Beautiful art makes me happy.


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What if the humans hibernated, the way bears do in wintertime? In essence, about a quarter of the world - population, governments and economies - at any given quarter of the year would shut down ( Read more... )

Realization of 2007: I don't need to understand how torrents work. All I have to do is click on them and follow the instructions and in a few hours I'll magically end up with the Hindi movies I've been dying to watch.

Unless someone can explain how they work to a complete technology-idiot, in five sentences or less?

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I think it's really nice how a lot of people are brought up to offer some of their food to others, even to people they don't know very well. Yesterday I started a new mini-assignment with another department, and at 4 pm one of the "uncles" brought out a huge bag of pan de sal, a jar of sardines and an assortment of plastic knives. The following ( Read more... )

Self-censorship was the theme of my journal in 2007. I should try and write more.

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?a. Go white water rafting - I got thrown off the boat on a grade 5 rapid (at least, that's what the guide said it was), got sucked under by the current, surfaced and almost collided with a ten foot boulder, and ( Read more... )

So I went off and posted a comment on the BBC news website on the shit that went down this morning, and I got an email asking if they could publish it and maybe call me up to talk to me (yay ( Read more... )

My grandmother is ill, and I felt sad, and then I found these old pictures. She used to work for an airline and when she retired, we went to some of her favorite places and I got to skip school for a while.

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I was digging through my storage boxes earlier this evening, long after I had found the supersize Brazilian flag that I need for tomorrow's work event, when I came across a cloth-covered letter box. I opened it, sifted through the piles of little pictures and papers and strangely enough an Australian five dollar bill, and then STRUCK GOLD. It was ( Read more... )

"I wish I were your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves!"

That's the name of this Facebook group. They even have T-shirts!

como un rio que camina hacia el mar ... rie ... llora ... que aun queda mucho por andar ( Read more... )