January 2012
44 posts
“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may...”
– “Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice”
Correlation is not causation, but this article was pretty interesting — especially the last section.
(via thatluciegirl)
Reblogging so that I read the entire post at the end of today.
“Within the world of regular public school education, educational professionals...”
– an excerpt from Noah Millman’s post as copied onto AVC. Thought on Apple’s iBook Textbook initiative alongside the Gates Foundation.
With friends in interactive book-publishing and at Teach for America - this post makes me wonder how these large entities (Apple and Gates) will...
Apple Has A Secret Unboxing Room To Test Product... →
parislemon:
This doesn’t surprise me at all. What does surprise me is that no other consumer electronic company puts the care into packaging that Apple does.
By making each and every product a joy to open, Apple sets the tone for the product itself subconsciously in the user’s mind.
Compare this to the companies that put their products in the clear plastic anti-theft packaging. Not only do...
“The taxi’s waiting, it’s honking its horn, time to go to the...”
– The Problem with Reassurance, Seth Godin
don't stop
canttuchthis:
Really cool to see….never stop training.
ew!!!! also… wow.
motivation?
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a...”
– happy birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - I hope today serves as a reminder to us of your unwavering will and human-oriented philosophies.
“If you have chemistry, you only need one other thing - timing. But timing is a...”
– Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother (Season 7, Episode 1)
Truth
Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother, →
teenyaileeny:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The only way to describe him was scrawny, neat, and very clean for a boy his age. They...
“The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole...”
– - Jacob, Crazy Stupid Love
This is fact. Also it is fact there’s a reason why women fall so easily for Jacob’s character in the movie - he strokes your ego, makes you feel comfortable, then goes in for the swoop. And who says he’s the only one gaining from these situations? After...
“Nobody can time markets. You can’t deliver great returns to your investors...”
– “Herky Jerky Investing” from AVC
“You live your life in “DING DING” now. Put a burrito in the microwave and when...”
– -thoughtcatalog
I DIE!!! I love ding ding’s. Also, I would never throw away my burrito.
“You’re sitting there with a Supercuts haircut. You’re getting drunk...”
– Jacob Palmer (played by Ryan Gosling), “Crazy Stupid Love“
So Much Fun. So Irrelevant. →
Historians have noted that economic clusters always required access to abundant strategic inputs for success, says Levin. In the 1800s, it was access to abundant flowing water and raw materials. In the 1900s, it was access to abundant electricity and transportation. In the 2000s, he said, “it will be access to abundant bandwidth and abundant human intellectual capital,” — places like Silicon...
thatluciegirl asked: ahhhh!! i KNEW i forgot one. i was going through my old photos and got overwhelmed by all the trips and things i wanted to mention, haha. It's been corrected! thanks, brain twin. :)
So 2012 is the year of the dragon (meee!)
…hence to recap on the year past. Mostly because my memory is getting worse and worse and sometimes my tumblr posts are the only way I’ll remember.. 8[
jan-may
juggled two apartments- sf and sacramento - but felt like i was juggling two lives
got back in touch with my “asian” crowd, many kudos to my sacramento fam. noraebangs and way. too. much. soju. short-lived but...
December 2011
30 posts
Five Emotions Invented by the Internet... →
I experience these emotions everyday.
