I mentioned writing funny letters the other day. Well, in the course of going through some old stuff I found this, where I applied to be the provost of NYU. This was written in 2002. I never got a response, unfortunately. * Dear sirs, I am writing with regard to the Provost position opening up [...]
Liars. And the idiots who listen to them and go: oh yeah, this thing that you’ve just said contrary to common sense and all my own experience, that must be true because you have said it so authoritatively and because I want to believe it! For instance, here’s one. So if you find yourself saying [...]
Caribou this morning, between a loud-talking gym-teacher sort of guy, and some guy in a walker who has some disorder that makes him talk like a mixture of a muppet and Gentle Ben. This latter guy is apparently a doctor, which I deduce from the fact that the loud-talking guy keeps calling him “doctor.” LT: [...]
So I was hacking around and I found the source code to myself. As it turns out I’m written in Lisp, which is good in most ways but bad because I can’t interface with other libraries and because most people can’t understand me. Still, I figured I’d share a few things I’ve learned. This function, [...]
Not to put too fine a point on it, our house is old and falling apart and in a shitty part of town. When I go into the basement I always think the house is on the verge of collapse: the concrete on the floor is hollow from having water frozen under it, the concrete [...]
The first is my favorite quote, ever, from DDB: “I am not a, like, sociologist.” The second is a delightful website that Janie pointed me toward, where a guy writes funny letters to people and corporations. I read a few of them and they are awesome. An example is here. I used to write funny [...]