April 3, 2018 · Individualism
You don’t understand what it means to be in that room until you’re in that room. Not watching, that’s what tourists do, what the assholes with the expensive seats do. I mean in it, close enough to see the sweat, the micro-adjustments of his fingers, the way his whole body becomes an argument with silence. […]
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March 31, 2018 · FalseArt
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the […]
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March 25, 2018 · Engineering
I’m going to tell you about a place that got murdered. Not quick, not clean. Slow, by a thousand cuts from people in Patagonia vests who convinced themselves they were improving the neighborhood. The building’s still standing on California Avenue. The sign still hangs there like a tombstone. But Antonio’s Nut House? The real Antonio’s? […]
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March 11, 2018 · Engineering
Amazon delivery robots on the streets of Palo Alto: disruption imminent… Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
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March 11, 2018 · Engineering
How do? Welcome to my shop Let me cut your mop Let me shave your crop Daintily, daintily…Hey, you! Don’t look so perplexed Why must you be vexed? Can’t you see you’re next? Yes, you’re next, you’re so next! Bugs Bunny, Rabbit of Seville (1950) This Cardinal Barber Shop is the real fucking deal: it’s […]
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March 5, 2018 · Industries
The phone rings. Can’t tell you who. I’m sworn. But trust me, Google images knows things. ¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son. What is life? A madness. What […]
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February 17, 2018 · Engineering
Stanford Indian at 735 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense. Vine Deloria Jr. The Indian. Stanford’s mascot from 1930 to […]
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