Derek Gottfrid
September 2011
38 posts
Interview: Sol LeWitt
bombsite.com
“Serial systems and their permutations function as a narrative that has to be understood. People still see things as visual objects without understanding what they are. They don’t understand that the visual part may be boring but it’s the narrative that’s interesting. It can be read as a story, just as music can be heard as form in time. The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.”
Saul Ostrow,Sol Lewitt | BOMB Magazine | Sep 2003
“If I could sit in a room with David Karp then I might just ask him for a hug.”
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You don’t have to ask.
“Other non-theist conceptions of grace, however, are consistent with belief in divinity. Postmodernist philosopher Jacques Derrida, for instance, describes grace as disruption to the human economy of relationships and norms. A genuine gift introduces an otherness that cannot be readily assimilated into its host economy.[17] This has led hermeneutics scholar, Simon Perry, to regard the theological notion of grace as divine otherness inflicting disruption on human (including Christian and Theological) ethical systems”
—Divine grace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The term Mongoloid (also Mongolic[1]) was a term for one of the major races of mankind. The word is formed by the base word "Mongol" and the suffix "-oid" which means "resembling". Today, the term is regarded by some as offensive.”
—Mongoloid race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
theuncool.com
At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. An excerpt of the book that became the film.
Cameron Crowe | Playboy | Sep 1981
Latest Colorado Marijuana Dispensaries
meloncollon.corank.com
There is an API for everything.
“It is our ability to apply our ideas and their embodiment in code to a dizzying array of problems, from the prosaic to the profound, that attracts and compels us. It is why we compute.”
—Why We Compute | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
“Last week, I released base, a universal Base class for Ruby. Inheriting from it gives your class every instance method, class method, and constant from every module and class in the system.”
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One Base Class to Rule Them All — Destroy All Software Blog
yep not surprised.
