February 2012
16 posts
Allow yourself to be human + other lenten thoughts here
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Sharing Poetry: Daphne Gottlieb, "Why Things Burn" →
sharingpoetry:
My fire-eating career came to an end when I could no longer tell when to spit and when to swallow. Last night in Amsterdam, 1,000 tulips burned to death. I have an alibi. When I walked by your garden, your hand grenades were in bloom. You caught me playing loves me, loves me not, metal pins between my teeth. I forget the difference between seduction and arson, ignition and...
“Every moment of our life has a purpose, that every action of ours, no matter how...”
– Walter J. Ciszek (via nitors)
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More Valentines and Geekiness
More here: http://fosslien.com/heart/
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Philippines Tops As Investment Site
The Philippines has emerged as the most competitive country among seven Asian economies as an investment destination and doing business whether in manufacturing or services sectors, the latest survey conducted by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) revealed.
Trade and Industry Undersecretary Cristino L. Panlilio said that JETRO came out with this Philippine Competitiveness survey by...
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Why does Adele's 'Someone Like You' make everyone...
Chill-provoking passages, they found, shared at least four features. They began softly and then suddenly became loud. They included an abrupt entrance of a new “voice,” either a new instrument or harmony. And they often involved an expansion of the frequencies played. In one passage from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 (K. 488), for instance, the violins jump up one octave to echo...
On Valentines
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, what you know that breaks your heart, and what amazes you with...
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How to be a brogrammer
Awesome question to follow on Quora.
My faves
Brogramming 101: 1) Shirtless 2) Sunglasses (w/ bifocals) 3) Headphones & dubstep
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January 2012
44 posts
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“GONG XI FA CAI!”
Anonymous asked: kayo parin ni gelo?
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PirateBay's press release regarding SOPA
So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they
circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works,
without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the
studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest...
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Top 1% Undergrad Majors
Share of all 1%
1. Biology
2. Economics
3. Accounting
4. Finance
5. Political Science and Government
Who are 1%
1. Health and Medical Prep
2. Economics
3. Biochemical Sciences
4. Zoology
5. Biology
Read more here
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Best Definition of an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
I talked to Stevenson about his classic definition this weekend. Back in 1983, he told me, people tended to define entrepreneurship almost as a personality disorder, a kind of risk addiction. “But that didn’t fit the entrepreneurs I knew,” he said. “I never met an entrepreneur who got up in the...
31 Ways To Get Smarter
Some of my favorites (lots more):
Get News from Al Jazeera
Wipe the Smile Off Your Face
Write By Hand
Play Words With Friends
Go to a Literary Festival
Play Violent Videogames
More here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/12/30/31-ways-to-get-smarter-in-2012.all.html
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please advise stop
with practice a memory like a voice can be thrown into any unsuspecting object stop each thought is a cone that depends on its opening at both ends stop I need a few ants to appreciate the sugar-white of bed sheets stop
unfolding the paper crane won’t undo its allegiance to sequence stop the features emanating from clouds are more fierce through my open window stop each breath’s...
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Stockdale Paradox and Entrepreneurship
The Stockdale Paradox is named after Admiral Jim Stockdale who was the highest ranking US military officer imprisoned in Vietnam. He was held in the “Hanoi Hilton” and repeatedly tortured over 8 years. Collins describes going to lunch with Stockdale (can you imagine?) and trying to understand how he survived 8 years as a POW while so many died after just months in captivity. Here’s how Stockdale...
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“You feel pleasure when you want something and you get it. Or when you...”
– Personal: Today’s message
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Jonathan Safran Foer is going to break your heart
I am not alone. Go on Twitter, and you will discover people posting Foer quotes as if they were koans:
“How much suffering will you tolerate for your food?”
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” (This with the ominous hashtag of #truth)
“I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.”
The following things are true...
We only have what we remember.: Rap Analysis →
sarc0mere:
Let us assume (because I do not think it to be much of a stretch) that all of these rappers rap only true feelings and thoughts. That is to say, what they say is what they mean. Therefore, I will use quotes directly from songs to illustrate my points. This analysis is to serve two purposes: to…
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Local
The global village doesn’t mean the globe But somewhere like that warm pub in St Andrews We kissed in before seeing on television How all the chemicals that make our bodies First emigrated here from far, raw stars.
-Robert Crawford
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More Philippines
The History Channel’s Hidden Cities will feature the Philippines.
About the series:
In and around Asia’s most bustling cities lay hidden worlds filled with forgotten palaces and temples, abandoned towns and disused underground fortresses that shelter unbelievable relics and untold stories. Hidden Cities returns with eight episodes across Asia – covering Singapore, Malaysia,...
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Filipino Foods
Please find link to 50 of the BEST Filipino Foods.
Here’s a picture of one of my faves- SISIG.
Pic from http://joyceiracooks.com/2010/06/05/pork-sisig/
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Pour le CGT
We work too hard.
We’re too tired
To fall in love.
Therefore we must
Overthrow the government.
-Rod Smith
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