February 2012
19 posts
“There’s a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives...”
– Girl in Translation, Jean Kwok (via chaiandchocolate)
2 tags
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
– Louis L’Amour (Matagorda/The First Fast Draw)
I love the cautious optimism I have at the beginning of the semester. I hope it doesn’t fade. Random weekly topic for genre writing is fan-fiction. I also have to write a western or detective story which should be fun as it will push me out of my comfort zone.
2 tags
Watching Sherlock for the first time: First appearance - he bewildered me. Second minute mark - he charmed me.
3 tags
“He touched them, the tiny grooves in the paint, places where she had been, where...”
– Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
5 tags
The Foo Fighter’s Concert in Sydney. The stadium was completely filled that night. When the band pulled the lights, everyone started waiving their own light to make a constellation of people.
1 tag
3 tags
“Every morning she pulled a delicate cup from its brass hook and filled it,...”
– Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
As Above, So Below: Mind reading technology... →
metaconscious:
Computational models decode and reconstruct neural responses to speech.
The brain’s electrical activity can be decoded to reconstruct which words a person is hearing, researchers report today in PLoS Biology1.
Brian Pasley, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley,…
