Jamie's Musings: Archive

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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”

– Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via It’s Okay to be Smart. Also see how to find your purpose and do what you love. (via explore-blog)

Mar 10th

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“Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to...”

– John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter

Jan 13th

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Aug 7th

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Aug 2nd

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The Good Short Life With A.L.S. - NYTimes.com →

Jul 10th

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“Think of all that happened in your home & the many miles you walked inside:...”

– Yoko Ono

Jul 10th

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Jul 1st

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Jul 1st

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“God is what happens when humanity is connected. Humanity connected is God....”

– The Internet Is My Religion – Jim Gilliam’s fantastic, surprising, brave, vulnerable and deeply moving talk from this week’s Personal Democracy Forum 2011 (via curiositycounts)

Jun 10th

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“Reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by...”

– The Argumentative Theory | Conversation | Edge

May 17th

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The Fox Is Black » The Trinity Orchestra Covers... →

May 14th

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May 12th

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Mar 29th

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Why you should be weird « Scott Berkun →

Mar 20th

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Mar 13th

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51 hours left to live : IAmA →

Powerful. I suspend my reddit apathy for this thread.

Mar 7th

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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them...”

– Steve Jobs

Mar 6th

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“A photo is never objective. If it is, it is real boring. It is the nature of...”

– ‘nother John Filo quote from this interview

Mar 1st

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“The bullets were supposed to be blanks. When I put the camera back to my eye, I...”

– John Filo, on his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the Kent State shootings. He was a photojournalism student in the right place at the right time with the right eye. “This is why you are here!” made me tear up reading up on this photo for my art history by themes class. I’ve...

Mar 1st

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Mar 1st

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Feb 28th

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Feb 20th

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“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”

– Charles Lamb (via those little “web clip” things that run across the top of Gmail)

Feb 18th

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Feb 18th

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“Journalists don’t tell the world what to think, just what to think about”

– Dave Stephenson (or someone else that he can’t think of right now)

Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

– Carrie Fisher (via @followsprocess/@hinman)

Jan 19th

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“The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and...”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Jan 15th

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Jan 8th

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Watch

Dagnabbit, this proves that he’s taken. Neat to pick up on Coconut Records influences.

Jan 5th

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Mood: Existential

Existentialism - A philosophical movement embracing the view that the suffering individual must create meaning in an unknowable, chaotic, and seemingly empty universe I think this is the definition that most jives with my usage of the word to date. Mood brought on by quite a few factors. Today I watched Star Trek Voyager, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Up In The Air, witnessed a fiery...

Dec 27th

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Oct 16th

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Late-Night Revelation

If life were like a spreadsheet, with pre-established but easily scalable (and formattable) cells, I would always be neat and organized. Everything would fit into a discrete cell; there would be no choice but to choose, as there is no in-between. Cells would live within sheets, and sheets would relate to create space. Instead I have choice, the outcome of which is most frequently influenced by...

Sep 21st

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“When in doubt, nerd out”

– New motto that I coined tonight, thanks to Misczak for inspiration

Sep 18th

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Sep 17th

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Aug 30th

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“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and...”

– Thomas Merton (via @tinybuddha)

Aug 30th

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I habitually care too much for my own good.

Why?

Aug 17th

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Aug 17th

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Charles: fyi - our wireless network is all sorts of battlestar galatica. figured you would approve.
me: hahaha awesome ... but wait, it can't be. they don't network computers. NOT SAFE!
Charles: Casey and I are just reliving that epic scene for the next year. We shall see what happens.

Aug 4th

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Aug 4th

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Shmitten Kitten: Quick Rant: He's Too Busy →

And this is why I am afraid to try to date, because I will be “that guy.” I seriously need to graduate already. And stop doing 20 million things at once.

Aug 4th

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