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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green came in the mail today!
Holla.
TFIOS Licking…will it become a thing? Nerdfighteria hasn’t decided yet.
Please let this become a thing.
If you could impress one thing on young people today, what would it be?
That adults are not all they’re cracked up to be. And most of them are wrong most of the time. This can be quite revelatory for a kid - often launching them on a personal quest of exploration, rather than of Q&A sessions with their parents.
If you could change one thing about how the sciences are taught to American children, what would it be?
Create a goal state for educational pipeline to see in broad daylight - some ambitious mission - like a voyage to mars - that is so compelling that the quality of your science teacher is irrelevant. Your consequent ambitions trump all other forces.
Maybe my favorite:
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver. How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, “I wasn’t trained for this!” That’s an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, “Cool. A problem I’ve never seen before. Let’s see how I can figure out how to solve it!”. Oh, and, have fun along the way.
I met Arlene’s father at the hospital. He had been there for a few days. “I can’t take it anymore,” he said. “I have to go home.” He was so unhappy, he just left.
When I finally saw Arlene, she was very weak, and a bit fogged out. She didn’t seem to know what was happening. She stared straight…
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Client: “The layout is pretty spot on, but the hooky letters—”
Me: “The font, you mean?”
Client: “Yes, the font. It’s too snooty. It’s not any fun.”
Me: “I think it makes everything look quite professional.”
Client: “It’s too cold… What’s that sand one I like? With the sand letters.
Me: “I have no idea. I mean, I vaguely recall something called sand, but—”
Client: “Comic sands! That’s it. The Comic sands is the one I want.”
I don’t know who Kim Kardashian is, other than a famous person. However, I am intrigued by the outcry over the waste of her ten million dollar wedding, which now, apparently, after a short period of time has led to a divorce). I wholeheartedly agree with the general sentiment—everyone should take note of Nicholas Kristof’s tweets: e.g. “Kim Kardashian cld have spent her wedding money instead building 200 schools in poor countries. That wld have lasted.”—but I find it very curious that people are only outraged because Kardashian’s marriage ended in divorce. I argue that, regardless of the outcome of the marriage, spending ten million dollars on a wedding is a terrible atrocity against humanity.
The clicking on my Macbook’s trackpad stopped working about a month ago. I think something got jammed beneath it through the gaps at the edge. I’ve gotten used to using tap-to-click and an external mouse. Today, I tried clicking properly for some reason, and it worked! It’s hard for me to get back into the habit of actually using the mouse button; I instinctively tap-to-click now. The big question: How long has it been fixed without my knowledge?
npr:
The United Nations says today symbolically marks the moment when the world’s population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a little easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd.
Watch our video: 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast
Photo: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard / NPR
Susan cut the card
long ways, across the numbers. She tried to cut them in half. She didn’t want someone to piece it back together and go on a spending spree. But there wasn’t anything left on this one anyway. She cut the other way now and reduced the card to little bits of plastic confetti. There was a little computer chip in this one too, and it fell apart at her scissors, crunchy tiny bits of metal and who knows what else.
She had been waiting to cut this one for a long time. After Robert left and after they let her go at the restaurant. But things weren’t so dramatic. She still had her apartment. She still had Indy. She still had her books. She had taken to stacking them everywhere there was a flat surface. Poetry on the fridge gathering dust. Short story collections on the counter tops and kitchen table. Agatha Christie had the coffee table all to herself. Indy liked to fall asleep on the books on the TV. Self-help and biographies.
She was writing again, too. She found a typewriter at the Salvation Army. She filled pages with her thoughts. Almost a diary, but not really.
When’s the last time I posted a gif? They’re not usually my thing, but this…
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Oh, I'm Alec. I'm in high school and I live in Seattle (win!). I pretty much have a lot of love in my heart, except not in a corny way right? Anyways, please enjoy all of this. Also you can drop me a line if that does anything for ya.
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Things I feel particularly loving for at this moment: my yellow Arrow t-shirt (Clare and the Reasons!), Pushing Daisies, FIREFLY, Community, Netflix on my phone, anticipation to go back to school, sleep, questioning whether "anticipation to go back to school" is grammatically correct, the new Voice number I just got, those times when my mind is thinking clear enough that I can actually write things in this list and not keep flipping away and feeling like I need to sleep, Luna Lovegood-(8.26.10)
theta, spring, fun ferry rides with friends, music, feeling carefree, throwing it all to the wind, future less vivid, sun, some traits of myself, insignificance, Luxana, birds, blue things, green things, white things-(3.7.10)
So I decided I'm just going to add to this list and not delete older stuff-knowledge, good things, friendly people, REGINA SPEKTOR!, words, mathematics, NPR, Luna Lovegood, the design of Wired, colours, science, more-(12.2.09)
Participles, Luna Lovegood, Mika's new album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," Alec (me), snow, energy, my friends (aww that's sweet en't it?), Seattle, my iPhone (her name's Mollie), film!, whipped cream, love, books, my brain, laughter, other stuff
