Tag: BruceSterling
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Another writer said he “was a confident, gray-eyed, wild-bearded, chain-smoking philosopher-poet who lived on whiskey and ice cream and never went to bed before 4 a.m.” From Rebels of Reason
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“impervious to the shafts of ridicule and insensible to slights” Notes from “The Story of the Typewriter”
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“We’ve all got to die of something, he thought. Even if it’s just from staying alive too long.” Mini-story: Retirement
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“an encapsulated volume of pre-Fascist space-time” Alan Jacobs
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“I don’t know what it is other than what it does.” Tyler Cowen on Tetragrammaton The original sentiment: “The purpose of a system is what it does.”
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All the photos, now available.
Here is a separate blog for “photo dumping.” In the old days of blogging, we had services like Flickr where you could put everything for those who cared. One did not want to fill their regular blog up with a run of odd photos. I remember reading that two friends who rarely saw each other…
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“A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. And that is a foul, foul thing.” a slightly embarrassed announcement
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William Gibson – September 1997 interview.
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Are better models better? – “Part of the concept of ‘Disruption’ is that important new technologies tend to be bad at the things that matter to the previous generation of technology, but they do something else important instead.”
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Moonbound Revisited – “Several decades ago, the semiotician A. J. Greimas claimed that all stories are comprised of six actants, in three pairs: Subject/Object; Sender/Receiver; Helper/Opponent.”
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Things I Like
There are many things I like, but these are some I can think of now1: Above all else, I like making content and publishing it. I like reading short things (I used to like books, but now that I know a lot of the 101 stuff after ~40 years, I get frustrated/bored by how long…
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“Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery,” Bruce Sterling SXSW 2024) – He has a skill for turning mundane objects into lectures and relating them to culture. Put in direct link to MP3.
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A4 Issue 1 July 2022 – Notes from the Drawing Board – This kind of thing is fantastic.
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Jeffrey Bernard put it when I went to interview him: “As if there was something romantic and glamorous about hard work . . . if there was something romantic about it, the Duke of Westminster would be digging his own fucking garden, wouldn’t he?” How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson 📚
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Shift left only matters if the system on the right is doing a bad job
Just some catch-up on links and wastebook’ing since the speedy episode last time. Wastebook The Wine Glass, Vermeer, c. 1660. Seeing a Vermeer in person is much different than printed in a book, or even a poster. It has that luster to it. Not all of the pictures, some are fuzzy more like a Rembrandt.…
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🗂 Link: No country for old men
Lots of Chinese people ask to have their picture taken with my daughter. No one asks for a picture with me. Source: No country for old men
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🗂 State of the World 2019, Bruce Sterling
> The markets are waiting for the markets to stop being global markets. people.well.com/conf/inkw…
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