January 2009
51 posts
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.”
– The Talmud
“Love flies out the door when money flies innuendo.”
– Groucho Marx
So, what does this look like if I email directly from Notes in the iPhone??? HPK
Zeppelin is good for the lonely late nights trying...
“It was characteristic of the Jazz Age that it had no interest in politics at...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Echoes Of The Jazz Age (Nov. 1931)
AppleInsider | iPhone developer: App Store rewards... →
QUOTE: A software engineer who wrote what he calls a “terrible” and “crap” app in less time than it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple’s App Store, where it’s now generating over $200 an hour despite being a free download.
HPK
Yes and no - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
QUOTE: Languages have various systems for affirmatives and negatives, named the two-form, three-form, and four-form systems, depending on how many words for yes and no they employ. Early Middle English had a four-form system, but Modern English has reduced this to a two-form system. Several other languages have three-form systems. Some languages do not answer yes-no questions with single words...
“You are about to enter a Bush free zone.
Please observe all Constitutional...”
– Danyon Davis to HPK in conversation
““Mr. Edison, if it were possible for you to hear the voice of any man whose name...”
– Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman - New York Times
Man's best friend... →
HPK
“In his appendix to the restored edition, Burgess explained that the slang would...”
– Anthony Burgess on Nadsat: A Clockwork Orange - Wikipedia
“Openings to the water I stopped;
I searched for cracks and the wanting parts I...”
– A Babylonian narrative dating from the 3rd millennium BC describes the completion of a ship
LEGENDARY DESIGNER PETER SAVILLE WEIGHS IN ON PORN →
A FEW THINGS I KNOW ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY by Peter Saville
Pornography and Narrative
There is something very mercenary about pornography. It’s astonishingly to the point. The notions of narrative engagement don’t really matter in serious pornography. Attempts at them are always inept. Actually, it’s better to not bother. If I want to watch a film, I’ll watch a film. I’m not looking to pornography...
Lifehacking, the Whole Earth Catalog Archive →
Yes!
HPK
The Single Most Important Career Question You Can... →
Simple.
HPK
#116 Black Music that Black People Don’t Listen to... →
Stuff White People Like rears it’s head again…
QUOTE: All music genres go through a very similar life cycle: birth, growth, mainstream acceptance, decline, and finally obscurity. With black music, however, the final stage is never reached because white people are work tirelessly to keep it alive. Apparently, once a music has lost its relevance with its intended audience, it becomes...
“I hate flowers. I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
She Caught the Katy
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride My baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride The train pulled out, and I swung on behind I’m crazy ‘bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine Man my baby’s long, great god she’s mighty, she’s tall You know my baby’s long, great god she’s mighty, my baby...
The Phantom Blog: She Caught The Katy And Left Me... →
QUOTE: The Katy is the Missouri, Kansas, Texas Rail road. The mule can be a reference to so many thing: a mule is usually a small train engine that drives cars back and forth to a mine. A miner losing his woman is a great blues song. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a mule is just a mule - a poor man’s horse. The man lost his woman and left with noting but a mule. She caught the train and...
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: My Blogosphere... →
Hmm… I wonder if I really do want my little page here is to be a full fledged blog. All public and stuff….
I know that people actually read the Kinetic Machine, and I appreciate it… But it is for myself first… A place to put things and then I point other people here…
Does a “public” blog (with comments, especially) undermine that basic idea?
HPK
“A lot of people are just taking cheap shots at me because it’s an easy way...”
– Interview: Shepard Fairey
