Belacqua, In Defense of Indolence

Bonnie Tyler Visits St. Albans

Duccio di Bonavia — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:26:26 +0000

Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version

If only I’d known when I was there that they shot this at St. Albans!

Greenspun on The Audacity of Doing Nothing

Duccio di Bonavia — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:40:46 +0000

Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » The Audacity of Doing Nothing.

This is a tough one, you’ll have to make your own decisions about where you stand.

On Lazy Programmers

Duccio di Bonavia — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:42:18 +0000

Lazy, because only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end. Lazy, because only a lazy programmer will avoid writing monotonous, repetitive code – thus avoiding redundancy, the enemy of software maintenance and flexible refactoring. Mostly, the tools and processes that come out of this endeavor fired by laziness will speed up the production.

— Philip Lenssen, Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Dieting Done Right

Duccio di Bonavia — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:29:13 +0000

The Butterfield Diet (Peter Serafinowicz)

Hard to go wrong with During Dinner Mints

Steinbeck on Laziness

Duccio di Bonavia — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:39:34 +0000

Only in laziness can one achieve a state of contemplation which is a balancing of values, a weighing of oneself against the world, and the world against itself.

— John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1951