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.
Nov
10
2009
Nov
06
2009
Nov
05
2009
Oct
04
2009
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!]
Oct
04
2009
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
Oct
01
2009
Designers think they’re in the artifact business, but they’re not . They’re in the consequence business.
Allan Chochinov
Sep
26
2009
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch—you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Sep
26
2009
Comfort can lull you into a dangerous tranquility.
Andre Gregory, My Dinner with Andre
Sep
17
2009
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.”
Sep
08
2009
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
Sep
08
2009
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.”
Sep
05
2009
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
Sep
05
2009
Sep
04
2009
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
Sep
03
2009
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
Snippets that I, Steven Hall, have found around the webverse that I think might be useful.
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