My pal Henry Domke takes beautiful photographs and then sells them to hospitals and clinics (Photo above is the MRI Room at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago). And as I understand it, they don’t just buy one or two. They use his art throughout. (ch-CHING!).
Need a little privacy while watching that movie on your iPhone. Long for that Big Screen viewing experience. You can have it if you’re willing to look like an ass clown.
My friend Tom grabbed this must-have item at MacWorld and brought it to the Coffee Zone where I tried it on.
Your iPhone goes in a little sleeve at the front of the bill and the lens slides forward and back for proper focus. Like sitting in row 10 of the Bijou.
I am a fan of the poetry of Billy Collins. The following stanza is from a poem titled Piano Lessons
I am learning to play
“It Might As Well Be Spring”
but my left hand would rather be jingling
the change in the darkness of my pocket
or taking a nap on an armrest.
I have to drag him in to the music
like a difficult and neglected child.
This is the revenge of the one who never gets
to hold the pen or wave good-bye,
and now, who never gets to play the melody.
“Huge change is no longer in the past or future but in the present. Our society as we know it and have known to be safe is fast-changing. Value systems of yesterday are no longer relevant. A new civilization is ahead of us. This ideological society offers choice; are we able to find alternate ways of living, another model or are our days counted? The changing climate, growing poverty, wars and more are only expanding. This movable nomadic dwelling unit provides shelter from this disconcerting situation.”
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There is a gentle rain this morning at the beach on Sanibel. I ventured out onto our poarch the and the rain drops.
Another beauty by way of Todd Perry.
Oak Tree Surprise, originally uploaded by mshhoward.
Matt Howard found this spot in the Buffalo River area. Looks like a painting. How nice that there are spots like this and people like Matt to find and share them.
“…a friend of mine was at meetings at Apple and Microsoft on the same day and this was in the last year, so this was recently. He went into the Apple meeting (he’s a vendor for Apple) and when he went into the meeting at Apple as soon as the designers walked in the room, everyone stopped talking because the designers are the most respected people in the organization. Everyone knows the designers speak for Steve because they have direct reporting to him. It is only at Apple where design reports directly to the CEO.
Later in the day he was at Microsoft. When he went into the Microsoft meeting, everybody was talking and then the meeting starts and no designers ever walk into the room. All the technical people are sitting there trying to add their ideas of what ought to be in the design. That’s a recipe for disaster.”
zero history is the final novel in William Gibson’s trilogy that started with Pattern Recognition. Hollis Henry is back from book two, Spook Country. I wouldn’t presume to review the work of Mr. Gibson. Here are a few of his words that got some highlighter:
“It was like being on the bottom of a Coney Island grab-it game, one in which the eclectically ungrabbed had been accumulating for decades. He looked up, imagining a giant three-pronged claw, agent of stark removal.” – pg 9
“His attempted smile felt like something froced from a flexible squeeze-toy.” – pg 10
“An overly wealthy, dangerously curious fiddler with the world’s hidden architectures.” – pg 18
“We do brand vision transmission, trend forecasting, vendor management, youth market recon, strategic planning in general.” – pg 21
“Addictions (start) out like magical pets, pocket monsters.” – pg 53
