“Don’t doubt yourself! That’s one of my spelling words. I’ve been practicing it.”
— Beatrix, age 10.
“My favorite authors are the ones living, dead, read and unread, published and unpublished, who write because they can’t stop and because something inside them burns to be outside. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I want to read their books, but they are all and every one my favorites.”
— Cory Doctorow
Musical Theater Class at Children’s Theater Company.
Think of saying “I’m sorry” not as admitting failure, but as assuming responsibility. Pivot your perspective and you adopt a position faced towards positive change.
A New View of The Moon. Lovely. Makes me wish I knew someone with that nice of a telescope.
Alan Pike recommends making your inbox Human-Only as a path to email sanity. Some good ideas. I’ve done this for years. My personal account is self hosted. All non-human email goes to a Gmail account I only use for that purpose. It’s likely why I love email.
Today’s lesson in Democracy; school walkout to exercise our first amendment rights. Reminder, the only thing that will stop bad guys with a constitutional amendment is good guys with a constitutional amendment.
Kottke.org is 20 years old today. I discovered him in the Ocil8 days, when he was a local designer here in the Twin Cities. So, I’ve been following Jason’s work for even longer than that. Amazing.
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)
Wanna know what was happening on the day of my birth? This. This was happening on the day of my birth. Dizzy, live at The Village Vangard. With Chick Corea and Elvin Jones. Recorded October 1, 1967.
