Sunday, December 26, 2021
As often with human conflict, what looked from one side like naked aggression looked from the other side like necessary expansion and reform.
— Richard Rhodes, Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Ladies Lounge
— Painted words on door
Friday, December 24, 2021
Ms. Galyna said no white spots.
— Isaac to Mason while he was drawing a picture
Thursday, December 23, 2021
And I believe in things that exist.
— Devin N. Morris, "Books, Community, and Collaboration: An Interview with Devin N. Morris," BAR
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Piles of sticks are just so nice looking. God it's so easy to be an artist.
— Lily
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
I can't think of anyone who has had a better year than the QR code. What a comeback.
— @GraceMulvey1 via @imajs
Monday, December 20, 2021
Her Weibo account in early November of her relationship with Mr. Zhang lasted for all of 20 minutes before Chinese censors erased it. But the news quickly spread online.
— Chris Buckley, "Chinese Tennis Player Denies Sexual Abuse Claim, Raising More Questions," The New York Times
Sunday, December 19, 2021
I can't believe you have three sinks here.
— Isaac
Saturday, December 18, 2021
It was nowhere near as thrilling as the sham battles I had watched as a boy at Van Cortlandt Park.
— William Yale via Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
Friday, December 17, 2021
It appears this earnest search of insight also had the effect of delaying the special agent's discovery of the one simple truth to be found amid the thicket; no one else knew what was really going on either.
— Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
Thursday, December 16, 2021
You know what you should do, you should move into one of these neighborhoods and every night you should have someone bring you a big rock, and you should slowly accumulate rocks until you have a huge rock yard.
— Lily
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
He run 'til he come to Lord Daniel's gate, then he rattled at the bells and they rung, he rattled at the bells and they rung
— Doc Watson, "Matty Groves"
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
The Rainbow Swash painted on a 140-foot tall LGN storage tank in Dorchester is the largest copyrighted work of art in the world.
— @onlyinbos
Monday, December 13, 2021
you've still got time to give
you still got time to give
To give to make this better
you still got time to give
you still got time to give
to make this better
Stands up to be counted
to be counted
To be counted to be counted
to be counted to be counted
Contrary to the bitter cold
What a way to give us meaning
You've given meaning to who we are
What a way to give us meaning
What a way to give us meaning
In it to make it to be counted for
in it to make it to be counted for
to be counted for In it to make it to be counted for
to be counted for In
— InferKit demo AI generated text responding to "Janet public art"
Sunday, December 12, 2021
In thinking of how to counteract Turkey's blanket silence on the Arab Revolt in its early days, Storrs had struck upon the idea of issuing "Republic of Hejaz" postage stamps, a cheap and effective way to prove to the outside world that a break had occured... Storrs had then enlisted the help of his most learned Arabist friend, Lawrence, and the two spent a leisurely afternoon wandering the Arab Museum in Cairo selecting suitable motifs.
— Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Say hi to the peoples that's gone.
— Will Smith as Richard Williams, King Richard
Friday, December 10, 2021
CHRIS
Aquaculture '22
Sustainable Oyster Farmer
— University of New England advertisement at Back Bay station
Thursday, December 9, 2021
The proposed legislation, which is expected to become law next year, would leave current smokers free to continue buying cigarettes. But it would gradually raise the smoking age, year by year, until it covers the entire population.
— Natasha Frost, "New Zealand Plans to Eventually Ban All Cigarette Sales," The New York Times
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
SO SHALL YE REAP
— Relief sculpture on Perkins Hall
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Pointing to the ways that American and other Western societies have been torn by political, social and racial divisions and hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic, China is also arguing that its form of governance has been more effective in creating prosperity and stability.
— Keith Bradsher and Steven Lee Myers, "Ahead of Biden’s Democracy Summit, China Says: We’re Also a Democracy," The New York Times
