noise

there is a woman somewhere on the street shrieking from the top of her lungs like a madwoman. she's either a madwoman or is normal but is just very agitated. it's an unsettling sound. at the same time, with all the other information floating around in the air, the significance of the shrieking is somehow diminish'ed...

the onion

the onion in the year 2056. pretty funny

return to nature

i am visiting my parents in cleveland for a few days. an interesting observation last night: due to the relative silence and lack of auditory stimulii, my ears have begun ringing, fairly loudly, almost deafeningly. i wonder if this will persist throughout my stay here. my hypothesis is that my ears, used to constant noise, are starving/not used to the silence and are actually generating this high frequency pitch. any other ideas from the readers? :)

note: this was my first venture outside the island of manhattan in the last 3 1/2 months...

p.s. i also saw a live deer peering at me from the "state of nature" -- there was something unsettling about that. he just stared at me, with a dumb look.

asexuals

great article in the new york times on what the asexuals, a relatively new phenomenon, are all about. the first time i heard about asexuals was in college. i heard they would sleep with another person in bed and have what appeared to be a normal relationship except there would never be sex involved in there. not sure how they do it

real estate bubbles by christoph niemann

voila