June 2010
3 posts
Let the Great World Spin.
By Colum Mccain. A novel about the guy who tightrope walked in-between the world trade center towers. And other made-up people who are somehow connected to each other.
“[H]e was going to hang a slogan, he would slide it from the towerledge, leave it there to flutter in the breeze, like some giant piece of sky laundry”.
Sky laundry. Isn’t that a great phrase? It captures...
A Mission Statement.
What I love most about summer is the free time. Granted, this year there is substantially less of it, but I plan to make use of it in the best way possible: by reading!
It’s true, I love to read. I also love the feeling that comes after the finish of a very good book, where you can just pause inwardly for a moment and think. I find that most of my best thoughts come from books.
My...
Racing
Today I learned why our society is so screwed up. We want to better our society by coming up with a theory which will blow each other’s minds away. The problem is that, normally, someone else is thinking the same thing. So it becomes a race to get your solution out there first.
Darwin could have perfected his theory a little more, but he wanted to get his book out. Not that his theory...
Reliable Source
I learned today that if your paper wont be considered a reliable source, there’s no real point in gathering information from “reliable sources”.
Think about it. You’re doing a history paper on the progression of 3-D movies throughout the 1900s. There is a website specifically devoted to this topic, made by a person the same age as you, for a history project. But your...
May 2010
11 posts
Presents and the Western Frontier
Today I learned that present-giving is a manifestation of American’s manifest destiny. You could say, our own personal M.D (not like the doctor).
Why do people like getting presents so much? For someone’s birthday, people don’t get underwear, or food, or a house (well, rarely); things needed for survival (unless you like going commando). Instead, we get surprises, mostly...
Waiting and waiting and waiting and i'm still...
Yeah. Today I learned that the waiting is a lot more fun than the event. Example: I waited for 15 minutes to talk to someone who couldn’t stop to chat. But it was totally awesome. We basically stood around calling eachother fat cow/tall cow.
Some things are not good to wait for. Some things you need to happen so you don’t go absolutely insane like you ask someone to stop...
Floof
Tearing apart floof is fun. Fun floof. Do you know what floof is? No, I didn’t think you would. But tearing it apart is the funnest thing in the world. Second up there is making up words (e.g. floof, funnest).
Define floof. Make up your own word. Have someone else define it. It’s a game. Play it! Games are fun. I like games. Then try to be comfortable using it. Pretend to...
Life.
Having a life is fun.
A life can be defined in two ways: breathing, and having excitement transpire in one’s life. In most cases, I define life by the second. So, drama can be good. It ends up sucking, but really, would you rather go through your life bored, or at least be a little interested? And interesting. Just try and fix whoever you hurt. Cause if you don’t, then...
Work and play -> plork.
I learned today that arguing only sometimes can get you somewhere.
Fight for something you believe in. Go for it. fight. win. etc.
What if you had to lose for something you believed in? Like you were more committed than everyone else, but you just weren’t smart enough, or fast enough, so you had to give your spot to someone else? Taking the hit. Is that right?
If you were amazing at...
Trust in politics!
I learned today that some people don’t believe in voting.
Someone’s just made a speech and you think you should clap, but you’re afraid to start the clap. And no one else claps, so then that’s wonderful. And awkward. And silent.
We expect others to take initiative, we trust in others to make the right choice. Well that just means we’re lazy.
One time, there...
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brownies and vodka.
The big question: what do they have in common?
Both are fun, no? Drugs&alcohol…they both contain a good time. Or, for those of a more innocent nature, sugar&alcohol: still a fun time.
Eh.
Feeling the effects of consuming them takes forever, or close to. Vodka you can’t chug and get drunk then and there. It’s a patience thing. With brownies, you can get to about 5...
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Bacon Pants
Make it happen
Take a chance
Don’t forget your bacon pants…
Camp song. Counselor wrote it. There’s more to it, of course, but that’s pretty much a huge part of the way I live.
Make it happen. Cause putting thoughts into action (like thinking about getting out of bed and then actually getting up) are so different; I can’t believe they’re related....
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”
– Demonthenes
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Stand clear of the closing doors, please.
Today, I learned that being impulsive is fun.
I got off a stop early on the subway, and walked an extra five blocks, and it was fun. Screwing standing clear of the closing doors, please. It’s fun.
I learned a lot of other things today, as well. I learned that Veri is a village and municipality in the Lerik Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 786.
Somehow (strange, I know),...