December 2011
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“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
– Robert Hass, from “Meditation at Lagunitas”
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“Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our...”
– Dalai Lama
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also...”
– C.S. Lewis
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8 Ways To Forget Your Troubles →
Now here is a useful list.
“As much time and attention as has been paid to helping people remember stuff, however, I’ve never seen a list of tactics for helping people forget.”
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History of Ontario license plates. →
Yup… Twitter provides me with an interesting collection of information.
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Watchhermitologist:
Brontide - “Matador”
Hello, band-that-I-didn’t-know-existed-until-twenty-minutes-ago-but-I-watched-this-video-and-bought-your-record-immediately. Nice to meet you. I think we’re gonna get along just fine.
RIYL: Battles, Russian Circles, Adebisi Shank
Buy Sans Soucci here.
Stunned. This is pretty fucking dope.
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“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My grandmother is adorable.
Earlier this year, my uncle got her an iPad and so the last 2 times I went to visit, I’ve had to re-explain how to use it as well as answer all the questions she’d been accumulating. As the good grandchild, I have the patience for it :P
Tonight, she emailed me to say hello and to ask if it worked, because she was trying out a new email — @me.com, how fancy. So I replied back...
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“Confidence doesn’t come from being the best at something. It comes from...”
– Unknown author
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“One of only three five-star reviews to appear inside the pages of Alternative...”
– AP Magazine
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The Canadian 1%? The ones who make $150 000 or... →
The 0.01% make $1 700 000.
In 2008, 2500 people made 2% of Canada’s income.
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“You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running...”
– Rwandan Proverb
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“Ancient Rome produced many things with huge continuity: like backgammon.”
– More History lecture notes, talking about the art/monuments/statues that existed in the 6th century that still exist today (albeit in a more broken, less whole kind of way).
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“Modern riots - probably not much fear of death.
Roman riots - “the state...”
– Lectures notes on the Nika riots, where 30 000 were slaughtered in the span of a few hours.
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“Maybe it’s just as much about
what comes our way as it is how we react.
Just...”
– La Dispute
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Gold.
Just found an assload of online quizzes on my Geography textbook’s website.
How to study without really feeling like you’re studying.
Anonymous asked: What is your major?
Anonymous asked: Are you in first year? What history are you taking?
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Out of everything they could have the city spend...
therikeone:
Safer roadways, bicycle lanes, new parks, upgraded parks, cleaner streets, better public transportation, more school programs, more after school programs, public gardens, public science labs, etc. They chose to spend taxpayer money on an ungodly amount of Christmas lights. I wish people would think about their choices a little longer and how it effects their community and...
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Over the last 4 million years,
the Earth’s polarity has faded to about 25% its strength and then returned to full power - but with the north and south poles reversed - 9 times. In Earth’s entire history, this has happened hundreds of times.
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bassnerd asked: This isn't so much a question as a comment on your recent post, in question form because Tumblr doesn't allow comments. Hell, as a state of being dead, is nothing to be feared. It's simply not existing. While the idea of no longer existing can be scary, just think of it like this: it'll be just like before you were born. You didn't exist then. Do you have nightmares about...
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"The thing that sucks most about realizing God and... →
There are two Hells, as I see it: the Hell where demons give you a hard time, and the Hell where you don’t exist for all eternity. Even though I don’t believe in God, I understand the fear of Hell, because I am incredibly afraid of not existing for all eternity. And here’s the twist: because I am so afraid of not existing for eternity, I can understand the belief in God. Being devout...
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matthewiskillingme:
Hate to break it to you, but you are the terrorist. You’re inflicting your state’s terror on people whose only crime is living in the same area as your “intended targets”.