So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
ADAM SAVAGEThe fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Failure is always an option.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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