January 2009
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Watchzehnuhr:
TED: Tim Brown - The powerful link between creativity and play
At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play – with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t).
(Recorded in May 2008. Duration: 27:59.)
This one was great. So far this and the David Carson talk are my favorites.
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I’m not entirelly sure how I’m gonna do it, but I will succeed in getting a somewhat normal sleep pattern. Even though it’s calm and nice to be up in the middle of the night, I want to see the sun light.
It should be easier now. The American Life is finished, season two episode six was last night. It was excellent. You need to see it if you haven’t. It’s the John...
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Things my hands have done today.
been the recipient of spilled hot tea-water.
crawled on the floor looking for problems with the audio cable to the vinyl player.
failed to hit the trashcan with balls of paper (got a slight cold, again).
removed chicken from the fridge (to be marinated in Guinness).
flipped vinyl records.
Only four and five is on the good side.
25 Random Things
overflowing:
3. I love to make lists. I have a notebook full of them I carry in my purse. The only thing I enjoy more than making them is scratching things off of them.
Lists are amazing. Unsure about crossing things off though. More for a check-mark, and yes, I do draw a square in front of each point on lists of that kind. However, I like to number things more: the more pointless and stupid a...
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I had one of those dreams where everyone...
on "the life"
sbz:
i woke up this morning at 10am. yeah, you know, i’ve gotten some things accomplished. i drank some espresso, puttered around a bit, wore sweatpants.
it’s not weird that, at 4pm, i want to take a nap, right? right, guys? guys?
This is how life should be.
Birthdays..
riotrepublic:
It’s perfectly normal to not have the slightest idea what you’re doing with your life at age 23, right?
Yes. Very much so. Life is about improvising — to some degree anyway. (My own improvising hasn’t really panned out though so…)
Oh, the dust I’ve seen. Through every hole, every crack, it flowed like wine or at least intestines pulled by a dog in a zombie movie. Tiny men hacked away smaller dust particles, mining for whatever silicone residue they could find.
It was the dustiest computer I’ve evern seen, hope I never see anything like that again.
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http://ihardlyknowher.com/carboncopy →
Less messy than flickrs normal interface — although I had to do a stylish-script for it. I like to browse photos on black background. (Stylish might be my favorite Firefox-extension after Tabmix Plus and Keyconfig.)
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("ihardlyknowher.com") {
body { background: #000 !important; color: #ffba00 !important; }
h1 * {color: #ff7a00...
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On This American Life s2e02: act two. I can relate to the man who came from Bulgaria and ended up in Rhode Island. To summarize for those who haven’t seen the episode (you should, you fuck): he moved to USA, got married, moved to the suburbs, had a lawn. He didn’t like the comformity, that you should keep the grass short and water it to make it look perfect and fake. So he cut it a few...
Swedish Channel Four don’t want me to sleep. You don’t buy and then show This American Life at 3:40 AM… And now they’re into season two — one episode monday through thursday, even more insane. Respect for good tv? Obviously not. Yes, my head has hit the keyboard and the table and even wall.
Nothing I can do about it. Ira Glass owns my soul. Or at least leases it each time...
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Listening to Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and it’s soothing. It’s really a lie on the bed-type of LP but I’ve already managed to snooze away enough of today. It’s an album that manages to transform Loudon’s the Swimming Song into something… more. Something with emotional meaning. It’s hard to be in a foul mood to this.
I wanted to write something about the...
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Five things I’m tired of.
Feeling like shit.
Mixed messages.
Not sleeping properly.
Solitude.
Being out of cookies.
I plan on fixing number four buy actually go out more often and play with the camera. For real this time, I need to feel connected somehow or I’m going more crazy.
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I’ve grown tired of having the usual albums on my mp3 player so I thought about just removing everything on it and fill it with other stuff. The problem is that I tend to pick at least a few standards — a few equals a whole lot. There is a huge chance that I’ll just end up with the same things I removed, and that’s no good.
So, uhm, help? Mail, reblog, comment, PM at last.fm,...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 15 of 16.
A small list of things I’m afraid of.
Water
Clowns, mimes and all their unholy offspring
Horses
Height
Death
Getting sharp pieces of glass while drinking from a bottle
Seeing my own blood
Most dogs I don’t know
Being abandoned
Wasps
The scarf getting caught in a door
Going deaf
Getting holes in the socks
The house...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 13 of 16.
