05:24 am - QotD
"Take a good, hard look at the leaders you see -- the ones
that actually affect your life, from your boss to the CEO of
multi-billion dollar, transnational corporations -- and ask
yourself to what extent they actually embody traits like honesty,
duty and a commitment to excellence, and to what extent they mouth
those words due to social obligation, but will betray those ideals
at the drop of a hat, or the whiff of a marginal increase in their
bottom line.
"Take a good, hard look at the
institutions that intersect with your life and ask yourself to
what extent they embrace and reward experience, labor and
craft.
"Take a good, hard look at the authorities
who have real power over your life and ask yourself if you believe
that, behind closed doors, they behave honorably, responsibly and
patiently."
-- driftglass,
"Imagine a $1900 Berluti loafer", 2010-06-18
(
thanks to
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realinterrobang
for quoting it earlier)
12:43 pm - Tired of this. And just tired.
Night before last and yesterday: went to bed at midnight,
phone silenced 'cause I thought I was gonna sleep; finally fell
asleep at nine; woke again at half past sixteen; by twenty
o'clock I was crashing again; awake again by twenty-two thirty.
This morning: to bed about half past two (would've been
earlier but it took me a while to tear myself away from the
eathquake/tsunami coverage); ain't slept yet, though I really
thought I was about to not off for a while there around eight."
Tired of this game. Wanna play something else instead.
*pout*
(Obviously, this is screwing up my plans. *grumble)
Since I'm too tired to make this whine funny, let me toss in
something unrelated and pretty ...
Via
cellio and
siderea:
an amazingly sweet
instrumental version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the
flea-guitar. I'm impressed by how rich some of those chords
sound with just four notes, how perfectly the harmonics fit in
with regular stopped notes without sounding like special effects,
and ... well, with pretty much the whole thing, actually.