Blinks

* blinks* It's 6: 00 in the morning, I haven't had any sleep, and I got a letter from someone in Oz ... * blinks again* ❋ Jaxraven (2001)

That such a perfect title blinks in and out of view while he's groggy -- before he's even quite come up with the idea for his grand play, or at least stated it out loud -- is a crucial irony that itself represents the whole of writer / director Charlie Kaufman's bleak portrait of living inside your creative mind, never to understand the perfection you seek before death arrives, inevitably. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the world of military intelligence, much time is spent trying to distinguish "blinks" -- unpremeditated random actions -- from "winks" -- deliberate moves designed to communicate intent and draw out a response. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Launched in March, Kepler finished its electronics check-out and turned to its principal mission this week, staring at roughly 100,000 nearby stars for tell-tale "blinks" caused by eclipsing planets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Via Locus Online their "blinks" in the left column I found the article Sci-Fi's Brave New World, about science fiction as mythmaking. ❋ X00c5;ka (2009)

I think Cheever used to point to George Plimpton's pad and tell him, "Okay put down two colons, then the word 'blinks', and now two more colons," back when he'd be interviewed for The Paris Review. ❋ Nihilistic_kid (2008)

The persecution lasted twenty-eight years, with few "blinks" to take the chill of horror out of the air. ❋ J. C. McFeeters (N/A)

He kind of blinks at that; but it don't fetch him. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

It just "blinks" and it goes very fast but still it is kind of annoying in the long run ... ❋ Visual Web Developer (2010)

The Merc does indicate for 3 "blinks" but because of frame cropping this is not visible in this version of the video. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Very quick note: In posting breaking news 'blinks' about the deaths of Don Punchantz and Dean Ellis (since Locus HQ probably won't post official obits until Monday), I couldn't help but seek out images of what to me are iconic covers for certain SF classics -- which is to say, theirs were the covers on the editions of those books I first acquired myself, in the late 1960s, and however many ❋ Unknown (2010)

The blinks are a code, mainly issuing orders to the mobile machines. " ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)

The screen "blinks" when re-drawing pages, which is a bit distracting at first but which I've become used to -- and it's obviously faster and requires less manipulation than turning a real page. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Iran "blinks," and convinces the west conclusively that it is not trying to build nuclear weapons and has stopped its uranium enrichment program, it will be of tremendous benefit to Iran and to the entire world.

Numpad4, however, "blinks" the shift on and off on the first press and hold, and then shift stays stuck until real shift is pressed on the second press of Numpad4. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But in the cemetery he "blinks" and suddenly he is not afraid, even though he has now lost both parents, "the whole fortress" between himself and death. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It moves its mouth, appearing to 'eat up' the seconds as they pass, and occasionally it 'blinks' in seeming satisfaction. ❋ Unknown (2008)