Showing posts with label David Foster Wallace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Foster Wallace. Show all posts
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Sunday, December 07, 2025
Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Friday, November 15, 2024
More Linky Links
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- We waste so much tax money. Shouldn't any waste DOGE eliminates come right out of the budget and national debt?
- Matt Stoller on Matt Gaetz as an anti-monopolist and anti-big business. Interesting reading.
- This is water by David Foster Wallace. Something that should be reviewed from time to time.
- Oprah tries to justify the $1 million fee paid by the Harris-Walz campaign. Yeah right.
Friday, January 05, 2024
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Sunday, December 04, 2022
Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Anne Dillard
"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." - David Foster Wallace
"It doesn't count unless you do it." - Doug Stanhope
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
Friday, December 03, 2021
Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Anne Dillard
"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." - David Foster Wallace
"Easy choices hard life, hard choices easy life." - Jerzy Gregory
"It doesn't count unless you do it." - Doug Stanhope
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Farnam Street Wisdom
- Ayn Rand on Why Philosophy Matters
- Signaling: The Language Peacocks, Gazelles and Humans all Speak
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full transcript and audio). Always worth revisiting this speech from time to time.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The time the US tried to buy Greenland.
- Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (full audio and transcript)
- Wait - did China come close to buying Greenland in 2017? That makes the story a little different doesn't it.
- Battleships Part III
- The time the US tried to buy Greenland.
- Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (full audio and transcript)
- Wait - did China come close to buying Greenland in 2017? That makes the story a little different doesn't it.
- Battleships Part III
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
This is Water by David Foster Wallace
Farnam Street has the full audio of David Foster Wallace giving the speech plus the transcript.
This is something everyone should listen to or read at least once a year (or more frequently).
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.
- Nice profile of Rockies manager Walt Weiss. Hard not to like the guy.
- Senator challenges NFL's tax-exempt status. Of course a shortcut would be to just tell the IRS that the NFL was affiliated with the Tea Party.
- Col. Chris Hadfield singing Space Oddity is awesome. Part of me is bothered by the idea that NASA now is best known for singing astronauts and not for the sort of great goals and accomplishments that made them famous in the past. We don't even have a space shuttle any more.
- Watch this excerpt from a commencement speech by David Foster Wallace. Watch it once a week for the rest of your life to remind yourself "this is water".
- 11 Patron Saints of food, wine and those who cook or serve
- Interesting look at how our Solar System isn't "normal".
- Nice profile of Rockies manager Walt Weiss. Hard not to like the guy.
- Senator challenges NFL's tax-exempt status. Of course a shortcut would be to just tell the IRS that the NFL was affiliated with the Tea Party.
- Col. Chris Hadfield singing Space Oddity is awesome. Part of me is bothered by the idea that NASA now is best known for singing astronauts and not for the sort of great goals and accomplishments that made them famous in the past. We don't even have a space shuttle any more.
- Watch this excerpt from a commencement speech by David Foster Wallace. Watch it once a week for the rest of your life to remind yourself "this is water".
- 11 Patron Saints of food, wine and those who cook or serve
- Interesting look at how our Solar System isn't "normal".
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.
- The Cars are releasing a "new" CD. Here's the first single Sad Song. I guess I'm torn about this. I like The Cars but Benjamin Orr is dead.
- Jon Stewart on the pending Government shutdown
- Usually not a fan of April's Fools jokes but this was pretty damn funny
- Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library
- Who was Walter Reed, and what did he do to get an Army Medical Center named for him?
- “The Best and the Brightest” looks like a pretty funny film
Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.
- The Cars are releasing a "new" CD. Here's the first single Sad Song. I guess I'm torn about this. I like The Cars but Benjamin Orr is dead.
- Jon Stewart on the pending Government shutdown
- Usually not a fan of April's Fools jokes but this was pretty damn funny
- Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library
- Who was Walter Reed, and what did he do to get an Army Medical Center named for him?
- “The Best and the Brightest” looks like a pretty funny film
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