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Are you really thinking for yourself, or is it someone else thinking for you?

Somebody asked Jim Jarmusch about the best advice Tom Waits ever gave him. Without thinking about it for even half a second, Jim Jarmusch said: “Never answer a question directly.”

Priceless advice, even though he was not following much of it, when he gave that answer to the world. Thanks Jim!

My friend Laura Nichols asked me to help her with material for the MIT humorous magazine Voodoo. I thought of making the Stata Center come to life as a Transformer that would go hump the Green Building. It is full spring now, and after all, the Stata Center does look like a broken Transformer. I don’t find it hard to imagine that some crazy genius in there could find a way to turn it into a horny robot by rewiring the ventilation, the plumbing or the heating system in a non trivial manner.

Here is a link to Brent’s note on the Transformers for the nostalgic.

Here is the Stata Center last friday:

Here is the Green Building a few minutes earlier:

And this is why I love Photoshop:

I made an icon of Jun Sato for Jun Sato. The icon features blissful Sato and Happy Sato. There are plans for making Sato surprised and angry Sato. Jun Sato is the Visiting Scientist from the Toshiba Corporation at the PLW this year. He is responsible for integrating the Creative Commons Licensing system in OpenStudio. He is currently working on a secret project that involves secret stuff and features my icon.

First I thought I was early, then I thought I was late, then I realized I was interrupting.

Sometimes I just want to wake up, and then I realize I’m already awake.