Sad about Jobs. My big fear is Apple won't be the same.
ION, anybody watching American Horror Story? So far it's annoying me.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2011 5:36:28 pm PDT #460 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
msbelle - Oct 05, 2011 5:36:37 pm PDT #461 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ita, so sorry.
msbelle - Oct 05, 2011 5:37:32 pm PDT #462 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Perkins is the awesome. For serious, like woah!
Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2011 5:47:26 pm PDT #463 of 30001
brillig
It's a loss. But I miss my aunt more.
Yeah. It triggered another wave of sadness for my sister.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2011 5:48:18 pm PDT #464 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My big fear is Apple won't be the same.
No prob! They did so well the last time he left.
Lee - Oct 05, 2011 5:50:34 pm PDT #465 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It needed you, msbelle! I couldn't stand in its way.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2011 5:52:27 pm PDT #466 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The boing boing page is very poignant.
Just skyped with my mother. She looks frail, but I don't know how much of that I'm making up. She seemed in good spirits, though. Only talked about my car crash.
7 out of 10 employers reject job candidates based on social media.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2011 5:53:24 pm PDT #467 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.
quester - Oct 05, 2011 5:55:26 pm PDT #468 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Ye gods, ita!
Health ~ma for you and your mother.
iSad.
me, too.
smonster - Oct 05, 2011 5:56:36 pm PDT #469 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Dude, I love that. It's proving to be true in my life, for sure. Don't know if y'all know, but I applied for a carpenter helper's position on a whim, based on 1) not wanting to be in an office, 2) not wanting to be in school anymore, and 3) enjoying wood shop in middle school.