I don’t know if it’s because of a change in sleep habits, but I’ve been having a lot of vivid dreams. Now, I’m told that I grind my teeth in my sleep, and if these dreams are any indication of my usual dreaming pattern, I can see why. I don’t remember any of my dreams usually, but these days they’re all semi-present when I awaken, and they’re definitely NOT pretty. The snippet I remember at this moment was being at a hospital. A bunch of orphaned Korean children had come through some kind of awfulness — I’m not sure whether …
Month: January 2006
Camp.
It’s kind of exhausting. That’s all.
Lunar New Year Book #40: Jennifer Government, by Max Barry
Viridian Note #00456
Right now on the front page of the The Viridian Design Movement site, you can read the current Viridian Note, number 00456, which sums up the “State of the World 2006”. Included are a summary of a dozen bizarre weather moments from 2005, and a mockery of Thomas Friedman’s latecomer handwringing about the “oil problem”. Also is included a link to a pretty interesting conversation with Bruce Sterling on The Well. Worth checking out, for more than just this one strange link.
Oddunout: On the pain and pleasure of creating
In Laura’s post Oddunout: On the pain and pleasure of creating, I found something quite interesting. She discussed the offensiveness to her of sneakily using others’ creative works within her own works: So I had this conversation with the Dutch about the picture I was/am working on, and I was saying how I’d already spent like 20 hours on it, and I still didn’t have the map the way I wanted it to be. Being a programmer (or whatever it is he does, exactly), he suggested I could find a map I liked and just steal it for my own …