We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs in The Soul of Apple by Kevin Kelly
This Land
A commonplace Tumblr for Micheal Hickerson.
Oct11
Sep5
The Technium: Why the Impossible Happens More Often→
I’ve had to persuade myself to believe in the impossible more often.
I made a covered wagon for a Teddy bear. What did YOU do with your Labor Day?
Sep4
Mark 5 Contrasts
Legion begs Jesus NOT to heal him. When Jesus does, he commands Legion to tell everyone. The crowds, meanwhile, beg Jesus to leave.
On the other side of the Sea of Galilee, the crowds flock to Jesus, and Jairus begs him to heal his daughter. When Jesus does, he commands Jairus to tell no one.
Aug25
There’s a law against inconsistent bar themes?
A Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Board report on the Hofbrauhaus Newport describes scenes one might expect in a Wild West saloon and not a Bavarian beer hall…
(Source: nky.cincinnati.com)
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford, via WSJ
Aug14
When Maya Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, she chose Optima as the face in which the names of the dead would be etched into the polished stone wall. Every name—each signifying a particular, irreparable loss—is recorded in letters that had been designed by one person’s singular hand.
Jun14
Papa’s got a brand new (Moleskine) bag!
May19
Branding details: same phone #, but 5 gum doesn’t use the Wrigley name. Wrigley doesn’t appear anywhere on the package, whereas Extra has it on 3 of 6 sides.
May12
I am buying trillions of microbes.
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