July 2008
19 posts
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101 Things I Have Learned
1. College Degree’s can have typo’s. 2. College Coffeeshop’s are not automatically cool (See Kaldi’s.) 3. Continuous spray Sunscreen is the best thing ever. 4. The more I read the more I realize I don’t know 5. The more I read the more I realize authors all steal their best ideas from someone else. 6. I want to meet this someone with all the good idea’s...
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allisonweiss:
Font Conference - CollegeHumor video
This is probably the funniest video I’ve seen in a long time. I love WingDings!!!!
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I should have never graduated
they gave me thousands of dollars and free wifi and what did they want in return, for me to sit in an air conditioned room for at most 3 hours a day.
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“There are two insults which no human will endure: the assertion that he...”
– Sinclair Lewis
Applying for jobs feels like writing fan letters...
So true.
keepinganotebook:
I know nothing will come of it other than an automatically generated email and a signed headshot if I’m lucky.
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Numbers
In 1776 the entirety of The United States had a population of about 2.2 million.
Out of that came people like George Washington, Thomas Jeffereson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and others.
The city of Houston, TX has a population of 2.2 million. Can you imagine such a group of people coming from a city like Houston?
Also worth thinking about
In a nation of 300 million are...
Watchsuperamit:
A map showing the Growth of Walmart across the United States. Year-by-year, starting in 1962.
It’s like watching a virus grow.
(From FlowingData, via Kottke)
Top 10 Best Literary Insults
My Favorite
”[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.” - Virginia Woolf on ULYSSES
Hope
The current Secretary of The Treasury recieved a bachelor of arts in English Literature. If the Secretary of The Treasury can have a Liberal Arts B.A. then there is hope for me! Now, he did go on to get an M.B.A. from Harvard, but let’s not talk about that until after I ever apply for grad school.
This inspired me to look at the imporant people I could think of and see what they go their...
How?
Both presidential candidates are claiming to have the solution to our economic woes. (If they even exist) I would like to ask where they will get this power from. I can see no evidence of the power to flip the economic blender on to puree in the constitution, or in any of the amendments passed in the last 250 years. Is the current President withholding economic expansion because he is holding a...
