mefi quotes, no 58
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fiefoethe first thing that a fly knows about someone trying to swat it is that it's already upside down, in the dark, three body lengths above the ground and starting to plummet. Flies must have a hell of a stressful life.
posted by metaBugs at 4:17 PM on January 16
Hell, they're not even deuterostomes! (Our mouth evolved from the same line of cells as their anus did, and vice versa.) Our bodies are totally backwards from each other, our heads the product not of divergent modification from a head-having common ancestor but rather of convergent evolution. The most we share in common with them is bilateral symmetry.
posted by Scientist at 6:13 PM on October 1
I'd be lying if I told you that I'd never graphed data, looked at the resulting curve and then felt the way a leopard must feel when is sees a plump gazelle with a limp and a hat made out of parsley just standing there in the middle of the savannah.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 12:43 PM on January 15
Thank you for making me relevant.
Solecki, R. 1971. Shanidar: The First Flower People. New York: Knopf.
posted by The Michael The at 11:51 AM on November 30, 2006
Then I found this paper, which did it better: From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin @ the Web 2.0... Quotes:
even though the flâneur moves around “in an uncoordinated, fleeting way” due to “the fragmentation of modern life”, he can still “redeem it through his ability to aesthetically link otherwise disparate phenomena”...
posted by dreamyshade at 3:41 AM on July 31, 2009
I just stood there, watching him kick his windshield in, and tried to get up my nerve to make it a two-man riot, but I'd barely gotten farther than a slightly-elevated heart rate before he dived onto the roof of a Honda Civic driven by a foolish woman who'd thought maybe she could drive through the scene without being noticed.
posted by sonascope at 3:49 AM on October 23
He would feed it these little red berries it liked, and when i had fed him too much, would turn his head and use my ear to store the extra berries for later.
posted by chambers at 4:37 PM on October 28
Stair-making carpenters are like school crossing guards or trainers of seeing-eye dogs. They take on one of society's small sacred trusts.
Tracy Kidder on stairs (from House, p. 267-268):
But that situation can also be made worse, by just adding another weasel. And that situation too, and that situation, and so on without end.
posted by JHarris at 1:28 PM on December 9
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posted by metaBugs at 4:17 PM on January 16
Hell, they're not even deuterostomes! (Our mouth evolved from the same line of cells as their anus did, and vice versa.) Our bodies are totally backwards from each other, our heads the product not of divergent modification from a head-having common ancestor but rather of convergent evolution. The most we share in common with them is bilateral symmetry.
posted by Scientist at 6:13 PM on October 1
I'd be lying if I told you that I'd never graphed data, looked at the resulting curve and then felt the way a leopard must feel when is sees a plump gazelle with a limp and a hat made out of parsley just standing there in the middle of the savannah.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 12:43 PM on January 15
Thank you for making me relevant.
Solecki, R. 1971. Shanidar: The First Flower People. New York: Knopf.
posted by The Michael The at 11:51 AM on November 30, 2006
Then I found this paper, which did it better: From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin @ the Web 2.0... Quotes:
even though the flâneur moves around “in an uncoordinated, fleeting way” due to “the fragmentation of modern life”, he can still “redeem it through his ability to aesthetically link otherwise disparate phenomena”...
posted by dreamyshade at 3:41 AM on July 31, 2009
I just stood there, watching him kick his windshield in, and tried to get up my nerve to make it a two-man riot, but I'd barely gotten farther than a slightly-elevated heart rate before he dived onto the roof of a Honda Civic driven by a foolish woman who'd thought maybe she could drive through the scene without being noticed.
posted by sonascope at 3:49 AM on October 23
He would feed it these little red berries it liked, and when i had fed him too much, would turn his head and use my ear to store the extra berries for later.
posted by chambers at 4:37 PM on October 28
Stair-making carpenters are like school crossing guards or trainers of seeing-eye dogs. They take on one of society's small sacred trusts.
Tracy Kidder on stairs (from House, p. 267-268):
But that situation can also be made worse, by just adding another weasel. And that situation too, and that situation, and so on without end.
posted by JHarris at 1:28 PM on December 9
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