March 2008
66 posts
“The rest of our team, however, is happy to eat any product that may or may not have to do with animal cruelty, environmental degradation, nonsustainable agricultural practices, over-fishing… hell, I imagine they would happily eat endangered whale species or virgin nuns of Mother Teresa’s order if they were cooked with a greasy, spicy sauce, attractively packaged and available as fast food at convenient locations.”
—Vegan Iceland? - The Reykjavík Grapevine Online
“And then Biella has been doing some thinking about Trevor’s call for a Disciplinary Heretics Manifesto. In order to avoid disciplinary “death, rigidity and petrifaction,” she offers up the following (very sound) advice:
1. make sure to do many things out of the academy
2. partake in forms of movement
3. see your field just as much or more as a methodology than as a discipline
4. have fun
5. always hold a novice outlook
And to this list, I would add one more thing: cultivate relationships with people who share these basic goals and desires - and there are many - but don’t give too much energy to those who don’t.”
“The thing to bear in mind is that it isn’t sitting down and being quiet that has made you nuts. You were already nuts. Sitting down and being quiet has just given you the chance to notice that you’re nuts. Your mind is doing that all the time. All day, all night; a ceaseless fret of worry and desire, fantasies of the future and replays of the past, a constant evaluation of everything in terms of what it means about me. What does the fact that I’m sitting down to meditate mean about me? What does the fact that my mind won’t settle down mean about me? What does the fact that I’m worrying about what things mean about me mean about me?”
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on meditation
“Life is short. Make fun of it.”
—Ample Sanity
February 2008
123 posts
“In August 2006, Lakehead University initiated a multi-phase student recruitment campaign that featured posters, and an Internet website showing an image of the current U.S. President George W. Bush with the caption which read, “Yale Shmale…Graduating from an Ivy League University doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.”
—Lakehead University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“RTFM is an acronym for the statement “Read The Fucking Manual”, or “Read The Fine Manual” in ironic avoidance of the more usual expansion (see below for more variations). This instruction is sometimes given in response to a question when the person being asked believes that the question could be easily answered by reading the relevant “manual” or instructions. It could also mean Reboot The Fucking Machine in the IT world.”
—RTFM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty approved a plan on Tuesday that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out of the open-access program. While other institutions have similar repositories for their faculty’s work, Harvard’s is unique for making online publication the default option.”
—Differences & Repetitions: Update on Harvard’s open-access decision
- From: david (http://www.davidslog.com/post/26667369)
- Robert: I do get pretty angry at people who reblog certain posts without adding anything
- Robert: like it's one thing if it's a funny video or something
- Robert: but if it's you being like "I really don't know what deodorant to wear today."
- Robert: I'mm like "why the fuck did someone reblog that"
- Robert: "Do they also have deodorant issues I WILL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THEY DID NOT EXTRAPOLATE"
The Street: "Mac Owners Are Snobs" - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) →
tuaw.com
According to a recent The Street video, they say that Mac users are “snobs.” The video, which is based on research by Mindset Media says that Mac owners are more likely:
- to be perfectionists
- to use notebooks
- to use teeth whitening products
- to drive station wagons
- to pay for downloaded music
- to go to Starbucks
- care about “green” products and the environment
- to own a hybrid car
- and last but not least … to buy 5 pairs of sneakers in a year
