July 2008
16 posts
There are delays on the Central line due to a... →
One of the first things that struck me when I moved here is how many times you hear this kind of phrase over the PA while travelling on the tube
I need to find better subjects to shoot →
Vonnegut on writing style →
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These were some badass physicists →
With gallows humor, the Los Alamos physicists got up a betting pool on the possible yield of the bomb. Estimates ranged from zero to as high as 45,000 tons of TNT. Enrico Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for his work on nuclear fission, offered side odds on the bomb destroying all life on the planet.
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More prosaically, Dr. Kenneth Bainbridge, site director of the...
“I never make speeches or write articles. I like to think that I do this out of...”
– Stanley Kubrick
Chess Boxing →
In Tyler we trust
Running total: 4 years living north of the river, 6 months south. Tomorrow I move back south of the Thames. I promise to bring a gritty inside game and an appetite for rebounding.
me: Dude, I think that's Keira Knightley.
quoc: Where? I want my two hours from Pirates of the Caribbean 3 back.
me: I wonder if she eats here often?
quoc: She was pretty hot in Conan.
me: That was Schwarzenegger you idiot.
quoc: I said Atonement.
me: Oh. Haven't seen it.
“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
– Jim Morrison