June 3, 2013
If Don Draper were alive in the 80's, he would say things like this:
You create rules. Lines you won't cross. But none of that matters when you're staring down a Klondike bar.
Everyone you’ve ever loved will leave, betray you, or die. Everyone but your Chia Pet.
The heart is like a Rubik's Cube. You can twist & turn it trying to get back where you were, or you can just smash it and move on.
Teenagers want to be everything their parents aren't: mutants, ninjas, but most of all turtles.
All pursuits are trivial. Your board game’s just the only one with the guts to say it.
Pac Man teaches that pills are the only thing keeping the ghosts away.
Give this guy a follow. He's got some real gems.
Summeofjest.org
A group of people are readin the post-modern classic Infinite Jest, a thousand page behemoth sure to consume your entire summer.
Has anyone read David Foster Wallace?
Is this going to be worth reading?
You create rules. Lines you won't cross. But none of that matters when you're staring down a Klondike bar.
Everyone you’ve ever loved will leave, betray you, or die. Everyone but your Chia Pet.
The heart is like a Rubik's Cube. You can twist & turn it trying to get back where you were, or you can just smash it and move on.
Teenagers want to be everything their parents aren't: mutants, ninjas, but most of all turtles.
All pursuits are trivial. Your board game’s just the only one with the guts to say it.
Pac Man teaches that pills are the only thing keeping the ghosts away.
Give this guy a follow. He's got some real gems.
Summeofjest.org
A group of people are readin the post-modern classic Infinite Jest, a thousand page behemoth sure to consume your entire summer.
Has anyone read David Foster Wallace?
Is this going to be worth reading?
Can someone watch this and tell me if I'll be sick?
The latest film is Cutthroat, by award-winning director Steven Cantor. Clint Malarchuk was famous for being an NHL goalie, but he would go down in hockey history for suffering one of the most gruesome injuries in the history of sports when an opposing player's skate severed his carotid artery. This story covers Malarchuk's miraculous physical recovery from the injury as well as the long and grueling emotional recuperation that took two decades and included an eventual stay in a mental hospital for PTSD treatment. [Warning: This film contains graphic footage of the injury.]
“Dogs are not about something else. Dogs are about dogs,” Malcolm Gladwell indignated in the introduction to The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs. Though hailed as memetic rulers of the internet, cats too have enjoyed an admirable run ascreative devices and literary muses in Joyce’s children’s books, T. S. Eliot’s poetry,Hemingway’s letters, and various verses. But hardly ever have cats been at once more about cats and more about something else than in Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology (public library) by firefighter-turned-writer Caroline Paul and illustrator extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton, she ofmany wonderful collaborations — a tender, imaginative memoir infused with equal parts humor and humanity. (You might recall a subtle teaser for this gem in Wendy’s wonderful recent illustration of Gay Talese’s taxonomy of cats.) Though “about” a cat, this heartwarming and heartbreaking tale is really about what it means to be human — about the osmosis of hollowing loneliness and profound attachment, the oscillation between boundless affection and paralyzing fear of abandonment, the unfair promise of loss implicit to every possibility of love.
JAMES CARVILLE (POLITICAL COMMENTATOR): HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
“You’re leaving here, and I can sit here and tell you all the vapid bull that comes out of the spring air in Upstate New York about being un-tethered, and drifting out on the sea of life, and plan your work and work your plan and all of that SPAT! You’re getting ready to go get knocked down. That’s what’s going to happen. Everybody wants to be a success but no one wants to stop and understand what it takes to succeed.”
MARTIN SHEEN (ACTOR): LA ROCHE COLLEGE
“We are not asked to do great things, we’re asked to do all things with greater care. Such an ideal is rare in a culture of so compromised values and so much cynicism, a culture that all too often knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
JOSS WHEDON (WRITER/DIRECTOR): WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.”
Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography
"The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work."
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Heat-Pacers Game 7 was a complete disappointment.
Never competitive, the Pacers were completely overwhelmed against a superior opponent with a home court advantage.
Playing Power Grid, I know how they felt.
The basketball game was so bad I started playing something else to keep myself entertained while I was watching something that was supposed to be entertaining.
What does that say about the quality of this Game 7?
[Warning: Technical Game Junk to Follow]
Power Grid is like Monopoly in that finishing a game is rare. Usually someone realizes they are behind (or gets bored) and just gives up.
It's a war of attrition.
But we actually finished a game and the last phase of Power Grid is really great. The vast fortunes we amassed were put to war over increasing the capacity of our plants. My opponent had a commanding lead due to his initial location on the east coast, where connection costs are cheaper.
(The USA map seems very imbalanced in terms of starting locations. The western states are spread out and put you at a disadvantage. Which I know is how the real world works.)
I cornered the Uranium market, which forced my opponent to switch to Garbage and bought me some time. But his monetary advantage allowed him to pay $252 for a $32 dollar plant and increase his capacity to win the game. The three different phases of the game play quite differently. And I could see the final stage being really fun with a big group. But I'm not sure a big group would have the fortitude to make it that far.
The game also plays much faster once players have an idea what they're doing.
And don't ever play with a guy with an MBA.
He'll take FOREVER.
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