January 2012
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“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most...”
– Thomas Edison (via youmightfindyourself)
November 2011
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You can be confused AND correct.
dailypeptalk:
Pep Talk: It makes total sense that you’re confused about this. We’re all confused about something and yet, here we are, making choices, moving on, and living happy lives. There isn’t enough information in the world to make a fully informed decision so you’re just going to have to trust yourself. You’ve never made a wrong choice before and this one will be no different.
Today...
October 2011
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September 2011
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“Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.”
– Linus Torvalds
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August 2011
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You know how it smells after it rains? That clean,...
July 2011
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June 2011
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In... →
youmightfindyourself:
30. Gustave Flaubert on George Sand “A great cow full of ink.”
29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman “…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.”
28. Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri “A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
27. Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling (2000) “How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s...
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“I want to speak directly to [showrunners Ed] Burns and [David] Simon: Do another...”
– Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking at a Justice Department anti-child-abuse forum attended by Wire actors Wendell “Bunk” Pierce, Sonja “Kima” Sohn, and Jim “Prez” True-Frost .
You heard the man.
[reuters / baltimoresun.]
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Watchdouglasmartini:
This Dirty Beaches Take Away Show (from the streets of Austin during SXSW) is all kinds of great, and not just because of the made up “Gimmie Some Barbecue” song at the beginning (courtesy of Sandra).
I am in love with this man.
May 2011
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Grímsvötn Volcano Looks Like the Beginning of the... →
Jon Gustafsson, the Icelandic photographer who had some of the best footage of last year’s Eyjafjallajokull eruption, has some breathtaking video of currently-erupting volcano Grímsvötn taken from a helicopter.
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via thatkindofwoman)
“In a time of soup lines and economic destitution, the library was known as the...”
– The Public Library Manifesto: Why libraries matter, and how we can save them (via youmightfindyourself)
GUYS. I have a first job interview on Thursday! I WANT IT OMG.
Toss some good vibes my way if you can!
Why I Write by George Orwell →
youmightfindyourself:
Sheer egoism- Orwell argues that many people write simply to feel clever, to “be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups in childhood, etc.” He says that this is a great motive, although most of humanity is not “acutely selfish”, and that this motive exists mainly in younger writers. He also says that it exists more in serious writers...
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein
(via scienceisbeauty)
April 2011
14 posts
So I just applied to about 20 jobs. One of them is bound to see that ol’ je ne sais quoi, right?
I’m trying to figure out how to overhaul my life. Suggestions can be directed to my inbox.
