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2.02.2009

USA





United States of Africa: global domination is just a matter of time.
[And gloriously, unpredictably cyclical.]

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2.01.2009

Speaking of crashes

Golden boy


Shame on you, Michael Phelps.

If you're going to smoke pot after you win a shit ton of medals at the Olympics, don't get caught on camera!

And if you do get caught on camera, don't apologize.

If anyone's earned the right to get fucked up, talk a lot of shit, and eat too much, it's you.

Things fall apart

"for every twenty books on the pursuit of success, we need a book on how things fly into tiny pieces despite enormous effort and the very highest of ideals." - James R. Chiles, author of Inviting Disaster

Planes fall out of the sky.

Products aren't what they say they are.

Hard drives crash.

These are examples of what Org Design nerds [like myself] call "system fractures," which is basically another way of saying shit happens and there's nothing we can do about it but adapt to changing circumstances.

Ah, change.

The long tale

The story of Cinderella (aka La Cenerentola, Cendrillon, etc) began as that of Rhodopis.
Of course, the "real story" is a lot better.

Rhodopis was a high priced hooker. She hooked up with the right guys and met some literary types along the way.
Somehow, her name was associated with the building of the third pyramid and a real deal Egyptian pharaoh (a lot more of them were women than you might think).

In the past...