I was a somber child.
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A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
It ends: This horrible dumb blankness, full of meaning, this colorless all-color of atheism, this drab charnel house within our hearts, yea, this universal white shroud, is the airline safety card’s intentionally blank page. It pictures not an unlikely event but the only one about which there is absolute certainty.
Peacock in the snow, from Fellini’s Amarcord (by jkgatt1981)
Does United States v. Microsoft signal a return to antitrust traditions of the 1960s? If Austin Powers is coming back to stay as a crime fighter, will he displace the tools and tactics that developed in his absence?
— Timothy J. Brennan, “Do Easy Cases Make Bad Law? Antitrust Innovations or Missed Opportunities in United States v. Microsoft”
This one’s for Shiella.
I now resolve to press and not iron my trousers and fold my dress shirts with the help of a board.
It’s a bit incredible how much information there is on proper shoe care, but so little information about the proper maintenance for anything else sartorial. Almost all of us at this point know the importance of not wearing shoes two days in a row, as well as keeping supplies such as shoe trees,…
(Source: dieworkwear)
They’re black boxes in the scientific sense in that they express some kind of power and authority but we don’t necessarily know what’s going on inside.
We’re delighted to announced that the Bookshelf blog is to be turned into a book and published by Thames & Hudson.
Ben Casnocha extends a two-step process for “How to Draw an Owl” with a few more to proclaim how to achieve mastery:
See also:
How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps1. Start
2. Keep going.
3. You think you’re starting to get the hang of it.
4. You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery.
5. Keep going.
6. Keep going.
7. You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now.
8. You don’t.
9. Keep going.
10. You ask for someone else’s opinion — their response is standoffish, though polite.
11. Depression.
12. Keep going.
13. Keep going.
14. You ask someone else’s opinion — their response is favorable.
15. They have no idea what they’re talking about.
16. Keep going.
17. You feel semi-kinda favorable and maybe even a little proud of what you can do now.
18. Self-loathing chastisement.
19. Depression
20. Keep going.
21. You ask someone else’s opinion — they respond quite favorably.
22. They’re still wrong.
23. Depression.
24. Keep going though you can’t possibly imagine why.
25. Become restless.
26. Receive some measure of praise from a trustworthy opinion.
27. They’re still fucking wrong (Right?)
28. Keep going just because there’s nothing else to do.
29. Mastery arrives, you mistake it for a gust of wind.
30. Keep. Fucking. Going.Simple.
