Rainbow Hill

My name is Brett Fyfield. I recently returned from 5 years in Japan where spent most of my days chatting idly to lonely housewives. Nowadays I make sure international students are getting their assignments in on time.

Jul 2
myumbrellaiswet:

Nintendo coffee table via Ultra Awesome
This makes me nostalgic about a significant part of my childhood. I’m off to dig out my Super Mario Bros to see if I can still handle the lava pits.

myumbrellaiswet:

Nintendo coffee table via Ultra Awesome

This makes me nostalgic about a significant part of my childhood. I’m off to dig out my Super Mario Bros to see if I can still handle the lava pits.


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Jun 6
“Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness. While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal - health, beauty, money, or power - is valued only because we expect that it will make us happy. Much has changed since Aristotle’s time. Our understanding of the worlds of stars and atoms has expanded beyond belief. The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield. And yet on this most important issue very little has changed in the intervening centuries. We do not understand what happiness is any better than Aristotle did, and as for learning how to attain that blessed condition, one could argue that we have made no progress at all.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via thebronzemedal).

It’s interesting how little of humanity’s psychological experience has changed over history; it’s why literature from all eras remains perfectly intelligible to us: the advent of this or that technology or governmental system or economic scheme has done nothing to change the human heart.

(via mills)

I beg to differ dear sir. The suffering of others, amplified by by the media we have chosen to consume, has either numbed us into submission, or emboldened us to make a difference.

I dare say our hearts have deepened, broadened, and opened to possibilities dreamt not even by the gods of antiquity.


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In truth… good communication requires craft rather than volume or repetition. Good investigation requires time and subjectivity, both of which the Internet can steal.

I think this is part of the major harm of the Internet. It’s not web-addiction or cyber-bullying or MySpace stalkers or any of the other old, sensationalized problems-that-hurt-your-children translated into a new age. Rather, the harm is the difficulty we have sorting out what is productive and what is distraction.

Old Media is choking on New Media (via everythingontheinternetistrue)

I’m not distracted, rather disaffected, none of it means as much as it used to. To disengage from the mainstream and pull into a fetid eddy, would be to do ourselves a dis-service. After all, we are social animals.

To seek together, to compete, to question, these are all things enabled by the Internet. Procrastination existed well before the network.

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Ithaca creek graf: This piece is on the bike path that runs along Ithaca creek in Ashgrove. The BBQ area needs a bit of a clean up. Ithaca creek graf: This piece is on the bike path that runs along Ithaca creek in Ashgrove. The BBQ area needs a bit of a clean up.

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