My oldest son, Teagan (11), has been developing an interest for origami and was making these tiny stars tonight. He has of course done other, more elaborate figures, thanks to YouTube as a tutor of choice. Maybe I (or he) will post some more another time.
I caught myself adding a new quote to my Facebook profile and while reviewing the existing ones, realized that I didn’t post any of them here. Here’s me rectifying that unfortunate fact.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
It is hard to teach a coder how to think, but trivial to teach a thinker how to code.
Unattributed
I reject your reality and substitute my own
Sometimes, if you’re a compulsive dreamer, reality doesn’t really have a choice.
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
Don’t panic
You, skateboarders, are the leading edge of a revolution of the human being’s relation to his or her environment.
My dad used to say he worked part-time, which for him meant only twelve hours a day.
Coluche (translated from French)
My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.
Lenny Kravitz, Eleutheria
I don’t have the strength within me to allow any ideology or philosophy to get between me and a ham and cheese sandwich.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15TP8QvtG9M]
Toni on the present and future of online publishing, WordPress.org and .com, online identify and more. Shot at the O’Reilly 2010 Web 2.0 Summit.
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
Source: Long Live the Web on Scientific American.
Via Toni.
Incredible Philippe Halsman photographs of a few people you might recognize: http://bit.ly/aL9eWW
— Pick (@madebypick) November 19, 2010
As seen from la Place des Arts, Montreal. This is a 6 floors building. Each photo is a full window, 8-10′ wide/tall. Try and name the legends.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw]
It’s not BMX per se, but I’m ecstatic to see a new video from Danny MacAskill. Danny had stunned the web with his incredible riding back in April 2009.
Found via Alex.
http://twitter.com/markjaquith/status/4733105843740672
To which I replied:
@markjaquith */20 * * * * a[0]='Hello Dave';a[1]='Peekaboo';a[2]='Eat my shorts!';a[3]='By the power of Greyskull!';say ${a[$(($RANDOM%4))]}
— Stephane Daury (@stephdau) November 17, 2010