Saturday, April 16, 2022
Generally, my mistakes were always my good ideas that I enthusiastically pursued ot the detriment of my great ideas that required 150% of my attention to prosper.
— Michael Saylor, "Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #276"
Friday, April 15, 2022
To the legal obstacle, Audubon found a creative and surprisingly simple solution. His first engraver, William Lizars, had made him aware of a British copywright law of 1709 specifying that any book published in Great Britain had to be depositied for free in nine of the nation's libraries. Given to the significant expense of Birds of America, Audubon had no intention of giving so many copies of his work away gratis, and to avoid doing so, he took a very strict constructionist view of the definition of "book" in British law. If any publication that contained printed text qualified as a book, Audubon decided not to have any: he would publish The Birds of America as a collection of illustrated images, with just a title page for each volume. Even that caused him some concern.
— Gregory Nobles, John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman
Thursday, April 14, 2022
The Jolly Flatboatmen by George Caleb Bingham.
— Gregory Nobles, John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Underscores an important point: whoever lives longer gets the last and most self-serving word.
— Gregory Nobles, John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
The comedian claimed he met Kennedy Onassis at a cocktail party, before delivering the line: “I went up to her and wanted to break the ice … So I said, ‘Do you remember where you were when you heard JFK was shot?’ ”
— Andrew Court, "Gilbert Gottfried’s most shocking jokes: From 9/11 & ‘Aristocrats’ to Aflac scandal," New York Post
Monday, April 11, 2022
Show faces
— Stranger on Omegle
Sunday, April 10, 2022
“Writing something long,” she said in the 2013 television appearance, reflecting on Ms. Morrison’s greatest lessons to her, “is all about the timed release of information.”
— Nicholas Kulish and Rebecca R. Ruiz, "The Fortunes of MacKenzie Scott," The New York Times
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Just be careful someone doesn't grab it and cook it.
— Emily on Lily's earrings that look like pasta
Friday, April 8, 2022
There's no protocol or procedure for citing conversations with your friends, or walks you go on to procrastinate.
— Neta Bomani
Thursday, April 7, 2022
And a collection of hot-air balloons in fantastical designs — one shaped like the Sphinx, one like a bust of Beethoven, one like a Fabergé egg, one like the chateau in Normandy.
— Willy Staley, "How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway?," The New York Times Magazine
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
“DALL-E is good at avocados,” Mr. Nichol said.
— Cade Metz, "Meet DALL-E, the A.I. That Draws Anything at Your Command," The New York Times
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Isaac's cup.
— Mason figuring out what bit of the image I made bigger.
Monday, April 4, 2022
Tromp l'oeil
— @cynthia_talmadge
Sunday, April 3, 2022
A private journal. This one contained some of his worst handwriting, which may explain why so few have given it any attention.
— Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Saturday, April 2, 2022
There was a grain to this earth, or rather a multitude of grains, which the ice had laid bare. "Every carpenter knows that only a dull tool will follow the grain of wood. Such a tool is the glacier... Mighty as its effects appear to us, it has only developed the predestined forms of mountain beauty which were ready and waiting to receive the baptism of light."
— Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Friday, April 1, 2022
And however you go about it, Mr. Wright, try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.
— Bill Murray, The French Dispatch
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Griffith noted at the time of his fieldwork that Mayo carvers were likely to charge more to non-Indian buyers than to their fellow Mayos. And whereas their Pascola customers wanted the masks they purchased, exchanged or borrowed to be freshly painted and new looking, collectors for the most part looked for evidence of wear that added "authenticity."
— Explanatory text at Arizona History Museum
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Hopi and other Native consultants say dwellings like this were meant to recycle back to earth after the people left. However, in 1906 the Castle became a national monument to be managed for present and future generations.
— Explanatory text at Montezuma Castle
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
George H. Rothrock, a pioneering Arizona photographer, took advantage of this site's popularity and painted his advertisement on the rocks overhead.
— Explanatory text at Montezuma Well
Monday, March 28, 2022
Excavation represents a curiosity foreign to American Indian cultures and is often considered culturally offensive. Do objects from the past serve as legitimate educational tools, or is that notion unimportant or even wrong?
— Self-guided tour document at Wupatki National Monument
