a journal of found objects, by justin haugh
“We would be able to totally obliterate them.”
— Hillary Clinton, assessing the options for a U.S. response to an Iranian attack on Israel.  [New York Times]
“Machines should work; people should think.”
— The IBM Pollyanna Principle
“They say the 21st century is going to be the Asian Century, but, of course, it’s going to be the Bad Memory Century. Already, you go to dinner parties and the middle-aged high achievers talk more about how bad their memories are than about real estate. Already, the information acceleration syndrome means that more data is coursing through everybody’s brains, but less of it actually sticks. It’s become like a badge of a frenetic, stressful life — to have forgotten what you did last Saturday night, and through all of junior high.”
— David Brooks, “The Great Forgetting”
50 people see an eye

50 people see an eye


Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
“It would be convenient to blame the regulators for all that, but the system is stacked against them. They are paid less than those they oversee. They know less, they may be less able, they think like the financial herd, and they are shackled by politics.”
— The Economist, “Fixing Finance”
"Though to be fair, he once got a merit badge for droid dismemberment."
“In this world, dress matters, home decor matters, and a Brooklyn vs. a Manhattan address says something about who you are—artsy or professional—but judging someone because of the language their parents speak at home? Totally gauche.”
— Adelle Waldman, The Assimilation Artist
large hadron collider threatens mankind

Death Star, anyone?

reboot

The sequence of events is, at this point, a cliche.

I once had a blog, and at first it was fun. But writing polished blog entries is time-consuming, and the blog software I was using eventually became outdated.  The design was impersonal, cookie-cutter. The format encouraged long-form expression and polished gems of thought rather than off-the-cuff observations and linking. It was for people who had more time to devote to writing than I did.

What I needed was a format that encouraged casual, frequent posting, play rather than work. I wanted a format that would help me express when I had a moment to scribble something down. When I stumbled across project.ioni.st, I found the model I was looking for.

Welcome to my new lightweight journal, I hope you enjoy it.