August 2012
55 posts
July 2012
60 posts
It drives me nuts that being right isn’t enough. You have to be right and deal coldly and continually with the other person’s emotional reaction at you standing your ground when they can’t believe it. It’s extremely frustrating because usually their reaction is unyielding, and there’s nothing you can do about it. No matter how right you are.
It makes me feel small...
This video is discomfiting and odd and creepy and tantalizing and full of potential. It’s the ultimate collision of the best and worst things of the 21st century: technology, and our increasing separation from each other as more compelling alternatives to being bored and uncomfortable become more immersive and easier to access.
For the first time, I’m more scared by technology than...
I wanna go camping for, like, two days and nights. And rowing. And get a cat. And design something really good looking. I call this my “summer 2012 bucket list”
“Wow, you’re so smart!”
Nope, I just know how to fucking Google.
Watching ‘Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview’. He starts going off about how lawyers and programmers are the same, because great programmers are just using a computer to mirror how they think, and they’re gifted thinkers.
I’ve been struggling to express that idea since Ambur started. Even though I was never taught to program, the same skills that made me gifted at critical...
“When I was an undergrad I came across the saying that learning a little...”
“To create something that’s genuinely new, you have to start again. With...”
– Ive
"Not a single person at the Aurora, Colorado... →
parislemon:
I just quoted Roger Ebert’s excellent New York Times op-ed about the Aurora shooting, but really, you should read the whole thing. The entire thing is quote-worthy.
Another key excerpt:
Should this young man — whose nature was apparently so obvious to his mother that, when a ABC News reporter called, she said “You have the right person” — have been able to buy guns, ammunition...
Arcade Fire will release their fourth album in... →
“Um, unless I can’t hear…the sound…of my own...”
“…the self-made man, self-made in every sense, out of nowhere, penniless,...”
“Thousands are for yourself, hundreds of thousands for your children, and...”
When one capitalizes nouns at random, because they seem important and worthy of noting, it grates. Gone is the feeling of sublimation into the material, and instead the reader is distracted.
They thought the thrust of your argument was comparing a young Picasso to a late da Vinci, but then you went and capitalized Paintbrushes randomly. Is Paintbrushes a person? A store? A famous gallery in...
