There's battle lines being drawn.
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.
Young people speaking their minds
getting so much resistance from behind

Friday, July 8, 2011

Linkee-poo keeps trying to shift into 5th on only 3 gears

Deliberate practice and writers. (Grokked from Mer Haskell)

You know how when writers are asked about their creative process (typically, "Where do you get your ideas") they either sputter or make something up that sounds pithy or sarcastic? Yeah, designers do that too.

What would Reagan do? That's right, he would (and did) increase taxes. But don't tell the conservatives that, unless you like telling kids that Santa Claus doesn't exist. (Grokked from Jay Lake)

Tweet of my heart
@neiltyson: The US bank bailout exceeded the half-century lifetime budget of NASA.

3 comments:

Elizabeth said...

And yet people think the space program is too expensive.

Dr. Phil (Physics) said...

And ending the Shuttle program, no matter its faults, will put thousands of technical workers out of work. Good one.

Dr. Phil

Steve Buchheit said...

Elizabeth, people often misunderstand just how cheap the things are that improve our lives immensely.

Dr. Phil, yep. Over all government employment is dropping so fast, it's what's dragging the jobs market down. Then there's also the secondary jobs that those workers also made possible.