I remember the days when saying you were gone on vacation was an excuse to not respond to (usually business) emails. Now with smartphones there is absolutely no excuse since most people have internet access 24/7, no matter where they go.
Since I don’t feel that justifies its own post, here is a picture I drew of a bunny (coincidentally on vacation, after he responded to his urgent business emails).
A good plot is crucial to a good story. One of the oldest and most widely used plot devices is the love triangle. Two guys chase one girl, or two girls chase one guy. Same old same old.
But, why stop there? We should extend this to geometries of all sorts. Imagine the complex web left after a child has unrestricted access to a can of silly string. It would be a story so full of short-term relationships it would resemble middle school dating habits.
A love story of that scale makes love triangles seem like children’s stories.
In advertisements for organizations helping people in third world countries, they always show pictures of the cute children. Although it helps get their message out, I feel like it’s pure manipulation. It’s like those commercials for restaurants. Of course your hamburger isn’t going to look perfect, nor is your drink going to splash perfectly in slow motion.
The problem is people want to believe that they are improving the life of some small child. Why not show pictures of the teenagers? Because they usually don’t look nice. They look threatening, hard, and mean, and they do not elicit the intended reaction.
I’m not saying these organizations are bad, but their tactics are.
Is anyone else slightly concerned that Obama has an NCAA bracket? I know he’s done it in years past, but it seems like it might provide room for interference.
I can see it now. It’s an important game in Obama’s bracket. Last quarter. His team down by 5. The lights go out. Darkness everywhere as people are lost and confused. The lights come back on. The opposing coach – gone. The secret service members are already outside the arena, shoving the coach in the back of a cop car. The opposing players, confused by the dramatic turn of events, lose their focus as well as the game. Obama, laughing quietly to himself in the White House, fills in the name of his choice on the designated line on the bracket.
The true purpose of large mattresses alludes me. I can understand the point if two large people and their dog sleep together, but for a single person, what is the point of anything larger than a normal sized (I think this might vary based on your country of residence) bed?
At a certain point, there is only so much space you need. Whenever I stay at a hotel with a large bed, I feel as if I only use half of it. The other side really has no benefit to it. (Even in rooms with two separate beds). If you are a seven-foot-tall basketball player who likes to sleep arms and legs spread like a kid making an angel in the snow, then fine.
That last image prompted a rather intriguing theory. What if the person who came up with the bed size system and what is considered “normal” is actually a really large man who got angry when beds weren’t big enough. Maybe he had to sleep in a small bed for all his youth and then devoted his life to making sure no one would have to face a similar experience again.
A more reasonable theory would be that it relates to the status symbol of furniture. I know many houses that have chairs set up that never actually get used, and are purely there for show. Having a larger bed would imply a higher class just like a fine sitting area would imply an inability to properly purchase furniture. The names given to bed sizes such as “King” and “Queen” support this theory as well.
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This has definitely been done before, but I don’t particularly care.
Here is a scientifically accurate graph of roller-coastery-ness over time for your average roller coaster.
I always get mixed feelings when I see a picture of something that is proclaimed to be amazing because of its inefficient construction. “Wow, look at this life-sized moose statue, made completely from toothpicks!” It’s an accomplishment because of the time and patience necessary, but there are much better ways to build a moose statue.
It’s like origami – sure it’s cool that you can make things purely by folding, but I bet I could do it a lot quicker with scissors and some tape.
Although it may seem too late to get 10,000 hours into any one activity, it probably is not. In an entire lifetime, if you are extremely motivated and have very little restrictions, you could become a master in about seven different areas.
The most important thing about practice is that it should be enjoyable. In order to succeed at anything, it has to be something you actually want to do. Practice shouldn’t be a chore. It should be a fun way to improve at something genuinely of interest.
One final note. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter if you have 10,000 hours or are a master of anything at all. The more important thing is simply doing, creating, or starting something. You won’t be good at anything unless you start out bad at it.
(One exception of note would be this blog. I don’t know about you, but I think I exploded onto the scene with that idea about apples.)
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