๐ต๐ฌ Inspired By People | ๐ Barack Obama
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It’s head-scratching if you’re a boomer. You lived through JFK, proffering what you could do for your country andโฆ Now it’s WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?
๐ฌ Bob Lefsetz
๐ Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025
Peter O’Toole starred in ๐๐ฌThe Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The ๐ต๐ผ last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.
๐ฌ Dave Winer
I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)
Four years earlier was ๐๐ฌ If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.
๐ต๐ฌ Inspired By People | ๐ Aristotle
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Back in the archives of People First I used to talk about โThe Peopleโs OSโ. ๐ Here for example. It sat together with something that I also called HumanIT. In many ways playful ideas on a tech first โฆ
I’ve been following ๐ Umair for years - but - only 10 references to him on this blog (I just counted). I think partly because he sometimes seems do be so out there and partly because he desperately needs a good editor - because he can go on … and on … and on …
Still - when you look at some of his old stuff that was ‘out there’ then .. and you look at today - maybe he isnโt as weird as he sometimes reads. So I commend you to today’s offering ….
What’s going to be left after five years or so of this? What we’ve already seen, and we’re just two months in?
๐ฌ Umair Haque
๐ต๐ฌ Inspired By People | ๐ Charles Darwin
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๐๐ต๐ผ Objects Outlive Us
Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing
Down to the ground, just like star clusters smashing
But no one will give her a glance
They just shuffle on home in a trance
The tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry
To make it to church, well, she needs to hurry
When late she will bow down contrite
While a meteor turns out the light
And there in an ordinary street
A car isn’t where it would normally be
The driver in tears, ‘bout his payment arrears
Still, nobody hears whะตn a sun disappears
In a galaxy afar
First day of the new job and hะต was so nervous
The suit and the platitude, “Can I be of service?”
His boss made him clean all the cars
While he wondered, “Is there life on Mars?”
And meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order
While we bicker on with our fences and borders
But best not think about that
It’s better to live without facts
And now in her old wedding bed
A lady will dream that her husband is dead
Of course he’s alive, he’ll be home around five
Still, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way
The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt
And oddly the first spots make Orion’s belt as
You queue at the bank for an hour
‘Cause a solar flare blew out the power
The nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub
The water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub
Is draining away as we speak
But she loses her job there next week
And there with his first telescope
A teenager stands full of hormones and hope
As he squints at the night, like a painting of light
He doesn’t suppose that a black hole implodes
In a trillion tears from now (Ah)
๐ฌ Andy Partridge (Music - Wilson)
๐ต๐ฌ Inspired By People | ๐ Vince Lombardi
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
๐ฌ Henry Ford
.. but theyโre not Musky. Are they? I think this might be where the two of you diverge?