28 January 2012
Saturday at 12 am
You’ll be lucky if you can get this man to work for you.
via Adianoeta occurs where a word or phrase is used with a clear meaning, yet a second, more subtle, meaning also exists.
27 January 2012
Friday at 7 pm
Nothing is more satisfying than using your own tools to Get Things Done.
Friday at 1 pm
If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re not looking for classics, they want the romance section.
Overheard during a meeting
20 January 2012
Friday at 11 am
…having popped in for their regular glimpse and whiff of the high-production-value future, [they] return to their make-believe-old-fashioned lives—brick and brownstone town houses, beer gardens, greenmarkets, local agriculture, flea markets, steampunk, lace-up boots, suspenders, beards, mustaches, artisanal everything, all the neo-19th-century signifiers of state-of-the-art Brooklyn-esque and Portlandish American hipsterism.
“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.”
—Victor Hugo
18 January 2012
Wednesday at 9 pm
Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can’t access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We’re sorry for that.
Charles Sheeler, Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company
Ventilation building for Holland Tunnel, South Side between New York & Jersey City.
Photo by Jet Lowe and see also via Wikipedia, originally at Library of Congerss
