2012-06-18 (Monday)
Links
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Doonesbury Comic Strip, June 17, 2012 on GoComics.com
I just cried at an eight-frame comic (well, eight frames plus the previous x years).
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The Online Photographer: Set Those Expectations Low
“Photography is a superb hobby, one of the best. It’s when you try to make a living at it that it is so likely to resist you. I don’t think other hobbies have this problem. I mean, consider, say, fly-fishing, or building plastic model planes. Very few people who do those things assume they’re going to ‘go pro’ someday. Very few people try. It doesn’t generally come up.”
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Republicans for Revolution by Mark Lilla | The New York Review of Books
“People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.” Also for the definitions of “liberal” and “conservative” half-way through, and the potted history of the origins of neoconservatism.
Tweets
Tired, backache, stiff neck and shoulder. Walking round the flat like Mrs Overall.
@iamdanw Oh, I only just discovered/remembered it and used it today. *crosses fingers*
@pixellent Not as cool as a bazooka.
@dotcode Would’ve been awesome if the dog was called Enoch.
@spaceboy Ha, I had the exact same problem. Can't work out when to watch part 3. Maybe sometime in lieu of caffeine.