March 2013
1 post
December 2012
1 post
November 2012
3 posts
“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
—Daphne du Maurier (via likeafieldmouse)
October 2012
3 posts
“You got to pick the notes you really mean.”
—Thelonius Monk via Haruki Murakami
“What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides. A decision that in reality takes one or two days of careful research to make is somehow stretched out into a process that involves two years of relentless, suffocating mind-warfare, an onslaught of toxic media messaging directed at liberals, conservatives and everyone in between that by Election Day makes every dinner conversation dangerous and literally divides families.”
—Matt Taibbi (via azspot)
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau
September 2012
4 posts
“Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave… even if the new iPhone Maps was the most terrible maps app ever, Steve would have pooh-poohed it and declared it the best map app ever.”
—
- my super-astute friend, John Aquino
August 2012
4 posts
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…today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.
No, really.
One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975.
” —Microsoft’s Lost Decade -Vanity Fair (Aug 2012)June 2012
1 post
May 2012
1 post
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
—William Gibson
April 2012
1 post
“
You can never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
” —R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller
[courtesy of my wise friend, Steven Feinberg]
January 2012
1 post
“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
November 2011
2 posts
“Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.”
—Tana French, The Likeness (via cultureofresistance)
October 2011
6 posts
“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true… It is called living.”
—Terry Pratchett
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
—
Steve Jobs
Thank you for the amazing number of new ideas and new memes you put into our heads and our reality. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html#patent/electronic-device_D558757
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Apple is a cool company, and in line with their user interaction focus (re. innovation) they unveiled the latest edition of SIRI, earlier today.
Here are serious questions I have for SIRI:
Who am I, and where to I live?
What do I like?
How do you know all of this?
Where is that information stored? :-)
Still filling my little sandbags against the privacy-loss landslide...
So here’s my latest privacy-loss-minimization attempt:
- Browser-based use of FB only. Delete all system and app-registered FB logins, computer & phone.
- Dedicate a separate browser app for FB, both computer & phone. 1x delete all cookies from my primary browser, and never log into FB there again.
- Block all 3rd party cookies: add Ghostery to all browsers (computer)
Even with these facebook-specific precautions, I wonder if it’s a puny row of sandbags against a landslide with developments like Google’s PittPatt acquisition, Amazon’s brilliant and compelling Kindle Fire move, and stupid snafu’s like HTCs huge personal data security hole on their premier Android phones. Well, perhaps out of sheer personal orneriness, I’m gonna keep filling my sandbags.
September 2011
7 posts
“The one sincere
crocodile has
gone dry eyed
for years. Why
bother crying
crocodile tears.” —Kay Ryan has won a 2011 MacArthur “Genius Award”
(Crocodile Tears appeared in Poetry, Sept 2008)
crocodile has
gone dry eyed
for years. Why
bother crying
crocodile tears.” —Kay Ryan has won a 2011 MacArthur “Genius Award”
(Crocodile Tears appeared in Poetry, Sept 2008)
August 2011
28 posts
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published in the NY Times (link via Jon Pincus)
NASTY SCHOOL
Oh have you heard of nasty school?
They teach nasty things and they have nasty rules.
They only take nasties and rowdies and fools,
So come, let’s take a walk through nasty school.
You get to nasty school through a secret gate.
The first rule is you must be late.
…
published in the NY Times (link via Jon Pincus)
