why won’t illustrator cs3 do what i told it to? i said do it 3d not flat. great, now i’m talking to a piece a software… <quietly leaves the room & looks for a yuengling>
Month: September 2009
‘it’s my execution…’ listenin to ye ole grammatrain while designin some schtuff fer someone…
um, i guess it’s closing time… thanks for turning off all the lights… now where did i put my maglite so i can crawl out of this audio bunker…
while reviewing audio i recorded earlier this week, i realized only i will notice small details… like the fact that i had a bit of hay fever due to the windy monday weather & i pronounced ‘slash’ with a bit too much snot & the that sneeze i edited out of the final cut seemed to leave the residue of a hasty 10-second spot that was actually supposed to be 15-seconds. but these are all things unnoticeable to the average listener.
People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Letters and Social Aims 1876 (via 52books)
one of these days i’ll actually attend the poets forum, but not this year…
i’m torn… there’s two races i was thinking of entering, but they’re on the same day, oct 17th… southcliff black & blue classic & burnsville town scamper…
listening to Vieux Farka Toure, drinking assam tea & thinking it is really too late to be working on a freelance project…
Can Twitter Rake in the Ads to Justify $1 Billion Valuation?
“… said Warren Lee, VC at Canaan Partners. ‘That would require tremendous volumes of impressions and reasonable conversions. Lots of execution will be needed. Not impossible but unlikely.’ …Yet Twitter is quite different. ‘It’s the first one that’s not a destination — it’s a distributed service,’ said Seth Goldstein, CEO of SocialMedia and investor in early Twitter backer Union Square Ventures. ‘There is no precedent for how to monetize it.’ “
—from adage.com
i have no taste at all… i still like nirvana’s teen spirit…
sophomania
noun • unrealistic belief in one’s own intelligence; delusion of superintelligence
dullness has its virtue…
the economist, the week ahead podcast
listening to the economist podcast… yes, this is what happens when one does not own a television on a monday night…
watching harvard business publishing vodcast on how to cut costs strategically…
ptarmic
adjective • /tar.mɪk/ • causing sneezing.
noun • a substance that causes sneezing.
personal best running time for 3 miles tonight at sunset along the river…
vitam et pietatem
Can’t rain all the time…
eric draven
somethingchanged: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:
tergiversate
verb • /tər-jĭv’ər-sāt’/ • 1) to change repeatedly one’s attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate. 2) to turn renegade.
From Latin tergum, “back”, and versare, “to turn”
wet autumn evening requires a big cup of chai with a bit of honey & a good book…
seems like the police have been called to the transit center with greater frequency. today it was domestic disturbance/violence. earlier this week is was domestic disturbance.
at the flood… it’s raining… listening to the youth of asheville… thinking of the naming of things…
Coffeehouse Junkie 