work, talent
I feel more empowered by the thought that, for my ambitions, work and talent are interchangeable, than by the knowledge that I am capable of acquiring any talent.
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a new tag: weeklies
As I said earlier, I’ll be declaring weekly a topic that I’ll spend that week focusing on, hopefully culminating in something human-readable, not simply obtuse.
The posts defining the coming week’s focus will be tagged weeklies1.
- Yes, until I put in a good interface to the tags, you’ll need to type out
http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/tags/weeklies. [↩]
“at least it has an ending”
From Cory Doctorow’s talk at GoogleNYC, talking about his book, Little Brother:
“[…] who discover, after a terrorist attack on the Bay Area, that destroys the Bay Bridge, that in fact that as bad and terrifying a terrorist attack is, it at least has an ending. Whereas the police response to a terrorist attack has no graceful ending, it continues unbounded, and has a natural inertia that causes it to grow and grow and grow. In the name of security, all things are possible.
renewed intentions
to write regularly.
overheard in w20, third floor
In response to a question “on subject” but “off-topic” (that is, it wasn’t directly related to the problem set being discussed):
G No guys, let’s not go there. This is one of the only classes I’m getting an ‘A’ in, I’m not going to fuck it up.
and, i’m back
Sorry for the delay.
overheard in W20-3*, “the coffehouse”
Grades take on undue precedence:
G: You told me a few specific things [I could improve about my paper], but like, I wasn’t sure if like, if those things would make the difference between a ‘B’ and an ‘A’.
sysadmin: “beautiliful” retired, “quotes” hired
So, I’m retiring the beautiliful page for lack of use. firstnamebasis will still function. As a token replacement, I’m linking to a growing Google Notebook of quotations I collect1 on my reading page. Quotation, source, and citation, slowly refined. Feel free to suggest quotations for contribution.
- And yes, eventually I’ll have them all tagged [↩]
boring: updated OPML file
Updated OPML/feed file; read everything I do. Still behind on updating the rest of that page.
overheard in w20-3* (”the coffeehouse”)
G: I can’t even calculate the probability of like a roll of the die. I’m just praying I didn’t fail.
