Everybody is confronted with profundity, by the raw awe of living. It’s just that not everyone insists on making it everyone else’s business. Relax.
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J Dilla - Donuts
You really should listen to the whole box, not just grab The New, Mash, and Time: The Donut of the Heart (although they are delicious) and think you’ve tasted pretty much the entire album.
Just sit down for a little less than three quarters of an hour and listen to Donuts. An astounding audio time travel road trip hangout at professor tensors hyper ovoid musical loop farm (city version). So many little audio tricks, so many genres, so much quirky imagination, stuff you heard on fuzzy FM in ’74, blooped back on the loop, and the tomorrow people! Go get your girlfriend…because dancing.
Software is really just very very very very small hardware
Software is really just very very very small hardware. The only moving parts are the words, and they take up exactly zero space. This is another reason why so much software is garbage. No one can see what the hell is going on in there ;~}
Remember officers, sacrifice is a value reflected universally in
Remember officers, sacrifice is reflected universally in religions and secular frameworks, a value that becomes self-evident upon reflection, and a value which civil law enforcement is unlikely to ever cease demanding be made manifest by those in its charge.
Among peers, language can be used for communication, otherwise it creates a world...
Among peers, language can be used for communication, otherwise it creates a world for the reader to inhabit, populated with whatever you’re talking about. It is a big responsibility, especially for public writers, i.e. journalists. Communicate to your colleagues, but just tell the people the story. Let them decide what it means.
Good god—sorry for all of the obviously he hasn’t read this at all type of typos. [ EDIT: this of course refers to some typographical errors I made in the last post, which I have of course now gone back into and corrected, because who wants to leave that stuff laying around, right? ]
Not that anyone gives a hoot, but we notice even if we don’t say anything, right? Right.
To comfort you in this desperate time let me share this typo. It happens to all of us, one way or another.
Even when the dead are the only ones asking questions, don’t forget—only the living can hear the answers.
Unwanted Series Extension
So, part 2 tanked, mostly because it was literally a rehash of point 1. The 2. Language changes apace with the real world. Yeah, language in the broadest sense, so human, natural, and otherwise is in rapid flux as far as afaict, and I do not mind. But I don’t like language games intended to harm, either to harm real people or to harm the game itself. Don’t like it.
Return of Pedantic Ass-Clown
Summary of part 1 : It is cool now to say stuff it was not cool to say earlier. So, 2. doing things in language that you cannot do in the real world. Well, we all know an example of that! :-) You are soaking in it. In case that was too dense, or you are, what I mean is this: To speak of “we all know” is possible, but it doesn’t refer to anything in the real world, only to something else in the world of language.
Pedantic Ass-Clown
So, I do not want to come across like a pedantic ass-clown, but it is super important to keep two things in mind: 1. you can do things with language that you cannot do with the real world, and 2. language changes apace with the real world. Take a term like ‘ass-clown’. I use it now with impunity, unconcerned as to its potential effects on others and on my reputation. Would I have, even just a few years ago?