Family guy and web developer
When I was a kid and my mother wasn’t around to make us something to eat, my dad used to smile and explain that we had our choice of a peanut butter sandwich, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a jelly sandwich. “You should have it on toast,” he would say. “It tastes better because the peanut butter gets all gooey.”
— PB&J by Kurt Harden
The things that remind us of our childhood.
The project is vaguely on your mind. You sip coffee and read a book. You scan the news but with faint attention because you are still sorting out the project. As much as you might like to do so, the process can't be rushed.
— Nothing But Thinking by Michael Wade
I'm coming off the back of a frantic couple of months of client work and looking forward to a little bit more time spent like this.
A wonderful piece highlighting some life lessons from a father.
Begin conversations with people on airplanes when you hear “We have begun our descent.” If they prove to be fascinating, you will broaden your world; if they prove insufferable, it’s only 15 minutes. Uber rides and chairlifts provide a similar opportunity — exposure to people you would not otherwise meet in controlled time periods.
— Unsolicited Advice for My Three Sons, In No Particular Order by Rufus Griscom
It's writing like this that I love to read but going through the thousands of posts on Medium is a real problem. Another walled garden of potentially great content I guess.
Today marks 20 years since Ocean Colour Scene’s Moseley Shoals entered the British charts. It was the band’s second stab at success: their self-titled 1992 debut sunk without trace and they’d been honing the follow-up for four penniless years. “We knew it was good,” said guitarist Steve Cradock. “We spent a lot of time working on it.” Championed by Radio 1’s Chris Evans – who loved The Riverboat Song so much he made it the theme tune to TFI Friday – it screamed in at No 2 and stayed in the top 10 all summer, buoyed by support from Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher. The real reason for its success, though, was simpler: it was an absolute gem of a record, by a brilliant group of musicians.
— Ocean Colour Scene: the band whose chief crime was being too normal by The Guardian
I can't believe it's 20 years since Moseley Shoals was released. I'm still an avid listener of Ocean Colour Scene today. Can't fault them at all. Recommended.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Love this quote that Shawn Blanc highlighted as part of his Focus Course and he follows it up nicely with his own take on it:
May devotion to our business not be sustained by neglect of our health, relationships, values, and even our own happiness.
— Family Balance by Shawn Blanc
Both worthy additions to DailyMuse.
Stephen Fry's post makes for a good argument in getting off the grid.
Jacking out of the matrix would cast one as a hero of the kind of dystopian film that proved popular in the 70s, Logan’s Run, Zardoz, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451 … on the run from The Corporation, with the foot soldiers of The System hard on your heels. We really are starting to live in that kind of movie, mutatis mutandis, so surely it’s time to join the Rebels, the Outliers, the Others who live beyond the Wall and read forbidden books, sing forbidden songs and think forbidden thoughts in defiance of The One.
— Off the grid by Stephen Fry
I would love to delete my digital footprint (with the exception of this blog of course), but what does that achieve for myself? My career is the Internet.
Stephen of course is not just a conventional celebrity, he's more than that. I can understand why he would like to remove himself from the digital world, but it's not really an option for me.
A freelance web developer without a Twitter account?
How absurd.
Great to Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass working on the new Bourne movie.
Subscribing to @problogger’s RSS feed again. Feels like 2010 again.