2noame is to know me...
April 2012
15 posts
“My father often talked of things being revealed - that was true invention, he said. Revealing something’s use, and magnifying it; discovering its imperfections, improving it, and putting it to work for you. God had left the world incomplete, he said, and it was man’s job to understand how it worked, to tinker with it, and to finish it. I think that was why he hated missionaries so much - because they taught people to put up with their earthly burdens. For father, there were no burdens that couldn’t be fitted with a set of wheels, or rudders, or a system of pulleys.”
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March 2012
31 posts
“One cannot help but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase “getting something for nothing”, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed to us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.”
— James Harvey Robinson
My Yelp Review of Felix's Restaurant & Oyster Bar in New Orleans →
yelp.com
“I eat to review,” the Walrus said:
“But I’ve got to watch my thighs.”
With hints and tips he sorted out
Those of the greatest prize,
Holding his smart phone cam app
Before his Yelping eyes.
“O Oysters,” said the Carpenter,
“You’re tasty by the ton!
Shall we be coming to Felix again?’
But answer came there none—
And this was scarcely odd, because
They’d eaten fucking all of them.
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
—Pablo Picasso (via azelie)
KONY 2012: The two sides to the story
Original : Kony 2012 Video + Message
The critical views of others and background on the charity…
