I was at this one ska concert that morphed into a Mighty Mighty Bosstones Concert. I talked with Dicky Barrett. I remember thinking about the two times we met in real life and how he was kind to tell me that he remembered me the second time (pretty sure he didn't ( Read more... )

This month Time published a story about how our schools are failing our most gifted students. The article had biographies of 6 exceptional high school students alongside reminders of feats that Marie Curie, Einstein and Picasso had accomplished at very young ages. As I was reading I thought about whether the article was really about policy changes ( Read more... )

1. I watched this shit2. Why not film a scene with people you know and post that on the internet ( Read more... )

What's that thing that Dostoevsky says about loving even the bad parts of you?

I need to calm down.

I have wonderful friends.

Tiananmen Square [google.com]

VS:

Tiananmen Square [google.cn]

I worry. 20 feels old as fuck. I want to be a writer. I want to start drawing but it's not as easy as when I was a kid to start something. There's less room for error. (It feels like it ( Read more... )

I beat the last level of halo 2 on mythic the other day. Today (yesterday) Dan and I played for seven hours and we beat the prophet of regret on the mythic skull difficulty. Supposedly that's the hardest thing you can do.

That, combined with beating mythic cairo by myself the other day... There's nothing left for me to do.

hah!

So I beat Cairo Station on Mythic this morning.

I am gonna make it
through this year
if it kills me.

I am gonna make it
through this year
if it kills me.

I give you my word.

Sometimes they don’t call it failure
If you’re rich, if you’re successful.. They won’t.
If you’re poor and have no future they will
If you’re smart, but maybe you don’t have what it takes
They will

It doesn’t matter what they say.

What does it mean to fight?
Would you fight me right here, where we stand?