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• I’m definitely not as in to music as many of you.

• I own a decent pile of albums (iTunes says I have about 400) and I listen to music every day while I work.

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• He is moving his limbs strangely.

• He is swaying and dipping like a bad dancer.

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Ugh I can’t believe Texas barbecue brisket was already taken. That will make this much harder. Read more…

Inspired by @Lisa_Fav Read more…

Note: I love my job. I look forward to work every morning and I love carving out some time late at night to dive deep in my work. Read more…

Ok you wieners. This is why I don’t just abandon Facebook. Read more…

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I ❤️ you @npr Read more…

All words I’ve confused at one point or another. Explained poorly. Read more…

I got my first kindle maybe 5 or 6 years ago and began buying mostly eBooks. Then I started replacing my paper books with eBooks and slowly got rid of them all. Here are the ones I kept. Read more…

@Lisa_Fav requested this just so we’re clear. Read more…

Conspicuously absent from this list: pictures of me. Read more…

• Abe Simpson

  “I’m in love! No wait…its a stroke.”

• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

  “Thank you, masked vigilante. Your over-zealous homicide has saved me 80 cents. Now if you’re not going to buy anything, please move along.”

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Because I just watched Eye in the Sky which was basically a (very good) two hour trolley problem. Read more…

As requested. Read more…

The complete script of The Revenant:

Leo: “Mah boy…” [grunts for two hours]

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If the Tesla Model 3 is actually what Tesla says it is, and it actually comes out on time, and it is as well made as existing Teslas, then they are going to sell a lot of them and the mid-range sedan market should probably be very scared right now.

@MaiaLS Read more…

Ahh April 1st. The day the internet trips over itself trying to be funny.

• @ladyprofessor @jaidub

• I won’t tag you together anymore.

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• Assume they are competent.

  I know you’ve been burned before. So have I. Some people are terrible at what they’re supposed to be doing. But everybody also deserves the benefit of the doubt. So assume their ideas are good, their experience is relevant, and their suggestions are well considered. Question your own assumptions as readily as you question theirs.

• Respect existing decisions.

  If you’re coming in to an existing project, study the work they’ve already done and assume it was either done that way for a good reason, or at least that it is an acceptable way to do it. Be prepared to fit in to the existing framework and emulate the style and approach already in place unless or until you can clearly articulate a reason not to. Don’t snowplow through with your own style just because it’s how you usually do it.

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Inspired by @kate81. I’m so hate-able. Read more…

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An excerpt from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore which I love very much and which I think explains most perfectly how I feel about life. I especially love the third verse although all of it is perfect. Read more…

I was listening to an audio book of Candide yesterday and caught a funny line I didn’t remember. I looked it up in both print editions of the book I have and here is how the translations compare. Read more…

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AKA @sophster Read more…

• Was it worth it making men and women different?

• How come when I bite my lip it gets sore and bigger so it is easy to bite again and hurts a lot when I do?

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• Saying I’m sorry too much.

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• Optimist

  Optimism is a formal enlightenment era philosophy that supposes that the world we live in is the “best possible world” either because the laws of the universe are such that the world is the only way it could possibly be (a sort of tautological optimism) or because a benevolent force (i.e., God) controls the world and optimizes it for goodness. The latter can itself have two interpretations: All is always well from the right perspective, or more commonly that suffering is “for our own good”.

• Epicurean

  The modern meaning of Epicurean is almost completely disconnected from the Ancient Greek philosophy of Epicureanism. This philosophy rejects divinity of any kind and does promote “pleasure seeking” but explicitly teaches that the path to true pleasure is modest living, simple means, and the gaining of knowledge through study. The ultimate pleasure is to understand the world so well you no longer depend on fulfilling superficial desires like fine foods, drink, and materialism to be happy.

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Inspired by @amieshmamie but I don’t read contemporary books enough so let’s see how far we can stretch this concept. Read more…

• “If we enroll in the [interest free] monthly payment plan can we pay it off early?”

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• “Will boys and girls be sharing a room?”

  🙄 (yes, this question again)

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I’m bored waiting for this parent meeting about next year’s high school trip to start. Read more…

• Patrick Stewart in 1973 at 33

• Patrick Stewart in 1987 at 47

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• Yesterday.

• Plus a bunch of seemingly arbitrary other things that were actually well before yesterday.

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• I’ve used kindles and the kindle app for years.

• Whenever I buy a kindle book it always gives me the choice of which device to “deliver” it to.

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Inspired by @nessa_please. This will be a long list because I am older than all you youths of today. But I am one of you! See: Bae. Fleek. Who let the dogs out. Read more…

Sorry for being so judgey. Read more…

• Your own research

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• I have small hands.

  No I do not. I have large-ish hands.

• I live in the “developing world”.

  No I live in the crumbling first world hell hole that is currently entertaining the idea of making Donald Trump president.

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A story of absentmindedness. Read more…

I just ate a “chocolate butter fry bread” which is like three things not on my diet all on one plate.