15 Dec 2015 Sonny Rollins
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Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest musicians of his age. A protégé of Thelonious Monk. A close friend and rival of fellow tenor man John Coltrane. A junkie who did two bids at Rikers Island before kicking his habit...
15 Dec 2015 In Memoriam of William Herschel, Astronomer
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Coelorum perrupit claustra. He broke through the barriers of the heavens....
15 Dec 2015 William Gibson
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With the oven mitts of science fiction, we can grasp the red-hot casserole of the future....
15 Dec 2015 Richard Feynman
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Dear Koichi, I was very happy to hear from you, and that you have such a position in the Research Laboratories. Unfortunately your letter made me unhappy for you seem to be truly sad. It seems that the influence of your teacher...
15 Dec 2015 Farewell Letter from a Colleague
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Fellow Team Members: After carefully considering the path forward for my family and me, I have decided to retire from the corporate world on April 1st, 2011. I have a 32 year-old wife and a brand new baby boy… our first. My...
18 Jan 2015 Bob ‘Da Bumba’ Baron
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Next you will want to get the family tattoo. It's a bagel with a snake curled thru thru the middle with a lox in its jaws....
02 Nov 2014 Mr. Bad
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JESUS I'm hurting today. OW. Like, really, OWWWWW. I was SERIOUSLY POISONED by diox at the last-minute-thank-Ganesh-it's-Friday-what-the-fuck-let's-drink Attic get-together last night. I'm serious here. I have serious, serious cell tissue damage that may never heal. Little poisoned tissue walls all over just oozing damage and hurtness. Ow!...
05 Sep 2014 Lauren Shafshak
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Shalom, ya'll! I bought a tile sign that says that. :) I thought I should send an update. Everything here is amazing! It's warm, but not too hot. Slightly humid. David's family is so welcoming, you would think that I was their...
05 Sep 2014 Erik Davis
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Burning Men Part One: CHAOSMOS And so there you are, in a fireman's coat, hurling through the wee hours across a parched and dusty lakebed in a 1979 American LaFrance firetruck, a pumper from Danville Illinois named Sparky who occasionally spits gobs...
24 Jun 2014 Charles Bukowski
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing....