25lines, redux

HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Two weeks ago, one of Cindy Kienow’s regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn’t even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros. Kienow, a bartender at Applebee’s, got a $10,000 tip from the man — for a $26 meal — on Sunday. …. Kienow, [...]

you look so very happy to see me. no i don’t. you do, your eyes betray you. i’m laughing at you. oh really? yes. look at you. you’ve come all this way just to get a look at me. actually, i lied. what??? yeah, sorry about that. i must be off. you’re leaving??? yeah, i [...]

been playing with a dslr from worktoday. perhaps one of the best toys ever. i think i prefer motion as medium, maybe it’s just a sign of the distraction times. the most interesting still images to me are generally out of focus or in motion perhaps the two states in which i find the greatest [...]

that is what the display kiosk at gamestop asks as i pull up to the register, exchanging plastic for plastic. rather, we exchange bits for bits – mine transcoded onto layer upon layer of dipoles – read by the very same, and in return i receive a fusion of plastic and silicon. we exchange an [...]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2318643,00.html that’s a directive, not a past-participle or whatever. seriously, you should peruse all three pages of this article. actually, let’s insert a block quote right here: JOSHUA KEY 43rd Company of Combat Engineers, at Fort Carson, Colorado. Age: 28 We was going along the Euphrates river,” says Joshua Key, detailing a recurring nightmare that [...]

much like the consistency of jello pudding. likewise, reality blends together with masterful artistry and fakery – a slipstream between this world and other, alternate worlds. i think it was p k dick who was nearly frightened by his own power to create, compositing characters into stop-go strings describing fantastical (and worrying) futures of our [...]

sometimes I wonder if it’s faded away and then I read about regular expressions in my book it’s times like that when I find myself filled with joy like waking up on the Monday that’s supposed to be the first day back from Christmas and hearing that district 8’s closed. Of course, if you come [...]

…of textual healing randomly brain vomiting in text is oddly like therapy. these days i feel like i talk to no one… even though i do? talk to no one, talk to everyone. don’t even want to talk to most. and people too busy to talk, fuck you too. i’ve even stopped caring if people [...]

makes me laugh so hard i can’t breathe.

isn’t it most remarkable how we change in response to those who stimulate us? we speak differently, even think differently. and i must confess that i feel that of everyone that i know, tina is the one who gets by far the best letters from me. at least on retrospective contemplation, in my opinion. but [...]

how the past refuses to unclasp itself from the darkest recesses of our temporal existence i do not know what i do know is that even when you think the darkest, most penetrative demons have left us they come back, if naught else but a final haunting. whether or not we like it they awaken [...]

i can see everything my digital eyes cannot i used to go to bed with music if i couldn’t sleep – would let me focus my thoughts. kinda the opposite of reading before bed, and going to bed when tired… reading would definitely force a disconnect – at some point the book gets tossed and [...]

how easy we find it is to imagine utter perfection difficult, mentally and realistically to create it.

it’s funny. been playing more tetris lately, thanks to melvin – and i noticed i was very very slow when i played him, and others soon after. thought the brain was super slow… but brain age tells me i got a score of 20… after all this time of non-training! so i fired up some [...]

solo, we have freedom, time, capability. introduce people into the mix, and they unknowingly introduce complexity and constraints. just the way it is. and yet, when we have such freedoms, we are foolish enough to desire the endless plots within plots that come with close companions.

so there’s always this one – gonna post here on 25lines whatever doesn’t fit into a bucket below: hypeless blog – tech / design gummybrain – philosophical discourse, societal pushes and finally howtobeinteresting – coming soon…

Either choice would leave him with death. One would give birth to a new life cold and dark filled with melancholy. The other a quick journey to the underworld. He looked down at the world from his perch and peered into both lives. Neither option suited him. He tried to stand and walk away from [...]

met up with MrBurns yesterday. it was the complete picture of teenah’s description of what it would be like to run into each other in several years – meeting for coffee (in our case, water) in a transit lounge-type enviro, catching up, talking just like old times. during our chat i had the odd thought [...]