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:... →
fyeahcarlsagan:
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...
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After months of practice
I think I can finally say I have learned to blow dry/style my hair with the round brush. You know, how they do it when you go to a salon. Why isn’t there a class in high school on personal appearance where they teach you this sort of thing?
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via coketalk)
“As it turns out, our enemies’ greatest weakness is that they are bereft of...”
– Retired Admiral John Hutson discussing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 with the Huffington Post (via mohandasgandhi)
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– C.G. Jung (via misswallflower)
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine
(via Diana)
This is great.
(via megburns)
I don’t often get inspirational on y’all, but this really nails it.
(via haygirlhay)
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Switched egg nog for cream in my coffee this AM
“Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of...”
– Paul Newman (via a-blog-called-everything)
A 1000x… yes. (via apoplecticskeptic)
