September 2008
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“you’re going to put the mo in mojito today”
– luis, re: 21st birthday oh hell yes. mojitos in the city after work, heroes and pizza at 9!
“Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by...”
– from instructions a poem by neil gaiman
“Since kindergarten we’ve been demonstrating our willingness to die at...”
– from Walter Kern, What Men Wish You Knew About Them via delete the adjectives
what the shit? if you are going to commit to some kind of wife or family sort of deal, you should really try your hardest not to die. seriously.
am i supposed to laugh lightheartedly at this? with an ‘oh those...
late night lurkin' at 3 AM
Gackto: Just woke up from passing out.
Rathmar: that's what I did
nikpud: yeeeeeah waking up in the middle of the night
nikpud: tried to take a thirty minute goddamn nap.
Gackto: Three of us so far.
Gackto: HOW MANY MORE WILL THERE BE?
Gackto: And will spiders someday rule the world?
Gackto: Find out after the break.
hiring a designer is not like dating
juliaallison:
Caveat up front: we can’t pay a lot, and for that, I am deeply sorry. But we will work out some compensation, and we’d love to establish a relationship going forward that could turn into something more. It’s like dating. Try ‘em out for a bit: see if you like us, see if we like you, then maybe we’ll get serious and you can meet our parents and shit.
no, it’s not really like...
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“Jared: Lindsey, do you have a Tamagotchi?
Lindsey: Hell No! Do I look like I’m...”
– hey, tamagotchis were the shit for a brief period of time, i merely kept my graveyard of dead digital creatures, instead of throwing them away. (besides, they are cute)
via superdoofus-stratodrive & lumber
proposals for new art classes
how to discuss and appreciate contemporary art without sounding like a pretentious jerk.
what is a concept and why are they important?
your first freelance project: how to deal with money, the default level of distrust that begins any healthy working relationship and how to keep your calm when the project is almost finished and they want to re-do everything.
tricky business situations: how...
but it's only so stretchy
Rentun: pfft
Rentun: you can always expand papers
Rentun: the english language is super inefficient
Rentun: you can say the same thing like 20 times and it will seem very natural
textbooks
i would feel just a little bit better about spending so much on college textbooks if they didn’t feel like the cheapest quality printing possible, making for awful reading experiences.
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“Q: How many art directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
a: Does it have...”
– this place is a goldmine. from typographunnies, via simko
“we can watch the matrix in my room, all loud and shit on my speakers, and use my...”
– chris, re: tonight. try not to be too jealous now, i know how some people can get over typography coasters.
Accepting digital as a medium
Let’s say you make an awesome and profound interactive experience, one that is meant to run off a computer. This experience is pretty wild, and you are really proud of it. It’s a little too abstract to be put in the design realm, and it has so much to say it takes it out of the league of ‘really clever programming’. It appears that you have just made art.
You have two...
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the little browser that could
Gackto: Yesterday Firefox was like FUCK YOU YOU'RE NOT LOADING KELSEY'S LIVE
Gackto: Then I load up GOOGLE CHROME and it's like ZIP HELLO I AM GOOGLE CHROME HERE IS YOUR REQUEST WEBPAGE WOULD YOU LIKE A COMPLIMENTARY HANDJOB
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“It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.”
– do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick
“walking out of quikcheck with my philosophy book (on Charles Sanders Peirce) and...”
– embarrassingly punny - luis
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newton for people who make websites
every action has five equal and time-consuming reactions.
update: i think, upon reflection that “every action may have five equal and time-consuming reactions” is a better fit.
“I’m done with web standards. I’m done reading specs. I’m done caring whether a...”
– jeff croft via christmasgorilla and strelau
great points brought up, totally valid. HTML5 in 2022? bummer.
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mad punctuation
brian: you're a madman!
luis: i'm not mad, man!
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“But he also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies...”
– neuromancer by william gibson
this book makes me see all sorts of curious things.
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life and videogames
like many people, i think about really weird things before i fall asleep. especially last night.
i had a fun time entertaining the thought of our lives being compared to a side scrolling game. the main connecting points being:
focus on what’s going on right now (the present)
use information gathered in ‘the present’ to give yourself a rough idea of what’s coming next...
“I think this is why so much of the work that comes from large companies is so...”
– Jonathan Harris (via christmasgorilla)
total agreement. i spoke with him once after a lecture about my in-progress undergrad thesis and he gave me one piece of spectacular advice that i will never forget (but will paraphrase):
don’t get too wrapped up in the technicality of what you’re...
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“In my own case, I realized that I needed to develop a thick skin, feel...”
– the second page of this article is especially great.
from Navigating the office, for women via Karm City