RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • towerofsleep: danhurray: This December I get to learn something completely foreign to me. Hurraaaayyyyyyy I am interested in this kind of philosophy, which is why I joined an Object-oriented Ontology reading group (thanks, Dan!), but I am mainly reblogging this because the cover art is so amazing.

  • Stowe Boyd: No Flow In The Coffee Shop, Please!

    Stowe Boyd: No Flow In The Coffee Shop, Please! Nick Bilton finds that coffee shops are prohibiting computers (and e-readers): Nick Bilton, No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment A few weeks ago I decided to mosey over to a local Manhattan coffee shop for an afternoon cappuccino. After placing my order I sat down at…

  • And if you work hard, and you treat people well, and you do a thing not for the sake of fame or fortune but for the sake of the thing itself, and if you continue to do this, if you persist, you will begin to shape your little corner of the world, and when you…

  • The uselessness of art makes any spending on it especially potent: buying a yacht is a tiny bit like buying a rowboat, and so retains a taint of practicality, but buying a great Picasso is like no other spending. Why Is Art So Damned Expensive? – The Daily Beast

  • I don’t want to say I have the exact answers. As I paced the track in prison, I started thinking these things through. One thing I know from experience is the devil is in the language, the devil is in the details. I have a 30,000-foot analysis of these things. I do have some specific…

  • nevver: Occupy Everything

  • How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street

    How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street wilwheaton: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about…

  • ollymoss: I am a graphic designer and in my contract it says that I have to make bad jokes about typography.

  • Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living

    Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living austinkleon: …for artists without a lucky early break, rich parents or benefactors, a day job is often the only way to survive. It needn’t mean that fame and fortune aren’t just around the corner: Joy Division’s Ian Curtis worked in an unemployment office…

  • Notes on Being an Instructor In the role of the instructor, due to your own conceit there is much damage that you can do to a student. At the same time, due to your own sense of charity, there are many possibilities that you can open for the student. In the former case, it is…