Dec. 27 2011

Dec. 06 2011

dailybunch:

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. [via]

it took me about a week to read steve’s bio between my iPhone and iPad (both creations of his company, Apple).

it was an impulse buy at SFO when i found out there was no wi-fi on my cross-continental flight. what gripped me the most were the interesting historical context to the early days of anerican computing as well as stark business lessons (which we all know are, generally, correct).

i’m not going to say that he’s a genius. yes, he’s very smart. but, listen to this clip. he just figured something out and stuck to it. he refused to compromise how he wanted to live his life and the result is obvious.

it’s a real simple equation that doesn’t need grandiose aspirations. he led a fulfilling life and constantly chased his interests with this perspective. that’s all it takes. arguments for the “next steve jobs” are frivolous.

just have some guts and believe that you are here for a reason. if you do that, you’ll be okay.

(Source: youtube.com)

Aug. 03 2011

Life is like wandering around in a desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Dylan Moran (via homeofthevain)

accurate.

May. 17 2011

No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.

Chuck Palahniuk (via saddest-summer)

all the time.

May. 01 2011

mark it 8, dude.

a few recent notes…

oh yeah, we now have an ipad.  i don’t know if i’m into it yet.

long story, short; peep flickr soon.  slowly but surely getting back to making things again.

Apr. 27 2011

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them… Actually the laboring man has not the leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be any thing but a machine. How can he remember his ignorance – which his growth requires – who has so often to use his knowledge?

Feb. 25 2011

Feb. 04 2011

Naturally, I also plan to continue asking as many impertinent questions as possible.

Exclusive: Deborah Solomon Out at New York Times Magazine | The New York Observer

this afternoon has been full of bummers, and this is one of them.  virginia left too, which i hadn’t heard earlier.

i’ve had conversations with ma dukes about the magazine.  i grew up with it.  first, i never read it because i never related to it (not because it didn’t intrigue me) but then i slowly started becoming interested.  who knows if this was an effort of the times or an effort of my own curiosity but, while this was happening, my mother’s criticism was growing.  it wasn’t the magazine she knew and the prose wasn’t there anymore.  this was around the time they were doing those boring comic strips.

within the past few years, i’ve probably read, enjoyed and linked to deborah & virginia’s pieces the most.  i looked forward to them and, quite frankly, it sucks that their voices won’t be there anymore.

full circle, huh?

the great thing about transition is the act itself.  what one or one’s ideas and missions become.  those who work hard, honest and are good at what they do will always have light shining down.

Oct. 31 2010

Oct. 25 2010

Life is lived anecdotally, not algorithmically. And anecdotal evidence is not allowed in the new digital corpocracy. As one poster on Democratic Underground put it, “Anecdotal now has this enforced meaning such that no one is supposed to believe what they experience, what they see, hear, taste, smell, etc. The Powers That Be have basically extinguished the notion of inductive reasoning. Everything has to be replicated in a laboratory and since 90% of all the labs in this nation are operated by Corporate Sponsored monies, not much truth comes out of them.” The trouble with the algorithmic age is that life is not a finite sequence of steps that define and contain the algorithmic concepts used. Even when created with the best of intentions — and we can all agree by now there were few good intentions at Goldman Sachs when they were creating and bundling these mutant investments — they cannot account for our uninsured sprinkler installer getting cancer, or divorcing the other half of the household income — or the end of America’s residential construction orgy.

Joe Bageant (via azspot)

first sentence hits.