June 2011
1 post
August 2010
3 posts
1 tag
“Fain would I change that note
to wich fond love hath charmd me,
long, long to...”
– http://www.meeuw.org/hume/fain.html
Could be Tobias Hume, but often attributed to anonymous. Pretty anyway.
April 2010
2 posts
“The whole approach toward immigration and immigrants needs another look. Perhaps...”
– Nezua
TakeBack: the Pope can't smoke in my house →
A while ago, I said the Pope could smoke in my house if he changed the Catholic Church’s positions on birth control and homosexuality. After reading about evidence the Pope shielded pedophile priests in Arizona, I take it back. If he shows up here, I’m throwing the ashtray at his head.
March 2010
1 post
“Money, man. It’s, like, the main ingredient in crazy.”
– Zone, Epitaph One episode, Dollhouse
January 2010
1 post
1 tag
Mac Weirdness
So I have two external drives that look alike. On one of them is a bootable backup of my Mac Pro. On the other, some backed up videos with their source media. I can’t tell the drives apart by looking at them, so I plug one in via the FireWire 800 port and look at the contents in a Finder window. Turns out it’s the bootable backup.
I eject it. I also unplug the FW800 cable from the...
August 2009
1 post
The Pope Defense
I just had the most ridiculous discussion with my husband. His mom collected red glassware, and we were debating which items to sell, which to store, and which we like enough to use and display:
He: I want to keep the ashtray. I like that ashtray.
Me: No problem. Do you want it outside where you smoke? Should I store it? (There’s no smoking in our house, so I don’t see a reason to...
July 2009
1 post
4 tags
Vimeo's new source file policy →
Starting August 1st, basic accounts’ original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed. Of course the converted Vimeo video will always be there in the Vimeo player, ready to be watched again and again, anywhere you choose to embed or share it. We will also still provide a download link so people can save the converted file to their...
June 2009
3 posts
“Vlogging’s not something you give up. It’s something that naps...”
– @RobertCroma
May 2009
1 post
“Everybody is looking with a mixture of confidence and apprehension to the...”
– Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, 1955
March 2009
1 post
“I expect you not only to master music; I expect you to save the planet. If...”
– Karl Paulnack’s address to Boston Conservatory freshman class
February 2009
3 posts
“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed; to...”
– - Friere (1972
My friend “the hummingbird” uses this after his email signature. He’s Diné (Navajo). It rings true. The people we oppress are the only ones who can liberate us.
2 tags
“When writing is forbidden or undervalued, it becomes invisible. When family and...”
– Three Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Writing by Traci Gardner
December 2008
3 posts
Question 2's Most Impassioned Answer
My photoshop students design their own final project. It’s a chance for them to pursue expertise in an area of interest, find their own tutorials, and explore the joyous business side of artistic pursuit: the articulation of a proposal, schedule and deliverables.
One of the questions they must answer is: Why and how is this work important to you personally and artistically?
And this...
“Jesus did not come to make us rich and powerful. Jesus did not bless our nation...”
– Chris Hedges, from interview Moral Combat: Chris Hedges on War, Faith and Fundamentalism by Bethany Saltman published in The Sun
October 2008
3 posts
The Sarah Palin Debate Flow-Chart →
Kick ass funny!
“On why the VP Debate format was important: The reason that the format matters is...”
– KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, interviewed on Bill Moyers’ Journal, 2008 Vice Presidential Debate Analysis
“Patriotism that only serves and never risks one’s self-interest...”
– John McCain, as quoted in Oct. 16 Rolling Stone (second to last paragraph of article)
September 2008
2 posts
Feminist in Training →
Great story of how two women are dealing with working in a predominantly male industry… I’ve been there.
August 2008
12 posts
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20 Things I've Stolen →
Via Cogdog
July 2008
8 posts
Quotes for Ru (twitter fail)
I was posting quotes about work on Twitter this morning for my friend Ru. But in the midst of it, Twitter let out one of those death rattles it makes when it can’t handle the tweet volume. So I’m posting the whole series of quotes here (which makes more sense since most are more than 140 characters)”
Khalil Gibran:
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I...
Spam Karma goes GPL →
from Dr. Dave’s Blog
I’m a fan of Spam Karma over Akismet - it’s always done a great job and let me process incoming comments on my own server rather than depending on a third party service being live. I’m going to keep using it until the dreaded day when one of the ever-increasing slurry of inescapable WordPress upgrades breaks it.
And I’ll pray every day that a...
Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up |... →
Can we please let Dennis Kucinich run for President now?
via twittervlog:
(via sull)
I cave.
I want to play with Lifecast (iPhone app) so today is as good a day as any to cave in and start a tumblr.