Follower of Books

Consumer of the Written/Spoken Word. Resident of Palo Alto. Thinker of Thoughts and Dreamer of Dreams

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[dimension20official]

Han Solo Cup and Chewy the Cookiee

They’re smuggling some tasty treats.

[lootcrate]

Let the cookie win!

[lnfamy-deactivated20200913]

sexting is so weird i did it once and the guy was getting really into it and i was eating a pack of doritos and playing final fantasy

[joekeerys]

[intheshadowofheroes]

[wilwheaton]

(via HijiNKS ENSUE – A Geek Comic - Make It So / As You Wish)

[niknak79]

[sargent2407]

Reblog if you have met someone online that you would love to hangout with but they live too far away.

[sluttymind]

yesss

[paulwalden]

[theremina]

[wilwheaton]

Take nothing for granted.

[paulwalden]

Dude - I am PRETTY sure that that is in the movie Troy with Brad Pitt. In fact, I am pretty sure that Homer presented the OPPOSITE opinion in the Illiad. I had to google it, but there is a scene where Poseidon is trying to fight Apollo and Apollo states "You would say that I am out of my mind if I were to battle with you for the sake of mortals, wretches, who, like leaves, at one moment enjoy the prime of their lives eating the fruit of the earth but the next moment dwindle and die."

Not saying I disagree with the sentiment - All good things....and all that - the fact of ending makes the existence that much more sweet.  BUT, I am saying - check your references.  It's like that silly meme going around the 'net that has a picture of Mal Reynolds, saying "Make it so." attributed to Han Solo...

But, then, that could have been your point... if so -- mind=blown 

[brucesterling]

Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab:

Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this:

1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.

2. You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.

3. You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.

4. You want to focus on the system instead of objects.

5. You want to have good compasses not maps.

6. You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.

7. It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.

8. It’s the crowd instead of experts.

9. It’s a focus on learning instead of education.

We’re still working on it, but that is where our thinking is headed.

[frenchhornsandunicorns]

i need drugs to control my sleeping patterns.

[paulwalden]

I need sleeping patterns to control my drugs.

[datamancerlabs]

[paulwalden]

Give this to me... NOW!

[aprilsludgate-deactivated201503]

[paulwalden]

Author Chuck Palahniuk first came up with the idea for the novel after being beaten up on a camping trip when he complained to some nearby campers about the noise of their radio. When he returned to work, he was fascinated to find that nobody would mention or acknowledge his injuries, instead saying such commonplace things as “How was your weekend?” Palahniuk concluded that the reason people reacted this way was because if they asked him what had happened, a degree of personal interaction would be necessary, and his workmates simply didn’t care enough to connect with him on a personal level. It was his fascination with this societal ‘blocking’ which became the foundation for the novel. 

[mortalhusk]

“I’m gonna push you, and you’re going to fall, and it’s going to save your life.  And watching you go  will be the saddest, most beautiful thing I’ve ever done. Take a deep breath.  We’ll never forget this.”

[ohhnaahn]

[bookshelfporn]

Readings Nooks, the best kind of nooks.

(via ohhnaahn)

[paulwalden]

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Saw the trailer for Epic the other day.  Yeah, the movie might not be my cup-o-tea - but this song kinda grabbed me by the short-n-currlies.

I don't often sing to myself in the car, but when I do it's to The Lightning Strike