Said Michael

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“The Tiny Buddha will give you daily wisdom! Quotes from the wise.”

We continue to lie to ourselves every day. The US public barely understands the first thing about the energy predicament we’re in, and what it means for how we live in this country — or how we get along with the rest of the world — and the news media tragically reflects that ignorance. We fantasize about being “energy independent” and still being able to drive to the mall three times a day to eat caesar salads grown on the other side of North America. Get this: we deserve exactly what is happening to us. We might as well keep on lying to ourselves to pretend that we are not descending into a dark phase of our own history. After all, the true basis of American life these days is to feel good about yourself no matter what you do.

— Jim Kunstler

Reblogged from marco

To anyone that may need this advice:

Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT make dead baby jokes to the parents of a newborn.

That is all.

In school, our AP American History teacher has a Risk game board that I and some of my classmates play on. I’m new at it, but I’ve been getting better—Because of me, one player was already taken out of North America in this game, but the player with black pieces said he plans on taking Australia.

I own Australia.

Now, to get that many pieces, he had to put down everything he had in reinforcements, but I don’t want him getting any more. I’ll see how this turns out tomorrow…

Every time you sniff and say somebody has ‘too much free time,’ the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little.

— Merlin Mann

Reblogged from heather-rivers

I am beginning to regret getting my LG Chocolate.

Tweet Tweet

I’m trying out importing my Twitter updates. (I embedded them on my blog on a trial basis, too.) I think my twittering is infrequent enough that it shouldn’t be annoying. I’m very sensitive to how annoying it can be, though, and I’ll disable it if it becomes so.

If I wanted to subscribe to Twitter updates, wouldn’t I just check Twitter instead? Unless the service is specifically for content aggregation, why use it as such?

Reblogged from nostrich