Many designers use a particular set of latin for "dummy copy". It starts with, " "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…". On a lark, I looked up it’s translation on this website. Apparently, it has been in use for 500 years. The translation is pretty surprising. Basically it is talking about sadism. Take a look at…
I just got into work. The floor is dark. None of the lights are on. No one is here. Should I streak down the halls buck nekkit? Helllloooooooo! (echo) Fridays here are often like this. Reminds me of the night Andy and I played pool at Sporting Life. It was a converted warehouse, huge tall…
I had previously written (in 2004) that my goal was Wisdom. I think this was my 26th post. However, I want to log a few thoughts on intelligence. I had read somewhere that intelligence is the ability to see signal in what would otherwise be perceived as random noise. For example, when I see numbers…
Started to read Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Woof, what a name. It is interesting, but I don’t know if I am going to like it. Basically, he is saying that we can control if we are happy or not. Despite having said this before to people, something just strikes me odd about it. Happiness. Such…
If you have an Innie belly button: Insert your finger deep into your belly button. Move it around slightly. Now smell your finger. I believe that all human beings cringe at this exercise. (All who have ‘innies’ anyway) Many people are fascinated and afraid of their belly-buttons. It is not an erogenous zone, but it…
I took the boys yesterday to see a matinee of Superman Returns. The movie was mediocre, with medium acting. They put Parker Posey as Lex Luthor’s (Kevin Spacey) girlfriend. The other Superman movies made sure to have a buxom blonde in that role. Then then had a cute girl to be Lois Lane. I would…
I am having a rotten day. I feel beleaguered and ineffectual. My creative energies are blocked. I can’t problem-solve, which is the only thing that I want to do right now. I feel like everyone is telling me to quit and give up. One guy called me an Alpha Male. He thought something was wrong…
Katie and I celebrated out 8th wedding anniversary by going to a nice French (Freedom) Restaurant and watching The Miser by French (Freedom) playwright Molière. The play, at the Berkeley Rep was fantastic. We enjoyed the costumes, the sets, the acting. It was the best play I have seen since “How to succeed in Business…
They are called Vitreous Floaters. There is a whole website dedicated to them. They are the little hairs that you sometimes see floating into your field of vision like little ghosts. When you try to look directly at them they move out of your field of view. When you stop trying, they come right back,…
A colleague lent me this book. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie. I read the first few pages and I am really intrigued. Here is the cliff-notes edition of the first 5 pages. The guy is a sculptor. He visits elementary schools once a month for a whole day. He sits with each grade…
Monday, May 22 was my birthday. I am 34. I used to be 33. 33 gets rounded down to 30 and is almost like being in your 20’s. 34 gets rounded up to 35. 35 is nothing like being in your 20’s. This is the first time I have felt old. I didn’t do anything…
I volunteered with some people at work to help a non-profit. They provide technology and communications specialists to emergency areas. So if an earthquake hit San Francisco to help drive the prices of homes down, then they would swoop in and set up wireless networks so people could communicate. They would rebuild the cellular tower…
How much do other people think? For me it is an insatiable activity. Every person I see; I wonder what they do for a living, what makes them tick, what troubles them, what they are thinking. Every building I see; I wonder who built it, who architected it, what choices they made, what choices they…
Katie and I watched the Mambo Kings last night. I had seen it years ago, but I thought she would love it. Antonio Banderas singing and dancing and speaking spanish. What more could Katie want? Apparently something because she gave it a 3. I thought it was very sad. Made me want to cry. 🙁…