never knew I was so famous!
snowdog plays the guitar
really, really dig this a lot.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
(Thanks adam. via Bre Pettis - The Cult of Done Manifesto)
If I would win the medium size prizes from the Lotto at the frequency with which I encounter a train on my way back to the office with lunch, which is practically daily, I would be retired.
srsly …
For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help
I’m not a very big fan of the game today, especially the NBA version, but I found this pretty interesting.
Treb hits yet another nail smack on de ‘ead! Amen bro. Amen.
I work in a building with 2 floors. Our office is on the first floor, and the exterior doors to our office open to the building entrance. Across the way are two elevators, and a nice wide set of stairs that goes up to the second floor. There is a balcony on the second floor, so you can see the two largest businesses up above.
Our office closed a few months ago, and I’ve been in charge of moving things out and throwing things away in addition to my normal tasks. Thus, I’m going out the front doors of our office to the dumpsters a lot.
It blows my mind how many times I’ve seen the following scenario take place:
Parent walks in with kids (there is a doctor’s office upstairs). Parent immediately veers toward the elevator. Kids veer immediately toward the stairs. Parent yells at kid to stop, and kid goes over and waits with parent for 30 seconds for the elevator door to open, so they can be lifted 15 feet above to the doctor’s office.How difficult is it to climb a flight of stairs? I’m not talking about the elderly or people with disabilities. I’m talking about Joe Public who can’t drag his lazy butt up 18 steps.
Y’all need to check this out: a video experiment in scale, condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute. The video itself isn’t embeddable, so instead, clicking on the image above takes you to the Seed permalink page for watching.
From Claire L Evans at Seed Magazine: “The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective. Everything — from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels — is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history.” (via Seed, with thanks to @yenn for pointing it out.)
Tempus Fugit.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first session of one of the most influential jazz records ever, Kind of Blue. Certainly an essential for any jazz collection. The sessions were at Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio in New York City and began on this day in 1959. A subsequent date took place on April 22nd. The record was released on August 17, 1959. Kind of Blue was an experiment in modal forms and a departure from Davis’ earlier hard bop style. The All-Star lineup includes Miles Davis – trumpet, leader, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley – alto saxophone, except on “Blue in Green”, John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly – piano, only on “Freddie Freeloader”, Bill Evans – piano on all, except “Freddie Freeloader”, Paul Chambers – bass and Jimmy Cobb – drums.
“If you watch the movie ‘Jaws’ backwards, it’s a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach.”
via reddit
I blew up our commuter car today on my 69-mile-one-way drive to the office. Timing belt. Interference engine. It just stopped and wouldn’t start. Done. Game over for the 2003 Kia Spectra. A new motor would not make sense with the mileage on it. Is car shopping fun for anyone? Prolly not. *sigh*
