“Every really good creative person…whom I have ever known has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject under the sun in which he could not easily get interested-from, say, Egyptian burial customs to modern art. Every facet of life had fascination for him. Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the [creative] man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.” — James Webb Young, writing in his 1939 guide to producing ideas, articulates a timeless truth about the relationship between curiosity and creativity. (via explore-blog)
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I opened the dishwasher mid-cycle and was blasted with steam and dripping water. I felt embarrassed, like I’d pushed open an occupied bathroom stall, and I slammed it shut and hurriedly pushed start again and found myself apologizing out loud.
Offered without comment:
Re: Compilation of Dog Trainers Who Make House Calls
FS: Preggle (preggers pillow) $15/obo
ferrett cage best offer
Earth Day Kids Poetry! (fwd)
The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph. The feat requires 8 hours of continuous play to complete, since the game cannot be paused.
The bus contains no passengers, contains little scenery (an occasional rock or…
Blast from the past: the cheat sheet I wrote on the late-night shift at the Richmond T-D. (Taken with instagram)
“RSS “is like a magic spell that calls together knowledge from the winds of the Internet into a swirling, dancing chimera that sits in your hand and shares with you the whispers of more people than you’ll ever meet in your life - on demand at any time. RSS readers are instruments of magic. When you use them you become a magician. May they proliferate across the land.”
— Very unhappy about the Google Reader/Plus changes coming.
World’s Youngest Leading Social Network Eats World’s Last Major RSS Reader: Google Reader Gets Plussed
Myke said the other day that my dad as a CEO reminds him of Steve Jobs, particularly in conversations and interviews he has watched of Steve.
I text my dad this and add, “High praise!”
24 hours later, my dad writes back: “Who’s Steve Jobs?”
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My question: Who lives in a bubble, us or him?
“We ought to be able to construct a narrative of our lives that transcends the trail of data exhaust we leave behind us on our trips down the information superhighway.” — Daily Dot: The Storify of our lives, and why we’re more than a Facebook Timeline
Your new obsession: Doodle or Die. My illustration of “please goldfish with donut” above.
My doodle chain began with “devil in a windfork.”
(Source: totalvibration)