Disturbing, but somehow appropriate.
To the casual observer, Chicago gives the appearance of order. The city has beautiful parks, lovely museums and restaurants, and a thriving business and civic community. New York may pile its rubbish high on city sidewalks; Chicago keeps the ugly stuff out of view, stashed in back allies. But the city’s dirty side has a habit of bursting into the open.
![This reminds me of my Uni days when I’d buy single disks from the Union shop — initially Sony, later some crappy brand like Q-Connect — at 85p a time. I used to write my essays on my computer [believe it or not, even as recently as ’01, it was relatively rare for a student have a computer of their own] which would be followed by a mad-dash down to campus around 11:15am for the 12pm deadline. Once I go there I’d print them out using the Uni’s computers at 5p a page, and zip off to the departmental office to submit it, usually with minutes to spare.
I’ve got a whole bunch of writing I did in school and early (1st–~3rd year) Uni essays stuck in Clarisworks .cwk format that I’ve never quite got around to converting into something more modern (by which, of course, I probably mean .doc — effectively swapping one proprietary format for a more-widely-accessible-but-still-proprietary format). I also have a meagre stack of floppies and old flash-drives in an old shoes box (Converse All-Stars; cliché, I know), which I keep meaning to backup.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l20cl45dmj1qz4rlzo1_500.jpg "This reminds me of my Uni days when I’d buy single disks from the Union shop — initially Sony, later some crappy brand like Q-Connect — at 85p a time. I used to write my essays on my computer [believe it or not, even as recently as ’01, it was relatively rare for a student have a computer of their own] which would be followed by a mad-dash down to campus around 11:15am for the 12pm deadline. Once I go there I’d print them out using the Uni’s computers at 5p a page, and zip off to the departmental office to submit it, usually with minutes to spare.
I’ve got a whole bunch of writing I did in school and early (1st–~3rd year) Uni essays stuck in Clarisworks .cwk format that I’ve never quite got around to converting into something more modern (by which, of course, I probably mean .doc — effectively swapping one proprietary format for a more-widely-accessible-but-still-proprietary format). I also have a meagre stack of floppies and old flash-drives in an old shoes box (Converse All-Stars; cliché, I know), which I keep meaning to backup.")
This reminds me of my Uni days when I’d buy single disks from the Union shop — initially Sony, later some crappy brand like Q-Connect — at 85p a time. I used to write my essays on my computer [believe it or not, even as recently as ’01, it was relatively rare for a student have a computer of their own] which would be followed by a mad-dash down to campus around 11:15am for the 12pm deadline. Once I go there I’d print them out using the Uni’s computers at 5p a page, and zip off to the departmental office to submit it, usually with minutes to spare.
I’ve got a whole bunch of writing I did in school and early (1st–~3rd year) Uni essays stuck in Clarisworks .cwk format that I’ve never quite got around to converting into something more modern (by which, of course, I probably mean .doc — effectively swapping one proprietary format for a more-widely-accessible-but-still-proprietary format). I also have a meagre stack of floppies and old flash-drives in an old shoes box (Converse All-Stars; cliché, I know), which I keep meaning to backup.
Okay, so I love bundles, and I love games, and I like giving to charities, but srsly, WTF is wrong with you people and your botched rap? There is no way you should ever wind up with the couplet “the games are all… DRM free / compatible with Mac, Linuxandpeecee” (ellipsis to signify an awkward pause; italics represent a rushed attempt at fitting everything into the same meter).
I mean, shit, fuck, I know you’re developers so your English skillz may not be the maddest, but really? Do you not know a single person who could have written it better for you? Not one person who went beyond highschool English? Not a one?
Anyway, there’s four-and-something hours left on the bundle, so you should head over there now and plant down some bucks.
Update 2010/05/08: Okay, so my counter-reading skills aren’t so hot. When I posted this originally, there was actually about four days left on the bundle, not four hours; it’s now down to just over three days.
Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers, doers of unnecessary errands, seekers of interruptions — trials to their wives or husbands, friends, associates, and themselves. They sharpen well-pointed pencils and go out to buy more blank paper, rearrange offices, wander through libraries and bookstores, chop wood, walk, drive, make unnecessary calls, nap, daydream, and try not “consciously” to think about what they are going to write so they can think subconsciously about it.
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David Murray.
If this is true, I must be the one of the world’s most awesomely productive writers. (Via Matt Thomas.)
Illustration by Jan Feliks Kallwejt →
Yes, I have an obsession with cute monkey illustrations. Next question please.
Because urine is obviously so much better than saliva. (Photo taken in Dundee Bus Station, 2010/05/01.)
That Old “omfg u shud ttly use ogg it's free & h264 is sukin the mans dick lul” Chestnut →
Srsly, I will glady “sign over my freedom”/“bend over and part my cheeks for the man” in exchange for better performance.
