artificialsoundandlight

Time To Get a Twitch

I have a nervous twitch. I pull out my cellphone and look at the time. I do it when I’m in...

Jul 1st

“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”
— Steven Wright

Jul 1st

For Better, Or Worse

Do you make the people around you better? Do you notice that they’re calmer around you? Do...

Jul 1st

Switchboard...

When my friend Lauren worked as a switchboard operator I passed her one day as she bit into an...

Jun 30th

“The most you can give to anything is your life. Find that...”
— Vahid Yamartino

Jun 30th

“I’ve already acquired some Chinese learning books from...”
— Kenneth Chadwick (on moving to...

Jun 30th

Kinda, kinda guy (but not exactly).

I’m kind of a Leo, but not exactly. I’m kind of Iranian, kind of Italian, kind of Irish, but not...

Jun 30th

The Destiny You Want, You Must Work For

“One day [the] Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) noticed a Bedouin leaving his camel...

Jun 30th

Uninspired for a while. Back at it soon.

Jun 30th

Where there is smoke...

We (I) should learn to trust the obvious. The glaring. The first impression. The ‘yeah’...

Jun 30th

Haaretz

Haaretz feeds my new fascination. Also I had a dream that a city to the north and south of us were...

Jun 29th

André Brugiroux

So I’m in the 5th grade and I get home. It’s that instant feeling of relief when you...

Jun 29th

“Some people are part of your World. The others are part of...”
— Vahid Yamartino

Jun 28th

“Yeah, my Turkish coffee fortune had me falling down 30...”
— Rafaan Anvari (in response to...

Jun 27th

Flirt With Disaster

Teasing is a way of causing undue emotional dependence. You’re never good enough for the other...

Jun 27th

My dad went into his parents’ attic one winter break...

Jun 27th

Read My Coffee

I don’t like hot drinks, but tonight something possessed me to get a Turkish...

Jun 26th

“It changes everything if someone tricked me into laughing.”
— William Samari (in response to...

Jun 26th

“The needs of the adorer are the platform upon which the...”
— Vahid Yamartino ;)

Jun 26th

New phones mean...

…pictures all the time.

Jun 25th

going a week without putting stuff in my hair

Jun 25th

We Are The Blood Mavens

It’s amazing to think something in an exact way, and then come across something that makes you...

Jun 25th

BAM! Anis (basically my brother) and I at the MET....

Jun 25th

"Who are you!?"

I figure about a dozen people view my page a total of twenty five times a day (thank you Google...

Jun 24th

“They are from Japan, so you know they’re good.”
— Vafa Akhtar-Khavari (about...

Jun 24th

“Your blog is a virtual playground for people with ADD.”
— William Samari [quotable]

Jun 24th

Muzak

New favorite song is “All Her Crooked Ways” by Simon Dawes. Thanks Nazy. Their other...

Jun 24th

“If everyone stopped talking it wouldn’t be so...”
— Kamran Vojdani (in response to...

Jun 24th

Will.I.Am.

Victim 1: Hey Will! Are you lettin' him read what I'm writing?!?!
William: Course not!--What do you take me for? I'm just reading what you're writing, outloud--while superimposing your voice.
Victim 1: WILL!!!
William: Haha I'm just playin'. Course he's reading it.
[quotable]

Jun 24th

In The Beginning

Forward, introduction, preface…what’s the difference? What are they used for? Is it because we’re so...

Jun 24th

“Ah yes. The Battle At Key Lime. Tragic.”
— Vahid Yamartino (in response...

Jun 24th

First time in Holy Land was in utero.

Jun 23rd

My high school. No, not my class, my entire high school. We...

Jun 23rd

Anyssa and I, way back.

Jun 23rd

My Brother and I.

Jun 23rd

I Love Science, but Bad Explanation

One commonly cited thought experiment—which I despise—used by scientists to explain why...

Jun 23rd

Close To A Cigar

Science will never be able to tell you why something happens. Only how. No amount of studying the...

Jun 23rd

One of my biggest fears is being seen as insincere.

Jun 23rd

The Rocket

What sport action is more romantic than that of pitching a baseball? I’m not even a huge fan...

Jun 23rd

Watch

Reminds me of Yasi Sabour for some reason… (if it takes too long, song is called That’s...

Jun 22nd

Basically anything that comes with a...

Yesterday I did my rock step. I was surprised at how much better I’ve become. I think it was...

Jun 22nd

In your dreams.

In my dream I saw one of the pilots.

Jun 22nd

Exactitudes

Jun 22nd

Holy Alimony

Genghis Khan had so many partners that 16 million people, and 8% of Asian men, are directly related...

Jun 22nd

I'm Just Sayin'...

“Israel sent warplanes and other aircraft on a major exercise in the eastern Mediterranean...

Jun 22nd

Should be illegal…

Jun 21st

Wow.

It’s rare but, today (almost 9 PM right now), I haven’t heard from a single human being....

Jun 21st

Kids Say The Darnedest Things

When I did my practicum residency to get teacher certified I taught English language-arts at Haltom...

Jun 21st

My mom, dad, brother and I (a family friend sitting). Atomic...

