February 2012
7 posts
“It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.”
– George Carlin (cf.)
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– ninth circuit opinion (via redorangeorangeonred)
“It sounds subtle, but these are the only days where I find myself getting...”
– Start every day as a producer, not a consumer - Journal - Daniel Howells
/via @eric_wvgg
(via pieratt)
“I fell in love with the universe. I wasn’t just “in” the universe. I was part of...”
– Why I am an atheist by Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/2012/01/09/why-i-am-an-atheist/
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Sheryl Sandberg talks about women and careers in... →
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
August 2011
7 posts
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Larry: (reading from a book being vetted) "Bartlet was playing a round of golf with Toby Ziegler, the prickly, mumbling Communications Director whose inner, bitter darkness spelled the breakup of the one marriage we know about."
C.J.: (breaks the silence that follows this by peering around a lamp to address Toby) It was miniature golf, wasn't it?
New programmers
Coworker told me some data structures in a script were broken so he fixed them.
He then asked me to explain how to get the code to work because he couldn’t get it run.
Fantastic.
Wine counts as grape juice on a juicing fast, right?
3 tags
July 2011
3 posts
Visualization of the Week: An approval matrix for... →
This post is part of a new series exploring visualizations. Some weeks we’ll point the way to intriguing examples we find in our web travels. Other times we’ll dive into our own datasets and…
6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
Talk I gave to incoming first-year students at Berklee College of Music today (September 5, 2008) My favorite part of the movies is the training sequence, where a young Bruce Wayne, Neo or Kung-Fu Panda goes to a remote location to be trained relentlessly, nonstop, past all breaking points, until they emerge as a master.
The next few years can be yo ..read more.. See what your friends are...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
8 posts
“The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how...”
– David Foster Wallace
What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers? →
What if drivers were hired like software developers? Job title: car driver Job requirements: professional skills in driving normal- and heavy-freight cars, buses and trucks, trolley buses, trams, subways, tractors, shovel diggers, contemporary light and heavy tanks currently in use by NATO countries. Skills in rally and extreme driving are obligatory! Formula-1 driving experience is a plus....
You're doing it wrong Oprah.
lady88:
I have this thought that what if Oprah’s “favorite things” weren’t severely overpriced pajamas, and Ugg boots, and TV’s and what not…but instead her “favorite things” were things that money can’t buy. You know, the little things in life that just make your day for no reason. Ever since I mentioned this to Natalie we find ourselves yelling things that we love that make us happy for no...
WatchAnd please don’t have a scraggly moonshiner beard unless you plan on starting a cult, in which case, go beard.
“President Josiah Bartlet: I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an...”
– One of my absolute favorite quotes/smackdowns from The West Wing. Damn. That’s some good stuff. (via sarabrowncolorado)
Hard work vs. Long work →
Long work is what the lawyer who bills 14 hours a day filling in forms does. Hard work is what the insightful litigator does when she synthesizes four disparate ideas and comes up with an argument…
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
4 posts
Inventables →
fuckyeahengineers:
Inventables is the innovator’s hardware store.
We sell materials that designers, artists, and inventors use to develop new products and push the boundaries of what’s possible
HOLY $#^7 I want everything on this site!!!
Fantastic!
“Did small children die? Is the world coming to an end? If not, you’re cool.”
– How to assess the gravity of what didn’t get done on your day’s to do list, according to me. (via jenbee)
Beofore you type the letters "LOL" ask yourself...
lady88:
Am I actually “laughing out loud”?
Does it makes any sense at all to insert “LOL” before or after whatever random thing I’m posting on twitter, tumblr, or (the bag of dumbassery that is) facebook?
Am I doing this right? Is this proper usage of this fake word?
Am I over age 19?
Have I used this silly expression over 3 times today?
And then STOP. Don’t do it. Do not “LOL”. Back away...
January 2011
5 posts
Watch F**KIN’ PERFECT
and A Personal Note from P!nk
It really blurs the lines of reality when IRL friends and Tumblr friends appear in the same dream.
December 2010
6 posts
Don't wait until you know who you are and what... →
Stop thinking. Start playing.
austinkleon:
There’s a video of Rainn Wilson (the actor who plays Dwight on the office) going around of him talking about “creative block” and how to get over it. His advice:
If you don’t know who you are or what you’re about or what you believe in it’s really pretty impossible to be creative.
If I…
♫ Great ReMix with P!nk, Kelly Clarkson, &...
“What if we all stopped believing the lie
That happiness comes from a store...”
– Melissa Etheridge - It’s Christmas Time
“It’s not the picture of an economy that’s investing in tomorrow: it’s the...”
– umair haque- The Worst Trade in the World
I have found the importance of Christmas shopping numbers on the financial news channel a bit ironic. It seems that we are a better economy by spending money we do not have on shit made outside of our country. The above quote really summarized my...
November 2010
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