Coda II

"Where there is meaning, there is design."
—Chris Bangle, Design Chief, BMW

Where there is need, there is a Volvo?

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Dystroπόπηgus

I'm only happy when it rains.

Αύριο ίσως;

Somebody missed me back then. [Added 31.01.05]

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Priori-tease

"You can't do everything you want to do, so you need to make some strategic choices."
—Bruce Patton, Co-Author, "Difficult Conversations"

Pic by C. It's been ages.

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love incompetent

CoCo the love incompetent

上班的日子磨損了熱情
這次度假好像找回了自己
我知道
我還有很多事情想做
而我那決定放著爛掉的愛情
真的也不是放著就可以

還有四個小時
我要飛行了
希望回到那個國度
我仍然可以保持這樣瘋癲的自己

Hopefully, straightforward.

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Inside Voices

"You already know the answers. You just don't want to hear them from yourself."
—Sunny Vanderbeck, Cofounder, Data Return Corp.

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Iterative Itinerary

"Sometimes you take a trip; sometimes a trip takes you."
—Eric Saperston, Filmmaker, "The Journey"

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Psychoanalysis

"Nowadays everyone sneers at his theories about sex and women but I doubt Freud himself is bothered, as he is dead."
- The Man Who Fell Asleep

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Lala Land

It ain't Hollywood.

December's Theme is "Urban signage". In a big city, it's how we get our message across. Get your message across by posting your shots here.

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Artgasm

"Sex is the key to the future of business."
—James Moore, Chairman, GeoPartners Research Inc.

Chimot, "Les Poesies de Meleangre" (1926), in EroArt.

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Epic Life

"Your life is an epic. Some people see themselves as victims, some as heroes."
- Silke Maier-Witt, Trauma Psychologist

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Kukuxumusu

Kukuxumusu started out in Pamplona during the Sanfermines of 1989. Kukuxumusu, in the Basque Language, means “the kiss of the flea”. Their designers, mad enough to let themselves be chased by raging bulls once a year, produce some of the most exciting stamped clothing articles and accessories available over the web. These also make great presents. If you buy anything for your girlfriend, remember me too. XXL please, I hate στενός κορσές.

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Timeout for Overtime

"Most workaholics don't have the time to attend meetings."
—Tony Schwartz, Author, "What Reallly Matters"

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(Just in case)

"There is no point in looking back."
—Rebecca Mark, Former CEO, Enron International

Addendum (12 Jan, 2005): a Review [in Greek].

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(between the) lines

Αναγνώστες που δεν ξέρουν τη διαφορά ανάμεσα "σ' ένα δίκτυο γραμμών που συγκλίνουν" και "σ' ένα δίκτυο γραμμών που τέμνονται" καλό θα ήταν να μη συνεχίσουν.

Paris Shakespeare Bookstore, photo by Frantisek Staud (2002)

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The colour of notes

The Rudy Van Gelder (RVG) Series consists of classic Blue Note albums that have been newly remastered in 24-bit by original engineer Rudy Van Gelder with state of the art equipment. These audiophile releases contain bonus tracks and session photos.

Το δεύτερο LP που αγόρασα στη ζωή μου, το 1975 νομίζω, ήταν το Facing You του Keith Jarrett, απ' του Ράμογλου στην Τσιμισκή.

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suck-my-big

(It's suck-my-big.org, actually, by Catherine Skidmore.)

"11/4/04
Happy six-years-in-NY, Jay!

Today's moment of Zen: back during the Heather/faux-Munchausen-by-Internet saga, I'd been exchanging emails with Dr. Marc Feldman, an expert in the field of factitious disorders (which we covered in class this week). My interest being piqued because of the class lecture, I looked in the index of his book, Playing Sick, to see what info he had on internet use and factitious disorders - and to my surprise, found a blurb and email quote about Heather that I had included in the info I sent him! How cool, kind of. I knew I should have read the book earlier. It's on page 168, and they changed her name to Arlene. It was seven years ago, but it won't go away. There's also a quote from - I think - Melissa Anelli in there, too.

