Twitter favourite

"Doctor, after finding out Grandpa's age: 'Wow, you look really great for 94!'
Grandpa: 'You're not so bad yourself.'"

- ginatrapani (Gina Trapani), Twitter

Wed 9th - 2

Here's an interesting idea:

New Muxtape project! Songs from every year I've been alive.
- Austin Kleon (who has just landed a HarperCollins book deal for his newspaper blackout poems)

I might try to do my own project somehow, maybe here in blog posts. It's a really timely idea: in the last few days I've been hyper-nostalgic about music after realising I could use YouTube and DownloadHelper + Applian FLV Player to collect old songs for free. This probably seems like a clunky way to find music but I still have a dial-up connection, so can't use sites such as Last.FM or Muxtape. And the sound quality isn't important. I don't have a portable music thingie-whatsit, so only ever listen while at the computer, using the computer's kinda crappy speaker; music sounds about as good coming from a video as it does from an audio track.

Classic old songs-on-video collected so far include The Beatles' "Let it be" and Jackson Browne's "The load out / Stay".

Sun 15th - 3

I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.

- the narrator in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, instalment 2 of 51 from DailyLit.

True enough.
;)

Sun 15th - 2

You know you're getting older when you have to look the "hot" items up to see what they are.

- mrfixit64857, Twitter