December 2011
14 posts
The French Phrases →
“We don’t have time to fuck the flies in the ass: we can’t afford to nit-pick.”
Simon Evans decided to compile all of the French phrases I’ve been tweeting into a single blog, so that they can easily be found in case you need a quick and easy way to get your point across.
I’m having fun sharing these with you, and I hope you enjoy them too.
— From SF.
The Endorsement
In a recent interview satirist Barry Humphries spoke to the Financial Times about his alter ego Dame Edna Everage and his ‘nice’ childhood in Melbourne that he soon fled because it was too much so. He then created Dame Edna to be the opposite of that middle-class Melbourne with its thinly veiled racism, snobbery and one-upmanship.
But he also tells how he once knew a man who had...
“Negativity gets a bad rap. But it shouldn’t. It can also be practical, pragmatic...”
– The School of Life takes a little bit of the guilt away from not wholeheartedly joining the “cheer” of this new holiday season.
Be critical, frustrated, annoyed, at others and yourself. Tease everyone, including yourself, mercilessly. This isn’t new, we are smarter when we are...
“A lot of convenience and power could be gained, and a lot of unhappiness,...”
– David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale and a man who, 20 years ago, described with disturbing accuracy the internet as it is today, thinks computers are still too complicated.
“The industry doesn’t grasp the fundamental lack of sympathy between, conservatively, at least...
The Raw, Untreated Material That is Love
Contemporary philosopher Alain de Botton explains why love and philosphy are more like an awkward blind date than the perfect match:
“Philosophers have not traditionally been impressed: the tribulations of love have appeared too childish to warrant investigation, the subject better left to poets and hysterics. It is not for philosophers to speculate on hand-holding and scented letters....
