Tumblr (3.0; @symftr)http://symftr.tumblr.com/<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/1410230/interviews-freeman-dyson-answers-your-questions">Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions - Slashdot</a>: <p>Freeman Dyson on how he raised a successful daughter:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>She was lucky to be the oldest of six, so we had little time for her and gave her little of our attention. She benefitted from our benign neglect. She learned from a young age to choose her own path through life.</span></p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/50396654287http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/50396654287Mon, 13 May 2013 20:37:10 -0700freeman dyson<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e6faf4991df9052620043e4b9b16d01e/tumblr_mj97wwGsPv1r413v1o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/60ff4683149f572181c861e1b9ec6bc9/tumblr_mj97wwGsPv1r413v1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c33d9f004d5f1992fbf4c625498300e7/tumblr_mj97wwGsPv1r413v1o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/44da186bd09b78460dc4deb4d2b91a6a/tumblr_mj97wwGsPv1r413v1o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/de3429c0a9603acf4bbfef6e096e2d8d/tumblr_mj97wwGsPv1r413v1o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kylekinane.tumblr.com/post/46909789010/propaedeuticist-at-nasas-drawing-board-j-r">kylekinane</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://propaedeuticist.com/post/45035261906/at-nasas-drawing-board-j-r-eyerman">propaedeuticist</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>At NASA’s Drawing Board - </em>J R Eyerman</p> </blockquote> <p>Why don’t these geniuses just get a wider chalkboard?</p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/46914018113http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/46914018113Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:36:06 -0700“Y’all motherfuckers need to live in the now.”<br/><br/> - <em>Buddha (paraphrase)</em>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/44813766774http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/44813766774Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:01:45 -0800<a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/dont_try_charles_bukowskis_concise_philosophy_of_art_and_life.html">Bukowski: Don't try</a>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/44086810187http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/44086810187Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:48:33 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f4016d736b6514b17199a9b1b35fbc9a/tumblr_mhk99g0hqt1qz5pzpo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://miocyon.tumblr.com/post/42045886456/many-ages-ago-when-the-earth-was-still-cooling-i">miocyon</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Many ages ago, when the Earth was still cooling, I started my undergraduate career as a physics major.  I made it to the middle of the first semester of my junior year.  I was in an Advanced Mechanics course that term, and we were doing Fourier Transforms.  I was completely lost, so I stood up in the middle of class and said, “This is a bunch of mathemetical bullshit!”, and walked out and changed my major to Anthropology.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2874&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20smbc-comics/PvLb%20(Saturday%20Morning%20Breakfast%20Cereal%20(updated%20daily))">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>Well, it’s 20 years to late, but this explanation is actually pretty intuitive:</p> <p><a href="http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/05/17/understanding-the-fourier-transform/">http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/05/17/understanding-the-fourier-transform/</a></p> <p>I wish I had had this explanation at the time, because I struggled through it without actually understanding it, which is a sure-fire way to be hate something.</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/42061838308http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/42061838308Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:07:32 -0800<a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/">Why You Truly Never Leave High School: New science on its corrosive, traumatizing effects.</a>: <p>You know how you always thought high school fucked you up?  You’re right.</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/41152114995http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/41152114995Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:44:52 -0800sciencescience it works bitcheshigh schoolpsychology<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7adf11b40550a2a0999bf588e188b212/tumblr_mgrby17Eoe1qhgmi5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Are you familiar saying with the old human saying “I want to shoot you so bad my dick’s hard?”</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40748673643http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40748673643Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:42:01 -0800moviesmovie quotesjohn dies at the endnew jack city<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_mnOgjJwO14?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://itsasmallsmallworld.tumblr.com/post/36057085618/wtf-with-marc-maron-interview-with-todd-hanson">itsasmallsmallworld</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>WTF with Marc Maron: Interview with Todd Hanson</strong></p> <p>In this interview Todd Hanson talks about some pretty rough times that he has gone through. It’s powerful and I don’t think I need to explain this podcast. It speaks for itself. </p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40380492399http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40380492399Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:29:29 -0800<a href="http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully">Lessig Blog, v2: Prosecutor as bully</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully">lessig</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragesoss/3835494997/" title="Boston Wiki Meetup by ragesoss, on Flickr"><img alt="Boston Wiki Meetup" height="400" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2552/3835494997_edc2e1dc12.jpg" width="500"/></a></p> <p><span>(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)</span></p> <p class="p1"><span>Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events that began this…</span></p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40354708872http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40354708872Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:03:31 -0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KZvE7dQ-C5o?