February 2011
12 posts
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is...
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
January 2011
22 posts
hella DIY →
Shooting in Tucson? Way too close to home. Now a shooting in Saratoga? Even closer.
This makes me nervous.
Psychology Today: The Meaning of Life Revealed! →
“This is an issue that the existentialist philosophers grappled with and agonized over, and a lot of them came to the same conclusion that I have: that life is ultimately meaningless. But many found a silver lining in this cloud. They concluded that, if there’s no meaning or purpose imposed on us from outside ourselves, then that leaves us in the position where we are free to...
NYTimes: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma →
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: “our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence.”
Fascinating read.
Also: unknown unknowns
Stayed at school til 6:45 again yesterday. Something always keeps me here.
You can eat life or let life eat you.
– Tahitian proverb
cool shit
Hypercube
Möbius-sliced linked bagel
and my favorite:
Wild Möbius strip appears!
the Lazenby effect
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the tendency for the day after a really good day to be an utterly shitty one, a karmic circuit breaker that recalibrates your capacity to savor subsequent success, a periodic whipcrack that twists your flatlining trajectory into a heartbeat curve that leaves you shaken, not stirred.
my idea of heaven
May 2009-August 2010
990 posts
May you rest in peace.