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rePost: THE UNRAVELING OF KANYE WEST: DETAILS Article on men.style.com

Kanye West in 2007.
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I played guitar hero the first time last night, at a house/birthday party of a friend. What struck me was the intensity of the people playing guitar hero. Let’s just say that most things we have in modern society is distractions and we seem to be concentrating so much in these distractions that we seem to lose energy to do the hard stuff, or maybe we use these distractions to not face having to deal with the hard stuff, as for me, I’m not playing guitar hero any time soon, I’ve been slowly saving up for an electric organ and in 8 month’s I’d probably saved enough for both an instrument and the turntable i’ve been dying to own.  Hope I can create stuff!

Inspired by his preteen Super–Sexual Mario Brothers project, West makes a pop-Freudian self-analysis. “People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age,” he says. “Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic . . . “
THE UNRAVELING OF KANYE WEST: DETAILS Article on men.style.com.

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Can't Lie

It seems to be the recurring theme of my life. The “Fuck I can’t Lie To My Self but I’ll try everytime i get a chance”. THis is getting stale, I need a new theme fuck happiness fuck depression. I am in limbo and it seems that both extremes won’t/can’t make me satisfied. This is not where I am meant to be!

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rePost:Belief In A Loving God/ A Loving Life:Who wants to go to heaven? at Paulo Coelho’s Blog

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For those who believe in God or even who just believes in life, I’ve come to the belief(too many belief in this sentence) God/the Universe is not conspiring against me at worst it does not care for me/us, thus I try to live life in a manner that if not optimistic at least neutral. I still don’t knwo/understand life but I feel that If I am to continue living here I believe in Love!

Who wants to go to heaven?
Published by Paulo Coelho on February 16, 2009 in Stories
A priest – who saw the devil in the pleasures of life – went to the town tavern and asked everyone there to attend church that evening. Everyone obeyed. With the church filled to the last pew, the priest roared out:
– Stop all this drinking! All those who want to go to heaven, raise their right hand!
The entire congregation raised their hand – everyone but Manoel, who was held by all to be a dignified man who fulfilled all his duties.
Surprised, the priest asked:
– And you, Manoel, don’t you want to go to heaven when you die?
– Of course I do. But I still haven’t experienced the life that God has given me, and you want to take it away from me already!
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Who wants to go to heaven? at Paulo Coelho’s Blog.

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rePost: Nice Primer on International Schools: The World of International Schools « Follow That Elephant!

I have a friend , probably an aquaintance is a closer description who has an undergraduate degree in Education. That person is working in a Contact/Call center right now. I don’t have any problem with people working in call centers, heck I work in a call center. My problem is that my usual topic wihen meeting someone in school why are they studying what they were studying ang I was convinced that being an educator what the person wanted to be. I feel I’m stepping in zones I shouldn’t be in. Just call me nosy.

When I tell people back home in the US that I’m teaching in Thailand, they usually assume I teach English to Thai children. When I try to explain by saying “no, I teach at an international school”, I’m often met with a blank stare.
Understandable enough – before moving overseas, I never realized that there was a network of English-speaking American (or Canadian, Australian/New Zealand or British) curriculum schools all around the world. I have now worked at three international schools in three countries – Germany, Malaysia, and Thailand – and I often receive questions about where I work and how to start working overseas.
So, I thought I’d share some very basic information about this type of school for those who aren’t familiar with them.
The World of International Schools « Follow That Elephant!.

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rePost: Growing Old:Who Knew?: Hendrik Hertzberg: Online Only: The New Yorker

I’m 25, turning 26 in about 6 months. Why am I having thoughts on dreading old age?

My first reaction was indignation: Et tu, Who? But that was an old reflex, grown feeble with the passing years. It’s been a while since I could yell “Sellout” with any real conviction. Anyway, The Who’s days of overt rebellion are long gone. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were Kennedy Center honorees last month, standing alongside Barbra Streisand, George Jones, and George W. Bush, among others.
My second reaction was a suspicion that maybe Townshend hasn’t completely lost his subversive touch after all. Maybe he’s just redirected it inward. “Hope I die before I get old” a line included in the sixty-second version has a certain ironic, shamefaced piquancy now that the spokesmusicians for the sixties are in their sixties. That hope for a quick, Hendrix-like demise has been dashed, along with The Who’s retirement portfolio, if theirs is like everybody else’s. But renting out an antique anthem of rebellion isn’t just a way to ensure that the money will be there to pay for an assisted living facility, it’s also a subtly devastating comment on where and how our g-g-generation ended up. Good one, Pete
Who Knew?: Hendrik Hertzberg: Online Only: The New Yorker.

