It's not your fault.
I am Shawn Liu. I weigh about 145 pounds.
I co-founded Harvest. I update this blog sometimes.
@mrshawnliu
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“Frodo Is Great… Who Is That?!??”, a documentary by Hannah Clarke.
(Source: youtube.com)
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On Food
About six years ago, I went through a period of constant fatigue. It came over gradually, and I noticed it because I was feeling tired everyday and nothing helped. I was worried and a bit scared. I went to the doctor’s but there was nothing wrong with my blood test.
I was living in Hoboken at the time. Iridesco, the design studio Danny and I started, was in its third year and we were getting by. We worked long hours and ate out a lot. I consumed a lot of cheap pasta, pizza, fried rice and Indian food.
A friend of mine heard about my diet, and suggested that I tried cooking and eating more home-cooked meals. She explained to me that restaurants often use cheaper ingredients and bad oil, and our body needs to work extra hard to process all that junk.
So I started cooking again. I heard about the farmers’ market in Union Square. I bought a loaf of peasant bread for the first time in my life (from Bread Alone) and was amazed by the taste (and still am every weekend when I have their bread fresh). I started to watch what I eat. And gradually I got better and felt fine again.
After getting back to cooking, I became interested in the ingredients. I started to notice the difference between produce from the farmer’s market and those from the supermarket. These days, I favor organic and local food not just for moral and health reasons, but mainly because they taste (a whole lot) better. My wife and I enjoy trying out the different varieties the market offers (who knew there are so many kinds of potatoes!). There’s also something about just going along with whatever the season offers, even though it gets kind of sad and boring during the winter.
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Yes, please.
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My wife recently commented on how slow our iMac is, and I said to her, “What do you expect? It’s an old machine.”
Old? This computer has been with us for not even three years, and we barely use it. But it’s been crawling like a snail, as if all that web surfing and emailing have worn down the hardware. I hear the Intel Core Duo making creaking noises.
Maybe it’s the recent Lion upgrade. Are we still at that stage where every major OS upgrade means a leap in system requirements? How about instead of new features, make the OS more efficient so that it can run faster on older machines?
Or maybe my iMac is running just fine, but my sense of speed has warped by using a newer and faster Mac at work.
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The Disneyland Memorial Orgy (1967) originally published in satirical magazine, The Realist. By Paul Krassner and illustrated by Wally Wood.
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Classic.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you’re like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
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There certainly isn’t a shortage of offers. You wouldn’t believe how many watch manufacturers have sent me their models. Just like that. I give them all away. I am satisfied with what I have. How crazy do you have to be when you can afford everything but still clutter up your life with all sorts of advertising appointments? No thanks.
Dirk Nowitzki, in a SPIEGEL interview. It’s hard not to like him, yes? -
Dear Sir, I am Mr. Prince Hamlet, rightful heir to the throne of Denmark. I have an important business proposition for you.
My trouble is hard, as you may know from the international media. My father, King Hamlet, was killed via ear poison. His brother Claudius did the ear poisoning and now he has seduced and married my mom, the Queen. I know this to be true because my father’s ghost told me. I tried to revenge my father, but Claudius prayed so I couldn’t. Later I stabbed the wrong man. Now I need your help.
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