typewriting tag: qotd

QOTD: People Like to Debate

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:08:52 -0700

People like to debate the phenomenon of global climate change as if it were an academic issue. People who don't live in the path of the huang-sa dust storms that sweep in out of China to blanket Korea every spring, and get worse with each passing year, people who aren't in Central British Columbia watching 85% of the pine trees die off, and with the trees, the futures of their children. People whose health or livelihood isn't directly affected.

— Stavros the Wonder Chicken, My Home Is Dying

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QOTD: My Whole Life

Sun, 06 May 2007 07:32:04 -0700

This picture is a picture of my whole life, in 8 1/2 x 11.

— Ezra Kilty, Gizmos and Love

I completely forgot about quotes of the day.

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QOTD: At the Neck

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:07:48 -0800

I believe deeply that the lesson of Marie Antoinette (the lesson omitted from Marie Antoinette) is the critical one: You can indulge, and enjoy, for now, it is true; but sooner or later an angry mob will come round smashing your chandeliers and disconnecting your body at the neck.

— Ezra Kilty. It’s the first noble truth: an angry mob will come round smashing your chandeliers.

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QOTD: A Reminder

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:18:43 -0700

I'm a 2nd Degree Decided, if I get kicked in the face by a yellow belt, that's my fault. Sympathy can be found in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphilis." So I got a bloody nose, and a reminder to pay attention.

— Dave Rogers

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QOTD: People You Can't Stand

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:00 -0700

Now, I was about to say that this is a bad thing because peacefully dealing with incompatible people is important to living in a society. But that's not true. No, peacefully dealing with people you can't stand is society. That's literally all it is. People with opposite tastes and conflicting personalities sharing space and cooperating, through gritted teeth sometimes.

— David Wong, 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable.

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QOTD: True Fans

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:48:17 -0700

I guess I should have felt like a true fan, that my interest in them was “pure” and that he and I shared some sort of special musical connection. But mostly I wished the Apples in Stereo had more teenage girl fans so they could have played a better venue with decent sound.

— Brad Sucks

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QOTD: Mob Action

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:26:01 -0700

This kind of thing -- publicly shaming a person for rude behavior by posting voice recordings, video, and photos on the Web -- is becoming very common -- sidekick thief, subway flasher, camera thief, subway puppy poo girl. Who needs law enforcement when you have a globally distributed mob ready to pounce on people who are accused of behaving badly?

— Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing. I hope that’s sarcasm? Personally, I prefer laws to mobs.

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QOTD: Make Them Better

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:49:58 -0700

Symbolic catalysts aren't all bad, but I think the real danger comes when we put too much stock in the symbol and ignore the underlying truth: Things got better because you were inspired to make them better.

— Ethan Johnson, via Dave Rogers. Conversely, things got worse because you weren’t inspired to make them better.

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QOTD: People Like Awards

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:40:05 -0700

Frank is a photographer from New Orleans. He graduated from Tulane University with degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. Frank found photography on a lake in Maine; he lost it in the bright lights and darkrooms of New York, and rediscovered it in the curving columns of Coliseum Street.
Frank’s photographs have won some awards and he hopes they will win some more, because people like awards.

— Frank Relle. Via Dan. Interesting photography, but I’ve mostly quoted because I found the "about" humorous: …because people like awards. I was sitting in a bar last night watching a White Sox game in overtime, and thinking about how some people really care about local sports teams, and other people just become interested out of sympathy for the true believers. Some people really care about awards, and Frank Relle has sympathy for those true believers. Some times it’s not enough to get your priorities in order, to stop caring about unimportant things. Sympathy is still important.

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QOTD: The Brilliance of Man

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:15:37 -0700

i hear that you don't change
how do you expect to keep up with the trends
you won't survive the information age
unless you plan to change the truth to accomodate the brilliance of man

— Pedro the Lion, Letter From a Concerned Follower

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QOTD: Humanity

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:42:41 -0700

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

— e. e. cummings. I’m still reading through cummings’ poems looking for music. I’m not sure I have a melody for this one, but I really like it.

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QOTD: Fly Massacre

Thu, 25 May 2006 22:36:33 -0700

"I like them alive. I don't like them when they're dead," she said. I felt the same way.

