my sister’s speech as an officiant to her best friend’s wedding made me cry at work:

“Not to put the pressure on or anything, but we’re all - about 100 of us - gathered here today to watch you say…

supercut of supercuts / also, random supercuts

“It turns out to be easier and faster to iterate from an existing but wrong solution, than to deduce a correct solution from scratch. Even if you have to occassionally press the “clear” button to…

“There’s a test looming for the 2011 “bubble” in the pending Groupon IPO. Here we have a company that reeks of Bubble 1.0: huge losses and an IPO prospectus that flaunts a contrived revenue metric…

Senator Ball “Opening up the discussion! So, if you were me, how would you vote on gay marriage? Yes or No?”

““Retire?” he said. “Unlike your baseball player and your prizefighter and your matador, how does a writer retire? No one accepts that his legs are shot or the whiplash gone from his reflexes….

“DepthJS allows any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect using Javascript.”

robert and veronica helped make this: “On Thursday June 23rd, the opening of SEAT: an outdoor chair show was released to the public. The activity, energy, and attention that W.E.T received was…

I love airports, love flying

I love airports, love flying. Something meditative being in a nonplace, a gateway rather than a destination. I like brushing my teeth in airport bathrooms. Something about the morning routine made public and naked. I like the cheesy art budget sculptures. I like the lives all folded up and packed and wheeled and pushed and carted around. I like the calming mechanical voices. Now boarding gate a4. I don’t like the food. I like people movers, people lifters, people shuttles, people lines. It’s such a strange machine. And the airplane. Saul Williams was clearly never an architect or ship captain, but I still love his lines: “I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of steel and metal / nothing less likely to fly”

I like that weird combination of accessibility and impossibility. That nonfeeling of flying (“you’re sitting in a chair / in the sky”). I like those calm stewardess voices. Seats upright. This aircraft has four door exits. All exits are clearly marked. Please turn off all electronic devices. s

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