April 2010
“It’s too overwhelming to remember that at the end of every computer is a...”
– Derek Sivers
March 2010
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WatchI have found my doppelganger, and his name is Robert Gupta.
He looks exactly like me, speaks exactly like me, walks exactly like me, even dresses exactly like me. We have the same glasses, facial expressions, hair, public speaking style, demeanor, comportment, everything.
Except, of course, that he’s a wildly successful musician. Me? Well, not so wildly successful.
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“There was a moment during this time, when his face was on hers, cheek on cheek,...”
– A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden (via)
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“Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot...”
– Langston Hughes (via)
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“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with...”
– William James (via)
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“He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walking
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“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello (via)
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“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your...”
– Joan Crawford (via)
Six more days.
I took a trip to the post office this morning to send a little card and photo print to Canada through ExpressMail and was greeted by Alan and his coworkers with a bit of a frown. Turns out they heard that I was moving away at the end of the week, and were sad to see me go. I’ll miss them.
Howard, one of the security guards at the building where I work, called out to a few of his other...
Watch“I tell a story, and therefore I exist. I exist because there are stories, and if there are no stories, I don’t exist. We create stories to define our existence.”
Shekhar Kapur, one of my favorite film directors, speaks at TED about the importance of telling stories.
“And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven’t felt since...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via)
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WatchThe decade according to 9-year-olds.
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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not...”
– Anne Bradstreet (via)
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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (via)
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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.”
– Vita Sackville-West (via)
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WatchOn our way back from Chicago in early January, Maria decided to play with the Brushes app on my iPhone. One of the drawings she made was the view from outside the airplane window. The drawing was so well done, you’d have no idea it was her first time using the app.
Here’s the final image:
I was just going back over some of the drawings I have stored in Brushes, and found that...
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Monday night, I was invited to take part in the...
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“Something you must know:
With every day that passes,
I will love you more.”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
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“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
been...”
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Maybe I've changed.
I’m a little scared of revolving doors. Insects? They creep me out. I may not be totally comfortable with extreme heights. You know what I’ve never had a problem with?
People.
All my life, I’ve thrived on people. I’ve been at ease in large crowds. I made friends easily. Public speaking was my favorite activity apart from eating and sleeping. I would often go to parties...
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WatchHigher education has fascinated me for years, mainly because I think the whole institutional machine behind university education is broken and needs drastic change, soon. Apparently I’m not the only one.
This presentation by Peg Faimon and Glenn Platt at SXSW Interactive this year was excellent. They didn’t say anything too ground-breaking, but they did frame the issue in a way that...
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since feeling is first
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms...
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“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel...”
– Jodi Picoult (via)