infundibulum

pretty much

August 26th, 2007

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Breyer said: “I began to see that the true division of importance in the world is not between different countries. The important division is between those who are committed to reason, to working out things, to understanding other people, to peaceful resolution of their differences … and those who don’t think that.”

GTD can kiss my ass: FTDB

August 19th, 2007

Yes children, GTD is waaay too complicated for yours truly.

Don’t these people understand that they are dealing with someone whose attention span has been shortened by the internet to slightly shorter than that of a gnat?

No no, no “steps” for me. No projects, no categories, no classification whatsoever.

No mahogany drawers that make nice encouraging snappy noises when you close them.

No fountain pens.

No paper.

As a matter of fact, no saving.

As a matter of fact, barely any justification for writing whatsoever.

Enforced throw-away-ness.

The ultimate in lack of self-respect.

Harnessing self-deprecation for better hallway vision!

I give you, FIVE THINGS DONE BITCH.

When you look at it, and think, “wait, it has no features…”

…That’s the point.
(And when you think, “it’s very rude,” that’s me, talking to myself.)

I swear, it works.

birds/aves

August 17th, 2007

blackbird       melro

canary  canário

crow    corvo

cuckoo  cuco

dove    pomba

duck    pato

eagle   águia

falcon  falcão

flamingo        flamingo

goose   ganso

seagull gaivota

hawk    gavião

jay     gralha

mallard pato-real

ostrich avestruz

owl     coruja

parakeet        periquito

parrot  papagaio

pelican pelicano

penguin pinguim

pheasant        faisão

raven   corvo

rooster galo

sparrow pardal

stork   cegonha

swallow andorinha

swan    cisne

turkey  peru

vulture abutre

woodpecker      pica-pau

wren    carriça
no particular reason whatsoever, except that i tried to learn them.