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Norman Rockwell’s Photo Realism

My favorite Rockwell painting.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

—Benjamin Franklin

There’s not much more to say here except that regular travelers will once again be punished with absurd rules because the TSA can’t do its job right. I try to be level-headed with these things, but this one is just too much.

I fear travel in 2010 will be an entirely new level of stupidity.

Christmas buffet is ready. Come one, come all.

Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you!

Amazingly cool rendition of my favorite Christmas song. (via Vimeo via @jojeda)

25 Years of Apple Mouse Evolution (via raneko)

A great photo set.

myTwinCities | Holiday Train Departing Hastings. MN

My favorite (yet) train picture taken by Michael.

Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is long-lasting
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possible

Each time I revisit these, I find new application. In a time where there can be so much complexity in the technology, products, and processes I have to interact with, these are refreshingly clarifying.

mnmal:

Men who feel like life is hard often have failed to form good habits. Every day is a struggle between what they want to do and what they end up doing instead. They can never find that groove, where the habits that make you stronger, healthier, and happier become almost automatic, giving you that feeling so central to a satisfied life: that of making continual progress.

How to Develop a Habit

1. One thing at a time. Many men I know never change because they always try to improve everything about themselves at the same time. I do this too-you start feeling unhappy about your life and so you make a list of all the things you need to change, believing that starting the next day you’re going to totally transform yourself! It makes you feel really pumped. But changing one habit is hard enough; changing five at the same time is usually impossible. You’re juggling a bunch of balls and eventually you get tired and they all fall to the floor. And there you are, back at square one.

The older (and quite possible wiser) I get, the more I realize serial = success, parallel = failure. I am far more successful when I concentrate on one thing at a time; and that’s minimalist.