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~ ideal career: writer-musician-physician-scientist-entrepreneur
~ admires novelists who create believable worlds with science, history, and culture, and strong, complex characters
~ respects people who seek to balance the intransigence of morality and compassion for humanity
~ enjoys observing people and animals, in literature as well as real-life situations
~ tries to understand different perspectives, cultures, etc.
~ loves to learn, and appreciates things that make her think.
This erratic notepad is a perfectionist's exercise in spontaneity, and a collection of miscellaneous items of interest.
I touch type with QWERTY, but given how much I type on a daily basis…
is it worth learning Dvorak if that might become faster?
Dvorak layout for two hands
How long different animals live, in a vintage infographic by ISOTYPE pioneer Otto Neurath.
Are humans the only ones on this list marching forward?
I Shall Call Him Mini-Moon
Our planet’s proper-noun Moon, the one we call Luna, has been hanging out around Earth for about 4 billion years. A new simulation says that at any moment, Luna is not alone.
University of Helsinki researchers used a massive supercomputer to simulate 10 million tiny asteroids, just a few feet across, passing Earth. Between the gravitational pull of the Sun, Moon and Earth, tens of thousand were captured. As a result of these calculations, which would have taken your home computer six years, they estimate that at any moment Earth is joined by at least one “mini-moon”.
These tiny asteroids can orbit for years, undetected, before being pulled back into a path around the Sun. If we could capture one, imagine what we could discover about the early Solar System!
The awkward moment where I seriously disagree with this…
- Rand is the most awkwardly earnest, literal writer ever. She will tell you, repeatedly and in 50 page blocks, a complete and straightforward explanation of everything she means
- How is Faulkner less figurative than Woolf? In terms of stream of consciousness Faulkner is way crazier to follow. He should be where Joyce is, and Joyce should be off the charts
- Not sure how figurative Nabokov is, at least not exceptionally so
- Huxley seemed pretty literal the last time I read him
- Hemingway is beyond literal, he and Steinbeck should switch places then both edge close to the center
- placements that work: Tolstoy, Kafka, McCarthy
Watched Hugo today - history, mystery, suspense. Such emotion!
Asa Butterfield will play Ender in the film adaptation of Ender’s Game (to be released in 2013). I want to watch it when it comes out!