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Aesop Rock, ZZZ Top</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40238093729http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40238093729Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:52:00 -0800aesop rockhip-hopmusicmusic videos<a href="http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction/the-red-bow-george-saunders-0903">Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too.</a>: <p>A short story from George Saunders.</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40229262412http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/40229262412Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:45:26 -0800George SaundersSaundersfictionanyone objects kill them too<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/efa37b50cb25058290ae8ca9b8b3abe0/tumblr_mg50hmlyof1qhgmi5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/39722127531http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/39722127531Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:27:22 -0800lawrence of arabiamoviesmovie quotes<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7YLy4j8EZIk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Best song of 2012.</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/39437610081http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/39437610081Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:56:25 -0800so bad it's goodhot cheetostakissongs about foodmusicmusic videoship-hop<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uCEeAn6_QJo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is *my* end of the world song.</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Some say the end is near.</span><br/><span>Some say we’ll see Armageddon soon.</span><br/><span>I certainly hope we will.</span><br/><span>I sure could use a vacation from this</span><br/><br/><span>Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of</span><br/><span>Freaks</span></p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38368465806http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38368465806Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:34:31 -0800Ænematoolaenemalearn to swimend of the worldlos angeles<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eb373a55710eb70aa6fd0ecc587e4fb3/tumblr_mf7ry0S2YE1qhgmi5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Foie + Nutella = Best Friends</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38212524935http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38212524935Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:42:00 -0800Foie GrasNutellaBest FriendsFoodThe Layoverthelayover<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ed5d321493cbe805303302237b6b987c/tumblr_mf7hyqB1dp1qhgmi5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hey, Tolkien fans: What was Frodo’s intended career or field of study?  As far as I can tell, he had no training, no marketable skills, and no ambition beyond drinking and pipeweed.</p> <p>The harsh truth is that Frodo was a trust-fund brat.</p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38198651473http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38198651473Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:06:26 -0800frodofrodo bagginstolkienj r r tolkienthe lord of the ringslotrhobbitstrust-fund brat<a href="http://pamie.com/2012/11/how-i-might-have-just-become-the-newest-urban-legend/">Massagyinist</a>: <blockquote> <p><span>Then one of the nurses calls me and says, “The doctor would like to know why you’re rolling around on a table full of semen.” And I say, “TELL HIM THAT’S NOT HOW I NORMALLY SPEND MY SATURDAYS.”</span></p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38108279075http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38108279075Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:51:24 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m83y02pa2h1qeqirko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mattbuck.tumblr.com/post/28530577009/galactus-devouring-his-herald-taken-with">mattbuck</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Galactus devouring his herald (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com">Instagram</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38045328376http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/38045328376Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:26:29 -0800Galactusgoyasaturn<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c5e46ee9537892dc698426580818c344/tumblr_mf2bte2QUB1qhgmi5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><span>Ghandi was wrong. It’s just that nobody’s got the balls to come out and say it.</span></em></p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/37970075498http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/37970075498Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:05:38 -0800seven psychopathssam rockwellsam rockwell is a national treasure<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5uyhwMlFb1qer5cho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>The flight of a torn kite.</em></p>http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/37860439782http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/37860439782Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:31:51 -0800kitesel-pquotes