— Ezra Kilty

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QOTD: Much More Subtle

Wed, 10 May 2006 19:19:54 -0700

In these days of widespread corruption and bribery, it is important to remember that no, this is not how our great democracy is supposed to work. The bribery is supposed to be much more subtle -- not to mention legal.

— Aaron Swartz

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QOTD: Christianism

Wed, 10 May 2006 13:23:22 -0700

That's what I dissent from, and I dissent from it as a Christian. I dissent from the political pollution of sincere, personal faith. I dissent most strongly from the attempt to argue that one party represents God and that the other doesn't. I dissent from having my faith co-opted and wielded by people whose politics I do not share and whose intolerance I abhor. The word Christian belongs to no political party. It's time the quiet majority of believers took it back.

— Andrew Sullivan in Time Magazine

I have a problem with trying to redefine what words mean when you don't like the group you've placed yourself in (Sullivan's been unsuccessfully taking back "Republican" for several years now), but it's certainly better than just ignoring the corruption.

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QOTD: The Snails!

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:22:49 -0700

'The snail! The snail!', they cry. 'How can we possibly escape!?. The problem being that the snail's been moving closer for the last twenty years one way or another and they just weren't paying attention. Because if we're honest, if you don't want or need to be first and you don't need to own the platform, it can't be hard to see roughly where this environment is going.

— Tom Coates

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QOTD: Limerick Edition

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:35:38 -0700

There once was an X from place B
That satisfied predicate P
He or she did thing A
In an adjective way
Resulting in circumstance C

— Steve R. White, Generic Literature

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QOTD: responsibility

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:16:10 -0700

Your car alarm is ridiculous. Years of trigger-happy alarms have trained the public to ignore them, and nobody would care if your tastelessly noisy car got stolen anyway. If someone had driven off in it last night as the alarm was blaring, I would have applauded him! THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MY SENSE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY.

— Dinosaur Comics

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QOTD: Go Team Go

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:23:50 -0800

I do know that you can't do it if all you get is negative reinforcement telling you the task is cosmically fated to never reach completion. So go, team, go, that's what I have to say.

In the meantime, do me a favor and try to avoid killing each other, okay?

— Jeff Dorchen

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QOTD: Just Fear

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:05:28 -0800

If you're an angry driver, you'll flip someone the bird or ride their bumper or cause an accident. You can tell yourself that those other drivers are assholes, but it's just fear. If you're a multi-millionaire, you'll hire a lawyer to intimidate someone to give you what you want when you want it, so they won't do something that you can't control. You'll tell yourself it's just business, but it's really just fear. If you're a country with an anxiety problem, you'll attack another country. You'll tell yourself it's a matter of national security, but it's just fear. None of which ever solves the problem. All of which create bigger problems of their own.

— Dave Rogers, Getting Back to Normal

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QOTD: Bother to Listen

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:50:19 -0800

Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves.

— Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathan Rauch.

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QOTD: Dissatisfied

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:16:17 -0800

We're using electronic media to spread this benchmarking message far and wide. Because there's always a company offering a better or cheaper or faster product, or a person who's more clever than Oprah or cuter than Tyra, it's easy to shop around, to demand more, to be constantly dissatisfied.

— Seth Godin

Dissatisfaction is the natural result when everything you don't have is very important. I'm not convinced "relationships" is the solution, though. Seems a bit trite.

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QOTD: Just Angry

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:31:23 -0800

I just rememberd when i was in fourth grade, deciding that I had to stay skinny because I wanted to grow up to be a feminist and if I were fat everyone would think I was just angry cuz I was fat.

— a friend, via email

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QOTD: the Business

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:56:56 -0800

I want to find one that is good for searching but which also isn't in the business of turning this into this.

— reynir, on Ask MetaFilter

This whole Google censorship thing was less disturbing as an abstract concept. Looking at the pictures, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Google is exchanging principles for money.

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QOTD: Pile On

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:47:18 -0800

This is a great country, built on the backs of the poor. And there's a whole lot more room to pile on.

— Rep. Richard Martin

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QOTD: Three-Year-Old

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:41:44 -0800

Any motion, anyone who moves in the zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, should be killed. Over.

— Israeli Company Commander

Wow.

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