March 25th.
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Spice | #mbmar
The Technium from Kevin Kelly.
I like the word ‘Technium’.
A consistent line of 6 to 7 people waiting to order their coffee whilst somewhere between 0 to 1 people actually getting their coffee is a ratio that should give the coffee store owner a cause for concern.
I wonder if they are even aware?
BIG hats off to @andysylvester who wrote the new glossary plugin. I know it wasn’t easy - but he persevered and it is working. I know it has been quite a journey. That said - it is there … and it is working (just a test post).
Short of time at the moment, but I will be updating the associated json file with some real entries and then plan to explain in detail why this is so cool - if it isn’t immediately obvious.
Thank you, Andy - and I believe thanks also to @sod for some offline help and guidance in plugin creation that is not immediately obvious to any aspiring creator.
Sculpture
“I think the relationship of a warm-blooded creature versus an object that is still and silent—which is essentially what I think sculpture is—for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our everyday lives the whole time. Crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you is, in my opinion, a sculptural experience, where you as a flesh-and-blood object [are] up against the thing that isn’t. And one’s emotional and psychological assessment of that all happens in a flash.
To me, there is a big, sculptural presence there because of the way that large lorry is constantly displacing space as it comes towards you—so the track that is left behind, which is now empty, was once filled. And that’s what I think we do when we’re interacting with sculpture: the space is filled. As we walk around it, we are constantly losing an image of it and finding a new image. So quite a large part of what sculpture is, [is] not necessarily visual. And I think that’s quite shocking. [It’s] a state of affairs that we’re assessing.”
💬 Phyllida Barlow
🔗 At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree.
… because even donkey’s deserve to know their roots.
A ‘bank-run by idiots’ rather than a ‘bank run by idiots’.
💬 Matt Klein
March 24th.
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Court | #mbmar
Deutsche Bank shares tumble as fresh banking sell-off grips Europe and US.
I am surprised that they weren’t the first to go.
A headline that contradicts itself …
We want to wear what we want, but don’t want to get it wrong.
What do you think?
March 23rd.
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Chance | #mbmar
Mail Drop for Drafts … NICE
I wrote to someone on the 5th July, 2017 seeking clarification on an earlier conversation.
I never heard from them again. Until yesterday, when I received a long, thoughtful, considered email answering all of my questions.
No reference as to why it took them nearly 6 years to reply. I mean nothing.
It’s as if they were beamed into a time warp and have just now returned and they just aren’t aware that they have been ‘lost’ these past 6 years.
The quiet before ( or is it after? ) the storm.
Innovation loses to temptation.
In case you are having a bad day … consider the plight of Tencent … where “Annual Profits have fallen to $27 Billion Following China Slowdown”