Can something be worse than bad? Well, if it’s about things not happening to you but rather artish things then yeah. Music, movies, photos, et all, they can all be worse than bad. They can be mediocre. If it’s bad, at least it makes you feel something. You can’t shrug it off, you notice details that might throw you off...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 12 of 16.
My movie interest was sparked by my parents. We had one of those Betamax — wonderful cassettes, I miss them — real early and I could handle the video player when I was three. Most of it was cartoons but when we got a VHS we got more movies. The thing is this, my parents always had the opinion that I could watch what I wanted as long as I...
Just watched the end of the documentary My Messy Life by Josh Freed. Since I like a bit of chaos, I like the conclusions (but I like a bit of order underneath it all so I’m not even close as messy as those in the documentary). It also made me throw away the idea of finding some sort of topic for this one. Fuck that shit. I think I need to get lost instead, dig further down the piles and see...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 11 of 16.
Soon done with these and that feels both good and bad.
I don’t believe in God. At all. I even got thrown out from Sunday school. But it’s not that simple, while I do agree with some of the things Richard Dawkins et all says, I feel a bit disgusted doing it. Most often they come across just as fanatically insane as the people...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 10 of 16.
I know, I know. Another body part post. Not the thing that makes you scream “yay” and slobber like a gossip hungry vulture. Except! This one contains violence! Blood! Pain! Murder! Okay, not murder.
I’m a bit ashamed about this, because it is rather stupid and I should know better. But the thing is, I hit my knee into...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 9 of 16.
I learned to read pretty early. The problem was that I didn’t really care about reading more than subtitles or the back of a VHS cassette so progress was slow. Really painfully slow.
In school we had this short novellas. I think you was supposed to read them all, and then move on to the more advanced. Or it could have been a fixed...
the final verdict
burnedtoast:
Okay, everyone, listen up.
The Da Vinci Code was a shitty book. Terribly, horribly shitty. And no amount of back-and-forth semantics in the house common room will change that, especially if you are ignorant of Umberto Eco when I point out that The Name of the Rose is vastly superior and anyone who doesn’t have sawdust for brains can see it’s the better novel.
All I have to say...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 8 of 16.
This is somewhat connected to point four, but only in the sense that it’s about the same bodypart. Yeah, the nose. Have you seen the shows M*A*S*H or Firefly? Sorry. Of course you have, you’re not stupid. I share a tick with the characters Hawkeye and Jayne: I smell things. The scene in the episode The Message where Jayne gets...
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Stylish code to fix the tumblr dashboard
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard), url-prefix(http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog), url-prefix(http://www.tumblr.com/likes) { /*Windows font for those who don’t have Lucida Grande*/ #right_column .dashboard_nav_item ul.tumblelog_controls, #right_column .dashboard_nav_item #small_dashboard_nav_links, #right_column...
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 6 of 16.
There are people who are amazing on making mixtapes/cds/whatever (mix LPs, that’s what I want to see). They take time and the end result is you sitting there, mouth agape, the music ringing in the ears and your brain splattered across the wall because the selection and order is so mind-blowingly good. Me? I’m decent. I got another...
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William Elliott Whitmore — Who Stole the Soul
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“I started to put on my coat. That is, I looked for my coat. Naturally, I...”
– Terry Carr, Void editorial collected in Fandom Harvest p25, displaying why some order can be a good thing. On the other hand, too much order and you never find anything interesting.
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Things you probably don’t know about me. Part 4 of 16.
A sign that I’m getting a bit drunkish is that my nose gets numb and cold and tingles. This could had been a great way of notifing me of “whoa there, take it a bit easy with the beer’n’whisky” if it wasn’t for the fact the it never really happens at the same level.
There have been times when the numbness...
topherchris:
83 tumblelogs in my right column. That might be too many.
This must be the tumblr equivalence to “37!”…
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Cunninlynguists’ Dirty Acres on vinyl is a double album in 45 rpm. (Seriously, it’s excellent. Best album 2007. If you don’t agree, I’m fine with that. But you should probably listen to it some more.)
So after spinning this for some… oh, hours, I forgot to switch back to 33 rpm. This meant that the beginning of Neutral Milk Hotel’s King of Carrot Flowers...
“Whether he would include books in this castigation is not set forth, but perhaps not, for books have so many strange powers that no one so wise as mine author would dispute their magic, even as amulets, for as such they have been and still are used.” — Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania p.140
My current book talisman — the one I carry around but isn’t one I read cover...