July 2011
48 posts
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete
Successfully in business. ...
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give, I give myself.
– Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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Character is what you are in the dark.
– Dwight L. Moody, Sermons
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There is a fine line between being boring, and being content.
– Uncle Fishbits
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Things do not change; we change.
– Thoreau, Walden
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A million million spematozoa,
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but...
– Aldous Huxley, Fifth Philosopher’s Song
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
– Anatole France, the Garden of Epicurus
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Life: Fragments of moments that overwhelm the intertime.
– Uncle Fishbits
I miss John Peel. He could help me *aka*... →
Anyone mind having a conversation about cataloging and sorting music? It’s mainly about the concept of top level genre labels, and maybe sub categories… but how do you break out your trees? I know…
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Money can’t buy happiness, but it does bring a more pleasant form of...
– Spike Milligan
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Dauphin 007 – a surreal journey that actually... →
Dauphin 007 from Jonathan Monaghan on Vimeo.
Thanks Scott Beale
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
– Vincent Van Gogh
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Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you truly live fully is from...
– Hervey Allen
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
– Bob Dylan
(It’s my birthday today, but it’s alright ma, I’m only bleeding)
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Old age isn’t so bad, when you consider the alternative.
– Maurice Chevalier
*a birthday quote*
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands...
– Mark Twain
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Whoever is happy will make others happy.
– Mark Twain
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than...
– Mark Twain
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Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain
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If you aren’t paying for something, you’re not the customer;...
– Andrew Lewis, under the alias Blue_beetle, on the website MetaFilter
via
Eli Pariser’s “The Filter Bubble”
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators...
– Edmund Burke
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Netflix’s Rate Hike, and what they really mean →
Netflix is speaking in tongues, and speaking in code.
One friend was floored, one friend mused that Netflix might actually take a 60% rate hike more seriously and communicate with…
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I love Noam Chomsky, but man.. all the pussy jokes.
– Zach Galifinakis
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(±0.2 Billion Years.): Thomas Edison was a bit of... →
14-billion-years-later:
I’m very much bias towards this opinion though I think it’s wholly justified mainly because of his treatment of the much greater Tesla (FuckyeahTesla deserves to be a blog). Anyways, before getting to the actual point of this post I wanted to whinge about the current (as in electrical current, not…
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear...
– Conan O’Brien
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Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth 2011 commencement →
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember,...
– Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921 (via manilaguerrilla)
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Religion’s fearful piety has inspired & built the greatest buildings...
– Uncle Fishbits
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 AM that matter.
– Marlene Dietrich
Let’s go to the lobby – HELL IS ON IT’S WAY.... →
theadventuresofolivia asked: i love your brutal honesty. I have just started reading your blog. I can already assume somewhat... but entertain me - what are your thoughts on religion? its purpose, its structure, its beliefs.
thanks for the laughs too - some of your stuff is hilarious!
thanks for the laughs too - some of your stuff is hilarious!
missroze asked: Simply incredible blog!
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Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, as the American...
– Jon Stewart (via invocationclothing)
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Being right half the time beats being half right all the time
– Malcolm Forbes
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I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning,...
– Frank Sinatra
3 ways to melt a chocolate bunny →
Chocolate Bunny from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.
My sis sent this to me… It’s From here.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,...
– Albert Einstein