Archive for March 2006
Take what we can carry
You tell me what this means:
The other day at Starbucks, I get a cup containing the following wisdom from no less than Bruce m.f.-ing Campbell:
"If you're worried about getting a job - or keeping one - start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it."
Then, today, after an interesting lunch hour with someone else potentially bitten by the bug, this link floats my way.
I like the way you’re broken
Two things I've found this morning that I like:
- A quotation from Samuel Smiles in an old copy of Men's Health in my bathroom: "We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
- This random link to a story about a man passing a woman on the street. It's a little long, but I like the tone.
There's something real going on
Life is a strange thing.
Sometimes you go a long time without making any progress. Other times, the lessons it has for you come at you as fast and furious as Vin Diesel's career tanked. Every now and then you learn something so important you want to run around in the streets shouting, but you gotta remember to slow it down lest you seem like a crazy person.
If you're lost, I'm right behind
OK, I admit it, I have no reason to believe in the veracity of the Oaklandon Ninjas.
But I ask you this: what is it that I do have a reason to believe? Wasn't it Descartes who said that the only thing you can be absolutely sure of is your own conciousness? That everything else could be an illusion?
What is real and what's put on
A lot of the stuff on the internet can be divided into two categories:
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