October 2009
59 posts
“No one thought people would want to follow strangers, or that celebrities would...”
– Stephen Levy
“To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is...”
– Ellen Lupton (found on Mr Claridge’s site).
“Weniger, aber besser”
– Dieter Rams
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This week, I have mostly been:
feeling crappy
inventing uses for the Dyson desktop fan thing (mostly involving bubbles and ping pong balls)
wondering what the connection between “rock-hard, pointless and unbearably pain-inducing” and “wisdom” actually is
suffering from acute design-envy whilst looking through fellow FFF-ers websites
thoroughly enjoying Zombieland
mildly enjoying FlashForward, but accepting that it’s...
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This week, I have mostly been:
rejigging my work computer with Snow Leopard and CS4
discovering that “dreams for minimal studio” and “absolutely craploads of stuff” do not mix
excitedly downloading Beneath A Steel Sky onto my iPhone and then pretending that it’s actually a really small Amiga 1200
calming down after being the victim of a drive-by (although, this being York, the gunman used...
“It seems like one of those Imperial Stalkers in Star Wars – mighty impressive,...”
– Mr Fry sums up the shortcomings Google Wave.
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This week, I have mostly been:
moving house
watching FlashForward
enjoying sunshine pouring in through new windows
selling lots of bits and bobs on eBay (including a Kate Moss book that went for fifty quid)
observing the respectable beardlessness of Creation
finally catching up with the rest of the planet and reaching the end of the first season of Flight Of The Conchords
enjoying my clipboard
playing wardrobe Tetris
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