Ken Arneson

I had this exact tape recorder. Used it to record software I programmed on the TI-99/4A in the early 80s. Yes, you younguns, we saved our software on cassette tapes.

(Source: wearefirstserve)

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Star Trek meets Battlestar Galactica.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Leonard Nimoy and Jimi Hendrix, 1970

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I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Mister Rogers

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Harpo Marx and Amelia Earhart

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Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.

E.O. Wilson

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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are. If you’re an asshole, you become a bigger asshole. If you’re nice, you become nicer.

Sara Blakely

I watched Love, Actually this weekend. I’m often a sucker for romantic comedies, but that movie was awful. Probably because it’s the exact opposite of what Ebert was talking about below. You don’t get to know anybody because there are so many characters. The characters all have a Destiny, which is served to the audience with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the forehead.

bohemea:

One of the strengths of Coppola’s screenplay is that her people and everything they do are believable. Unlike the characters in most movies, they don’t quickly sense they belong together, and they don’t immediately want to be together. Coppola keeps them apart for a noticeably long time. They don’t know they’re the Girl and the Boy. They don’t have a Meet Cute. We grow to know them separately.

- Roger Ebert on Lost In Translation

(Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com)

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geekfeed:

“sorry, we do not have a microwave available to guests” 画

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geekfeed:

Tautology Clock 画

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I’ve often thought maybe my life has been a waste, that I might have been a Russian scholar by now at some university. But if I were, I might be thinking my life was a waste because I had never been out into the real world. I suppose I will always be asking myself what I’m going to do when I grow up. But I’m living on my own terms. I like what I do, and I’ve got time to do all these other things that have nothing to do with what I do.

Bill King

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Consensus is the opposite of opportunity.

Aaron Wall

I always love unlikely meetings of celebrities.

siphotos:

Walter Payton was an artist on the field (see post below) and certainly appreciated a fine musician during his time off it. In this 1986 photo, Sweetness hangs out with Phil Collins during the Bears’ trip to London for the American Bowl. (AP)

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Literature and poetry today are under enormous pressure from the scientific mode of thinking, an empirical way of thinking. Wallace Stevens has a penetrating, dissecting mind, which I think applied to poetry is wrong. If we take Stevens’s poem “Study of Two Pears,” it seems an attempt to describe the pears as if to a Martian, to a creature from another planet. That’s dissection. I feel that things of this world should be contemplated rather than dissected—the kind of detached attitude towards objects one finds in Dutch still lifes. Schopenhauer considered these to be the highest form of art. That contemplation is also in Japanese haiku poems. As Basho said, to write about the pine, you must learn from the pine. This is a completely different attitude from dissecting the world. Schopenhauer, I feel, is really the artist’s, the poet’s, philosopher.

Czeslaw Milosz.

I wonder what he would say about blogging. Also, I need to read some Schopenhauer.