March 2011
27 posts
I always feel bad for the guy who’s job it is to clean the glass on the revolving doors in my office building. Forever trying to wipe smudgy fingerprints off the glass as an endless parade of people keep carelessly spinning the door away from him, only adding more and more smudges with their dirty hands…
There’s probably some depressing life metaphors in there somewhere.
“There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.”
—Ryan Adams (via leslieleslie)
“Some organizations already sense this deficiency in creativity. NASA and Boeing are finding that recent graduates can technically render in two dimensions but can no longer think in three. Ideal job candidates at these companies must now show they can “think with their hands” by having expertise or a second major in a musical instrument, auto repair, or sculpture.”
—The Creativity Crisis: Why American Schools Need Design
“More and more we are recognizing that designed artifacts—be they sets of instructions, posters, social interventions, crafts, hacks, mods, short-runs, manufactures on demand, mass productions, design fictions or design art—all live within dynamic systems, and that the creators and users of these artifacts must negotiate their value, purpose, and impact in an ever-changing world. We also recognize the limits of seeing designed objects as simply things; designers, who create multiples of their outputs, aren’t actually in the artifact business at all—they’re in the consequence business. And if we consider consequences first, above materiality or ergonomics or aesthetics, we are more likely to arrive at design offerings that are purposeful, thoughtful, sustainable, and wondrous.”
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This program seems very promising.
IF HE WOULD MAKE HIS FREE THROWS I WOULD LIKE HIM BETTER TODAY.
DEAR BEN, JUST BECAUSE THE MIGHTY DUCKS ALWAYS GOT CREAMED IN THE FIRST HALF DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THAT MODEL TODAY. DO YOU NEED ME TO SEND IN EMILIO ESTEVEZ? BECAUSE I WILL.
“Before basketball, Ben was a successful roller hockey player. “Ben would watch ‘The Mighty Ducks’ and then go out on the basketball court and put up hockey goals,” Gene remembers. “He’d put on his helmet and skates and play. He got so good at roller hockey that he averaged 20-something goals against all the adults.”
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NCAA tournament: For Ben Hansbrough of Notre Dame Irish, hard work pays off - ESPN
I think I like Ben Hansbrough better now. Now freakin pick it up, Irish!
People Are Awesome: Fifth Grader Donates $300 Life Savings to Stop Teacher Layoffs - Education - GOOD →
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Last Friday, Lam gave her teacher an envelope full of $1, $5, and $10 bills totaling $300—money she’d earned over several years for doing chores and getting good grades. She also included a handwritten letter addressed to the Arcadia Unified school board and superintendent, saying, “I really hope this $300 will help save the teachers that are about to be laid off. I also hope this is enough to save more than one teacher.” Her donation was completely unsolicited and took the school staff by surprise.
