Harry Schwartz Eats the World » books http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world Figuratively. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Nerd Problems http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/nerd-problems http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/nerd-problems#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:17:05 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1649 While conversing with an attractive lady, our chess-playing protagonist finds himself in the following situation:

He sat leaning on his cane and thinking that with a Knight’s move of this lime tree standing on a sunlit slope one could take that telegraph pole over there, and simultaneously he tried to remember what exactly he had just been talking about.

- Vladimir Nabokov, The Defense

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/nerd-problems/feed 0 Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/scott-pilgrims-finest-hour http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/scott-pilgrims-finest-hour#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:49:19 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1632 scott-pilgrim
The sixth and final volume of everyone’s favorite nerdy graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim was released today. As you can see, it’s awesome. Buy buy buy.

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I finally caved and purchased a copy of the Veganomicon. I think I may actually like this cookbook more than Moosewood Restaurant Cooks At Home, which is saying something.

Today was pineapple-cashew-quinoa stir-fry. Delicious. Someone less lazy than myself posted the recipe, complete with pictures. You should go make it.

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Happy Bloomsday to all the hardcore James Joyce fans out there!

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/bloomsday/feed 0 Socrates and Glaucon on the HSN http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/socrates-and-glaucon-on-the-hsn http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/socrates-and-glaucon-on-the-hsn#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 01:19:15 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1514

GLAUCON: Then yes, I agree that one could add such technology to an ordinary mop. But would it still be an ordinary mop, Socrates?

SOCRATES: Very astute, Glaucon. It would not. For convenience’s sake, let’s call it the EZ-Klean Mop™. Now answer me this: would the EZ-Klean Mop ™, given that it has the Dirt-Fighting Technology™ I’ve just described, be able to more effectively rid spaces of dirt or plague?

GLAUCON: Yes.

SOCRATES: So you agree that it can clean better than an ordinary mop?

GLAUCON: I believe so.

Another fine article from McSweeney’s: Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network

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Why all this travel? We search for Waldo, but what is Waldo searching for? Perhaps he’s not searching at all, but running from something. Does this man even want to be found? Or, in searching for Waldo, did we really find ourselves? No, probably not.

See also: Werner Herzog Reads Madeline, Werner Herzog Reads Curious George, and Werner Herzog Reads Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel.

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Brontësaurus comes with barrier-breaking feminist vision!

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/brontesaurus/feed 0 Wikipedia In Print http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/wikipedia-in-print http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/wikipedia-in-print#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 14:18:06 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1483

A new feature of Wikipedia allows users to compile articles into books, arrange them, and have them printed, bound, and shipped. This video demonstrates.

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/wikipedia-in-print/feed 0 The Turbo-encabulator http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/the-turbo-encabulator http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/the-turbo-encabulator#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:36 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1445
Oh, man, I hope the turbo-encabulator can interface with my old DMC-12 flux capacitor.

On an extremely unrelated note:
Don Quixote: the first LARPer?

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Move over Garfield Minus Garfield, I’ve got a new favorite surreal mash-up webcomic thing. The Nietzsche Family Circus matches random Family Circus panels with quotes from the German philosopher, often generating surprisingly appropriate juxtapositions. So by reading them, we’re applying the random quote to the random picture and still ascribing meaning to the result. Minds are awesome.

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