Quote of the day, or at least this morning:
We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.
This was lifted from a NYT piece, quoting someone who had lifted it from the Talmud.
Other thoughts:
- Can't someone improve upon the umbrella, for god's sake? I mean, this design has been around forever, it breaks, it sucks, and you'd think by now someone would have come up with a better solution. I don't have any bright ideas, other than using some new space-age material (that's my solution for everything...), hire some Italian designer, and uh, magic happens. I'm pretty sure that's how the process happens at Target. And I love Target. ...Forget designing "a better mousetrap": umbrellas suck the big one.
- Ditto internal combustion engine.
- Negroponte's laptop UI. Hmm. The jury is out. I must hold one in my grubby hands and mutter ignorant remarks.
