Watch at 1:50 into the video. He’s looking for Google to see who won, the cameraman says the names and he knows. In his world it is instantly obvious why these people won the prize.
Lovely moment.
What if money was no object?
I wish I could have found the words as well as this.
I wonder how many people gave up on a dream for the money.
In related news, often you hear bankers saying that they need to earn large amounts because it’s such an awful/difficult job. They should do us all a favor and give up for something else.
Google Trends – Phones…
Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay…
Job Title of the day…
Happiness Hero
Aircraft Carriers in Space…
There is more original thought in this one article than in most news papers…
“But in space, you don’t need that doorway between the sea and the sky, because your “fighter” is operating in the same medium as the mothership. You don’t need a flight deck. You just need a hatch, or maybe just a clamp that attaches the fighter to the hull if you don’t mind leaving it outside. You don’t need the big engines or the big elevated flight deck. And hence it doesn’t make nearly so much sense to put all of your eggs in one basket.”
Aircraft Carriers in Space – By Michael Peck | Foreign Policy.
Why parents are now taxi drivers…
“The Thomases are not unusual. A 1990 study called “One False Move” tracked the unsupervised play spaces of British children across generations and found the newest 8-year-olds have 1/9th the roaming territory of their parents. That’s a one-generation change. Back in the 1970s, 80 percent of British 7- and 8-year-olds were allowed to go to school unsupervised. By 1990, the percentage was 10 percent.”
Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Is That Always A Good Thing? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.
Kelvin MacKenzie…
“Where does that leave me?”
Leaves you where you’ve been for the last thirty years. Without shame or a soul.
The Titanic Sails at Dawn…
“The real question of this decade is not whether to compromise or not, but how much and in what way.”
mick farren, “the titanic sails at dawn” (1976) de Sylvilagus audubonii sur Myspace.
Gruber vs. Pogue on Charlie Rose Tonight…
Watch any decent film from the post war period and you’ll see actors act. Something that is lost in modern CGI filming.
In those days film cost money and therefore with a limited number of takes actors would up stage on and other. They’d move to the centre of the shot, produce a prop or gesture in a special way.
As film got cheaper, this art got lost on film, although it remains in theatre when actors are often moving upstage.
What made me think of this was watching Gruber vs. Pogue.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight.
Gruber is new to this, he’s made is name in print (if the web counts as print). Pogue isn’t. Watch Pogue use the props that he has, a phone and a cable. He’s all action, Gruber just gets the words right!