Jun 20th

A long exposure picture I took whilst driving (yeah, I know,...

Jun 20th

FFFFOUND

Jun 20th

The Body of Man

The genius of the message of the Bahá’í Faith, to me, lies in this, that it makes a body out of...

Jun 20th

Best Words Ever Written

O My servants! Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane, things contrary to your...

Jun 20th

Wept Up

When is the last time you truly wept? I don’t mean cried. No, not the last time you got hazy...

Jun 19th

Electriccityscape

I’ve gone magnetic.

Jun 19th

“The truth makes us all the same person.”
— Vahid Yamartino

Jun 19th

To Read Post Paste Binary Here

Jun 19th

“It was the Mars bar I just had…I’m bouncing off the walls a...”
— Vafa Akhtar-Khavari (in...

Jun 18th

“We embrace you and all your allergies in the United States...”
— Vafa Akhtar-Khavari (in...

Jun 18th

Addict

It’s always funny when you talk to someone who is addicted to cigarettes (for example), and...

Jun 18th

Guess without looking at notes…

Jun 18th

You’ve never stood this close to prophecy…

Jun 17th

Watch

A game that requires thought and creativity.

Jun 17th

No photo alterations. A painted room by George Rousse.

Jun 17th

HAHA! Read the five notes (all five), starting with the...

Jun 17th

Villainy

This one goes out to the bad guy: the lost so you could be found, the envious so you can be content,...

Jun 17th

Lock it up.

I will be a musician. Write it down.

Jun 17th

“I get emotional when the cumulative volume of human body...”
— Jonathan Maloney-Lebensold...

Jun 17th

“The secret to enjoying this evening is not timeliness of...”
— Howard Hinterthuer (starting...

Jun 17th

One month rule (hopefully proven wrong)

Now that I think about it, I woke up one night with the strong feeling that a person had passed on....

Jun 16th

Wrong wrong wrong (something is)

Four nights in a row I have had dreams that something big and bad is about to happen. Last...

Jun 15th

Watch

Oh lord, I’m back at it again. ‘Ask A Ninja’ is awesome. “I look forward to...

Jun 14th

“dare i say contact juggling?”
— Anis (in response to my...

Jun 14th

Over an hour.

Jun 14th

Ned is just territorial, is all…

Jun 14th

How Ned sleeps.

Jun 14th

All Are Found Wanting

You can tell me what you like. You can tell me what you don’t like. But somehow you can never...

Jun 13th

Click on the picture (not on the plus) and read the...

Jun 13th

For Rafaan, From Anis

“to the endless amounts of amazing restaurants, to non chlorine pools, to draft day parties,...

Jun 12th

Ned does impressions. See notes on Flickr.

Jun 12th

“If violence and non-violence are roads to the same end, what...”
— Vahid Yamartino

Jun 12th

We meet at high 50!

A thought I have on time: Measurement is so arbitrary. Nowhere is it felt more than in the...

Jun 12th

Ned at night. Look at notes on Flickr.

Jun 11th

Uh Just Clap Your Hands...

To the FC group today, yes, you can use your arm to twist open bottles. Thank you Kent for venturing...

Jun 11th

“…magnify not the faults of others…” We all do it. But I’m stopping....

Jun 11th

The Dichotomy of Hue

Some would argue that seeing things in black and white is far too simple, ignorant, hateful and...

Jun 10th

Coup d’état is spelt: 2.0

Jun 10th

“Be content, but never satisfied.”
— Vahid Yamartino

Jun 10th

“Art makes me feel alive. Without it I get annoyed and frustrated and the world seems so...

Jun 9th

Watch

One of the greatest commercials of all time. Timeless simplicity. I feel jealous of those...

Jun 9th

Mind The Gap

I just caught myself subconsciously not stepping on the imaginary 45 degree angle line created by...

Jun 8th

The Iron Clamp

I just realized what my least favorite word is. The word is ‘futility’ (and all of its...

Jun 8th

On Display

I like commuting. I was just on a bus and I figured out what is so romantic about it. You cease...

Jun 7th

Can't Teach An Old Dog

The time has come for me to teach myself something new and frivolous. I’m thinking Chinese...

Jun 7th

Shout-Out to the Dirty South

[Texas] To sweet tea; hospitality; to the see-for-miles; gridiron days; Mavsketball; smiles; to the...

Jun 7th

Howmanity?

How many people does humanity need? No, this is not an attempt at commentary on global trends. Not a...

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Things About Me

Make your own. Thanks Aimee…

Jun 3rd

“Such labour’d nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th’...”
— Alexander Pope (my new...

Jun 3rd

Either Cord Could Work. Hmm.

“Thou seest me turning toward Thee, and rid of all attachment to any one save Thee, and...

Jun 2nd

“Your thoughts are your worst enemy. You don’t want to...”
— Vahid Yamartino

Jun 1st

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing...”
— Paulo Coelho

Jun 1st

Sharbat Gula

‘The Afghan Girl’

Jun 1st

Façade

The many faces. I’m not talking about hats, and the ones one may wear. Rather am I speaking of...

Jun 1st