shortformblog: Penn reveals that he wasn’t available for this interview. Seriously though, some cool things in this article. Sample: You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly cockroaches (the kind from under your stove don’t hang around for close-ups) and taught us to pick the bugs up without screaming like preadolescent girls. Then we built a secret compartment out of foam-core (one of the few materials cockroaches can’t cling to) and worked out a devious routine for sneaking the compartment into the hat. More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians. Sounds like the best trick you can pull is to obsess longer than everyone else.
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Penn reveals that he wasn’t available for this interview. Seriously though, some cool things in this article. Sample:

You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly cockroaches (the kind from under your stove don’t hang around for close-ups) and taught us to pick the bugs up without screaming like preadolescent girls. Then we built a secret compartment out of foam-core (one of the few materials cockroaches can’t cling to) and worked out a devious routine for sneaking the compartment into the hat. More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians.

Sounds like the best trick you can pull is to obsess longer than everyone else.

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 I kinda want the universe.  

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A library of free documentaries online. Educate yourself.

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I will derive! (A Calculus song)

This is beautiful.

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Words to keep inside your pocket:

  • Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
  • Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful. 
  • Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound. 
  • Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling. 
  • Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like. 
  • Aubade - a song greeting the dawn. 
  • Ephemeral - lasting a very short time. 
  • Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal. 
  • Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound. 
  • Billet-doux - a love letter. 
  • Redamancy - act of loving in return.

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plithith: loveclaire: “One such woman leader, Qin Liangyu, was the wife of a native tribal chieftain in the western province of Sichuan.” The Search for Modern China - Jonathan D. Spence So…I’m going to have a threesome? In China? In the seventeenth century? With a married couple? That’s pretty kinky I guess.  One of them, however, disappeared, and I had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts; I have not seen him since. Genesis 44:28 The Bible I am in a school lounge and this is the book closest to me.  This is kind of hilarious.  —Esta noche tienes aire meditabundo —dijo mi padre, buscando la conversación. La Sombra del Viento I’m reading a Spanish book for class. It says (roughly)  ”This night has a meditative air,” said my father, looking for conversation.
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loveclaire:

“One such woman leader, Qin Liangyu, was the wife of a native tribal chieftain in the western province of Sichuan.”

The Search for Modern China - Jonathan D. Spence

So…I’m going to have a threesome? In China? In the seventeenth century? With a married couple? That’s pretty kinky I guess.

 One of them, however, disappeared, and I had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts; I have not seen him since.

Genesis 44:28 The Bible

I am in a school lounge and this is the book closest to me.  This is kind of hilarious.

 —Esta noche tienes aire meditabundo —dijo mi padre, buscando la conversación.

La Sombra del Viento

I’m reading a Spanish book for class. It says (roughly)  ”This night has a meditative air,” said my father, looking for conversation.

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An Aerial Video of Amazing ‘Snow Circles’ Art Traced in Fresh Powder

Artist Sonja Hinrichsen enlisted five volunteers create beautiful geometric forms in the snow with their footprints. Cedar Beauregard, a cinematographer specializing in aerial photography, captured this footage of the piece with a remote-control helicopter, as well as these still images on Flickr.

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