James was renowned for his pithy turns of phrase. He once likened Arnold Schwarzenegger to “a brown condom full of walnuts” and said motor racing commentator Murray Walker sounded “like a man whose trousers are on fire”. He was equally waspish when describing Dame Barbara Cartland, whose eyes he said “looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff”.
Clive James: Australian broadcaster and author dies aged 80
“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds,” was another of his famous quotes.
Often called a problem solving set, Einstellung refers to a person’s predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though better or more appropriate methods of solving the problem exist.
Einstellung effect
If you have 30 minutes, Vaquita: The Business of Extinction is really worth watching to know how far away we are from a solution that is fair to life and livelihood.
(Given that Aliexpress can be a cesspit of crap, this is actually a decent product.)
Labels strive to establish trust between artists and listeners. They’re like your favorite restaurant around the corner. [In] the spur of the moment, you might find more excitement in that hip place that just opened somewhere else. But when the novelty fades, you’ll always return to your sanctuary. The safe place where they know your name and the last drink is on the house.
Kompakt CD 154 D
If you talk to the folks at Upgrade Labs for any amount of time, you’ll likely hear the story of a person who emerged from the pod in tears, claiming to have encountered God.
A Santa Monica Tech Startup Has “Hacked” Meditation
