October 2009
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Fracture Critical : Places: Design Observer →
Is it an exaggeration to say our species itself is now fracture-critical? But of course we have the capacity to envision and create a better future. For a long time humans lived in resilient and sustainable ways, husbanding finite resources for future generations, cultivating renewable resources to maintain quantity and diversity, and encouraging pleasure in unquantifiable resources like...
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Now if I had a Snuggie, I wouldn’t have to be sitting at my desk with my coat on backwards.
(I may or may not have requested that my mom quilt me a snuggie. I may or may not call this creation a Quigglie, and it may or may not be awesome.)
When everybody tries so desperately hard to be “somebody,”...
– Michael Ian Black
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Hey, I have Microsoft Word, that makes me a...
No? No it doesn’t?
Then how is it that your magical copy of Photoshop suddenly makes you a designer?
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Amateur →
bobulate:
Michael Chabon reading from a piece titled “The Amateur Family:”
Perhaps there is no perfect word for the kind of people I have raised my children to be: a word that encompasses obsessive scholarship, passionate curiosity, curatorial tenderness, and an irrepressible desire to join in the game, to inhabit in some manner—through writing, drawing, dressing up, or endless conversational...
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I feel it every year,” said Mirko Jurkovic, an Irish lineman from 1988-91....
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Well the universe did not come through with my ticket request, but it looks like its gonna be a South Bend weekend after all. (You still have time, universe!)
Who wants to tailgate?
Hey Universe
(Is this how this works I never did read The Secret)
Does anyone have any tickets to the USC game this weekend that they are oh so sad they suddenly can’t use? That they want to give me face value? Or, you know, just give me works too. My brother’s in town and has never been to an ND game, I wanted to show him how we turn the world on with our smile. Wait, no, that’s Mary Tyler...
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Terri: I'm the new school nurse.
Will: But you don't have any training.
Terri: Please, Will, it's a public school.
Too bad it's not Halloween.
Because I look like Death today.
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