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I've been listening to Springsteen all day and now I have a strong desire to wear denim pants.
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I just cooked food "for fun" and didn't even eat it! I've crossed some threshold from cooking so much @HotKnivez food. http://t.co/rKP5hP02
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Literally a card-carrying member. @ Well Suited http://t.co/OJBF1bCf
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Fighter jets taking off at PDX. Just FYI.
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I did not plan the logistics of this airport pickup very well... No contact info other than Facebook and never met in person before.
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The downside of my Juice & Salad diet is how hungry I am right now.
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Not sure "You only live once" is the right sentiment to justify a $50 art book but there was also some slight peer pressure from @tullera
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What begat what? Dinners inform projects, or do projects lead to dinners?
“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
Today most money around the world takes the form of fiat currency: Currency that has no intrinsic value. Fiat money is only valuable because people believe it has value. This raises a question: Couldn’t a group of people get together and agree to accept some differently-decorated pieces of paper as money? Yes, actually, they could, and communities around the US have created their own local, taxable, legally valid currencies, especially in the last few years.
Morgan Evans asks, “But that begs the question, what is funny?”
Except, that it doesn’t beg the question. As our dear friend the all-wise and powerful Jiminy Wales says:
Begging the question (or petitio principii, “assuming the initial point”) is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.
I understand that this is a small, and stupid, pet peeve of mine. As noted in the wikipedia article on Begging the question, linguist Mark Liberman recommends avoiding the phrase entirely … its intended meaning is unintelligible and therefore it is now “such a confusing way to say it that only a few pedants understand the phrase.”
I am perhaps a pedant. But as Mark Corrigan would say, “You’re not a pedo.”
In addition to cooking up a tofu scramble this morning we’re going to make Daikon Stew later today!
I had a bunch of extra ingredients so I made a Sunday Scramble. Not exactly a Hot Knives recipe, but since they are the reason I have most of this food in my kitchen I feel like they bear some responsibility.
If Jesus was a confirmed bachelor then was Talpiot Tomb his man cave?
Famous lifelong bachelors from history include: Plato, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Immanuel Kant, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Nikola Tesla.
A number of men are notable for being famous bachelors. They include: Benny Hill, George Clooney, Anderson Cooper, Ralph Nader, Quentin Tarantino, former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, Anthony Kiedis, and Indian Industrialist Ratan Tata.
Okay, so I didn’t really “figure it out” so much as ask my co-worker, who as one half of the Salt & Fat blog knows a thing or two about biscuits (they are both salty and fatty).
Here is the same explanation but about Pie Crust:
My one piece of advice when you are ready to prepare: stay cool,…
lone piano
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TOMORROW, FRIDAY 2/17
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- Feb 2008 - PresentSelling Myself / KmikeyMAfter years of doing web-based projects, I’ve taken my commitment to collaboration (and my love of the business world) to the highest level. I’m selling shares in myself.
Using a virtual, fully-functional stock market called KmikeyM.com, I’m inviting everyone to own a part of me and all my future projects. By buying shares in me, Mike Merrill, you not only fund my ideas, but you have a say in which ones I undertake. As our little economy grows, my stock price will become a kind of benchmark for my success; the higher the stock price, the more viable the worth of my projects.
When Shareholder Questions come up, stock owners will be able to vote on significant choices in my life. The more shares you have, the more weight your vote has. You could be the only person voting to send me to night school, but with enough shares behind you, I’m going to enroll. Ostensibly, if we make the right choices, we both win.
Sure, you might say that this is an incomplete way of measuring my success — or that a business model is not conducive to the execution of creative projects. I don’t see it this way. Business is a social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity, and to accomplish particular creative and productive goals; after all, the etymology of the word “business” refers to the state of being busy.
It’s not about generating profits, particularly, although that will likely happen: it’s about a group of people working towards the same goal. By using an adapted structure of the market economy, you and I have a ready-built mechanism for operations, accountability, and measuring success that is not only well documented but also easily understood. - Mar 2003 - PresentWorker / Panic, Inc.The creators of shockingly good Mac software.
- Dec 2001 - PresentPublisher / Urban HonkingUrbanHonking.com is an online magazine and the hub of a community of writers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and other great humans.
This isn’t a job. No one gets paid here, save for the value of publishing ideas and sharing them. This isn’t an especially new or revolutionary idea, but it’s exciting to have this common place: one people can find, participate in, and join. Everything is instantly published, so Urban Honking is much like a daily magazine published by the same people who are reading it.
We don’t pay much attention to web stats or “hits,” but we have noticed that we get more traffic every month because we’ve built up an extensive archive of great content, open for anyone to explore.
