The title quote is from Ray Kurzweil.Tumblr (3.0; @derrinyet)http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a64796d43f4143c586d61da3977dc16d/tumblr_mmphx7TzcL1qzpp7no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>self-portrait.</p>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/50293319882http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/50293319882Sun, 12 May 2013 15:17:30 -0700owl“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/49870302738http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/49870302738Tue, 07 May 2013 12:10:19 -0700“State power is readily captured and used by the powerful. It is strange to build normative...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/49407881428http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/49407881428Wed, 01 May 2013 19:15:02 -0700government“Eventually he got sick from swimming in a river infested with monkey feces and came...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/40729472406http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/40729472406Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:12:42 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/01338d6c556d766a32e115856fe4edca/tumblr_mgdxu8yJXQ1qzpp7no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>self-portrait. </p>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/40186325119http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/40186325119Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:30:06 -0800goatsThe Atlanticlilyb: Another high school friend died last week, suddenly, of a stroke, and I found out about it...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/39635568690http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/39635568690Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:50:25 -0800Facebook<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdniulaVvm1qzohdro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/39219782780http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/39219782780Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:55:01 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f8ebc7558865197b42387c8460075b93/tumblr_mfeefymkaC1qzpp7no1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>A wall in Paris.</p>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38641207982http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38641207982Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:30:14 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f6410e8d1c4919d7f2739785d1901de1/tumblr_mfe0k38HSp1qzpp7no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38558026295http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38558026295Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:30:22 -0800AustenPride &amp; Prejudicetypography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/731b680965b8c8ae5c1d6d95cc312070/tumblr_mfer2iHz9Z1r5ml59o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lizclimo.tumblr.com/post/38505962883/boom">lizclimo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>boom. </p> </blockquote> <p>The best part is that the bear is on his own calendar. </p>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38506380810http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38506380810Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:12:22 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c788ee9d31754627d462d8e8e5447b98/tumblr_mf8f6oPnWg1qcl7wao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://laphamsquarterly.tumblr.com/post/38228011181/out-of-ermine-muffs-carried-by-smartly-dressed">laphamsquarterly</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <div> <div> <p>“Out of ermine muffs, carried by smartly dressed women along Fifth avenue, hideous grinning little faces peep at you…”</p> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>According to <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1907-03-31/ed-1/seq-48/;words=monkey+MONKEY+store+monkeys+Store+Monkey?date1=1836&date2=1922&searchType=advanced&language=&proxdistance=5&state=New+York&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=monkey&andtext=store&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=4">this 1907 article</a> from the <em>New York Sun</em>, “Monkeys Petted by Women”, fashionable ladies were letting their primate friends wander around department stores as early as 1894—take that, <strong>Ikea monkey</strong>!</p> </blockquote>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38477714643http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38477714643Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:30:13 -0800“Chief Steven Solomon said that what most surprised him after the police had investigated the...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38463653327http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38463653327Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:18:15 -0800schooleducationpolicetechnologyTwitter“Dash-cam footage is the only real way to substantiate your claims in the court of law. Forget...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38395763198http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38395763198Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:30:21 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/046df3eabd58e4272e9d3720f9493328/tumblr_mfabnwIUu11qzhkvho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://therealmsmanners.tumblr.com/post/38309816921/barackobama-were-just-going-to-leave-this">therealmsmanners</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/38306943068/were-just-going-to-leave-this-here">barackobama</a>:</p> <blockquote> <div> <p>We’re just going to leave this here.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>had to.</p> </blockquote>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38320826697http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38320826697Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:50:27 -0800“But still I think “conscious” rap fans hope for something more from him; to see, perhaps, a...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38315917485http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38315917485Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:30:18 -0800Zadie SmithJay-Zm-icrosoft: I’m not a morning person or a night time person I don’t think I’m even a person  http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38237903557http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38237903557Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:30:06 -0800<a href="http://blog.longreads.com/post/37790674707/longreads-best-of-2012-emily-m-keeler">Longreads: Longreads Best of 2012: Emily M. Keeler</a>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38158625477http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38158625477Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:30:08 -0800<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/DYf3pH2d?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl">White House petition to categorize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.</a>http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38124077420http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/38124077420Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:19:00 -0800Westboro“The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/37949899376http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/37949899376Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:07:42 -0800Continuations: Sign Gun Control Petition Now: continuations: I had a topic in mind for today’s post...http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/37949797515http://derrinyet.tumblr.com/post/37949797515Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:06:14 -0800