1. 02 April 2007

    Beautiful Evidence

    3 days ago

    Tufte’s newest tome on the art of information design, or whatever he calls it these days. I really don’t do much design of any sort, but find the stuff fascinating to look at and even read about. Here’s a list of things from the book that I’d love to have poster size and hang somewhere:

    • 17 – Prints of fish.
    • 37 – Pages from book on skiing.
    • 46 – Visualization of Chopin piece.
    • 73 – horse by Verrocchio.
    • 84 – Centuar manuscript.
    • 96 – da Vinci sketches of the moon, 103 – da Vinci star chart.

    And a few notes:

    be approximately right rather than exactly wrong 50

    The rage to conclude:

    The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded. Gustave Flaubert, 154

  2. Good links, taken photos, listened songs, performed workouts

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    • The Subways - Mary

    • Leadbelly - Rock Island Line

    • Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys - Footprints In The Snow

    • Del McCoury - High On A Mountain

    • Rilo Kiley - Ripchord

    • Spælimenninir í Hoydølum - Pindsvine-Reinlender (Sweden-Denmark)

    • Bill Monroe - shenandoah breakdown (instrumental)

    • Bob Dylan - Emotionally Yours

    • Nickel Creek - Eveline

    • Wilco - Jesus, Etc.

    • Bryan Sutton - Big Sandy River


    • Art Tatum — 28

    • Chris Thile — 15

    • RJD2 — 14

    • The Wood Brothers — 10

    • Glenn Gould — 10

    • Bill Monroe — 8

    • Dinu Lipatti — 5

    • Ricky Skaggs — 4

    • Ludwig van Beethoven — 3

    • Atmosphere — 3

    • Soccer Practice - Gym again, the weather really needs to turn back to nice.

    • Soccer Practice - In the gym because it’s freezing and there’s a foot of snow on the ground (damn weather). Easy compared to yesterday, good time.

    • Soccer Practice - Crazy day. I didn’t really pick up on the fact that it was freezing, and so was out in shorts and a tshirt. Dude broke his thumb. For 20 minutes it snowed flakes the size of wheaties. And all of this after some bad...

    • Soccer Practice - Inside due to cruddy weather, good practice nonetheless.

    • Strength/Speed - Last session, lifting day 1.

    • Soccer Practice - In the gym, easy practice. Speed of play!

    • Soccer Practice - The turf field will tear you up. Good practice, agility and ball work followed by world cup. My team played the finals of 3 and won 2 of 4 rounds. I think that the lifting I’ve been doing has helped out my shot a...

    more: links, photos, songs, fidness.

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