February 2012
18 posts
“Love isn’t something you feel, it’s something you do. If the person you’re with...”
– Nate Fisher, Six Feet Under (via apoplecticskeptic)
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Top five regrets of the dying
jayparkinsonmd:
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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Also, read The Life Reports.
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Just woke up from a much needed 14hrs of sleep. There are very few things that would motivate me to go out every night of the week. Wanting to spend every second of your day with someone special is one of them.
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
“We who mourn continue the heat of our own lives”. Damn.
(via lonelyheartsdeathmetal)
not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly.
(via motivatedslacker)
This. Is amazing.
(via 14kgoldnyc)
“At their heart, all library jobs have a central purpose: to help people access...”
– From the Guardian’s Beyond books: what it takes to be a 21st century librarian. (via libraryjournal)
January 2012
26 posts
http://camillestyles.com/2012/diy-gilded-business-c... →
DIY gilded business cards? You best believe I’ll be making these the first chance I get!
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Vending machine fail: meant to get a snickers, entered code for wheat crackers. Not even close!
“All happiness that is dependent on others
is bound to disappear sooner or...”
– Osho (via shecomesincolor)
Those last lines really speak to me
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People are saying it's too soon for Joe Paterno...
mohandasgandhi:
Barrett Garese: How to actually deal with a ton of... →
spytap:
Coming back from a two-week vacation, I have a ton of emails in my inbox. This isn’t an uncommon situation, but my preferred inbox status is “under ten.” As this seems unfathomable to many people, I often get asked how I actually make this happen.
So here’s how I get my inbox into single digit…
I use the same strategy! Don’t know how people can stand to have hundreds of...
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Dorkulate With Steve: Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write... →
the-write-idea:
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We…
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via thefreenomad)
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Listened to the whole Florence + The Machine...
I’ve been doing the same thing all week! Great album
iliketulips:
And promptly started it over again.
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via fartwithheadphoneson)
“Travel is so rewarding that it should take precedence over other things younger...”
– New York Times: Advice on Finishing With No Regrets
South Africa, Argentina, Antarctica > clothes, bags, shoes (via quickandcurious)
Note to self: stop spending all money on clothes or things for your apartment.
Tea Party House Members Even Wealthier Than Other... →
mohandasgandhi:
The median average net worth of a member of the House Tea Party Caucus was $1.8 million in 2010. (Financial disclosure forms require lawmakers to value their assets and liabilities only in ranges, so it’s impossible to know exactly how wealthy a particular elected official is. However, it’s possible to calculate an average net worth for each member of Congress.)
That’s ...
Year in review: 2011
Goals met
Saved $10k
Found a stable, non consulting job that makes me happy
Painted nails more often
Took more photos
Goals not met
Read 10 biographies (only finished 3 but I started 6!)
Own land
Be able to complete 100 push ups
Take vitamins daily
December 2011
18 posts
Apoplectic Skeptic: On Perfection →
donamajicshow:
The inability to attain perfection (or excellence, or self-actualization, or whatever you want to call it) is no excuse to give up trying altogether. In truth, we can all do a little better than we have done in the past. We can all be a little kinder, a little more generous,…
timeimmemorial:
When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition to structure the experience.
— Marshall McLuhan qtd. in Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
Heated family political debates before 9am? I’ll just stay in the kitchen and drink my coffee.
“What exactly did she want? It was an ambition that wouldn’t let her...”
– Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Crazed Women and Bearded Intellectuals: Reddit:... →
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Schools and Universities:
University of Reddit with corresponding subreddit
MIT Lectures
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Rice - Connexions
Utah State
Berkeley
Berkeley Part 2
Berkeley Part 3 (videos)
Stanford
Stanford…
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
As much as I like this idea, the romantic notion of this quote, there have been notable exceptions. Times when I felt the slack in the rope, and I let go first - before I could be yanked over the cliff by my own desires. Some days, I think, maybe I should have...