Statuses

It’s all downhill from here.

New distance record. Important.

Tim Carmody writing at Kottke.org with some interesting thoughts on the future of the book  as object and idea. For reasons I won’t yet disclose, this subject has been very much on my mind of late.

TwIM is the DM-only Twitter client I’ve been waiting for. Perhaps you have too. The less we feed that bird the better.

“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.”

―Jack London

“If you look at what this country has accomplished, only using half of its talent, just look at the potential for the future. I’m enormously bullish on America over the future in part because we, by some rather stupid decisions, essentially put half our talent on the sidelines.”

— Warren Buffett, Feminist.

This time of year in Minnesota, all conversations include talk of the weather… Back to single digit highs today. Otherwise known as back to normal.

My friend Levi reminds us that the best way to make something is to start making it. Start now.