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My name is Erik Mallinson. I draw pictures, make music, and some other stuff. I like playing the ‘ukulele, riding my scooter around Boston, and playing board games.
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Posts tagged work

May3

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
Louis Kahn (via austinkleon)

107 notes #art #work

Feb8

Probably it would be unwise to say too much about my job. After all, any “artist” with a profession is bound to have an ambivalent attitude towards it: one loves it sometimes for not being one’s art, and hates it sometimes for the same reason. I don’t think that, if one needs money, being an artist is sufficient excuse for shirking the job that feeds one, and I try to do mine conscientiously for that reason alone….The best thing to do is to try to be utterly schizoid about it all – using each personality as a refuge from the other.
Philip Larkin on having a day job (via austinkleon)

9 notes #work

Jan26

6 ways to avoid work stress

  1. drinking
  2. drugs
  3. avoidance
  4. procrastination
  5. delegation
  6. shopping

#work

Dec9

Oct25

Schmidt Sting Pain Index→

bestofwikipedia:

The Schmidt Sting Pain Index or the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center.

Here’s the index:

  • 1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
  • 1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
  • 1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
  • 2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
  • 2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
  • 2.x Honey bee and European hornet: Like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin.
  • 3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
  • 3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
  • 4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.
  • 4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel.

Wouldn’t that make a good index for meetings? After the meeting have everyone point to the chart.

9 notes #meetings #work #bees #pain #wikipedia

Feb5

The Brass Sisters (or the Sisters Brass as we called them) used to come into the picture framing store that I worked in (along with Steven, Rob, and other members of The Exploited) to have their various food related artwork framed. They are delightful. I was quite excited to see they are doing an appearance at the Whole Foods in Fresh Pond for their new book. But I am thoroughly delighted to find they are getting their own TV show on WGBH. Unfortunately it has not been scheduled to air yet. THE SISTERS BRASS ARE FRICKIN’ AWESOME! UPDATE: I added this event to Facebook

The Brass Sisters (or the Sisters Brass as we called them) used to come into the picture framing store that I worked in (along with Steven, Rob, and other members of The Exploited) to have their various food related artwork framed. They are delightful.

I was quite excited to see they are doing an appearance at the Whole Foods in Fresh Pond for their new book. But I am thoroughly delighted to find they are getting their own TV show on WGBH. Unfortunately it has not been scheduled to air yet.

THE SISTERS BRASS ARE FRICKIN’ AWESOME!

UPDATE: I added this event to Facebook

3 notes #work #WGBH #cooking #exploited

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