self-selected out to easier sedentary jobs like dialysis, which is silly. The foreseen AI integration in the building and the factory line of cases (to pay for the new building) intimidates some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9t5D7d70k
I imagine that Granny did all of it - the prep, the cooking, the cleaning and the books all by herself for many years.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WqtLFdIH6VE
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