November 2010
21 posts
“Play it safe: When thunder roars, go indoors!”
– Lion on TV
“Getting you placed in THE job you want is important to me but not as important...”
– Tom Osborne via email
“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and...”
– Wilfred Peterson
“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that...”
– What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
I feel like this plan might work for some professions… Others, not so much.
Watchbrandonleedy:
Do you like Helvetica? Yeah, me too. It’s like good vanilla ice cream. Certainly not as much razzmatazz as a Mint Chocolate Chip, but when you put some Vanilla next to some Apple Pie, it knows to play nicely and we’re all better off for it’s presence.
Helvetica plays nicely with a lot of things and this motion typography piece by Evan Shuster might give a hint as to why. Helvetica...
“The value of our education has increased!”
– In case you haven’t heard, UC’s industrial design program is back at #2 in the country again.
Chores... for kids!
viafrank:
“On Saturday mornings, my parents would announce “weeding orders” for the four children, and we were to set out, in the hot sun, the driving rain, the falling leaves of autumn, and attack. They saw no boundaries. Indeed, there was a stone wall around our property, but should there be weeds crawling past that limit, if natural forces had besieged it, we should follow suit. In our town,...
