"What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you’ll always be alright."
Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response:
“Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”
Well, that was…accurate. Huh.
There’s no reason to sharpen my pencils any more. My pencils are sharp enough. (Even the dull ones will make a mark.) Warts and all, let’s start this shit up.
An Invocation for Beginnings - Ze Frank
Welcome back, old friend, welcome back.
"Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we’ve got to do (3) Things we like doing. I say this because some people seem to spend so much of their time doing things for none of the three reasons, things like reading books they don’t like because other people read them. Things you ought to do are things like doing one’s school work or being nice to people. Things one has to do are things like dressing and undressing, or household shopping. Things one likes doing — but of course I don’t know what you like. Perhaps you’ll write and tell me one day."
— C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
"You’re still young and healthy. Maybe that’s why you don’t understand what I am saying. Let me give you an example. Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacement never goes well. It’s all very painful—as painful as actually being cut with a knife."
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Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars.
I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would’ve been if they’d stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it’s up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn’t through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.
"— Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation)
(Source: comicsalliance.com)
Did you know designer writer international mann of mystery Merlin Mann has a weekly phone call with John Roderick of The Long Winters?
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I met Her: the woman who was better than every previous candidate. I didn’t know if she was Perfect (the assumptions of the model don’t allow me to determine that), but there was no doubt that she met the qualifications for this step of the algorithm. So I proposed.
And she turned me down.
"— Finding Love Optimally, or why the Secretary Problem has little to say about the Fiance Problem.
September 16th 2011
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"Clark and I met on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30, 2007. I don’t know exactly when we first said I love you, but the first email exchange containing the phrase, which he casually includes before signing off, is dated October 3 of that year."
Last year, I saw the plane of the Milky Way spread out across the sky like I was outside of the whole thing, like I was buried deep inside it all. There are phenomena you can’t see in the United States, maybe, like the aurora borealis, but to see the container of everything we’ll ever know is orders of magnitude different. And to think of this container being only a single, small spiral lost in a vast sea of billions of similar containers…that is why I am drawn to Flagstaff, Arizona, where dark skies are a right, not a privilege.
This is the beginning; part 1 of oh! the places you’ll go. I am finishing school soon, and have decided that means it is time I take a trip. My plan is to drive across the United States, so I suppose I better start planning things to do along the way. Consider this my staging ground, full of maps and charts of places to go, people to see, adventures to have.
If I am leaving something out, tell me.
Yesterday, Carnegie Mellon University announced that a trustee had gifted the university $265 million1, the largest in the school’s history and one of the 15 largest by a private individual ever. In order to spend it all as quickly as possible to celebrate, CMU invited Guster to perform a free concert with a kick. ass. finale.
[1] $265 million might not sound like a lot in the grand scheme of endowments like Harvard’s $27.4 billion or Stanford’s $13.9 billion, but CMU’s endowment is only $815 million! Increasing their endowment by 33% is saweeeeet.