And the book is fascinating - people are really screwed up."

Catherine has been on the web since time immemorial. I used to follow her online diary and felt a bit like being in NYC myself back then. I guess she smelled like a blogger before there were any blogs around.

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Celestial Harmonies

"Style is an adventure," he says. "You can't be restricted in your style because you don't know what's going to happen next." One result of this has been Celestial Harmonies' evolution into a company which is not large commercially but which has a large impact on a loyal, core audience. "If our market share is relatively tiny, well, that's a choice that we've made. It may be comfortably under 1% of the market, but it's a noticeable contribution to some people, and that's what's important. We are recording music for people to whom music is much more than entertainment."

They got some fine music. Check them out.

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Suicide Girls

"I know you're a big SuicideGirls fan. Your sweetie knows you're a big SuicideGirls fan. Your mom knows you're a big SuicideGirls fan. But does every poor slob who stumbles across your homepage know what kind of naked girls you think are the cutest? They can if you add one of our banners to your webpage. Think of it as proof you liked us before we sold out."

Kat linked me.

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Relationship (in) Shape

"You'll do a better job if you have other things going on in your life."
—John Beatrice, Audit Partner, Ernst and Young

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Kurukulla

The Tibetan godess of love and wealth.

A short walk through the statistics:

* Number of visits: 55 million;
* Number of hits: 790 million;
* Data transferred: 4.2 terabytes;
* Number of emails received: 19,394;
* Number of articles online: 6,465;
* Average traffic rank (Alexa): 23,194.

Nine years and going stronger. Congratulations Encyclopedia Mythica.

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A Smart(-Alecky) Read

If a bird doesn't have a nose, how does it smell?

"Actually, ornithologists believe that birds do have varying senses of smells, depending upon the species and the size of the nostrils, or nares, in the beak or bill. So-called tubenoses (such as the albatross) have very large nares, which allow them to detect the odor of fish oil slicks on the surface of the sea from as far as 15 miles away downwind. Pelicans, meanwhile, have extremely narrow, almost invisible nares, and almost no sense of smell. Ducks have pretty good sniffers, but they don’t use them to seek out food – they determine that mating season is nigh when they get a good whiff of pheromones.

The bird with the best sense of smell is one with very poor eyesight – the kiwi. The shoe polish icon has his nostrils at the tip of his beak, and he uses it to sniff out worms and grubs and other tasty morsels for his dining pleasure. Not surprisingly, second runner-up in the smelling game is the vulture, who uses a combination of sight and aroma to detect the nearest decaying carcass."

Visit. Subscribe. Learn. Hey, I even bought the t-shirt a couple years back.

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Muddyland

Patrick kept asking for some photos of where I live but I guess my brain refused to register this task as a priority. Well, something happened that made me grab the camera and record the event: we decided to turn the backyard into a proper garden. Enter the bobcat!

This little monster is noisy! I have to admit it's up to the task - it removed what looked like tons of garbage, shifted the ground, gave the neighbors almost a nervous breakdown, unearthed the place completely...

Of course, this was Day #1 of the project... I am now expecting a truckload of fresh composte so that the planting can begin... just in time for the rainy season (we've had just two days of rain in the past five months here in Athens...).

Patrick, anybody -- will you give me a hand?

First posted @nootropia.net as 'A bobcat's view to where I live'.

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schizophrenia

...::juz b/w u n me::...: September 2004

Not the proverbial split personality, but a long retreat from life's battles and unpleasantness into a shadow-world where the trees have ears, and dogs recite "Hiawatha" in a Swedish accent; considered pathological except among modern poets and performance artists, in whom it may be regarded as the norm.

chriz

the thing that's important is, what i am to YOU! okay..buh seriously...im a member of the "IRS" born under the sign of scorpio who has been blessed with some of the most amazing friends. The girl lives in Syd, Australia and has hopes of being a corporations lawyer.

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