Friday, 9 October
1:41pm, 9 Oct 2009
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Need a place to crash in DC tonight

Dear DC Tumblr community from which i’ve been absent,

Can anyone spare a couch for me to crash on tonight? I’m in DC without a car and need to catch a flight tomorrow.

Wednesday, 9 September
9:42pm, 9 Sep 2009
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writhe and

gape of tortured



   perspective

   rasp and graze of splintered



normality

               crackle and

               sag

   of planes          clamors of

   collision

   collapse         As



peacefully,

lifted

into the awful beauty

                                  of sunset



                                  the young city

putting off dimension with a blush

enters

the becoming garden of her agony
- e.e. cummings

Monday, 7 September
5:14pm, 7 Sep 2009
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Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine’s Got Talent) (via iamlikeasea)

Take 8 minutes to watch this whole thing.  It is unbelievable.

Saturday, 29 August
9:41am, 29 Aug 2009
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xkcd - A Webcomic - 11th Grade High school teacher finds yet another wellspring of humility.

xkcd - A Webcomic - 11th Grade

High school teacher finds yet another wellspring of humility.

 
9:12am, 29 Aug 2009
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xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet So true.

xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet

So true.

Friday, 28 August
8:55pm, 28 Aug 2009
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The Zombies - She’s Not There (via mitchman6969)

They were hipsters before you knew how.  Booyah.

Wednesday, 19 August
5:26pm, 19 Aug 2009
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It all began when someone left the window open. —The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg (image from here)

It all began when someone left the window open. —The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg (image from here)

Monday, 17 August
12:48am, 17 Aug 2009
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bunnynico:

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Friday, 14 August
1:02am, 14 Aug 2009
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“ How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story “Nightfall”, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

—

Roger Ebert (via kaylynashley)

Asimov’s Nightfall was written in response to a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s short essay Nature: “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”

I’d also recommend reading Paul Hawken’s 2009 Commencement Address (which references Emerson’s point).

Wednesday, 12 August
6:35pm, 12 Aug 2009
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Illustration of an inside joke.

Illustration of an inside joke.

Anand Thakker

I'm a high school teacher, who used to be a software developer. This is one of the places I come to think.
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