thoughts about things: Archive

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Input Diet

Have you heard of the form of dieting where you keep a journal of what you eat? The act of noting everything you put into your mouth makes one more aware of what previously might have been an automatic habit. I’ve started doing the same for external input from the world. Namely with devices like my laptop and iPhone, as they provide access to multiple output/inputs… Television...

Mar 17th

Nanoraptor: 2010 - The best year of my life. →

nanoraptor: What I write below will only make any sense if you’ve already read this little piece I wrote in May 2010 about an event I’ve come to call my first enlightenment, a night where I stopped the quotidian trudging, step by slow step, and launched further forwards than I knew was possible… All about the past 365 days since she achieved enlightenment. The following really stuck out...

Dec 11th

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Anonymous Asks...

Are you in a relationship/married? Do you want to be? Do you have attractions to others even though you are in a relationship? What attracts you - physical or emotional? (via ask.fm) Currently I’m not in a relationship. Largely via choice at the moment. As much as I laugh at people who claim that. :P Let’s just say that I’ve not being pursuing a relationship and have been of...

Dec 1st

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It's super important that you know... →

You’re already good enough, you already have more than enough, and you’re already perfect. God I need to keep reminding myself of this, or I’ll be forever chasing an imagined carrot of “otherness” that I want to have. I spent a good number of years waiting to have the feeling that I’d suddenly done something great or amazing! That I’d made it! Annnnd not...

Oct 29th

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Anonymous Asks...

daniel jackson….jack daniels…hahaha…much better :p if you knew what day you were going to die would you change your lifestyle..? do things that you never did before? would you tell people your dying or not? (via ask.fm) Hmm! I’d probably have to make a concerted effort to not be in a continual panicky and worried state of mind, given I new exactly when I was going to...

Sep 9th

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Ben Delaney: A Few Thoughts on Connecting... or... →

[I just emailed this to most of my friends:] I quit Facebook. It feels fantastic. I was not going to say anything, to see how long it would take for anyone to notice. Then it dawned on me that I actually wanted to tell you why I quit, because perhaps the reasons might ring true with you as well… I smile at night-time when I’m on Facebook, et al, as I imagine everyone else at...

Sep 7th

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“Immortality is a prize that is next to worthless to a kid in their early...”

– Frank Chimero

Sep 6th

“The people who hurt us most deeply are sometimes those who’ve been hurt more...”

– l. c. h. e. (via nanoraptor)

Jun 27th

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Jun 27th

Dana: Why I am happy. →

from my formspring, slightly edited. What is the secret of your mindful joy and peace? Any advice for a fellow tranquility searcherer? Oh god, hahaha, I’ve been trying to put this down in text for a tumblr post for a month or more, and came to the conclusion that I could write a book about it… Cool!…

Jun 27th

“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life,...”

– David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University (via withabang) (via alexjcampbell)

Jun 4th

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May 13th

“You know what we’re not doing? We’re not thinking. We’re processing. There’s a...”

– Are Digital Devices Like iPads Rotting Our Brains? - Newsweek.com I think he’s actually very right. It’s silly and unfortunate that in order to get attention and page-views (and no doubt to justify his job as a tech editor) he blames it on “the devices”… but the core argument he is making is...

May 13th

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In the flesh?

So I went and saw John Mayer perform at the Rod Laver Arena on Monday, in the lovely city of Melbourne. He played awesomely, sung very well, played a good number of his tunes that I enjoy, and topped it off with some amusing banter. And yet I wasn’t moved. I didn’t get any shivers, though I got excited when I heard a song starting that I recognised - for a laugh. A group of younger...

May 6th

The Power Of Water →

I must apologize to planet Earth because of the all the clean water I have been wasting for the last two months. As the Earth lover I am it is unacceptable to take hour-long showers almost everyday - I even passed out in the shower for three hours plus one not-so-sober night! For this I am sorry. Who does not love a steamy shower? Especially when life throws unexpected curve-balls that sort of...

Apr 14th

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Watch

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

Mar 12th

On The Subject Of Death...

My dog was put down today. Afterwards, my mum commented that she wished it were that easy for humans (who were needlessly suffering). I don’t think Toby asked to put down. That was the disturbing part. I’m pretty sure he would have happily (maybe not happily) but he would have walked around in circles until he dropped dead. And the naturalist and the purest in me stubbornly thought...

Nov 13th

The 10 dimensions of string theory beautifully... →

With fucking horrible PowerPoint-type sound effects. (via @kevinrose) Watch it first, then read on… - This is cool, ‘cause what comes after the 10th dimension? More universes, silly! The 11th dimension would be more universes, each with infinitesimal amounts of possibilities (parallel universes). But then what? Are they all contained within a marble that an alien is playing...

Jun 12th

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Follow, Unfollow, Follow, Unfollow - The Circle of...

I just had someone unfollow me today over at mac sac and crack .com. Someone I didn’t know, and I wasn’t following them. I don’t hesitate to unfollow people when their content ceases to be of interest to me - it’s a cruel world - but maybe next time I unfollow someone I’ll send a thank-you card or something. “Thanks for the mamories”. I wonder how long she’d been contemplating unfollowing me?...

Mar 6th

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bendelaney: Every creative person really needs to watch this video by Zack Arias. It’s directed at photographers, but it applies to everyone. I just watched it three times in a row. Great great stuff. (Don’t get dissuaded by the first minute or so… it starts out cheeky, but gets then gets really serious.) I think I’m really beginning to fully realise - from my own experience thus far and...

Feb 19th