July 2010
11 posts
“In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”
– Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922) (via lyssahumana)
“If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is...”
– Teller (of Penn and Teller) (via patrickrhone)
“Driven problem solvers: PayPal had a strong bias toward hiring (and promoting /...”
– Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders
June 2010
20 posts
“It is only in our decisions that we are important. - Jean-Paul Sartre”
– (via simplespace)
“Anyway, as you might have noticed there’s a brand new series of TopGear starting...”
– Top Gear Script Editor Richard Porter (via caseyliss)
“The best way to break up with a girl is like I’m taking off a band-aid. Slowly...”
– Anthony Jeselnik (via simko)
“If Americans ever really get hold of football (soccer) and figure it out,...”
– An Irishman at a bar last night (via clarityunfiltered) (via section9) (via mikehudack)
I think that’s true. Hopefully we, mexicans, could do the same in football and in a lot of more important things.
Yer a programmer, Donnie Knuth
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
Spells from Harry Potter and their corresponding Bash commands:
Accio: wget (Pulls an object to the caster.)
Alohomora: chmod +rw (Unlock a door.)
Avada Kedavra: rm -rf / (The killing curse.)
Colloportus: chmod uo-rw (Prevents a muggle from openin a door.)
Deletrius: history -c (Deletrius clears a wand’s spell history.)
Episkey, Reparo: fsck (Heal minor...
“The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to...”
– What is data science? - O’Reilly Radar
“$ ls ~/porn/*.jpg
-bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long”
– taw’s blog: Small tips for making Unix programming nicer
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
– (via johnnyfive) (via masomenso)
“I created something from nothing. And that something did something else, which...”
– Dan Meyer (about coding).
“Thoughts are always the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via seavoids) (via n3cr0phelia) (via metalshell) (via slightlyseductive) (via theblankpage) (via masomenso)
“Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via signa) (via katriin, indiarose)
This is exactly what I’m doing.
Sold or donated already: 1 TV, 1 Wii, 1 Xbox, lots of Wii and Xbox games, 1 Wacom Tablet and 1 Sony dSLR.
My goal is to end the year possessing 50 or less things (not counting books).
May 2010
28 posts
“There is no better way to learn something than to write about it.”
– Martin Gardner (via The Say Of The Week)
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via danielac) (via quote-book) (via katriin)
“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company....”
– JIMMY FALLON, Late Night (via the New York Times and everybody’s Tumblr)
How clueless could BP’s (real) PR people be? This was obviously going to backfire. When your company spills oil, shut the fuck up until you fix it. And then probably keep shutting the fuck for a little while after that too....
“At least it hides the face partly.
Well, so you have the apparent face, the...”
– René Magritte, referring to his famous painting, The Son of Man.
(via sebastianwaters) (via mareen, coffeemakescreative)
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as...”
– Steve Jobs on following your heart and intuition. I <3 the way he thinks.
Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
(thanks Alex for sending to me) (via heyamberrae)
“Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future.”
– Bill Cosby (via kareem) (via taylordavidson)
I find this pretty scary right now.
Watchpetervidani:
David Lanham drawing this at 1200x.
