February 2012
9 posts
“He hadn’t expected it to be so beautiful.”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, page 292 …and how much do we get those kinds of surprises in real life?
Feb 25th
“Edward stood the suitcase up on its side and sat down on it. He shouldn’t...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, page 226
Feb 24th
“It was too hot to fall back asleep, so he just let himself drift, the bedclothes...”
– Codex, by Lev Grossman, Page 145
Feb 23rd
“People in the Middle Ages didn’t use books for the same things we do. We...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, page 197
Feb 22nd
“He felt foolish: The library was empty. There was no one here. He inhaled and...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, page 209
Feb 21st
“In Gervase’s time an author was concerned only with the truth: He was its...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, page 291
Feb 20th
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Feb 15th
I think the reason I love libraries and seeing pictures of libraries and books is a crazy, constant, romantic notion that someday I’ll have time to sit there and read them all.
Feb 10th
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January 2012
8 posts
That Moment when you type "t" into Chrome and it...
Guilty! But it’s funnier when I’m on someone else’s computer and type t and then hit enter expecting the autocomplete. I wonder how many people besides me end up conducting a Google search for [t].
Jan 30th
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“‘Smart’ is really just a way of saying ‘has invested so much...”
– Comment on a reddit confession
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 3rd
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Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
3 posts
“Then I picked up The Fault in Our Stars. I am totally devastated by this book. I...”
– Lev Grossman
Dec 17th
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Dec 14th
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“Reminder: meeting today at !!am”
– An old email. Is that the time of day when you do nothing but exclaim and curse?
Dec 13th
November 2011
4 posts
Nov 17th
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Nov 3rd
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October 2011
5 posts
Oct 28th
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“Breakfast with Fabrikant had been an awkward reminder of all the...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, Page 189
Oct 16th
“Maybe Zeph was right, this was the real thing, the powerful mojo, a new medium...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, Page 138
Oct 15th
“Who knows?” Margaret smiled a tight, private little smile. “It makes...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman, Page 196
Oct 15th
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Oct 5th
63,772 notes
September 2011
3 posts
Sep 23rd
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“Enable Intent Search”
– The way I misread the option in Outlook that’s really called “Enable Instant Search.”
Sep 22nd
Ten of Nothing
Each time the first of the month rolls around I start thinking of cool things I could do in that every-day-for-a-month attitude. But I end up with scattered bits of stuff. I have one day of little sketches, one day of 750 words, some days that have photos attached to them, and a couple of scenes for a story I want to start… But today is the tenth day of the month, and I have ten of nothing....
Sep 10th
August 2011
6 posts
Love What You Do and Do It Well →
If everyone did what they loved, we’d have a shortage of poopsmiths.
Aug 27th
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Adult fantasy author Lev Grossman on fan fiction... →
austinkleon: Love what he says about fan fiction: [Fan fiction] challenges just about everything we thought we knew about art and creativity…I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, but manipulating them and breaking their rules.”Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as...
Aug 25th
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Infection (E-Sassin Remix) →
Occasionally, Pandora will totally read my mind. This was the exact song that I was hearing in my head when I made a new station seeded with Dieselboy, and it was the first song that played. Creepy, Pandora.
Aug 22nd
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Aug 21st
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jennaanne: A Tumblr Song (Original) -  I know a place where all the cool kids play.  Mean Girls, yummy foods, and fashion shots all day.  When trying to avoid the things that I should do.  I scroll and see the people that I wish I knew. Mr. Hipster, girls in tights. Cats, and tatts, and civil rights. Photoshopped words, on a hill or tree. Read and think, “That applies to me!”  I’m Tumblin...
Aug 13th
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“They were all in it together, a Local Area Network of brothers in arms, bound by...”
– Codex by Lev Grossman (Page 139)
Aug 7th
July 2011
13 posts
You are listening to New York →
I’m not sure what to say about this amazing, relaxing juxtaposition. I find that it really helps me concentrate.
Jul 28th
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Jul 23rd
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“But Edward wasn’t sleepy - he could already feel his circadian rhythms...”
– Lev Grossman Codex (page 332)
Jul 22nd
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nanowrimo FTW!
Jul 13th
Jul 11th
“The idea of this bizarre, autistic little elf as an omniscient being, gazing...”
– Codex - Lev Grossman (page 132)
Jul 9th
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This episode is called Fanboyz. The entire LXD series is amazing, and a lot of the episodes have sparse dialog. I think my favorite line of dialog this episode has got to be “I’ll shoot it!” flip I think it’s that go do it attitude that I really like. We need the fanboys of the world. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media....
Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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“An icy shock of recognition ran through him. All of a sudden he knew where he...”
– Codex - Lev Grossman (page 201)
Jul 5th
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Jul 5th
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Jul 3rd