January 2009
61 posts
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roamin:
Britannica Blog
“A while back, I wrote about the affliction of avatar anxiety, in which one’s self-consciousness about one’s online self amplifies one’s self-consciousness about one’s actual self. Here’s the nub:
Your online self … is entirely self-created, and because it determines your identity and social standing in an internet community, each decision you make about how you...
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“Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy,...”
– Stranger Than Fiction (via amplifiction)
Dorothea Brande’s 12 mental exercises.
lelooshka:
Dorothea Brande’s twelve mental exercises. Note: she wrote these in 1936, so you need to adapt of few of them.
1. Spend an hour each day without saying anything except in answer to direct questions, in the midst of the usual group, without creating the impression that you’re sulking or ill. Be as ordinary as possible. But do not volunteer remarks or try to draw out information.
2....
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein (via willmccloud)
that’s because we’re just holograms.
The Constant Debate: Film vs. Digital
timmelideo:
CAUTION: LOTS OF WORDS AHEAD, BUT FOLLOWED BY PICTURES.
There is a constant debate that I have with myself. Should I shoot digital or shoot film? For my fine art, I shoot film. I use a Mamiya RB67. I do this because I can scan a 6x7 negative to make a gigantic print. Something that I can’t do as easily with my 8.2MP Canon 20D.
For my fashion work, I just can’t seem to decide....
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sometimes I forget that my daughter is the only person who sees me as without flaws.
“There are new phone books on my porch. I’m sure a triceratops listening to a...”
– Twitter / Ainsley Drew (via grundle)
So true. I’d love to know how many people immediately pitch theirs, as I do.
Announcement
I’ve been looking at spring/summer fashion and I hate it all. Floral and safari prints make me throw up in my mouth a little (especially these crappy retro ones with which I’m sure that I played dress-up in my Grandmother’s closet).
25 things you may not know about me...
cross-posted from my facebook:
1. I’m so exhaustingly self aware that it makes me neurotic. I miss the days of going through life and taking it all for granted, though I can’t stop myself from looking to science and philosophy.
2. I (poorly) keep several different blogs, each with a defined purpose.
3. I really love to feed/entertain people. I love company and would have people...
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Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Can I be that quiet?
Do they really need a recipe?
Why is he always talking about sin?
Slippers.
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Morning phone call from co-worker...
Jen: Hey Trev was supposed to take Molly to daycare but he woke up late, so I'm just now getting there. I'm going to be late for our staff meeting.
Lindahl: Staff meeting? We don't have a staff meeting today.
Jen: We don't have our Wednesday staff meeting?
Lindahl: Jen, today is Tuesday.
Jen: Is it Tuesday? That would be so awesome if today was Tuesday!
(pause)
Jen: And please tell me that there's coffee.
one of us is right and one of us is wrong.
kaylawicker:
after puking all day and breaking out in hives, my roommate was like, yeah you definitely need to go to urgent care.
i apparently have: food poisioning, a cold & am having an allergic reaction to the medication i am on for my nose infection.
how is it possible to have so many things wrong w/ you in the span of 3 days?
ps: i love the new tumblr and my #1 tumblr crush is...
Just because you see it in a movie doesn't mean... →
Boy from Hammond (the city ‘A Christmas Story’ was based on) gets tongue stuck to pole.
Best comment: If he would have watched mythbuster’s he would have known not to do that.
Watchblakewhitman:
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) (via Vimeo)
this is best thing I’ve seen in a while.
oh my god. best ever.
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a little hot mess (not)
-15 outside, feels like -30.
So-called “global warming” sure feels like a joke today.
all i want is to make you happy
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“Music is the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. Play it loud enough and...”
– Across the Universe (via havent-got-a-prayer) (via justatoy) (via singingvows)
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I just explained to my 3yo daughter that I am her Daddy’s wife and he is my husband.
Her immediate question was “Can I ask Tori to be my husband?”
I’m not telling her no. I hope no one ever has to.
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in time of daffodils
jennyjennjen:
in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in...
in which I state the obvious
From an advert for the product Spinlash- a spinning mascara brush!- in which they diss other options to enhance the look of your lashes:
“false eyelashes look fake!”
…except how the model in the commercial IS SO OBVIOUSLY WEARING THEM.
Most mascara ads do this, but they’re not usually so blatantly obvious in letting me actually see the base of the fake lashes or...
No one knows it, but:
magicmolly:
If you open up Lil’ Wayne, there’s a littler Wayne inside. And if you open up that one, a yet smaller Wayne appears. And inside of him? That I cannot tell you, for I am entrusted with his secret.
