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I would buy this shirt. (Actually I would prefer a Hoodie) QBF

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:01:24 -0500

I would buy this shirt. (Actually I would prefer a Hoodie)

QBF

Steve Jobs - The Crazy Ones Others have said it better than I...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:25:00 -0400

Steve Jobs - The Crazy Ones

Others have said it better than I could.

Why you should be weird

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:54:11 -0400

They told Van Gogh he used too much paint, and Englebart that the mouse was pointless. Galileo and Copernicus were called heretics for seeing the world for what it was. Dylan and Guthrie were told they couldn’t sing and that they had nothing to say. DaVinci’s helicopters and Tesla’s radio waves stayed in notebooks for years, as the ideas were too weird for ordinary minds to understand. Most great ideas seem weird at first. Our minds are used to the old world, the old judgments and the old reasons. Few have the imagination and self-reliance to see a new world when it’s first shown to us. This doesn’t mean being weird, or having a weird idea guarantees you anything. Most ideas, weird, cool or reasonable, fail to take hold. Yet it is certain the first time you hear an idea that will eventually change everything it will seem weird to you. And the first time you pitch a great idea, you’ll be told by even smart and successful people, that you and your idea are weird. This is to be expected. Many great ideas need second chances to show how great they are.

-Scott Berkun

For Steve. The Princess Bride + 8-bit = ROCKS!

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:26:33 -0400

For Steve.

The Princess Bride + 8-bit = ROCKS!

Growth of Target, 1962-2008 | FlowingData

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:30:15 -0500

Growth of Target, 1962-2008 | FlowingData

Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club Across America | FlowingData

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:25:33 -0500

Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club Across America | FlowingData

Eephus League

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:18:24 -0500

Eephus League:

My new favorite Baseball web site.

Foo Fighters new video. White Limo. Heavier than most of their...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:01:00 -0500

Foo Fighters new video. White Limo. Heavier than most of their recent output, but good. Full album due in April 2011.

Hey Jude flowchart

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:46:30 -0500

Hey Jude flowchart

A Look At Call of Duty: Black Ops’ New Map Pack, Due Feb....

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:53:38 -0500

A Look At Call of Duty: Black Ops’ New Map Pack, Due Feb. 1

48 Ghosts that MS. Pac-Man wouldn’t stand a chance...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:08:42 -0500

48 Ghosts that MS. Pac-Man wouldn’t stand a chance against.

I’ll post the list of who’s who later.

Jon Foreman - Learning How To Die

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:18:54 -0500

Learning How To Die

I’m gonna miss you
I’m gonna miss you when you’re gone
She said, “I love you”
I’m gonna miss hearing your songs

And I said, “Please”
Don’t talk about the end
Don’t talk about how every little thing goes away

She said, “Friend,
All along-
Thought I was learning how to take
How to bend not how to break
How to live not how to cry
But really
I’ve been learning how to die
I’ve been learning how to die”

“Hey everyone,
I got nowhere to go
The grave is lazy
He takes our bodies slowly”

And I said, “Please”
Don’t talk about the end
Don’t talk about how every little thing goes away

She said, “Friend,
All along-
Thought I was learning how to take
How to bend not how to break
How to live not how to cry
But really
I’ve been learning how to die
I’ve been learning how to…
Die
Die
I’ve been learning how to die.”

"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote..."

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:35:00 -0500

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

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-Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)

I am really enjoying this book. I know I don’t fit the target demographic, but it is enjoyable none the less.

"Q: What is your vision for the future of Christianity? What kind of Christian community do you want..."

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:11:00 -0500

“

Q:
What is your vision for the future of Christianity? What kind of Christian community do you want to see?

A:
Honestly, I would just love to see Christians following Jesus. He was not an easy guy to follow, especially when he started talking about loving neighbors and loving enemies and going beyond tolerance to live your life with people who are nothing like you and disagree with you. I really want to hammer on some of these points, because I think they are the hallmarks of following Jesus. I don’t think that Christianity, Jesus or the Bible have failed; I think that Christians have failed to believe it and to do it. If Christians would just look at the life and the words, and pursue Jesus, I think they would suddenly find that it’s incongruent with a lot of cultural Christianity and Christian practice. I would love to see Jesus lead all of us about out of this ghetto of Christian subculture. Even if that happened, we’d still be diverse members of one body, so it doesn’t mean we’d suddenly become homogenized. We’d all still have our particular personalities and gifts. Those differences are good. But the most primary and basic ethics that compel us as followers of Jesus should change, and it would change everything and reorient us back to what it actually means to be a Christian: to love.

”

- Chris Stedman: Just Follow Jesus: Interview with Christian Singer Derek Webb

Billy Preston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Preston is one...

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:11:02 -0500

Billy Preston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Preston is one of several people sometimes referred to by outsiders as a “Fifth Beatle.” At one point during the Get Back sessions, John Lennon even proposed the idea of having him as the “Fifth Beatle” (Paul countered that it was bad enough with four.)

Hidden game in Call Of Duty Black Ops. It’s like Smash TV...

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:24:38 -0500

Hidden game in Call Of Duty Black Ops. It’s like Smash TV with Zombies!

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Dead Ops Arcade (via MahaloVideoGames)

Call of Duty: Black Ops Commercial - There’s a Soldier in...

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:49:42 -0500

Call of Duty: Black Ops Commercial - There’s a Soldier in All of Us (via ATLGamesExaminer)

The fun begins tonight at 12:01.

It was interesting to watch peoples reaction to this commercial yesterday during the football games at Wings Etc. Most of them didn’t recognize Kobe or Jimmy Kimmel on first viewing, and as it aired during other games, they would stop watching their game to turn and watch the commercial airing on a different TV.

SIGN YOU MIGHT BE LEGALLY INSANE #103: Ted Nugent is standing...

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:57:52 -0400

SIGN YOU MIGHT BE LEGALLY INSANE #103: Ted Nugent is standing next to you, and he’s the less crazy one.

Video: The Making Of 'Band On The Run' : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:50:00 -0400

Video: The Making Of 'Band On The Run' : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR:

For Band on the Run, McCartney was looking a for a bit of adventure when he made this record. So he booked a studio in Lagos, Nigeria. Some of his bandmates decided not to join him, the studio wasn’t up to his expectations, and yet he soldiered on.

Below is a mini documentary on the making of Band on the Run filled with footage from the recording sessions and Paul and Linda McCartney’s travels in Lagos.

elephantinthepicture: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy...

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:44:43 -0400

elephantinthepicture:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!