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The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

2014 Aug 21, 3:02

The story of Chris Knight, living in isolation in the woods of Maine for 27 years.

'Anyone who reveals what he's learned, Chris told me, is not by his definition a true hermit. Chris had come around on the idea of himself as a hermit, and eventually embraced it. When I mentioned Thoreau, who spent two years at Walden, Chris dismissed him with a single word: “dilettante.”'

'But still, I pressed on, there must have been some grand insight revealed to him in the wild…”Get enough sleep.”'

I don’t want to brag, but I’ve been telling that people all along and I didn’t have to live alone in the woods for decades.

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(via Pareidoloop) “Phil McCarthy’s Pareidoloop...

2012 Aug 6, 4:11


(via Pareidoloop)

“Phil McCarthy’s Pareidoloop overlays randomly generated polygons on top of one another until facial recognition software recognizes a human face. Can’t sleep, at SIGGRAPH! [via @Brandonn]”

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Star Trek: TNG Season 8 illustration has us longing for more [Star Trek]

2012 Mar 5, 3:17

Fictional plot summaries of TNG S8 episodes.    Like:

  • Q’s back: he’s wearing scuba gear and needs Picard’s help dumping his girlfriend. Barclay accidentally locks himself outside the ship.
  • Geordie and Data nurse a space bird back to health, and are sad when they have to release it. Picard is trapped in a turbolift with a baby.
  • Starfleet sends a cantankerous admiral to boss around Picard during delicate peace talks. Data seems to have mastered bragging.
  • Riker’s ex-girlfriend arrives and dies, leaving behind a pile of glowing dust and a mystery. Picard is trapped on a turbolift with a horse.
  • A planet of suspicious docents abduct Riker for their museum of amazing men. Geordi and Data are too excited to sleep at their sleepover.
  • Picard is trapped inside a sentient turbolift. A clip show highlights the most memorable “Picard is trapped on a turbolift” moments.
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(via Celebrity Sleepovers, Comedian Crashes at Celebrity Homes)

2012 Jan 26, 4:57


(via Celebrity Sleepovers, Comedian Crashes at Celebrity Homes)

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Alex asleep in baby chair

2012 Jan 14, 3:17

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Alex asleep in baby chair

2012 Jan 14, 3:17

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Man Unfortunately Sleeps Like Baby

2011 Oct 18, 7:16
Just discussing this recently. Maybe sleeps like a baby is meant to indicate the depth of the sleep and not the duration?
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Sleepy Alex

2011 Sep 10, 10:27
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4chan BBS - Genius sorting algorithm: Sleep sort

2011 Jun 20, 2:20"Genius sorting algorithm: Sleep sort 1 Name: Anonymous : 2011-01-20 12:22 Man, am I a genius. Check out this sorting algorithm I just invented.
#!/bin/bash 
function f() { 
    sleep "$1" 
    echo "$1" 
} 
while [ -n "$1" ] 
do 
    f "$1" & 
    shift 
done 
wait 

example usage: 
./sleepsort.bash 5 3 6 3 6 3 1 4 7
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End Love by OK Go

2010 Jun 19, 3:57

OK Go's new music video for End Love. It looks like a single shot of just over a day sped up. Sarah doubts it though based on the lack of them eating, drinking, or taking care of other bodily needs besides sleep.

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RSS Pillow | Boing Boing Gadgets

2009 Jul 1, 6:06Its an RSS logo pillow: looks good! But it does not help you get to sleep by reading New York Times RSS feeds to you...PermalinkCommentshumor rss cute pillow wishlist technical

Chumby will be cool, despite its name

2008 Feb 19, 1:51PermalinkCommentschumby review flash linux

YouTube - Kitty rubs face, very cute 小貓捽面片段 - 好攪笑

2007 Aug 13, 11:05A sleepy kitty yawns and rubs its face.PermalinkCommentscat cute video youtube

MPAA campaign makes piracy seem totally badass | GoSleepGo.com

2006 Sep 25, 9:57PermalinkCommentsmpaa piracy poster art irony article propaganda

Vacation Starts

2003 Mar 23, 4:39My finals are finished and I'm on vacation! Yay! The past two weeks have been killer. I got very little sleep during dead week with various speeches and projects due. But that's all over with now. Presently, I'm enjoying sitting and doing nothing. Perhaps I'll even work on my long neglected tetris game. Yay again!PermalinkComments

Joined LiveJournal

2003 Feb 12, 1:35After much insisting and assisting from Jessica, I have a Live Journal account. Hopefully in the near future I'll be able to make it look respectable and add in more friends. Thanks for the code and suggestions Jessica. This morning, I ran around collecting various forms from a plethora of offices in an attempt to figure out how to graduate. I had a modicum of success and I'm fairly happy, but all this thinking about the future has left me feeling tired and little time to study for Chemistry, or, as I refer to it, the class I hope I don't have to take next quarter. Speaking of which, I really should get back to that. Or maybe I'll just go to sleep.PermalinkComments
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