A drop-out designer in Portland, OR via Campbell, CA
- Charlie: Fix that.
- MacKenzie: How?
- Charlie: You put a help wanted ad in the paper for someone who can do your job.
- MacKenzie: Good. Anything else?
- Charlie: I just want to know that it didn’t happen.
- MacKenzie: That’s not easy to do.
- Charlie: You should include in the ad that applicants need to be able to do hard things.
— From an episode of Newsroom
Working remotely is difficult due to distractions. Like when a water pipe in your downstairs ceiling bursts and rains on your belongings while you’re in the middle of coding. Downstairs flooded. Water shut off. -1,000,000 points, New York.
Well, it’s no wonder.
I’ve taken some wonder drugs.
I feel wonderful!
—Found haiku in Frasier (Season 1, Episode 23)
But as anything that is exciting to people, it will often be co-opted by others who aren’t as disciplined about it and all of a sudden it becomes cliché.
— David Fincher in an interview with Art of the Title
Nothing works up my
appetite like wallowing
in bureaucracy.
—Found haiku in Yelp review of In-N-Out Burger (source)
View from Pippin Hill Farm in North Garden, Virginia
Daisy’s 8-year-old sister showed me her website this morning. Work harder friends, these kids are gunning for our spot.
I wish you could have
the childhood I had, but that’s
not gonna happen.
—Found haiku in The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 12)
Lemon Andersen at his Straightrazor book launch in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Previously: Somewhere in the world, Brooklyn’s in the house
Do you know any
other garbage men who live
in a house like this?
—Found haiku in The Sopranos (Season 1, Episode 4)
At Nostrand Ave. subway station in Brooklyn, NY
I could not think of
a better scenic background
on my wedding day!
—Found haiku in Yelp review of Brooklyn Bridge (source)
Summer in Taiwan with Daisy
Sunset view from Jiufen
Light reflections in Keelung
Boats at Tamsui Fisherman’s Wharf
Previously: Watercolors – Monterey, CA
We were not even
using the word flow until
Rakim came along.
—Found haiku in Wikipedia article: Rapping (source)
