Mayor Cory Booker Responds to Question about NJ Marriage Equality Referendum
Just Cory Booker being totally awesome again. Same shit, different day.
“I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.” - Henry Rollins
I can talk about neurons, seizures, autism, strokes, headaches, genes, tuberous sclerosis, reflexes, somatosensory pathways, the motor cortex, the cranial nerves, and probably more stuff! Maybe you don’t know some of it! That’s at least 10!
Note to self: You need a thicker neck.
Storm rolling in over Lake Shore Drive, 2010, Chicago. Ken Tanaka.
I was living in Aqua during this storm. This is the one that made Tucker afraid of thunder. I was texting updates to swamibooba and standing on my balcony like an idiot. It was awesome.
Awesome.
“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl. I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.” - Charles Bukowski
(via fuckyeahbukowski)
The facade of The Shining’s Overlook Hotel set, under construction on the backlot at Elstree Studios.
ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff
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8 years old. Just laying in bed, thinking. And I realize. There’s nothing stopping me from becoming a child dentist.
21. Found a pencil on the beach. Embossed on it: I cherish serenity. Tucked it away into the inside breast pocket of my suit jacket. Watched the waves come and recede.
22. Found a beetle in my bathroom that was just about to fall into a heating vent. Swiped him up. Tailored him a little backpack out of a leaf and a thread. In the backpack: a skittle and a AAA battery. That should last him. Set him loose out by the front gate.
Three years of age. Brushed aside the curtain. Sunlight.
14. Riding my bike out on the pier with my coach who is jogging behind me as the sun goes down right after I knocked out Piston Honda in the original Nintendo version of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
11. Sick. Watching Heathcliff on television. For hours, it was Heathcliff. And he was able to come right up close to my face. His head spun toward me. His face pulsed back and forth, up close, then off millions of miles away. Sound was gone. In fractions of a second, Heathcliff filled the universe, then blipped off to the end of infinity. I heard my mother’s voice trying to cut through the cartoon. Heathclose, Heathaway, Heathclose, Heathaway. It was a religious rave with a cat strobe and muffled bass of mother’s voice. (I ran a fever of 105 that day.)
18. Bought myself a gigapet. A duck. Fed it for awhile. Gave it a bath. Forgot about it for almost a couple months. One day, while cleaning, I found a chain and he was there on the end. Hey, little duck. Mad freaky, hoppin’ around with his hair out, squawking diagonal lines. In a tuxedo.
Seven Moments of Zen from My Life, one of many sidebars in Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Yes, this is from a programming book. I was not familiar with this _why character until I read the recent article in Slate that everyone is talking about, but now I’m thoroughly obsessed. From the article:
“The book I feel is closest to my book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which interleaves brief math puzzles and astronomical diagrams with the story,” he wrote to a listserv. “[I’m] interested in presenting an initial stab at giving literary value to a programming text. I’m also interested in getting people to at least feel what I feel when I program.”
If you’re not familiar with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NIght-Time, it’s a mystery novel written in first person from the perspective of the story’s protagonist, a 15-year-old autistic boy. It’s a fantastic book.
Replacements. Answering Machine. Live. 1989.
Recent inspiration. Thomas Hooper is of the same “school” of tattooing as the artist who did my sleeve. I am very fond of their work.
Virginia’s art is also a big inspiration to me.
I love Black & Gold!
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Messageboard post, Tim S. (via magnificentruin)Design is largely code these days. It wasn’t print that died, it was the graphic design industry as we knew it. The idea of making a living out of forming and applying static shapes to cumbersome paper is almost absurd now and growing ever more so in my opinion.
If you go along to a potential client and say “I have this really exciting thing that I think will really help your brand to sell more stuff” then you show them a beautifully designed, beautifully printed, beautifully typeset and beautifully photographed/illustrated and laid out (and exquisitely bound) piece of graphic design work, they will say “Its a brochure… how is a brochure ever going to help my business?… no thanks”.
If you went in to that company and said “I have this really exciting thing that I think will really help your brand to sell more stuff” and then you start to demonstrate a mobile phone app that can utilise the inbuilt camera to identify product and drive customers to the nearest retail outlets or just order straight up online… they’ll be as excited about working with you as clients used to be years ago, about the idea of getting a graphic designer on board to make the brochures look amazing.
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