May 2012
5 posts
haze
i left for some time. and when i came back, some things have changed. so subtly and yet swiftly, i haven’t even noticed up until now.
not until after several issues cropped up. that i’ve realized that something really happened when i left.
they changed. or rather, we are now changing. adapting, transforming.
i can’t believe it’s happened so fast.
how pivotal that...
stagnant loves
see. we’re hopeless. we already know that.
but you can never take away our longing. and with it, our desire, our hope.
so we’re not necessarily hopeless. maybe deluded. or impractical.
but we still love.
April 2012
24 posts
P23 million worth of rice wasted daily in PH →
ellobofilipino:
MANILA, Philippines - The country wastes at least $535,000 or P23 million worth of rice per day, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said.
In its Rice Today report sent (on April 19), the IRRI said that the daily rice wastage of the country translates to at least $223 million a year, an amount sufficient to feed 4.3 million people.
Citing data from the Food and...
AUSTIN KLEON: Don't steal the style, steal the... →
austinkleon:
Caught this NPR piece with columnist Crawford Kilian who advises young writers to avoid novels like On The Road and Catcher in The Rye, because they’re too good, and their styles are “so seductive” that they might “seduce a young writer into imitating them.”
God forbid!
Copying…
“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz (via likespancakes)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via myquotelibrary)
I whole-heartedly agree with this.
(via ohmuffins)
Nostalgia bug strikes again. For some reason, I...
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“Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we...”
– BBC News - Data wars: Unlocking the information goldmine (via myserendipities)
finally.
cleaned my dashboard, unfollowed tumblrs that updated like months ago (if a tumblr doesn’t update within three months…) and made another tumblr for pic-farming purposes. i should’ve done this like months ago but i was too lazy as hale. my dash is getting too cluttered for my liking.
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drink coffee like water.
i can’t drink coffee casually. or tea. or anything hot. by casually, i mean, like the way you drink water, sipping it in a glass. or a cup. or a mug, or whatever holds that water for you.
if i’m going to drink coffee (or anything hot actually), i need a spoon. before i take a sip, i have to huff and puff before it while i gauge whether it’s cool enough not to scald my tongue....
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black saturday.
my mind:
denies all the horrible things that can happen in the future
denies them but thinks about them from time to time
denies that they can’t happen
denies that but can’t shake off the feeling that they might
denies that feeling they might happen
denies that but can’t help thinking it’s a sign it could, since that feeling might be gut instinct already
but then my...
March 2012
33 posts
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♥ Shizzle Nizzle ♥: IS THIS REAL LIFE →
shizznizzle:
I was on my lunch break today and decided to hit the mall since it’s just one block away from my office. On my 1 hour lunch break, I usually get some grub and walk around shops to kill time…however for some odd reason I decided to take a stroll first and eat later. So, I was just walking around…
/dies ;A; so jelly
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Israelis Love-bomb Iran--Iranians Respond in Kind... →
Now there you go :) The Iranians have responded.
AUSTIN KLEON: Orwell’s “dos” vs. Orwell’s “don’ts” →
austinkleon:
Shaun at Lists of Note recently posted George Orwell’s “Rules for Writers” from his incredible “Politics and the English Language”:
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it…
Culturomics Looks at the Birth and Death of Words →
infoneer-pulse:
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google’s massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identified universal laws governing the birth, life course and death of words.
The paper marks an advance in a new...
“Real life is messy. And as a general rule, the more theatrical the story you...”
– Felix Salmon. Says Mark, “I was so glad to see this article this afternoon. I just created my life is messy tag last night.” (via)
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On Picasso's quote, “Art is a lie that tells the... →
austinkleon:
“Art is a lie that tells the truth.” With so many quotes attributed to Picasso, it’s hard to track down where they actually came from, or whether they were even said at all.
In 1923, Picasso talked about cubism with an American critic named Marius de Zayas. The discussion was translated (with his approval) and published as “Picasso Speaks,” in The Arts. What Picasso is really...
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