I just ran across this on a local development forum I frequent. It's a quote lifted from a book called Cities in Full:
"show me a man over the age of 30 riding the bus, and I'll show you a life failure."
That's certainly a day brightener for me.
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Hey, I've been meaning to email that quote to you for some time. It's often attributed to Margaret Thatcher. I came across it in a book called _Reading the Everyday_. I've been meaning to provide that quote and comment on the book with regard to your blog's name change, particularly with reference to the "dull" in the subheading.
If you're interested, the book takes off on the various studies of la vie quotidienne (think fun social theory from the 1960s on from French folks like Lefebvre or de Certau) and examines some of the more mundane elements that shape everyday life like waiting for a bus and runs them through the class, place, and space wringer.
Go ahead with your jokes. I'll start: how can you make waiting even more boring? Oh yeah write and/or read a book about it.
Francis, the fact that the quote might be from that wrinkley old prune Maggie T. makes it all the better. Sorry about removing the dullness quote, but I couldn't resist having the bus quote up there.
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Hey, I've been meaning to email that quote to you for some time. It's often attributed to Margaret Thatcher. I came across it in a book called _Reading the Everyday_. I've been meaning to provide that quote and comment on the book with regard to your blog's name change, particularly with reference to the "dull" in the subheading.
If you're interested, the book takes off on the various studies of la vie quotidienne (think fun social theory from the 1960s on from French folks like Lefebvre or de Certau) and examines some of the more mundane elements that shape everyday life like waiting for a bus and runs them through the class, place, and space wringer.
Go ahead with your jokes. I'll start: how can you make waiting even more boring? Oh yeah write and/or read a book about it.
I have NO idea what to say about that quote...
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."- H.G. Wells
Francis, the fact that the quote might be from that wrinkley old prune Maggie T. makes it all the better. Sorry about removing the dullness quote, but I couldn't resist having the bus quote up there.
We should have more failures riding the bus.
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