drat fink

rivalting behavior

im happy to see that fifa is trying to combat fake injuries. theres nothing more odious than fake flops in basketball to draw phantom fouls and soccer players pretending to be more hurt than they are to prejudice the referees into ascribing more punitive penalties. i hate that win at all cost mentality. just play the damn game.

nothing plus nothing equals nothing

saw 13 Conversations About One Thing tonight. i wish it had been about one thing or anything for that matter. could not wait for it to be over. it was stilted and dull and a waste of talent. should have seen The Cats Meow instead or braved Cremaster 3. and theres always princess midriff and the lightsabres of doom but even the geeks and movie hacks can bear to give it only a passing grade.

book mobile

bought a couple of those things with alot of words in them and didnt buy a couple more. purchased James Bamfords Body Of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra Secret National Security Agency and Susan Tifft and Alex Jones The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times. Didnt buy but wanted Hilary Ballons New Yorks Pennsylvania Stations and Robert Caros The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. now all i have to do is actually read them.

kickstart

my sister sent me a mattel classic football. and while growing up i had mattel basketball and mattel soccer, it was my duty to inform her that we had coleco electronic quarterback and not the mattel version. the coleco was and is superior because it had blockers and a passing option. whats football without passing. and, of course, when you scored a touchdown it would play the song Onward To Victory. i guess it was the notre dame victory march.

and dont forget to wake up tonight at 5am for the us vs portugal. im guessing theres a 25% chance i will. ive seen some of the 2:30am games and some of the 7:30am games but the 5am game is by far the most difficult to manage.

heavenly creatures

"The pursuit of that ancient heavenly connection has lately moved near center stage at NASA, which assembled some 100 astronomers, physicists, chemists, geologists and even a few biologists at the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus recently to talk about extraterrestrial life."

apartment hunting

dressed to the 10s

golden goal

"Standing-room-only crowds -- at times more than 300 people -- have been flocking to Summers about 1:30 every morning since the World Cup started Friday, 13 time zones away in Seoul. They flip-flopped their circadian rhythms, setting alarms on wristwatches and radio clocks for a punishing nocturnal schedule just to see every kick, every penalty, every header in real time."

m&ms

anybody notice an upsurge of classic micro/minicars on the streets of new york?

eros and psyche

"GEOFFREY MILLER: My goal at this point really is to take evolutionary psychology the next step, and to apply standard of evolutionary theory as much as possible to explain the whole gamut of the human mind, human emotions, human social life, human sexual behavior as much as possible. I'm especially interested in looking at areas that have been relatively ignored or overlooked in the standard evolutionary psychology so far. For example, in Steve Pinker's book How the Mind Works there's a very good discussion of vision, memory, emotions,-but some of the most interesting aspects of the human mind, such as art, music, humor and religion tend to get relatively slighted, and it's apparent that we don't have very good explanations of them yet. I'm very interested in applying sexual selection ideas to explain some of those areas, but I'm quite open to any new ideas that come along that take seriously those aspects of human nature that have not been taken seriously before."