December 2010
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The years do not wait for us.
– Chinese Proverb
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The Female Factor →
Female or not, this is relevant.
Now enough with the serious stuff, this is pretty cool and interesting:
Pop Culture Creates New Heroines
“In films, books, music and television and on the social media networks, we have rethought gender roles, and the old virgin versus slut metaphor rings false, if it ever was true.”
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I spent so much money on grad school applications today it physically hurts.
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2010: The Year in Pictures →
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a...
– Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8
The lines were set to music by Pete Seeger and recorded by the Byrds in 1966.
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Cleaning out the closet, drawers, and boxes. Quite...
Receive what cheer you may;
The night is long that never finds the day.
– Shakespeare in Macbeth
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Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth
– Mark Twain
I’ll whisper to you
all of the places my lips
are going to kiss.
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important...
– Laurette Taylor
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Done with the GRE!!!
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’...
– A.A. Milne. (via bees-knees)
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My Toefl scores are in!
Now I just have to get through tomorrow so I can be normal again.
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They make it look so easy—connecting with another human being. It’s like no one...
– Dexter Morgan, Dexter 5x12 “Through a Glass, Darkly” (via laviebelem)
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“But the thoughtless wickedness with which we scatter sentences of imprisonment is as nothing compared to the stupid levity with which we tolerate poverty as if it were either a wholesome tonic for lazy people or else a virtue to be embraced as St. Francis embraced it. If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunk, let him be poor. If he is not a gentleman,...
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“Ask me what has been my most fortunate experience of the past two decades, and I’d say it was gaining the selfless love of my wife, Liu Xia. She cannot be present in the courtroom today, but I still want to tell you, sweetheart, that I’m confident that your love for me will be as always. Over the years, in my non-free life, our love has contained bitterness imposed by the external...
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Yo, Fox! NOBODY PUTS FRINGE ON A CORNER!
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You know you’re addicted to a tv show when…not only you call dibs on the tv, but you also put a post it on it to make sure nobody will dare to take your spot.
I take Dibs’ Rules very seriously.
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Search, find, delete.
Sometimes the best things for you can be done in less than ten seconds.
TEST YOUR INSIGHT! →
“Scientists have found indications that your ability to jump to intuitive answers — what they term the “Aha!” moment — may be affected by your mood. After watching a humorous video, brain imaging and test results of subjects suggested that a positive mood prepares the brain’s insight.”
If not for the game, do it for the video!!!
The fact that ash from a modest volcanic outburst in Iceland grounded most of...
– Slavoj Zizek ~ The End of Nature
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"How much can you fit under your skin?"
Under My Skin ~ Jukebox The Ghost
Hold your own
Know your name
Go your own way
– Jason Mraz ~ Details in Fabric
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
– Philip K. Dick ~ “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” (1986)
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That awkward moment when you realize you're...
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Brazil Outpaces All Other Countries in Reducing... →
constantflux:
Brazil announced today that it reduced tropical rainforest destruction to another record low level. The country’s National Institute for Space Research found that the loss of Amazonian forest reached a record low of 2,490 square miles (6,450 square kilometers) between August 2009 and July 2010, 67 percent lower than the average deforestation rate between 1996 and 2005.
Below is...
When it rains, it pours.
Story of my life.
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...
– Margaret Mitchell, in Gone with the Wind (1936)
I'm having a stare contest with my computer...
Whoever loses it has to write two essays by midnight tonight.