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May 2011
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The Arbitrary Unit of measure
Arbitrary Units (AU)… it typically requires 2.3 AU to answer any question related to units of measure where the correct answer is unknown.
eg:
Q: How far is it from here to New Mexico?
A: 2.3 AU
Q: How much does the sun weigh?
A: 2.3 AU
Q: How big is that?!
A: 2.3 AU
April 2011
11 posts
Buster Keaton and the World of Objects
Geoff Nicholson
“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusThe famous occasion, Los Angeles 1929: after a party in Buster Keaton’s Beverly Hills villa, Buster persuades Louise Brooks and Bill Collier (who’s also sometimes known as Buster) to drive with him to Culver City, to the MGM lot where the studio has provided him with a bungalow, christened Keaton’s Kennel. It’s a big deal for the studio to give a star a bungalow. It shows how much they value him, what an asset and moneymaker he is for them. The place has become a party house, a drinking den: we are, of course, still in the depths of prohibition.
At the bungalow, Louise and the two Busters have a nightcap. Keaton slips out of the living room and returns with a baseball bat, which is not so strange in itself. Everybody knows how much Buster loves his baseball. The living room is lined with glass-fronted bookcases. Keaton takes the bat and systematically smashes every pane in every bookcase, puts the bat aside, sits down, says nothing. Brooks and Collier say nothing either. The three of them carry on drinking. Another Hollywood evening.
Something to bear in mind: the bookcases are empty. Buster isn’t much of a reader. Arguably he wrote one more book than he ever read. His name appears on a ghostwritten autobiography, My Wonderful World of Slapstick, a title that I’d like to believe was awash with irony, but I really don’t think it is. Keaton dictated the book to Charles Samuels and never so much as looked at the manuscript. Why would he need to? What good would it do?
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“I’m not sure if I was the first man in space or the last dog.”
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Yuri Gagarin
“But sometimes conventional wisdom is more convention, less wisdom. And that’s when it pays off to take a questioning attitude and challenge assumptions.”
—How “The Fighter” shot 35 days worth of fight scenes in only three days - (37signals)
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Make Some Noise
This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. EnjoyMike
I can’t tell you how excited I am about learning there is a new Beastie album coming out.
