crankreport.tumble: Archive

May 24th

My least interesting Flickr photos →

Apr 28th

Apr 21st

Apr 19th

Because the Sunday New York Times Doesn't Have... →

i liked this week’s newsletter so much i sent it twice. the second time, it even had a subject line.

Apr 17th

Apr 2nd

Apr 1st

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Apr 1st

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“Even as the accessibility of information makes it less necessary for a group to...”

– Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply - James S. Rosebush - Harvard Business Review

Mar 30th

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Mar 21st

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Jack's mother came to visit

She dated men from Germany and Switzerland. Men from Brussels. She looked to the rigid and proper countries. Men, she thought, who would mistake her brittleness for vivacity. Men, she thought, who would not melt her. She is Jack’s mother and she moves like glass in danger of breaking. She does not ask him and he does not ask her. His mother looks at the girl Jack is living with with suspicion....

Mar 20th

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I went camping

at Del Valle Reservior in the East Bay. It was a 45 minute drive from my house. I had a good dinner. Spent quality time with scotch, a fire and Neal Stephenson’s Reamde. The red beast and I walked and at first, courtesy of Packing for Mars, it reminded me of a place where people might test astronaut gear. And then I flashed to The Road. But that’s just the way of...

Mar 20th

“My work accrues sentence by sentence. After an initial phase of sitting...”

– My Life’s Sentences - NYTimes.com

Mar 19th

Because the Sunday New York Times Doesn't Have... →

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Mar 18th

will you live with me?

in a small house in berkeley? with nice neighbors and no storage? a house I’ll fill with jackets and bikes. will you be stunned, with me, at the way our things fit? and you will slowly — slowly — start mixing those things together — your clothes in my dresser, my computer on your desk — until we lose track of who moved what through the front door?

Mar 15th

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Mar 8th

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Mar 4th

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jack gets a piece of mail

It said that his house was going to be sold at auction in 45 days. On the courthouse steps, he told the girl. Why am I living with you, she said. Why did I move in here? Jack wanted to say: because you didn’t have a choice. That’s how he felt about living with her. Instead he told her about the lawyer and the real estate agent. He told her about the friend who moved to North Dakota. Everybody is...

Mar 3rd