Having a public opinion on absolutely everything you love is no way to live
Bortle scale
The End of Night author Paul Bogard: « [E]ight of every ten kids born in the United States today will never experience a sky dark enough to see the Milky Way« .
Kottke : The night light (SEP 11 2013)
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Writing
Leonard died 20 August 2013 at age 87 – bookofjoe: August 24, 2013
Jeux
Ginette
Kaizen for soup kitchen
At a soup kitchen in Harlem, Toyota’s engineers cut down the wait time for dinner to 18 minutes from as long as 90. At a food pantry on Staten Island, they reduced the time people spent filling their bags to 6 minutes from 11. And at a warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where volunteers were packing boxes of supplies for victims of Hurricane Sandy, a dose of kaizen cut the time it took to pack one box to 11 seconds from 3 minutes. [x]
Sempé – ma préférée

-Ensemble, nous allons relire votre pièce. Puis, après, nous y ajouterons par-ci, par-là, quelques gags désopilants.
Cherchée longtemps. Mais you can’t hide from the internet.
The Food-Truck Business Stinks
The Food-Truck Business Stinks – NYTimes.com
In Ecuador, for example, it takes about 56 days and 13 separate procedures to get all the legal paperwork done to start a new business. In the United States, it’s an average of six days and six procedures. But if you want to open a mobile-food business in New York, it’s essentially like starting a business in Ecuador — and that’s if you can somehow arrange a permit

