December 2010
Three pieces of advice I'm about to give other...
coketalk:
1. You can’t be crippled by an emotion unless you’re the one doing it to yourself.
2. Just because your issues have a name it doesn’t mean you’re aware of them.
3. Assholes are gonna violate the social contract. You can come to expect it. You can even be prepared for it, but don’t ever get used to it.
Agreeing with The Four Agreements →
1. Be impeccable with your word. In a sense, social constructivists are correct about words creating reality. We act on what we tell ourselves is real. Albert Ellis encouraged us to screen our self-talk for negative, irrational chatter. So, what kinds of words to you use when you describe reality? Do you lie and say hurtful and poisonous things about yourself and others? Not healthy! To be...
The Jevons Paradox and curbing energy consumption... →
It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to a diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.” Jevons might be little discussed today, except by historians of economics, if it weren’t for the scholarship of another English economist, Len Brookes. During the nineteen-seventies oil crisis, Brookes argued that devising ways to produce...
Backscatter scanner vulnerabilities: Beating the... →
BOINGBOING’s brilliant Cory Doctorow has dug up a paper (published in the Journal of Transportation Security) outlining how easy it would be for terrorists to beat the new backscatter “full-body” imaging scanners that are being installed at major airports worldwide. Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson, two professors at the University of California, San Francisco, submitted their...
he left me for someone else
so, i pushed him away. it doesn’t matter. he still left me for another girl. and i am going to accept that it hurt my feelings. i am sad about it, even if i don’t feel sad about it most of the time. i don’t want to be with him. i hope they’re happy. okay, i don’t really hope it works out for them. that’s the difference with him. i’ve been able, as of...
In Memoriam →
Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last—far off—at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
alfred lord tennyson
Coke Talk: Wild or Crazy →
I am wild. I am not crazy. There is a difference.
The stupid can’t see the difference, the inhibited deny the difference, and the authorities just don’t give a fuck about the difference — but the difference is everything.
Wild or crazy. At the extremes of sex, drugs, and rock and roll — anything…
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i'm going to come find you when you're 40 and be...
you’ll see.
8 crazy nights
falling in love is always a realization culminating from a series of moments. falling out of love is the same, but seems more like a decision. i will never feel about you the way i thought i did. you just know when it’s never going to be the same. maybe it was the whiskey tonight. maybe it was the honesty the other night delivered with such heartache. he’d already decided. an...
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I am Cupid's assassin.
No one ever shoots that arrow into my heart without me trying to stab them in theirs.
