Good Luck Out There

Supposedly, high buildings damage people's minds and feelings and have no advantages except for in the bank account balances of developers.

People need "an identifiable spatial unit to belong to".

"The artificial separation of houses and work creates intolerable rifts in people's inner lives."

"Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage -- the countryside from which they came".

We're going to go through this book called A Pattern Language, a weird book that will let you make guesses about whether places you observe in the world will be enjoyable to be in or not.

Digital speedometer display vs analogue needle.

The joy of buildings where no one cares what you're doing in there.

Good buildings are a work in progress.

If fragile objects make you nervous...

How do chip cards and RFID tags transmit a radio signal with no apparent power source.

Baseball is the sport where there's always an audience.

...the bikers will have to find a new way to scare people.

...maybe it's not hard after all.

A story about a boy who grew up without human contact

Bob Dylan dropping by someone's house.

...and no one noticed.

We learned to hunt at a distance by throwing things and we are fascinated by throwing to this day.

One of the polar bears at the Zoo was brought to the Zoo because in the wild it was bothering the homo sapiens.

Stole this title from Sam Harris, but anyway, just some thoughts about observing humans at the mall or anywhere.

Nerdy behaviour turned cool.