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rePost:Sensible Amish Rules In Technology Adoption: The Technium: Amish Hackers

I’m a geek thus I try the newest shiny thing available, I muck around daily builds/ beta builds etc/ buy robot kits etc, How could I say the Amish rules are sensible?
Simply put I try my best to see where I stand. I constantly ask myself why/how/when/where I am changing. I constanly evaluate myself in how technology changes me and my interactions with people. In a way I follow these rules but with a faster turnover.
An example of this is how I resisted having a phone, when I realized that because of phones people tend to have less respect for meeting times/appointments etc. It took me a long time to grow accustomed to fluid meeting times etc. I used to never be late at anything I am usually 30 minutes to an hour early for anything, but not I see my habits have been changed.
more thoughts on this later!

The Amish are steadily adopting technology — at their pace. They are slow geeks. As one Amish man told Howard Rheingold, “We don’t want to stop progress, we just want to slow it down,” But their manner of slow adoption is instructive.
* 1) They are selective. They know how to say “no” and are not afraid to refuse new things. They ban more than they adopt.
* 2) They evaluate new things by experience instead of by theory. They let the early adopters get their jollies by pioneering new stuff under watchful eyes.
* 3) They have criteria by which to select choices: technologies must enhance family and community and distance themselves from the outside world.
* 4) The choices are not individual, but communal. The community shapes and enforces technological direction.
The Technium: Amish Hackers.

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rePost: Excelletn SuggestionHow the Ad Recession Could Improve the Web – Finance Blog – Felix Salmon – Market Movers – Portfolio.com

Agreed!

People read from one line to the next. If you can’t read the line above the line you’re reading, it feels odd, and you can lose track of the narrative. When you’re reading a book, it’s almost instantaneous to flip a page, but with a website, the time taken to click on the “next” link and wait for the page to reload is much longer. What’s more, all that finding the link and clicking takes you out of the narrative — and, of course, makes it much more likely that you’ll disappear off somewhere else entirely, just like newspaper readers generally fail to read beyond the jump.
The multiple-pages problem is so annoying, indeed, that many bloggers, including myself, make it a point to always link to a “single-page format” or “print version” of the article instead. That’s not always possible, however, and what’s more the print version often lacks important navigation, multimedia, and other hypertext components.
Most annoying, for a blogger, is when you’re quoting a bit of an article which is on, say, page three. Do you link to page three, or to page one? Neither is particularly pleasant.
Every time I go to a website like the NYT or The Big Money, the need to hunt around for the “single page” button and click on it and wait for the page to reload makes me hate the site just a tiny bit. For really gruesome offenders like Time, I simply don’t read a lot of their listicles, no matter how good they are, because the multiple-page format makes them all but unreadable. Now that the need to maximize inventory has disappeared, maybe this whole annoying thing will go away.
How the Ad Recession Could Improve the Web – Finance Blog – Felix Salmon – Market Movers – Portfolio.com.

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Fears From The Periphery:Niall Ferguson – An imaginary retrospective of 2009

You hear it in the news, and people repeat it to either sound smart or at least informed. To me it is just noise. There is probably a correlation to the confidence of a people versus the performance of its economy, it may even well be causal, but Whenever I hear anyone sprouting something like “We are not that affected by the global financial crisis”, or even worse the people who sound so matter of factly “We are immune to this crisis” then points out the activity in malls etc, I don’t know what to think anymore. We aren’t like franklin richards (son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Force) we cannot will reality. We nudge it, coerce and push maybe but that is what we do. willing it is just part of it, we create reality through will and action, none is good without the other. The way I talk betrays my need for accuracy when making sweeping statements or even statements, more so for things that are not too easily grasped, with little study or even extensive study. We must not speak to the crowds but always try to push the debate forward.

This asymmetric character of the global crisis – the fact that the shocks were even bigger on the periphery than at the epicentre – had its disadvantages for the US, to be sure. Any hope that America could depreciate its way out from under its external debt burden faded as 10-year yields and the dollar held firm. Nor did American manufacturers get a second wind from reviving exports, as they would have done had the dollar sagged. The Fed’s achievement was to keep inflation in positive territory – just. Those who had feared galloping inflation and the end of the dollar as a reserve currency were confounded.
Niall Ferguson – An imaginary retrospective of 2009.