December 2008
41 posts
“…you’re not how much money you’ve got in the bank. ...”
– The quintessential Fight Club quote. Just a reminder to myself and to anyone who’s listening. When someone asks who you are. Remember this.
“The road cut through everything, all the houses and farms and trees, and in a...”
– “Choke” by Chuck Palahniuk
Fuck I need to read three Christopher Moore books just after reading that passage again so I can fall asleep.
I think of this quote as often as I can. I constantly fear I’m being the little boy and do my best not to be. Every single passage with the...
“Harvard is basically a glorified corporation, operating with a profit incentive....”
– Chris Langan (via kevintwohy) How funny. I also read Outliers this Christmas. ;) should do a more thorough attribution IMHO. Langan through Gladwell. Great quote but much better with Gladwell’s commentary.
Gladwell goes on to call mock this comment (playfully) and use it as a sign of...
Practice, Practice, Practice
bijan:
I just read two posts about the importance of practice.
Tim O’Reilly writes about practice in programming:
“If some entrepreneur introduced the bicycle today, no one would fund him. You have to actuallylearn how to use it! …I saw a controller for Guitar Hero that costs a couple of hundred dollars. You can get a decent electric guitar for that price. But you’d have to...
Or...
topherchris:
This is a radical thought, I know, but bear with me: Some things that are written on the internet aren’t worth directly responding to.
I understand getting worked up over somebody’s utter stupidity, trust me. (Seriously, TRUST ME.) I also think it’s fine to use your outlet of choice to make your opinion on the matter known. My only advice on this plan would be, rather than...
Hmm
Probably going to go through another culling set. Tumblr’s dashboard has murdered my productivity. No other site on the internet does it more, not Youtube or Hulu because those sites I actually feel bad about being on when I should be being productive.
There are just too many interesting people on Tumblr posting interesting things. The last round of culling got me down to following around...
Watchvia Fareed, the best puppy.
“I think music is probably the most directly impactful art form. I mean, it’s the...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (» Daily Routines blog) (via gtmcknight) (via laureola) (via amandoline) (via unchainedmelody) (via saynicole) (via boxcarhighway)
He’s never read Catch 22 or Palahniuk. :)
Is my brain worth $100,000?
christieklisz:
Debatable. I was just thinking about this today as I (and the rest of my classmates who are probably equally in the hole) sipped on a glass of champagne and indulged in truffles and cordial cherries provided by Yale School of Nursing. Whenever they do nice things like this for us, I think to myself “Damn, this is the life…and for free!” until I come to my senses enough to realize...
Dear roommate,
boxcarhighway:
justinesamantha:
boxcarhighway:
No one here is willing to spend 1 or 2 hours with me. Let alone a whole night. I get that I’m just your roommate. I don’t come with the same perks as your significant other (because I sure as hell am not going to eat you out) and you’ve only known me for a few months. But I’m a little fucked in the head, and I don’t do too well spending days and...
“Satan will tempt you, I have been having real bad teeth problems. I thought,...”
– Woman returns $100,000 found at Cracker Barrel (via livejamie) (via gompr)
I’m normally the guy who says “fuck that, keep (some of) it” but the story was really touching and I’m happy of the outcome. I think I would be too guilty holding onto that money anyway unless it was...
50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have →
livejamie:
I’m doing pretty well with this list, what about you guys?
Was reading the pro-windows biased post and it came up with a Drupal error “too many MySQL connections.”
Instead of focusing on bullshit “skills” like replacing hard drive controller boards (which I know how to do and its a stupid useless skill that onanist nerds laud over each other) maybe they should...
Change in direction
As fun as bitching about religion is, it is quite obviously a waste of time as people basically either get it or they don’t. There are people who are lightly “spiritual” (whatever that means) or on the fence/lightly agnostic that a little logic can push over the edge, but those who are strictly in the religious zone are too deep in their illogical world to ever understand.
A...
James 1:26 - Have to point out the hypocrisy of... →