Tag Archives: psychological disability

fly me. or not.

2011/08/23 – 18:30

Looking at the anecdotes posted at tsastatus.net for SEA and SFO sent me diving for a Klonopin.

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ensign

2011/03/26 – 21:32

In my dreams soldiers shadows steel-browed and tensile
summon aircraft screeching phallic and armed.

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Cultural assumptions and disability

2010/06/04 – 21:04

Taking care that one is engaged every moment in productive activity is related to the meticulous care that some say must be taken to guard one’s thoughts from the temptations of the devil, and that has roots in a distaste for anything that distracts from the Platonic Good.

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The CEO in my head, or the one that never comes to work.

2010/05/25 – 13:21

…it occurred to me that there may be some sort of connection between my ambivalent attitude towards social networking and the difficulty I have keeping up with even the most leisurely schedule I can possibly come up with for myself even though there are many, many things that I want to do before I die…

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Next

2010/04/13 – 00:11

I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop since I was old enough to understand how we in the Western world project ourselves out into the future in a teleological way—or at least as soon as I developed the idea of a near future with consequences attendant on whatever I was doing now…

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I know I said to wake me when it was over, but..

2008/11/08 – 02:18

It is Friday for me although the clock says Saturday and Saturday is streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards the International Date Line where it will turn into Sunday streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards Asia and eventually back through here again and then it will be Sunday but right now it is Friday and [...]

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Not expecting to fly

2008/08/06 – 20:26

I almost cannot stand the sound of small aircraft flying overhead. I am reminded of this by the feeling I get when I hear a single prop engine plane passing over the city, something that does not happen often in San Francisco, I think because the airspace here is so crowded that most non-commercial low-altitude [...]

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look. a post. or as they say on myspace: a blog! a blog within a blog: not opening day

2008/05/01 – 08:43

I was going to re-open my blog with some sort of heralding post that announced the re-opening of my blog etc and how I had no idea what I was going to make it “about” so I’ve decided not to make it about anything in particular but to be perhaps more rantish or more linear [...]

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