“Good luck,” she said obediently, although she did not believe in luck, only in engineering and the laws of physics.”
“The idiots are self-regarding consumer slaves, oblivious to the paradox of their uniform individuality. They sculpt their hair to casual perfection. They wear their waistbands below their balls. They babble into handheld twit machines about that cool email of the woman being bummed by a wolf. Their cool friend made it. He’s an idiot too. Welcome to the age of stupidity. Hail The Rise of the Idiots.”
(Source: facebook.com)
“I love this assimilative aspect of whisky. I love the fact that single malts, those apparent paradigms of purity, actually show far more variety in taste than any blend, that they are much more influenced by outside factors than any other type of alcoholic drink made without the same seemingly limiting strictures of law and tradition. I love the fact that no other drink I’ve ever heard of has the same sort of ability to absorb.”
33 Beers (by Scout Books) - available from 33 Beers.
The hand carved Marbelous table has spiraled supports and a simple maze carved into the legs. There is even a little shelf at the base for the marble box.
We had the first snow of the season last week. On Monday I thought the flurries had started but then realised the flake dancing on the wind was a bit of cigarette ash. But later in the week we had proper snow, although not quite as picturesque as this…
This postcard is from an old calendar of detachable postcards produced by St Columba’s Hospice. Their 2011 postcard calendar is available from their online shop.
Caption: Winter scene of Edinburgh Castle
Painted by Lynn Hanley
Rondo Veneziano La serenissima
Without the rondo, no Daft Punk, no Justice.
“Emergent technology is the most powerful single driver of change in the world, and it has been forever. Technology trumps politics. Technology trumps religion. It just does. And that’s why we are where we are now. It seems so self-evident to me that I can never go to that Technology: threat or menace? position. Okay, well, if we don’t do this, what are we going to do? This is not only what we do, it’s literally who we are as a species. We’ve become something other than what our ancestors were.”
“Monolith Action Figure. Zero (0) points of articulation. Helps your other action figures evolve”. (via ThinkGeek :: Monolith Action Figure)
