January 2008
It’s easy to forget what this is all about sometimes. We get caught up so much in the weft and weave of life that our direction seems to falter. In defining what this is all about, I used to think that we risk limiting ourselves to the constraints inherent in the definition. Nowadays I am starting to think that I risk becoming listless through not making concrete assertions of who I am and...
Some of my students are taking me to a neighbouring prefecture to eat Sun fish today. One of their friends runs a small inn near the beach. I have been told to eat and drink as much as I can.
Relocation Camp Photos Among 30,000 Pics Released... →
Library of Congress partners with Flickr…and you →
WatchRadiohead’s widget is probably my favorite widget of all time at this time. — gtmcknight It really is incredibly bad ass. Widget-heads take note. — soupsoup
Would You Take a Tumblr With This Man? →
David Karp, Tumblr Founder, In NY Observer — soupsoup Tumblr has two things critical for the success of any piece of software, simplicity and flexibilty. I hope it stays that way. After reading this piece I can tumble a little more freely tonight knowing that the company is in safe hands.
“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be...”
– Edward de Bono via (affremble)
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Become a Non-Autistic Calendar Counting Genius →
— shawnblog Mentally finding out the day of the week for any date is a skill you can easily learn. You don’t need to be an autistic genius – all it takes is basic memorization effort and some trivial math. This is quite clever, and useful. And it really is trivial math — the only function you need to learn that you might not know already is the mod function, and that’s easy. There’s...
[Reblog]: The Story of Stuff →
Watch this 20-minute video about consumerism when you have a chance. If nothing else, you might question why you think you need to buy new things when the opportunity arises. At worst, you could save some money. Come on. It’s Sunday. We both know you have 20 spare minutes. And don’t just play the video in a tab somewhere while browsing the internet and chatting: actually watch the video. — marco...
Why David Lynch Should Learn German - TIME →
A David Lynch lecture on TM moves in to dangerous territory when the “Raja of Germany” takes the mic.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2007-12-9) →
We had a minor emergency here last night. About an hour after we put the kids to sleep, my significant other also decided to call it a night. Not long after she had closed the door, I heard muffled screams coming from the bedroom. I ran in and found her holding our two year olds hands as vomit streamed out of his mouth and onto the tatami. We spent most of the night in a big cleaning effort while...
“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please....”
– P. J. O’Rourke Via toldorknown
rhythm →
rhythm (http://definr.com/rhythm) n 1: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; “the piece has a fast rhythm”; “the conductor set the beat” [syn: beat, musical rhythm] 2: recurring at regular intervals [syn: regular recurrence] 3: an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; “the neverending...
The Honeymooners
(classic television comedy series starring Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden and Art Carney as Ed Norton)
Ralph: When she put two potatoes on the table, one big one and one small one, you immediately took the big one without asking me what I wanted.
Norton: What would you have done?
Ralph: I would have taken the small one, of course.
Norton: You would?
Ralph: Yes, I would.
Norton: So, what are you complaining about? You got the small one!
Referred to in Michael Shermer, The Science of Good & Evil (http: //en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer)
Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My... →
Zen Habits — roamin It’s good to see that Leo included his inspiration for such a move as; Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, and GNU by Richard Stallman. A healthy distrust of the established order never hurt any one.
Had a peculiar router outage yesterday, that I couldnt solve until this afternoon. I’m looking forward to catching up on things tonight once the kids are off to bed.
How Web Media is Usurping Old Media - Music,... →
Q: What is the opposite of miscellaneous? →
TV Is Dying, Says Google Expert →
— kingscross
“Theres no map to human behaviour”
– Bjork | Human Behaviour lyrics
“We must try to construct situations… collective ambiances, ensembles of...”
– Guy Debord via (situationist)
affremble →
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“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
– Bill Hicks
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“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they...”
– jim rohn via affremble It depends really how much you want to leave things up to others. If it isn’t possible to break away from your surroundings geographically, then you need to find a way to stretch yourself intellectually. My wife’s parents eye me suspiciously when I carry my...
“Our insistence on maintaining the category (planet) even though there is no...”
– David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, Times Books, 2007. via (Miscellany and Language: A review of Everything is Miscellaneous at gyaku by shioyama) A definition of planet at Wikipedia.
“If you want to see the new world, you have to live it.”
– Fred Wilson
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High Achiever, Gifted Learner, CreativeThinker →
Kingore, B. (Spring 2004). High Achiever, Gifted Learner, Creative Learner. Understanding Our Gifted. via (Daniel Miessler)
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faineant →
adj : disinclined to work or exertion; “faineant kings under whose rule the country languished”; “an indolent hanger-on”; “too lazy to wash the dishes”; “shiftless idle youth”; “slothful employees”; “the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy” [syn: indolent, lazy, otiose,...
December 2007
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intentionality →
n : expressive of intentions
“There is the notion that we are rewiring our brains to do what they always did...”
– Punk Planning: 2007
