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- You shoulda listened to this in 2011
Instead of a period at the end of each sentence there should be a tiny clock that shows you how long it took you to write that sentence.
Laurie Anderson’s “theory of punctation” (via) (via manbartlett)
No, that’s bullshit. No artist should cram down the throat of the audience his or her own self-importance. And just because a sentence may have taken a long time to write does not mean that it is good or that you must respect it.
In fact, putting a greater emphasis on the amount of time it took to create something rather than the quality of the creation itself is exactly what’s wrong with — well, just about everything. If you spend all week making shitty soup, you’ve wasted everyone’s time. Next time make better soup. Oh, and never confuse the amount of time you invested in a project with something important.
(via theconceptlibrarian)
- "Discretion"
§ 191.918. Breast-feeding in public permitted
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a mother may, with as much discretion as possible, breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.
This is the Missouri statute on breast feeding. Here are the two definitions of “discretion”:
dis·cre·tion/disˈkreSHən/
Noun:
- The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information.
- The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation.
The law could easily be read to have quite opposing meanings - in one interpretation, a breast feeding mother might be compelled to be as “discreet” as possible; in another, she could exercise the freedom to breast feed in whatever manner she felt like.
Many yummy nougats in here, but especially liked the packaging…
OBAMA WEARS GLOWING BALL CAP!
http://slatest.slate.com/content/dam/Slatest/121252639.jpg.CROP.thumbnail-small.jpg
Images from Lynda Barry’s Tumblr
Guys, it’s going to be really hard not to reblog everything Lynda posts. (FACT: my tumblr has over 70 posts tagged Lynda.) Look for her posts of writer’s handwriting, neuroscience articles, and one of my favorite Jonathan Richman songs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/taxes-cuts-economists_n_932697.html
So, who’s right? They are both referencing a survey by the National Association of Business Economists. Let this be a warning against regurgitating headlines.
tUnE-YarDs play “Gangsta” And It Is Gangsta - Music - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Tonight tUnE-YarDs played “Gangsta” with Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots and man, oh man…it was AWESOME.
Might be my new favorite.
Andrew’s advice for setting up your own studio and letting things go smoothly. He and the guys at MetaLab do excellent work every day, as you’ve maybe noticed when browsing through tumblr.Handing things over is hard when you’re a perfectionist. You have to hire well and, more importantly, let people put out their own fires. When I started hiring contractors, I made a critical mistake: if their first mockup wasn’t great, or a client got unhappy, I’d step in. You need to let things blow up in people’s faces. Let them make mistakes. If you’re the middle-man jumping into the fray whenever anything goes amiss, you’ll be stuck micro-managing everyone. Step back and let your employees clean up their own messes, and they’ll quickly learn and start getting it right.
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Status
- Early morning spam: "Quote of the Day! ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out"
- Our only technology option to listen to the State of the State? STL Public Radio App on the Iphone. Srsly?
- Things that happened in my dream last night: 1) got into a fistfight with a scary lady from Jersey 2) was involved in a sting operation at a tanning salon 3) uttered the phrase "Don't die! You're my favorite economist, and I don't have that many!"
- Our new kitchen setup has a bar, and I sit at the bar in the morning and give Sean my order and he makes it for me. You all should buy him a coffee.
- Imma just say: Griswold v Connecticut was about privacy, not contraception.
- When my computer screen gets all smudgy... I think, hey, when have I been rubbing my hands all over my screen? I don't do this! I would never have occasion to touch my screen. Where, then, do all these prints come from? Do I sleep-smudge?
- Tonight I made some amazing food - lemon pasta with roasted veggies, pear and pecan salad, and carrots with blood orange reduction. The carrots were insane. If you ask really nice I might make them again, and share.
- Pet peeve of the day: people who say 'hence' when they really mean 'because'.
- Many of you have said really sweet things about my glowing... however, I think what you perceived as "pregnant glow" is actually radioactive heartburn:(
- On the name Harrison: Me: It just makes me think of William Henry Harrison. Sean: You don't think of Harrison Ford first? Me=big nerd.
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Tweets
- St. Louis Public Schools to sponsor charters http://t.co/PemSsuy1
- Hot off the presses! The Missouri Minute – With Senator Dempsey and Munzlinger and Rep. Smith – United for Missouri http://t.co/ug1nKxiu
- ChickieNobs! http://t.co/xrYVPdxV
- St. Louis Beacon - Private school choice and the Turner decision http://t.co/0bqTf2zB A simple option that will save kids.
- Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - http://t.co/5gKM34F1 http://t.co/GTYOmZ4d Really compelling read.
- Imagine if you were a former OBGYN patient of Ron Paul's. Nights like this would be weird. #scprimaryJan 21, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- "Longevity doesn't mean a teacher is excellent. It means that they have been there for a long time." http://t.co/wYTdHHp7
- St. Louis Beacon - Does tenure protect bad teachers or produce good ones? Missourians may decide http://t.co/wYTdHHp7
- Kansas tax plan would create a state of prosperity, says economist who helped design it http://t.co/lDMBuMK5
- Missouri Tax Credits on the Chopping Block "In 2013, the state is expected to redeem $685 million in tax credits" http://t.co/CRGhkyCI
- Sinquefield ally wants teacher tenure abolished: reward great teachers! http://t.co/P95MotAw
- A must-see video: How Eliminating the Income Tax Helps Grow States' Economies http://t.co/aXzHhk6N
- Read KS Gov. Brownback's blueprint for reducing the state's income tax http://t.co/9L2LDRuM
- Major debate forming over Brownback's desire to cut taxes: http://t.co/dSR4eTxI Looking at Boeing move, actions speak louder than words...
- Mitt's last financial strain? When he lost that $10k bet. #IowaDebateDec 10, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Killing my dream of mining ore on the moon #iowadebateDec 10, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Is Santorum saying "soul security"? I mean, it would be apropos of him. #iowadebateDec 10, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Forget the LOLs: Literary giant Margaret Atwood thinks the Internet is making us more literate. http://t.co/yJJ3cIHy
- United for Missouri exposes the pathetic attempts by opponents of MO tax reform to mislead voters http://t.co/pqKiFPo2
