Monthly Archives: September 2010

Introversion, a definition by negation

By david.humphrey | Published: September 14, 2010
“The essential ingredient for any successful rock group is energy–the ability to give out energy, to receive energy from the audience and to give it back to the audience. A rock concert is in fact a rite involving the evocation and transmutation of energy.” –William Burroughs writing about  a Led Zeppelin concert [...]
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Sustenance

By david.humphrey | Published: September 14, 2010
On Sunday the girls and I made an apple pie.  My wife handed us a bowl full of apples and told us to make something delicious.  “Dad, we’re going to have to make a pie, and do it from scratch.”  I let the girls do almost every step by themselves, with the exception of peeling [...]
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Flash vs. HTML5 dance-off

By david.humphrey | Published: September 13, 2010
In case you missed it on Friday, here’s a little Monday morning awesome for you.  A week or so ago, Jonas Flint threw down a little web UI challenge, daring the open web to build a button as cool and sexy as his Flash-based button: Can this be replicated in HTML5? And if so, gracefully? Smoothly? [...]
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On the letter from a friend

By david.humphrey | Published: September 9, 2010
What does the letter from a friend do?  First, it arrives.  It arrives with the markings of its travels.  It comes from far away; it is sent, carried, delivered.  Second, it comes from the past.  The letter from a friend is always what was written.  It is memory and not speech.  It is then, and [...]
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How much does a song cost?

By david.humphrey | Published: September 8, 2010
Lukas and I were talking about a great video today, The Money Tree, in which a tree is carefully adorned with 100 one-dollar bills, each one containing a short note exemplifying the obvious serendipity of coming upon such a sight.  It’s a wonderful video, and the music is great too. It caused me to share a [...]
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On the small gathering

By david.humphrey | Published: September 4, 2010
Nephew: “Where are you going tonight?” Me: “To see a movie.  Have you ever gone to see a movie at a theater?” Nephew: “Yes.  I’ve seen Curious George, and I didn’t like it at all.” Me: “Did you not like the movie, or the experience of the theater?” Nephew: “The theater.  It was me sitting with a bunch of [...]
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The paradox of good decision making

By david.humphrey | Published: September 3, 2010
The personal decision is always, and fundamentally, perceived to be arbitrary.  The decision I make, the one that comes out of personal reflection, out of thinking, out of me, the decision that does not come as a consequence of orientation in the system, that follows from the relationships that shape me instead of following on [...]
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