January 2010
20 posts
Back to square one.
My ‘text fiend’-ishness is back.
Well, kinda.
I think I’m gonna hermit it up a bit again, and space out my brain from the accessory thinking and focus back on my work and craft. A couple of reminders and occurrences have, well momentarily in progress to a more concrete state, have brought me back to planet earth, during this brisk and cold month of January:
1) Had a run in...
Fear of the poor is hampering Haiti rescue
essdogg:
seoulbrother:
adamisacson:
[T]he Haitian people seem to scare aid workers more than Somali warlords, Darfuri Janjawid or Afghan Taleban. Frightened Dutch aid workers abandoned a mission without reaching the collapsed building where people were trapped, and frightened doctors have left their patients unattended.
The experience of CNN’s medical reporter, Dr Sanjay Gupta, is telling....
It goes without saying.
yayaa:
monkeyfrog:
A good friend told me that yesterday, and became irritated when I said, “No, it doesn’t. It never goes without saying.” Because if you have like or love or respect for someone, it does not go without saying. Actually, what often happens is they go without you having said, and that is just sad.
It does not go without saying. So just fucking say it while you can.
Yea,...
“Twitter pretty much laid a stick and a ball in the field and let its users...”
– JeffCroft.com: Ten things that annoy the fuck out of me on Twitter (via tbridge)
That’s a good list. You should read it. (via tj)
“I’m looking at all of this, uh, trouble in late night, you know, and...”
– Craig Ferguson
inthefade:
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– A gentle reminder from Harry S. Truman.
— From London. (via whileyouweresleeping) (via baileygenine)
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It is TERRIFYING...
luckyshirt:
…to think about how much of what people believe is simply the result of the last argument they heard or read for or against something.
Terrifying.
merlin:
Autofocus System - Get Everything Done
The system consists of one long list of everything that you have to do, written in a ruled notebook (25-35 lines to a page ideal). As you think of new items, add them to the end of the list. You work through the list one page at a time in the following manner:
Read quickly through all the items on the page without taking action on any of...
redcloud:
Is that Phlegmish?
It sounds so much...
Best Moment of 2009.
[Setting: New York subway train, heading to Queens.]
Well endowed-looking “beggar”: (who walks in, heavily mutters a long winded preemptive speech to the whole car in how your contributions will help his “spiritual brigade of well-wishers”, then one by one shows the passengers his upturned feather hat) “Hey, how’s it going young man? Good?”
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