Today I found a tiktoker playing arpeggios in circle of fifths, and claiming that she composed it by herself. [permlink]

TIL how a camera works What is a pinhole camera? #Science [permlink]

quality of HN comments. I don't get what ed meant there, my best interpretation is that it was a playful moment on the keyboard, which I find joyful and nice. [permlink]

TIL that silent letters in English were the results of men trying to "fix English" across history #linguist [permlink]

The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. [permlink]

"I created Kyoshi Island so my people can be safe from invasions", does not this contradict with her responsibilities? What about other people? [permlink]

Alexandre Charles Guillemot looks interesting and mysterious, he only had 3 paintings, but they're all so beautiful. [permlink]

I think I need to have more of a retrospective about Uncle Iroh's life, and how tolerant and forgiving of a person he was. #19:53 Mercy, and a journal template. [permlink]

I never thought of a good use to bottom-posting (including all the conversation when replying in emails). Now I can see how useful it is when forwarding emails. [permlink]

MIT police is a a glorified shorta madrasia [permlink]

Welcome (back) to Macintosh ～ take [permlink]

Mind map of Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

Playing Leonard Cohen's "Anyhow". How sad. #Music [permlink]

Category:Artists who died by suicide - Wikipedia #artist [permlink]

The Last Painter of the Victorian Age. I was intrigued by John William Godward's work so I looked him up, I didn't expect his life to be that deep and interesting. [permlink]

Today I watched a stupid movie called. A Short Film About Love 1998, it is not short, and did not seem to be about love. [permlink]

Just watched Adaptation, what a beautiful, fantastic movie. #Cinema [permlink]

Prayer is not interruption. It's the frame. [permlink]

From Kierkegaard's journals: "I avoided her to put her off in case she should get the idea that I had thought about her while I was abroad." Men. [permlink]

Erotic love and friendship are earthly happiness, a temporal good just like money, largesse, talents, etc., though even better. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

There came a moment when, overwhelmed in bliss, I dared to say to myself: I have understood the highest. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

How could the person who believes in the forgiveness of sins possibly become young enough to fall erotically in love? ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

In my melancholy I have still loved the world, for I loved my melancholy. ~Kierkegaard #Notes of Works of love #23:22 A very interesting note about love [permlink]

Woman is and remains, after all, an inexhaustible topic for my reflections, an eternal profusion for my observations. ~Kierkegaard #Women [permlink]

The only absolute either/or there is is the choice between good and evil, but it is also absolutely ethical. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

And this can explain why, when God created Eve, He let a deep sleep fall upon Adam; for woman is the man’s dream. #Kierkegaard [permlink]

Still, anxiety in itself is not beautiful; it is so only when one sees at the same time the energy that overcomes it. ~Kierkegaard #On Depression [permlink]

I love existence and being a human being far too much to believe that the path to becoming an uncommon man is easy or without temptations. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

Thus is his finite personality now made infinite in the choice in which he infinitely chooses himself. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

Perhaps you thought I would pass over the subject of friendship and its ethical validity in silence. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]