I’m so out of sorts I’m trying to figure what I want to do with my time. My gut says, work, create, sweat, learn. I think other people want me to “enjoy the sunshine.” I put it in quotes because it sounds sorta foreign, and I’m not sure I know what it means, or maybe [...]
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I met you somewhere in a hell beneath the stairs There’s someone in that room that frightens you when they go boom Boom, boom, boom… The color you say is black is the one you might lack In the size of your eyes, is there a righteous prize? I met you… There’s something wrong with [...]
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
This fine young lass is Linda Morabito, and she was probably one of the most desirable young ladies working anywhere in Pasadena, but certainly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Check out that stylish computer she’s working with. She’s telling you, yes you, all about the discovery of volcanoes on Io.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Rick Spencer – Have you ever been away from something so long that when you’re near some semblance of it, you get innappropriately excited? Ana Pirri – I’m the queen of inappropriately excited. What’s making you so? Rick Spencer – Well, there’s a [creative person in a place I frequent], and it’s a woman, and [...]
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Friday, September 25, 2009
I took this test sometime in 2007. I got the results the day I was laid off. I haven’t cracked that envelope until now. It’s pretty much what you think it is. Here’s your personality traits, here’s your co-worker’s. He’s not an asshole, you guys just differ. Interesting for a moment, but ultimately sorta…blech. They don’t really give you STRATEGIES for utilizing what you know. Here’s what it says about me:
Thursday, September 17, 2009
I just finished the Richard Avedon exhibition, and I am out of breath, overwhelmed, Having a religious moment. My heartbeat is up. I feel like I just had a first kiss with the girl I watched all year from across the room. In middle school. I am rightly humbled, inspired and purged. I had a [...]
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
I’m a stone’s throw away from Dr. Temple Grandin. Having sort of a fanboy moment.We’re both wearing country western shirts. I think she ACTUALLY works on a farm though. I’m just a hipster. It’s a damn comfy shirt though. I might try and get a picture later.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
“Drinking: X people drink not to show off but to get quietly tight.” – Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Paul Fussell, 1983 Tight indeed.
About 15 minutes in Virgina shows Hedy for the third or fourth time as an example of glamour, and then drops the anecdote that she invented spread spectrum technology. According to Wikipedia she’s a co-inventor. Damn. Let Virginia tell it.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Does anybody even bother asking why ENOUGH times? Why is Google on top? Search Why is search so important? People have questions and search is one way of getting answers? (there are legion other ways, including browse, invention, and non sequitur) Why are answers so valuable? They are the most rational, comprehensible way of alleviating [...]