March 2011
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy →
The Misconception: You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments and experiences.
The Truth: Your decisions are tainted by the emotional investments you accumulate, and the more you invest in something the harder it becomes to abandon it.
Yes, kids, you can learn something from FarmVille. (Not that I’m encouraging you to play it.)
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Rules for Being Human
01. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period this time around.
02. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school, you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lesson or think them irrelevant and stupid.
03. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth...
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The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most...
understandtheuniverse:
“Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
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The Tumblr Dilemma
Find someone interesting on Tumblr.
Follow.
Suddenly inundated with ass pics on Dashboard.
Unfollow.
Not that I can’t admire a nice female posterior on occasion, but most of the time I’m looking at Tumblr at work, you know?
(Yes, I’ll tell you who it was if you want. I mean, they were good pics and all.)
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“And, in the end, the love you take /
Is equal to the love you make.”
– “The End” —The Beatles
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AIGA Launches Design for Good, Asking Members to... →
“Designers prove their value by doing valuable things.”
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“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”
– Duke Ellington
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“Some of you are probably like OMG YES YESSSSSSS and TOTALLY ready for me to...”
– Quoted directly from a legitimate PR email. VIDEOGAMES!
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“It is not easy to know what you like. Most people fool themselves their entire...”
– Robert Henri
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Real talk with Grimm, pt. 1
Grimm: so Fila is making those heinous ass toe shoes now. skechers gonna have em tomorrow
Cheryll: Oh god what? Link?
Grimm: TOE SHOE SHAPE UPS. give me a million dollars
Cheryll: A dude I was seeing got a pair of the toe shoes for running and kept asking my opinion on what color to get
Grimm: http://birthdayshoes.com/fila-skeletoes-toe-shoes-exclusive-sneak-peak
Cheryll: Finally I was like, "Dude, they're ugly, I kinda don't care." We're not seeing each other anymore.
Grimm: "It's not you, it's the toe shoes." that fuckin name too
Cheryll: SKELE-TOES. I hope he's Skeletor's sidekick in the He-Man remake.
Grimm: Im he-man, and I get in shape with Fila Skeletoes!
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Offspring, a Song of Ice and Fire style
AJ: did i tell u one of the names marcus (her husband) picked for a girl was aria
i told him we had to spell it arya tho
lol
this was before he read the books
Cheryll: Yeah!!
I love that name.
AJ: yah
loads better than d'artagnan
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams
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