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I got my first letter from the Peace Corps!! I’m one step closer to getting my foot in the door for an interview!!
My whole life I’ve hated going to bed. I like falling asleep instead. Falling asleep is so much better than going to bed because you don’t get tangled up in the logistics. Falling asleep happens for you, even if it means waking up at eight to the sun assaulting your eyes while a block of metal…
Banksy
This is my favourite stencil by the graffiti artist, Banksy. It consists of using the cult classic image of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s with her cat and manipulated it to have the cat turn on her, and show red scratches over her popular black and white image.
I wish that when I was younger I could have met my current self. We would have sat down at a coffee shop so that I could explain life to young me in terms that only we would understand. It would have saved me a lot of hardship.
You can listen to all the sage wisdom you want, but things only make…
A Simple Request of the 2010 Graduating Class
INVENT THE FLYING HOVERBOARD. Yes. That’s right. You heard me. Invent it. Right now. Don’t look so gung ho about taking on life NOW, do you? Not when someone has given you actual work to do.
There isn’t a man on Earth who doesn’t wish he could hop on a hoverboard and McFly 1,000 feet in the air to a floating 23rd century taco stand. Hundreds of graduating classes have come and gone and NOT invented the flying hoverboard yet. Wanna be special? Wanna be remembered? Want everyone to say, “Hey, that Pepi Hamburger made a DIFFERENCE.”? Then don’t go to Africa and work with AIDS babies or something stupid like that. Invent my ass a fucking hoverboard, and make it light and maneuverable. And don’t give me some shit like, “But it’s not actually feasible. The power source alone would weigh too much, and balance would be a constant problem. Wahhhhhhh Wahhhhhhh!” I don’t hear Steve Jobs accepting that kind of excuse when his cancer-riddled skeleton hosts an ideation meeting. Those old 1950’s newsreels used to say we’d have restaurants on the moon by now. But we don’t. Know whose fault that is? YOURS, ASSHOLE. Make a hoverboard. And make it affordable. It’s worthless to me if I gotta shell out more than, like, a grand for it.
http://deadspin.com/5540268/a-special-balls-deep-message-to-the-class-of-2010
banalitycheck: nbaoffseason:thegreg:joemuto: Dustin Hoffman and Jason Bateman on the kiss-cam at the Lakers game last night.
Rules for a Balanced Life
Soo, I’m cleaning out my office today. I figured today is as good as any before the big more. Basically, it is me putting off packing up my apartment. However, I do have to show my office pretty soon to the next grad coming in. ANYWAYS, I found a scrap piece of paper that had some wisdom on it. It just simply says: Rules for a Balanced Life by Epictetus, Stoic born in 55AD (some wisdom is, indeed, timeless). I thought I would share:
- Know what you can control and what you cannot.
- Make full use of what happens to you.
- Seeking to please is a perilous trap.
- Approach life as a banquet.
- Avoid adopting other people’s negative views.
- Never suppress a generous impulse.
- Character matters more than reputation.
- Self-mastery depends upon self-honesty.
- The virtuous are consistent.
- Be suspicious of convention.
- Wisdom is revealed through action, not talk.
- No shame, no blame.
- Pursue the good ardently.
- Treasure your mind, cherish your reason, hold to your purpose.
- Disregard what doesn’t concern you.
I think I shall hang this in a better place in my office next year as a daily reminder.
