February 2012
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Someone needs to write a sociology thesis about...
golden-notebook:
(Inspired by unknowable woman’s reblog)
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“The less engaged I become with social media, the more it begins to feel like...”
– Frank Chimero’s Weekly Dispatch: Week 1. (via somethingchanged)
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It costs the state of California $50,000 per year...
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“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via mermaidsongs)
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... →
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo. It...
January 2012
23 posts
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“In 1970, the United States had the world’s highest rate of high school and...”
– The True Cost of High School Dropouts
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I love my sister
her email to me:
ok so today is January 26th and yesterday was Helen’s birthday so…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELEN. HAVE A GREAT TWELFTH BIRTHDAY!!!!
wait that doesnt sound very right now does it.
oh ok let me fix that.
HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAAARRR!!!!! YAY YEAR OF THE DRAGON! Year of good luck and hope!
oh wow its year of the dragon.
YOU’RE TURNING TWENTY-FOUR TODAY!
as you would...
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On goods and goods-characteristics
Student: In Menger's view, would love not be considered a real need?
Professor: You're asking me this on my wife's birthday?
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“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...”
– Fidel Castro
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“Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most...”
– Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship
(via bees-knees)
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“A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses it to come to a...”
– Alain de Botton on false standards and reclaiming the metrics of success. (via curiositycounts)
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“Competition in the market puts people under great pressure to break the ordinary...”
– Michael Waltzer
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The Upside
My housemates and I have a huge backlog of Jeopardy episodes on our DVR. Was watching with Tuan and Erika the other day and this came up:
Contestant: Bummer Words $2000
Alex: This word is found after clinical, manic & postpartum
Me: (screaming giddily) DEPRESSION!!!!
Tuan: (looks at me) … I don’t know what to say to you right now.
Methinks to self: … oooh Depression...
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"I'm Not as Smart as I Thought I Was" →
How do you deal with feelings of intellectual inadequacy?
A high school student applying to MIT is struggling with these feelings. Here’s one reply on this Reddit thread via Cal Newport:
The people who fail to graduate from MIT, fail because they come in, encounter problems that are harder than anything they’ve had to do before, and not knowing how to look for help or how to go about...
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Steve Jobs - The Tweaker →
The angriest Isaacson ever saw Steve Jobs was when the wave of Android phones appeared, running the operating system developed by Google. Jobs saw the Android handsets, with their touchscreens and their icons, as a copy of the iPhone. He decided to sue. As he tells Isaacson:
“Our lawsuit is saying, ‘Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off.’ Grand...
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“… we are all prisoners of our own destiny, must confront it with the...”
– Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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The "banal secret" of willpower. →
“The only way to boost willpower is to recognize the inherent weakness of the will.”
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原本平凡无奇的拥有 到现在竟像是无助的奢求
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December 2011
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"I leaf in America twenty years!" or, English...
Wal-Mart: Wa-Ma
Smart: S-ma (“rt” is always silent in Dad’s world)
Chubby: Cho-pi
Jeopardy: Ja-potty
Soap opera: Soap operate (my sister and I spent the entire car ride home have a serious convo about how watching soap operations weren’t really conducive to learning anything besides operating on soap)
Beaker: Bee-ka
Dad: I should have been a professor instead.
Me: No...
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Chubby daddy
Mom: You look five months pregnant.
Sister: Are you having a boy?
[Dad looks at stomach]
Me: We are a family of skinny people so you've got to go.
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Furkids
Me: Chubby says good night Granddad!
Dad: Good night Granddog--这乱了，我要的是真的孙子怎么是只狗！
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lol
The Chinese call corgis “威尔士矮脚狗” which translated directly means “Welsh short-legged dog”
THE CUTENESS.
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Sexonomics: Taking Beauty's Measure →
youmightfindyourself:
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a man I worked for said to me, “You’re beautiful.” Then he quickly added, as if he regretted paying me such an expansive compliment, “in your category.”
Had I read the new crop of scholarly books on beauty, I would have considered legal action. Or I would have contemplated a makeover. Either I had been a victim of “lookism”—a form of...
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