May 2012
17 posts
25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web →
I was super into HyperCard in 6th grade.
“Separately, the Bar Rooom on Broad Street also had to explain itself today - a...”
– Not just moshing: City cracks down on couch dancing | Universal Hub
Kyrie
At times my life suddenly opens its eyes in the dark. A feeling of masses of people pushing blindly through the streets, excitedly, toward some miracle, while I remain here and no one sees me.
It is like the child who falls asleep in terror listening to the heavy thumps of his heart. For a long, long time till morning puts his light in the locks and the doors of darkness open.
—Tomas...
may i be i
may i be i is the only prayer—not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong
today… may i be me….five foot (seven), (red) hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.
—e.e. cummings
You only get one chance to be a beginner
When you’re new to something, all the pain is out in the open. You stub your toes until they’re black and blue on things the veterans have all learned to avoid. This is both a curse and a gift.
A curse because it’s hard to make progress when you’re constantly getting snagged. Frustration is high and defeat feels scarily near. You might well give up entirely before you know the dance of the...
You will be judged (or you will be ignored)
Those are pretty much the only two choices.
Being judged is uncomfortable. Snap judgments, prejudices, misinformation… all of these, combined with not enough time (how could there be) to truly know you, means that you will inevitably be misjudged, underestimated (or overestimated) and unfairly rejected.
The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored.
Up to you.
colorful thinking
Julia: I… feel like color lately
Me: i laughed out loud at that
Me: the juxtaposition of that statement with finishing architecture school is too much for me
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Kernel Debugging 101 « Code as Craft →
Posted for my own future reference, a guide to debugging kernel panics.
butthorn:
For those of you who asked - here’s the Breaking Bad piece I did earlier but took down. It was just a little doodle I did at my friend’s the other night, and I’ve been working on a full color version with more characters, but here’s the original in the mean time
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
–
Alan Watts
(via emotional-algebra)
“I find it difficult to show empathy toward those whose beliefs are fundamentally...”
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you...
April 2012
23 posts
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Me: Do they make aloe for that?
Kera: It's called aloe!
Making shit work is everyone's job
“Oh, that’s not my job,” is the sound of doom. Maybe not imminent doom, but doom indeed. It’s the magic inflection point when a company becomes too big (even if only psychologically) for any single employee to give a rat’s ass about job numero uno: Making shit work.
No profession is immune. You can have designers who oh-thats-not-my-job to get the JavaScript they wrote to work, programmers who...
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Salmon & Salad
Since I want to build a collection of dinners that I can make easy, I’m going to tag this kind of thing with easydinners.
Half pound of salmon. Squeeze a lemon over it, toss some paprika, cumin, and salt on it. Bake for 20 min at 400. Put arugula in a bowl with some balsamic, spoonful of gorgonzola, some raspberries. Fin.
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pizza-taco-bagel
Kera: i just
Kera: really like maps
Kera: and i end up finding things
Kera: like pizza-taco
Me: kera
Me: what if
Me: you had a taco on a pizza on a bagel
Me: then you could have... tacos... anytime????
Kera: my god
Kera: i don't know if i could handle such a perpendicular situation in my mouth
Me: me neither kera. me neither.
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a...”
– Albert Einstien
“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t...”
– Harper Lee
Are Miracle Whip and Ron Paul ads done by the same...
squashed:
5east:
“Hey here’s this gross tasteless white thing, let’s pretend it’s somehow hip and revolutionary”
“My economic policy is that the people with all the stuff deserve all the stuff. Now you can support the status quo while being hip and revolutionary.”
what nonsense: put the gadgets away →
I’m guilty of it. But there’s hope.
keramurphy:
We’re all so attached to our smartphones and laptops and gadgets, etc. I am too. But if I’ve learned anything from my time out here, it’s that whenever you’re in a new place by yourself, never succumb to the security of your smartphone screen.
I can’t imagine how my life out here would be if one…
If your happiness is based on always getting a...
then you’ve handed control over your happiness to the gatekeepers, built a system that doesn’t scale and prevented yourself from the brave work that leads to a quantum leap.
The industrial system (and the marketing regime) adore the mindset of ‘a little bit more, please’, because it furthers their power. A slightly higher paycheck, a slightly more famous college, an...
“I see it more of an awkward ‘why am I the sun? why am I smiling? Why is it...”
– Julia on the emoticon
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ive gotta make another batch of cider sometime
Me: all the single yeasties
Kera: put your microbes up
“I blew up those pictures 200%, ran them through Photoshop and measured the...”
– LensRentals.com - Hammerforum.com
Hilarious breakdown of internet forums and the posts on them
“But I became a writer all the same, and shall remain one until the end of the...”
– H. L. Mencken
“I am far luckier than most men, for I have been able since boyhood to make a...”
– H.L. Mencken
“No, no. It is like most interviews, pure twaddle and valueless.”
– Mark Twain
“I am glad you are happy — but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, to his daughter
March 2012
23 posts
Watch
A day of high school students in Korea.
This. But with work. And i’m not korean.
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My Beefy Miracle
I made something tasty.
Get a 3-pound beef shoulder roast. Cut it into big cubes, and get a bottle of a good barbecue sauce (ideally the first ingredient isn’t corn syrup? I used Blue Ribbon BBQ’s Carolina BBQ Sauce) and a 22 of beer you like (I used Slumbrew’s My Better Half).
Let that think about life for 8 hours preferably under low heat. If you don’t know that means...
butthorn:
a playlist for marie schrader
start wearing purple - gogol bordello
shoplifters of the world unite - the smiths
