Posted on April 16, 2009, 11:23 pm, by Jonathan, under
Random.
In previous posts, I’ve talked about the pretention of a lot of modern art, and how most of the effort seems to go into technobabble rationalization of the art, and not the art itself. Well, somebody giving a lecture at the MIT School of Architecture has recently scaled new heights on the tower of babble:
Architecture reimagines how humans inhabit the earth — [...]
Posted on April 1, 2009, 2:49 pm, by Jonathan, under
Random.
Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon, but I hate hate hate April Fool’s Day. You have to put up with no end to stupid press releases from humorless company drones who think it’s the height of cleverness and wit to announce a fake product (oh, you got us again Google!), lame jokes from coworkers, fake news [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009, 4:41 pm, by Jonathan, under
Random.
With the impending birth of my first child coming up in late May, I decided to see if there was anything to astrology. I did a survey of famous people of substance whom I respect: Richard Feynman, Obama, John Adams, Einstein, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, etc. It turns out they all, every single one of them, had [...]
Posted on January 9, 2009, 11:59 pm, by Jonathan, under
Random.
So, my wife is now 22 weeks pregnant.
A few nights ago I dreamt we were allowed, by some new medical advance, to have our baby taken out early so that we could have a little meet and greet, and then he’d have to be put back in to be born normally a few weeks later. When we got [...]
Posted on August 6, 2008, 5:43 pm, by Jonathan, under
Random.
This is one of the more amazing things I’ve ever seen a human do. I’m so glad that hyper-creative people like this guy exist on the planet. I’m equally glad I’m not inside this dude’s head…
walking from blu on Vimeo.
Posted on July 21, 2008, 9:00 am, by Jonathan, under
Random.
In the interest of giving fair time to all opinions, I’ve decided to step aside and table my regularly scheduled rabid wall-punching right wing diatribe. Instead, today’s post has been guest written by a member of the Green Party in Cambridge, on the topic of how to give a proper media statement.
How to make a left-wing [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008, 8:54 pm, by Jonathan, under
Random.
Among myriad potential evidence of this, I offer this: