What if when Taako suddenly got all of his IPRE knowledge back and he just… Has a realization that he has been incredibly smart this whole time. But instead of being thrilled by this, he just says in horror, “Fuck, I’m a Nerd. Oh Shit.”
Shenanigans is right! There are times I don’t have a lot of patience with Banksy, and this feels like one of them – given the price was exactly the same, and he had to orchestrate the special painting shredding frame with Sotheby’s, I would imagine this is a bit of an elaborate performance, but I don’t really see the point. Banksy’s early work was pretty hefty social commentary, but it feels like in the last decade it’s just been variations on the theme of kicking the back of someone’s chair to let them know you don’t like them. Like, nobody likes the Art Establishment, find something new to say, Banks.
It makes me think of Liu Yiqian, who bought a $36M teacup and then had the audacity to drink tea from it – this feels like a muddled attempt at what Mr. Liu did effortlessly. Granted, he’s a millionaire who wasn’t really thinking it through, by his own admission, but in using what one establishment has deemed a valuable artwork for its intended purpose, he made a pretty fascinating statement about how we append value to objects and how that transforms them.
It feels to me like Banksy was trying to use the art world’s language to say how much he didn’t like it, and there’s value in that idea and I suppose in the attempt. But the deeper you go into that world the more convoluted and convulsive it gets, and the messy, cloudy meaning behind shredding one’s own painting as soon as it “sells” comes through pretty garbled. It makes me sad, because I loved works like Kissing Coppers when I was younger.
“Interrogation of the Zodiac Killer” -The Ghost of Sandro Botticelli ca 2015
So I slapped some mathematics on this picture and…
The red lines divide the picture into thirds. They also mostly coincide with the doorway (and Cruz’s right hand), framing him nicely as the Main Character of this picture.
The green line was placed using the golden ratio (the ratio between parts of the picture above it and below it is close enough to 1:1.618). It also goes right under his chin (and through some reporters’ hands or tools).
The purple lines are diagonals that are framing the reporters really nicely.
I’m pretty sure you could also do something clever with a circle and the yellow doorway behind him, but I don’t have the patience to fiddle with that.
Basically, this picture has the same “maths are beautiful” aesthetic as (some well-known) Renaissance paintings.
How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)
-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor
As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none.
Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.
This is true of so many things in healthcare. Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range. If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else. It makes sense, in our setting.
But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad. Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health. Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health? Heavens no!
So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal. A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up. We have increased our vigilance!
Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking. We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.
But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources. They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.” And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.
The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.
I’ve been looking for a good budgeting app for AGES. Zanzando and @angelgazing started talking about the Daily Budget App about a month ago, and I’ve been using it ever since. I tried quite a few others – YNAB, thanks for the learning curve and the proselytizing, but no thanks – and Daily Budget is quick, easy, simple, and best of all, something I actually end up using.
Enjoy the made up numbers and walk through commentary on each pic!
Level Money is another, similar financial tracking app that is also available for android. (Also very stylish looking, tbh). And Wally, Mint, or Mvelopes are also pretty useful.
Reblogging because I’ve been using this for about three months now and hey, I’ve factored in a new car loan to my costs, bought six months of car insurance all at once, and I’m still saving 20% of my money, no sweat. (while not making all that much money, tbh. this isn’t one of those ‘inspiration’ money stories by someone who’s actually making bank. fuck those assholes)
ANYWAY bringing this back because it worked for me, maybe it will work for some of you!
Plot Designing 