Quote of the Day [11.16.08]

broderic on November 16, 2008

“I’ve always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.”

Bertrand Russell

Link of the Day [11.15.08]

broderic on November 15, 2008

I like art. Last year on the España tour, we stopped at the Prado and the Reina Sofia in the same day. I remember visiting the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay. On the infamous cruise of the Baltic, CapitolSwell and I each bought a small painting of Talin, Estonia. Supposedly, they were done by student painters carving a living selling these 3×5 paintings to tourists like us. While CapitolSwell left his to me, I proudly and prominently display them in my home. Of course, my anime figures dominate them, but they are still to be seen.

I also have two Shag prints. I think they’re authentic silkscreens. I’ve gotten one framed and when the crafts store finally has another of their custom framing sale, I will finally get the second one framed too. I’ll also hang this one my wall, too.

http://www.20×200.com/

Quote of the Day [11.14.08]

broderic on November 14, 2008

I cherish the twilight
I maximize, my soul is the right size
I watch for the power to run out on the moon
(And that'll be sometime soon)De la Soul, "I am. I be"

Link of the Day [11.14.08]

broderic on November 14, 2008

Greed kills.

This article is pretty much a damnation of the wizards on Wall Street. They don’t know what they’re selling. We don’t know what we’re buying. We’re all dead in the long run.

I remember my one and only business class during my grad school studies. It was a class about ethics in business and it was filled with nothing but finance folks. They took the view that the bottom line was the first thing that mattered for a business. They didn’t out right ignore the need for ethical entrepeneurship, but they didn’t think that it was worthwhile. I took this class at the end of 2007. I wonder what happened to their world view.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/
The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom?page=0

Link of the Day [11.13.08]

broderic on November 13, 2008

You just can’t get enough of our president elect.

And you just can’t get enough of eight bit sound tracks.

Here’s a really stupid flash game that makes the future feel like the past and the present a moment in time. At least it has the eight bit sound track.

http://www.superobamaworld.com/