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The Great Train Throbbery

Edward Pierce: What exactly are you constructing?
Emily Trent: We thought a water wheel. It will be so delightful, especially when there will be the rusted curve of the water wheel itself. Don't you agree?
Edgar Trent: We are building the rusted wheel at considerable expense.
Emily Trent: It is constructed of previously rusted metal, the craftsmen are most ingenious. And of course we must wait for the weeds to grow up around the site before it takes on the proper appearance.
Edward Pierce: Oh I'm sure it'll be a handsome ruin.
Edgar Trent: Where is Elizabeth?
Emily Trent: I have passed many pleasant hours here, watching the workman fit each piece into its precise slot. Such skill!
Edward Pierce: They screw it together do they?
Edgar Trent: No, bolt it actually. With long bolts, fitted tightly.
Emily Trent: Yes. *Long* bolts, fitted tightly.
Edward Pierce: I've just returned from America, a country of many prominent erections.
Emily Trent: It *is* exciting to see things come together, so long as the quality does not suffer.
Edward Pierce: Tight-fitting joints, that's the secret.
Emily Trent: It's *so* rare these days.
Edward Pierce: [It] depends on the skill of the workman, of course.
Emily Trent: And he *must* have the proper tools.

“So *John* has been spending some quality time the last few days trying to convince me that Jesus would be a capitalist.”

—	Steve, at work

Quitting: tough in both cases

me: dude, what *larry* go as
him: who is he?
me: brokeback?
him: haha. Marlboro Man, but he was super pissed 'cause everyone kept saying Brokeback. Honestly, what did he think? People are gonna recognize a long gone icon of cigarettes or a recently Academy movie?
me: haha.

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”

—	The world-famous, Emmy-winning Durry Jones

“

It’s difficult to know the right way to use emerging things. They are too visible, too new.

They are perhaps allowing the formation of new kinds of relationships: thinner relationships with people who we like and who like the stuff we like, who we want to keep up with but don’t necessarily want to see very often or actively interact except maybe once in a while when we know they could help us out and vice versa because they are awesome at something we can’t do and vice versa.

Which actually sounds like the kind of relationship I’d consider having with a brand.

But we probably shouldn’t treat them as new billboard inventory.

”

—	Grant McCracken on Twitter and such (via elgaffney) … was talking about this with my mom and dad, both of whom blog. Weird.

tokyohanna:

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Friday, 4:00

Lady: Are you going out right now?
Gent: I'm going to the liquor store right now.
All: Laughter!

“

I literally feel like I was just in an English class.

Taught in Mandarin.

”

—	Kevin Sheehan, regarding a meeting about our time entry software.

Agreed.

her: um i pretty much love you guys right now
her: there are a few *minor* things that i'll shoot back in an email after my next meeting (sometime this afternoon) but overall yeah you guys are rockstars
me: thanks. forwarded the sentiment to the fellows
her: I'm seriously impressed
me: kevin is
me: _incredible_
her: That's an understatement dude.

“But he recognized that sometimes a thing matters because a person has chosen to make a life in which it matters, and that it would not matter if he or she had not chosen to make such a life.”

—	Appiah, Ethics of Identity. Ostensibly not about consumerism but certainly could be interpreted as such.

Reading: With modern-day candle.

“Still, I think it is best to read Mill as finding inherent value not in diversity — being different — but in the enterprise of self-creation. For I might choose a plan of life that was, as it happened, very like other people’s and still not be merely aping them, following them blindly as a model. I wouldn’t, then, be contributing to diversity (so, in one sense, I wouldn’t be very individual) but I would still be constructing my own — in another sense, individual — plan of life.”

—	Appiah, Ethics of Identity

Neeerds

Eric: Are you beating him?
Clay: I have like, triple the readers.
Eric: How many lifeforms does he have?

A Corner: … of an idea. Coming soon to an internet near you.