Filed under: music, random | Tags: aging, college, growing up, madeleine, memory, the postal service, the speed of time, time
Give up!
Looking through my music collection today I realized that the album “Give Up” by The Postal Service is fully 7 years old. This means that it has been 7 complete, tumultuous and jarring years since the first time I remember thinking to myself that I was finally old enough. As we were dragging my boxes, my computer and my speaker system up the stairs of the dorm, I could barely hear my parents over the sound of someone playing “Such Great Heights” loudly enough that we could still hear it in my hall, one flight up and all the way across the floor. I had a minifridge, my parents left me there and I didn’t have anyone to answer to. My brothers had left starting 7 years before that and I remember believing I would never get to that point. I think the record was on repeat, or I’m completely conflating the track with my memories, because I swear it was playing when they left, too. I remember this clearly. I was ecstatic, nervous and a little scared but full of joy. (more…)
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Isn’t this fascinating? Kind of whimsical? Instead of flying a radar-silent (or whatever they call it) superjet, this guy built a boat out of old-fashioned paper. This is what your mom’s been trying to tell you every rainy day since you were 5. Just build something! It could be great.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-477786/Artist-sets-sail-life-size-paper-boat.html
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Thus proving that Smart Cars, though cool in theory, and cool in execution, will never, ever, look cool. These things look like Penny Racers!
In trying to “go green,” it seems that one of the biggest obstacles is an attempt to duplicate a design that appeals to those accustomed to the artifacts of a gasoline (petrol?) age. In this case, trying to make a Smart Car look like a Porsche only, by some sort of hilarious error, makes the driver seem like a toy specifically designed for a children’s toy car.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) these are not real. This is all photoshopped. You can not have one of these.
However, I do wonder if these sort of body kits might tap into a completely different market: those who like comedically-sized objects. Though, due to the price of these tiny little cars, I think your normal fetishist of such objects would just opt for White Castle instead.
So, it seems that, again, innovation and “fairtrade,” “green” living are only fit for insane millionaires, whom, I would add, should probably spend their money engineering a car made out of Nerf instead.
<Editorial: I am horrified to learn, upon reading the Wikipedia Article about Nerf, that it was Ray Romano who first suggested that cars should be constructed with Nerf. I am ashamed.>
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