zen-y: Archive

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Apr 1st

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On compost

In a disposable culture like ours, its nice to find hobbies and activities that give credit to reusing and recycling our waste. Which is why I’m so excited to start a compost pile for a garden Jess and I are planning in her back yard. While we’re both on the gardening board, she let me know - under no uncertain terms - that I am a composting committee of one (“How will it...

Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

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Mar 29th

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Mar 29th

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“In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing...”

– Frank Rich - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com

Mar 29th

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Mar 29th

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Mar 26th

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Mar 26th

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Mar 24th

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“At first it was cool to see it in a few spots, especially CD cover designs and...”

– Papyrus font creator Chris Costello, via F is for font | Investigating Boise’s love affair with the prolific Papyrus | Boise Weekly

Mar 24th

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Mar 24th

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Watch

merlin: yourmonkeycalled: The best thing ever made by people? Definitely beats the pyramids. Now these Hot Chip guys keep popping up in random places. Before, I never heard of them. Now, they’re everywhere. I can see why.

Mar 23rd

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“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than...”

– Bilbo Baggins (via practicalopacity)

Mar 23rd

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“I remember my friend Mordy’s numbers (both lines) from when we were eleven. But...”

– Dave Pell, My Head is in the Cloud

Mar 23rd

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“For now, the significance of the vote is moving the United States FROM a system...”

– Why This Moment Matters - Politics - James Fallows, The Atlantic

Mar 23rd

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clientsfromhell: Client: “You know the song called ‘Simple Man’?” Me: “Well, yeah…” Client: “I want my new website to look just like that!”

Mar 22nd

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“Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. So far as I can tell,...”

– John Gruber at Daring Fireball. I get a little weird with people about backing up their data, but I’m serious as cancer: photos start disappearing and you’re going to wish you had a system. Any system.

Mar 22nd

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Mar 22nd

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“It’s not a bargain if you don’t need it.”

– Minimal Mac: It’s not a bargain if you don’t need it.

Mar 19th

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Mar 19th

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Mar 19th

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Mar 18th

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“Watching the movie is like viewing a natural disaster that you cannot turn away...”

– There Will Be Blood :: rogerebert.com. The movie’s ending is the only thing that almost did it in for me, but it was still fantastic.

Mar 18th

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Collection: DOCUMERICA Project by the... →

Amazing collection of Nixon-era environmental photography. Love how the photos tint to yellow, which - to me - screams the 1970s. From Archives.gov: DOCUMERICA’s official mission effectively focused on popular but valid environmental concerns of the early 1970s: water, air, and noise pollution; unchecked urbanization; poverty; environmental impact on public health; and youth culture of the day....

Mar 17th

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“I had planned to teach my robot right and wrong, but so far I’m pretty...”

– Twitter / Tim Siedell

Mar 17th

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Mar 17th

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We were watching TV

Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan’s Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don’t? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn’t posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing...

Mar 17th

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Mar 15th

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Mar 15th

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Mar 15th

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“If you and I had an argument and I produced facts from an authoritative source...”

– Facts no longer mean what they once did - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com. Mr. Pitts is responding to someone on the Iraq war, but in today’s America, it could stand for anything.

Mar 15th

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“`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy...”

– Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. Nice to see it in the new “Alice in Wonderland” movie. It helped inspire the header on one of my blogs.

Mar 13th

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Mar 13th

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Mar 13th

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Become whatever you want

Seth Godin: The best part of college is that you could become whatever you wanted to become, but most people just do what they think they must. Golly, this is so true, even at the small school I attended. For some, keeping your nose down and doing the bare minimum is fine. At school, and now at work - I see it all the time. Thankfully, I used college as a time to grow and develop and take...

Mar 12th

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“That’s why we all consider it more or less our right to pick up the phone...”

– The gathering storm - Roger Ebert’s Journal. Spot-on thoughts about how government services going to private services costs us more.

Mar 12th

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“If the Canadian hockey team wins Olympic gold or Obama scores a Nobel prize and...”

– Curation Nation: We Can’t Stop Sharing News

Mar 11th

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Mar 11th

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Mar 11th

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First Draft Twitter No. 005

fireland: Wrote MARRY ME in flames on her front lawn but then the wind picked up and long story short I want a divorce from my gross burn-face wife. » final draft

Mar 11th

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