Quote of the day
Sólo porque alguien no te ame como tú quieres, no significa que no te ame con todo su ser.
Gabriel García Márquez 13 líneas para vivir
Which reminds me of the discussion yesterday in the V2_lab’s kitchen: about how Rui hates all the bad art out there. Rui, just because you don’t like an art, doesn’t mean the artists didn’t made it con todo su ser (it doesn’t mean the opposite either). It would be so boring if all the art was great to you and you won’t have to look for something that speaks to you - just go to a gallery or cinema or a website and enjoy. That some art stands out, for you, on a background of the other only makes it appeal more, after all:
Quizá Dios quiera que conozcas mucha gente equivocada antes de que conozcas a la persona adecuada, para que cuando al fin la conozcas, sepas estar agradecido.
May be God made all the “bad” art so that when you finally encounter the good one you’ll be greatful. You can substitute “art” above for just about anything.
Update
Pretty much the same sentiment as Rui’s but applied to open source software:
Rotten Flesh
The antithesis of sweetcode.org, rotten flesh highlights the genericity endemic in the “Open Source community.” Rottenflesh is a satirical attack on http://freshmeat.net/, an index of free software and a major Open Source institution. The big problem with freshmeat.net is that it’s inflicted daily with piles of half-brained nonsense; broken MP3 taggers, dodgy CGI scripts and (of course) software to manage your video collection. There is plenty of good software there too, but it often drowns in the muck.
So go to http://unpythonic.net/~jepler/cgi-bin/rottenflesh.cgi Browse the point releases of obscurely-named applications, their menubars and theme systems described as distinguishing marks, their recent change history hinting at feverish, over-caffeinated brains locked away in student digs for long, long nights of unbound hacking.
Then open up http://freshmeat.net/ as a comparison. Wish that some of those free software authors took note of rotten flesh before thinking about what they should contribute to the world. Hope also that they aren’t discouraged totally from working their keyboards to more productive ends.
Alex McLean’s write up about Rotten Flesh project by Jeff Epler.
