I like how this places the burden of responsibility on government as a whole, not just on one particular political party.
October 12, 2011
Who Says Emotion and Logic Don’t Go Together?
I’ve been living with the music program Logic on a daily basis for about 18 months now and not a day goes by when I don’t yell out “I LOVE THIS PROGRAM!” Huge, huge thanks to the brilliant engineers and designers for all the little things. Is it perfect? Nope, but it’s so, so much better than I was using before. Incredibly flexible, massively powerful (I almost never stress it out), and I’m still discovering little things that make me fist pump the air and shout “YES!”. As fond as I am of Studio Vision Pro I could never go back.
So glad I made the switch.
October 10, 2011
Quoth
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusions of counsel, until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features that constitute the endless repetition of history.”
Winston Churchill
The Sound of Real Steel
Foley is always a blast. I’d love to work on something this scale.
Rider on the Storm
What’s it like to parachute through a monster cumulonimbus thunderstorm? Bill Rankin is the only human to do it. Read this harrowing story here.
October 8, 2011
Quoth
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
Quoth
“A second danger to President Roosevelt’s valiant and heroic experiments seems to arise from the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. It is a very attractive sport, and once it gets started quite a lot of people everywhere are found ready to join in the chase. Moreover, the quarry is at once swift and crafty, and therefore elusive. The pursuit is long and exciting, and everyone’s blood is infected with its ardour. The question arises whether the general well-being of the masses of the community will be advanced by an excessive indulgence in this amusement. The millionaire or multi-millionaire is a highly economic animal. He sucks up with sponge-like efficiency money from all quarters. In this process, far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, he launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions. To hunt wealth is not to capture commonwealth.”
Winston Churchill
October 7, 2011
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October 4, 2011
Semper paratus
A rather dark and depressing essay on the state of things. Very in line with my feelings of late.
Something indeed feels ready to snap, and nobody knows what the result will be. Personally, I feel that there is a race with decaying nation-states staggering toward a Leibowitzian retelling on one hand and the Kurzweilian forces of positive technological change on the other. Which will win? If the last century has taught us anything it’s that the smart money has always been on dumb humanity.
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