jeannr:

I made a flow chart, that we might better understand.
Once upon a time I was falling in love, and now I’m only falling apart.

jeannr:

I made a flow chart, that we might better understand.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, and now I’m only falling apart.

posted 1 week ago

jeannr:


agentmlovestacos (via cromulence)

posted 2 weeks ago

loveallthis:

Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles classic, ‘Hey Jude.’

loveallthis:

Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles classic, ‘Hey Jude.’

posted 2 weeks ago

Fourble Board

The unusual title is a bit of oil worker argot: the “fourble board” of an oil derrick is a narrow catwalk that is as high up as four lengths of drilling pipe placed vertically (two lengths of pipe are a “double”, three are a “thribble” and four are a “fourble.”

[An explanation of the title of an episode of the old time radio radio show Quiet Please!]

posted 1 month ago

qui desposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles

[who has put down the mighty from their seat and has exalted the humble]

from the Magnificat

posted 1 month ago

Designers think they’re in the artifact business, but they’re not . They’re in the consequence business.
Allan Chochinov

posted 1 month ago

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch—you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

posted 1 month ago

Comfort can lull you into a dangerous tranquility.
Andre Gregory, My Dinner with Andre

posted 1 month ago

Rolling Stones at Altamont

“When idealism and anarchy rode together on the same horse and no one was quite sure which was holding the reins.”

OR

“A young black man murdered in the midst of a white crowd by white thugs as white men played their version of black music.”

posted 2 months ago

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.
Carl Sagan

posted 2 months ago

A Matter of Perspective

Close to a century ago, humorist Robert Benchley was dispatched by his newspaper to Venice. Upon arriving, he cabled his editor, “Streets flooded, please advise.”

posted 2 months ago

Star Trek, despite its strong international and interspecies perspective, often ignores the most elementary scientific facts. The idea that Mr Spock could be a cross between a human being and a life form independently evolved on the planet Vulcan is genetically far less probable than a successful cross of a man and an artichoke.
Carl Sagan

posted 2 months ago

…hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski

posted 2 months ago

If you want to control someone, and make them mute, take control of their use of their hands… If I thought world leaders were smart enough to understand this, I would be a conspiracy theorist and be looking at the removal of the hands [i.e. the arts] from modern education as the means of our deliberate enslavement.
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors we Live By

posted 2 months ago

Once Marcel Duchamp decided that he would put up a urinal at the exhibit and simply declare the art to *be* art by *fiat*, there is no limit to what you can do. And there is also now very little criteria by which you judge quality.
Jonathan Miller, author, director, producer, lecturer, and physician

posted 2 months ago