February 2009
January 2009
Third-Party Apps related to Tumblr →
HBO: Sex and the City →
Watching the entire series on DVD and I needed a place to find the soundtrack music.
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer
“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and...”
– Friedrich August von Hayek CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an economist and philosopher known throughout the world for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and...
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,...”
– John Adams
“Take these three items, some WD-40, a vice grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any...”
– Clint Eastwood as “Walt Kowalski” in Grand Torino (via Scott’s Space - Walt Kowalski re tools)
“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’,...”
– Larry Hardiman
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Louis Armstrong (24)
George Winston (10)
John Pizzarelli (5)
Randy Newman (5)
Ray Charles (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Hope Dual Monitor Wallpaper
(via mandolux | desktops | flags | Hope)
reblogged from xoxosweetheart:
Forgive me, but I just don’t understand why people choose to be so upset about wearing fur in particular. What about your leather shoes? Or leather handbag? Briefcase? Wallet? What about that steak you had for dinner? I don’t get it.
Amen! I hate intellectual lazyness.
“I won’t eat living things, but plants and fish are OK”
“I...
“Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll...”
– programmers are tiny gods via slantback and brocatus
okay, i am really getting sick of both designers and programmers with their high-horse shit. you shouldn’t have to approach your designer or your programmer with caution, they should be willing and ready to take whatever you throw and them and...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Muddy Waters (4)
Carly Simon (4)
Sunnyland Slim (3)
Madeleine Peyroux (3)
Yanni (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Northrop P-61 "Black Widow"
(Artwork via Aviation art by Marc Stewart)
The P-61 was the first U.S. aircraft designed from the start to be a night fighter. By the time it arrived with combat squadrons in mid-1944, targets were rather scarce. Thus, while it didn’t pile up a large score of enemy planes destroyed, it was an extremely capable and deadly aircraft.
It originated in the Battle of Britain, when the British...
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Denny Crane .. I eat Cocoa Puffs .. Denny Crane .....
Reblogged from kari-shma:
God. I Love Boston Legal. Re-watching season 1 right now…
Denny Crane: You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, “Who’s that?” St. Peter says, “Oh, that’s God. Thinks he’s Denny Crane.”
Ohka 11 and Ohka 22 "Cherry Blossom"
Ohka 11 As the Japanese military became increasingly desperate to find ways of slowing the Allied advance, naval officer Ensign Mitsuo Ohta conceived a specialized suicide attack aircraft. This plane was to be inexpensive, easy to manufacture in large numbers, and equipped for high speed to avoid being shot down. Once the concept had been accepted, Yokosuka began developing the MXY7 Ohka...
