Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Plato (via quotedb)
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The Lake
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Lake Michigan is beautiful without limit. There are a million places along the lakefront from which you can enjoy its beauty. Even from the same locus, it will never, ever look the same twice. For that reason, its beauty can never be captured by image, though perhaps someone more well-spoken could capture how it makes [...]
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always [...]
How do you define being “burnt out”?
Monday, April 12, 2010
How do you define being “burnt out”? I found this fellow’s definition intriguing: burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work – Keith Yost This sounds so very insidious.
A Philosophy of Cool for Non-Living Things
Friday, March 19, 2010
Cool can come from what a [thing] is or what it does. But at the core, Cool is about purity of expression, of material objects being infused with human energy, creativity and insight to make them more than just the sum of their parts. – Mark Hoyer, WHAT IS COOL?, Cycle World 2/2010 I love [...]
When You Just Can’t Imagine…
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Something to consider… “I can’t imagine why anyone would need X” is a statement about your imagination, not X. (via Dan)
Glass Drinking Glasses
Friday, January 22, 2010
Was it a happy-accident that glass drinking glasses have been in use for hundreds of years and they don’t leach any dangerous chemicals into their contents and thus into our bodies? Did that lull us into false sense of security where we assume that drinking container vendors would only provide us with things that would [...]
The aim of a language
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
to turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully – John Chambers Great aim!
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer
Monday, December 21, 2009
Ben referred us to this article (cached here) in the midst of a discussion about, among other things, why there is still no FFI in the Scheme standard. That article is really interesting. What did you think about it?