Pain is temporary. Suck is forever.
Jay Shuster, Pixar
(I don’t subscribe to this personally—work/life balance is hugely important to me—but I have a lot of respect for it.)
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The problem with living in New York City is from time to time you’ll find the things you want to do end up conflicting with each other. Tonight is a terrible, terrible example of this.
A few weeks ago I found out that a great band, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club was playing a show this evening at The Bell House. I bought my tickets immediately, because their live show is incredible. (If you ever get the chance to see them, do it, you won’t regret it.) But then the Lincoln Film center tweeted that Titus is playing tonight as well.
Decisions, decisions.
I think Ashley and I are going with Titus, neither of us have seen it in quite sometime, and we can consider the tickets for Slim Cessna a honorable donation to their worthy band. But maybe, just maybe, »
“August, 2007, was when this crisis began. And if you were really watching the markets carefully, April is when it began, when the various hedge funds started to hemorrhage. The stock markets carried on until October of that year. And in many ways, consumer behaviour in the U.S. did not change until the third quarter of 2008. So there was a massive denial problem. It was like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, and they’d run off a cliff and they didn’t look down so they didn’t start falling. As soon as people realized it was bad, the behaviour switched. Now, people have to try to unscare them before this thing becomes a self-perpetuating downward spiral. I think that’s why you have to say ‘growth will return in 2010’ with your fingers crossed behind your back.”
I highly recommend that you watch this. It is an advertisement for scientific research support, and it blends humor and dorkery perfectly.
wingsandfins is right, you should watch this.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
Carl Sagan (via thresca)
A Cartoon Cat On the Sudden Passing of Michael Jackson
“What I think a lotta folks are feelin’ now is a regret. Not regret that a man died; no. They regret that for almost three decades they been mockin’ this guy. This guy who wrote Thriller, and PYT, and Billie Jean. You know who you are, you Michael deniers, listenin’ to your The Cure or Aerosmith. You always considered Michael’s music silly. Not serious. Lame, mainstream. “Popular.” And his life — everyone gets a kick outta’ watchin’ the mighty fall. It sells paper. It makes us feel falsely superior, from our low places. Yet now, now that he’ll never sing another note, you listen to those songs anew —ABC, I Want You Back, Beat It — and you know who he was. Michael had more talent in his little finger than any act today has among four men. Try wakin’ »
Looking for apartments in New York City is a life-altering experience.
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I always tell people it’s an extreme sport.
After 25 years, Tetris has sold 125 million copies
On each Tetris anniversary, Pajitnov and Rogers make it a point to gather for Russian cognac. (link)
What a fantastic way to celebrate.
Don’t Water Down Your Original Product.
One of the rules of thumb for coping with substitute technology is to narrow your focus to the area that is the least vulnerable to substitution. Michael Porter included it in his list of six strategies in his book “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.” The railroads survived the threat from trucks on Interstate highways and airlines by focusing on the one thing they could still do better: moving bulk cargo across long distances.
via Museum Blogging
“a 1988 Hilux with 190,000 miles (308,000 km) on the odometer was subjected to extraordinary abuse. This consisted of driving it down a flight of steps, scraping buildings, crashing headlong into a tree, being washed out to sea and completely submerged, driving it through a garden shed, dropping a caravan onto it, hitting it with a wrecking ball, setting the cabin and bed area on fire.”
If I buy a car again, this is what I’m going to get.
“The painting was created in 1888 by Julius Grimm (1842-1906), a German scientific photographer whose techniques of mapping the surface of the moon became famous when his acclaimed Atlas der Astrophysik was published in 1881. After meeting the Grand Duke Friedrich I von Baden, an astronomy enthusiast, in 1887, Grimm decided to paint a representation of the moon, based on his photographs, to be presented to the Grand Duke. The painting shows the moon as it can never be seen in reality: fully lit across the entire surface at once. The painting’s highly textured surface faithfully represents the actual landscape of the moon, which Grimm determined with precision by examining the shadows cast during the various lunar phases. When lighted from the direction Grimm indicated with a painted arrow, the ridges of paint cast shadows that create the photorealistic »
“Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons. Some are actuated simply by a love of adventure, some have the keen thirst for scientific knowledge, and others again are drawn from the trodden paths by the ‘lure of little voices,’ the mysterious fascination of the unknown. I think that in my own case it was a combination of these factors that determined me to try my fortune once again in the frozen south…” – Ernest Shackleton
The four members of the party that set out to attempt to become the first to reach the South pole, they were defeated by the weather, but also a lack of supplies and suitable equipment just 97 miles from the South Pole, a point they reached on January the 9th 1909. Ernest Shackleton »