"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | Abraham Maslow is famous for creating the “Hierarchy of Needs” — a graduating set of general requirements for human motivation. Like this: The idea behind this pyramid is that you need to fulfill the needs in the lowest (Physiological) level of the pyramid before you start thinking about the needs in the second-lowest (Safety) level. Then you can move on to the Love / belonging needs, and so forth. Then, hopefully, once you have satisfied the needs in the first four levels, you can start working on self-actualization, at which point you are a fully-realized human. Which would be, [ continue reading Fatty’s Hierarchy of Needs ] So Google Fonts is out ♥ and a WordPress plugin exists ♠ to rapidly apply them – delight! I have shown remarkable control in changing everything but only with one font, for a while. The new Safari extensions allow a Google Fonts preview extension to try them out ♣ and the list is growing fast. Installing is a cinch and the settings are simple. First impressions of the display after installing the WordPress plugin are that it increases the loading-time but seems to play safe with most browsers on the mac and the PC however the implementation and display is [ continue reading early adopter or flim-flam addict? Google Fonts in the wild ] TO find out how long a piece of string is, pull it straight and measure the distance between the ends This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. BLIMEY! via List of British words not widely used in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» 1001 rules for my unborn son HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!: .) But where did the name come from? Cillit Bang is the brand name of a range of cleaning products created by consumer products giant Reckitt Benckiser. The products marketed under the brand name include a degreaser, cleaning crystals, and a grime, rust, mould and limescale remover. In August 2009 it was revealed that Cillit Bang has been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.[1] via Cillit Bang – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ continue reading Cillit Bang – Wikipedia, ] Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart I rolled down the national stroll and with a big fat paycheck strapped to my hip sack and a shore leave wristwatch underneath my sleeve in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank and I’d left all my papers on the Ticonderoga and was in a bad need of a shave and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein and shot billiards with a midget until the rain stopped and I bought a long sleeved shirt with horses on [ continue reading adrift ] The planet is a bouquet, sunny day in Plazaville with the air thick with tree-pollen. LCD soundsystem (all my friends), Conchords last night, does it get better? In Borraccia!In Borraccia! is an Italian campaign to reduce the consumption of plastic water bottles. As part of its campaign In Borraccia! is promoting these three Google Maps that promote the use of tap water over bottled water. AltreconomiaThis Google Maps mashup shows restaurants in Italy that serve tap water so you don’t have to pay for expensive bottled water.The map includes quick links (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Using Google Maps Against Bottled Water: .) [ continue reading Using Google Maps Against Bottled Water ] The Greatness of Simplicity From Self Control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan, 1905 No character can be simple unless it is based on truth—unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion. Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate,—where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own [ continue reading The Greatness of Simplicity ] To Risk To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out is to risk involvement, To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return, To live is to risk dying, To hope is to risk despair, To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, [ continue reading Manvotional: To Risk ] Too many people open their mouths to display the process of thought rather than the results of it. It’s a lonely dog that barks. That needed saying. In the early hours of Monday morning my wife had a Non ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. You might be more familiar with the term heart attack. Thankfully she is now recovering in hospital. We didn’t call an ambulance at the time, it didn’t follow the pattern you see in films (no falling to the floor clutching left arm) and it didn’t cross my mind that this could be serious. We had organised a party the day before and I put it down to heart burn. I feel pretty damn foolish about this now. Thing is, it didn’t occur to [ continue reading STEMI? | Get well Dr Joolz ] 1. Driving myself crazy scanning stuff over and over until it’s perfectly straight. Life is messy, time to get with the program. 2. Cropping the names of photographers, sources and whatnot from pictures and graphics to clean them up. Why not give as much credit as possible to those who bring it, even at the cost of visual perfection? 3. Responding to comments asking where to buy things when the link is right there at the end of the post and it works. If it doesn’t work, that’s another story: I pull my crack research team [ continue reading 7 things I dont have time for anymore when it comes to bookofjoe ] By default, the “Allow” checkbox for Instant Personalization is checked on your privacy settings. If you don’t want the websites that you or your Facebook friends visit to know your information, you must opt out. Since this process is a bit complicated, we have made a quick video showing step by step how to do so. Simply unchecking the “Allow” box is not sufficient. As Facebook explains, “if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application.” Nor can you go to [ continue reading How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Instant Personalization ] No matter how long you know them, what you do for them or how close you are to them Scottish people you know will one day call you an ‘English Bastard’. It doesn’t matter what nationality you actually are and even being Scottish will not render anyone immune from this. They cannot help themselves. I was taught this all my life and have never had cause to doubt its veracity. If you think I am talking about you, I am probably doing exactly that. Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (German: Gestalt – “essence or shape of an entity’s complete form”) of the Berlin School is a theory of mind and brain positing that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The Gestalt effect refers to the form-forming capability of our senses, particularly with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of simple lines and curves. In psychology, gestaltism is often opposed to structuralism and Wundt. The phrase “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts” is often used [ continue reading Gestalt psychology ] Actor Tilda Swinton and director Luca Guadagnino share some unusual ideas on life and art, out of which come extraordinary films such as I Am Love Io sono l’amore (2009) IMDB 8.2/10, 136 votes » “Something occurred to me when we were making that film,” says Swinton, “about the relationship of love to loneliness.” The latter is, for her, “the last great taboo of modern western civilisation. Capitalism is built on the idea that one can go out and buy another scented candle and get less lonely somehow. But I think the deal is that you are fully lonely, and [ continue reading love and loss on celluloid ] Like Wikipedia except all entries are ten words long. Or: Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation. (via @ettagirl) Tags: Wikipedia wikis (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» kottke.org Ten Word Wiki: .) This unique outdoor heated swimming pool, which is owned and managed by Hathersage Parish Council, is set in a lawned enclosure with a covered veranda to one side. It gives users the opportunity to swim in the open air, amidst the glorious Peak District scenery and in beautiful warm water, which is heated to 84°F / 29°C. Regular users take advantage of the uniquely warm water and swim throughout the season from 27 March to 25 September 2010. Our refurbished changing-cubicles and hot showers will add to this pleasurable experience. We look forward to welcoming you to Hathersage pool this [ continue reading Hathersage Pool – it’s a comin’ ] Busy weekend at cinema and theatre. Anthony Sher and whole cast great in Enemy of the people, with a very sudden ending! In Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges good at being Jeff Bridges in a slow, rambling film with a greasy Colin Farrel and a very lovely but inexpicably romantically-linked Maggie Gyllenhall, (where was Robert Duvall’s ‘head at’ and was there a big bit chopped out of our print?). Very easy to see how it received the Best Actor Oscar especially in such a politically-charged anti-Avatar Oscar season [IMDB 7.6/10, 7,363 votes]. Far and away the best gig of the [ continue reading a weekend in the dark ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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