Holy crap. This is depressing: abandoned stuff in foreclosed homes just trashed and brought to the landfill. People leaving TVs and computers (no money for moving vans?). All the furniture is smashed to fit in the dumpster more easily. - Stewart
so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again - Stewart
Second worst sentence I've ever read in a wire article: "Investment advisers, however, caution that the volatility often seen in gold prices could make investments in this area more of a risky decision if gold prices suddenly begin to fall sharply." Amazing that almost every word could be wrong and yet the basic sense is still there. - Stewart
Re. "Ray of Hope - Cambodia" - ugh. Children shouldn't be closing our loops (in this case the waste loop). Open loops must be addressed with intelligence and resources, through a study of nature (biomimicry, eg.). Disadvantaged indentured people (children or adults) can't do that powerfully enough. Stick a couple of CEOs and senior-level politicians into that pile instead - they might have the wherewithal to call on the appropriate resources to figure it out, especially if they were actually up to their necks in it. - Yule Heibel
Just got spam from exlibris (vanity press) about ¡publishing my work! which linked to this. I forgot (ha!) I wrote it, in a different time, over seven years ago. - Stewart
Read it, nice piece! Of all the things I like about it, two stand out: your critique of cynicism (I too have had it up to *here* with sniveling, unproductive cynics who kill everything by nipping it in the bud) and your defense of cities. Canadians need to lose that resource "economy"/hewers of wood, carriers of water mentality. 80% of us live in cities in this country, and it's time we embraced that and made it part of the real Canadian identity. - Yule Heibel
Stewart: I was talking to the Library of Congress today about their use of Flickr and they asked how I learned about Flickr and I said "Stewart Butterfield showed it to be at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference." Thanks for making my life so much cooler! - Robert Scoble
Bizarre - I delicious'd this months ago (and should point out that the article is 7 years old ... from right after Sept 11, 2001). - Stewart
Just got spam from exlibris (vanity press) about ¡publishing my work! which linked to this. I forgot (ha!) I wrote it, in a different time, over seven years ago. - Stewart
I'm at inbox 28 after much struggle. I always appreciate Merlin's advice, but the anxiety around correspondence is a constant. It just never subsides. - Jeffrey Veen
