quieto :: notas curiosity killed the cat, but cats have 9 lives

Posts from April 2008

You can’t please everyone…

…so please people with good taste.
(Mike Elgan writing about Apple)


Best Drummer in the World

via everyone forever


Titles

The First Mortgage
I’m Quite All Right, Thank You
Scientists Removing Flowers from Horse
Dry All My Tears
Unicyclist Turf War
Stringing You Along
Man Trips and Falls In His Own Country
Man Ponders Kicking Friend in Head
Oversized Man Entertains The City
An Elusive Dream
Bear Experiencing Jealousy
A Painful Reminder
Women and Cats Do as They Please

These titles belong to these paintings by Mike Stilkey. I [...]


Moby Gratis

In yet another wonderful turn on the intellectual rights front, here’s a note from Moby:
hi,
i’ll keep this brief.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
to use the site you log in(or on?) and are [...]


Oxycretin

Believe it or not, the complete opposite can be housed within the same word. These are exposed by removing a single letter, hardly in deep disguise but unnoticed all the same. Simply remove the letter in bold to reveal the contradictory word.
charm
seven
whole
slaughter
resign
feast
stray
friend
covert
From the excellent Words Fail Me, by Teresa Monachino.


Raúl Gutierrez

Liz Kuball does a short interview of Raúl Gutierrez, one of my favorite blogger-photographers. Raúl writes about photography, travel, parenting, and much more. Here is a bit from the interview:
You never realize how much a finger can feel until you have a paper cut and after all those deaths I had a thousand paper cuts.
It is [...]


Luto en Sueños

Quizás los disparó el último post. Ultimamente he soñado con muertos. Principalmente mis abuela paterna, que murió hace siete años, y me abuelo materno, que murió hace tres meses. No recuerdo bien los sueños, pero me dió gusto verlos.