February 2010
107 posts
January 2010
116 posts
O, Apple iTablet, how do we (already) hate thee?...
1. The first version of an Apple product is usually buggy. It’s the First Commandment of Apple consumers: Thou shalt not buy the rookie products. 2. You don’t need a giant thousand-dollar smartphone. You’ve got an iPhone and a laptop and you just got a Kindle for Christmas. Why do you need a tablet? 3. You’re just going to break it, anyway. Don’t expect an Apple...
“Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know,...”
– Carol (from Paris je t’aime)
Via togetlost:pseudopoetry:followyourbliss (via travelhighlights)
“As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more...”
– James E. Faust
Heh-heh
rickyv:
I wonder if we call it a BLT because we’d feel bad asking for a “bacon sandwich.”
“The cardiologist’s diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.”
– Author Unknown
“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day...”
– Ellen Degeneres
“Question 53:
What is the biggest difference between what happens on television...”
– Gregory Stock, Ph.D., The Kids’ Book of Questions
Following my Bliss
Today I thought, OK, Joseph Campbell, if following my bliss opens doors, then let me first figure out what my bliss is. Then we’ll see if the doors open.
Travel, I thought. I also enjoy writing and surfing the information highway. So, combining the three, I decided I wanted to be a travel writer when I grew up.
I got on Monster.com and searched the country for travel writer jobs. Ha! No...
“Knowledge is not the same as wisdom.”
“Yeah, what’s the difference?”
“You know how to clean a windshield, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Wisdom is doing it.”
— Peaceful Warrior
My Favorite Synonyms for Bliss
Ecstasy
Elation
Euphoria
Felicity
Jubilation
Polydactyl
Rapture
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Haiti has had slavery, revolution, debt, deforestation, corruption, exploitation...”
– Alex von Tunzelmann, a historian and writer currently working on a book about the country and its near neighbours, the Dominican Republic and Cuba
“Money matters, but less than we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss