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jazzfishSurviving DC traffic: A satirical guide to navigating the nation’s capital: "Whenever it drizzles, eager northbound drivers will line up in excitement on the GW Parkway and take turns spinning out and overturning on the ramp to the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway." This entire article fills me with simultaneous nostalgia and PTSD-induced panic, even though I haven't lived there for nearly a decade and haven't driven there in a year and a half.
This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard: "This is the only thing in my life that has made me, even briefly, proud to be American."
The Girl in the Kent State Photo: "Her father sold T-shirts with Mary Ann's grieving image on the front. ... 'It sounds bad, but my dad did what he did for me. He was taking care of me in the only way he knew how.'"
The Hunter Returns: "I had seven chapters to reduce the [number of characters] by three quarters. That isn’t as easy as it might seem, but I'm a professional."
Turing Tests and Other Things of That Nature (Existential Comics): "These philosophers fooled other philosophers into thinking the functional theory of mind is a good theory, so it must be a plausible theory of mind!" I have no idea why I find this so intensely amusing. I just do.
The case for rereading: "Reread a book enough times, or often enough-- keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up passages here and there-- and it will eventually root itself in your mind. It becomes both a reference point and a connector, a means of gathering your knowledge and experience, drawing it all together. It becomes the material through which you engage with the world."
Chess World Champion Plays 'Bongcloud Attack' Meme Opening in Tournament: "The two chess champions laughed themselves silly while the commentators stammered in shock: Both men had deployed the Bongcloud Attack, one of chess's worst possible opening moves."
Pointer Pointer.
This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard: "This is the only thing in my life that has made me, even briefly, proud to be American."
The Girl in the Kent State Photo: "Her father sold T-shirts with Mary Ann's grieving image on the front. ... 'It sounds bad, but my dad did what he did for me. He was taking care of me in the only way he knew how.'"
The Hunter Returns: "I had seven chapters to reduce the [number of characters] by three quarters. That isn’t as easy as it might seem, but I'm a professional."
Turing Tests and Other Things of That Nature (Existential Comics): "These philosophers fooled other philosophers into thinking the functional theory of mind is a good theory, so it must be a plausible theory of mind!" I have no idea why I find this so intensely amusing. I just do.
The case for rereading: "Reread a book enough times, or often enough-- keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up passages here and there-- and it will eventually root itself in your mind. It becomes both a reference point and a connector, a means of gathering your knowledge and experience, drawing it all together. It becomes the material through which you engage with the world."
Chess World Champion Plays 'Bongcloud Attack' Meme Opening in Tournament: "The two chess champions laughed themselves silly while the commentators stammered in shock: Both men had deployed the Bongcloud Attack, one of chess's worst possible opening moves."
Pointer Pointer.