December 2008
40 posts
Duct Tape
I’ve decided to get rid of the comment system. While Disqus offers a nice service, Matt McInerney’s post sums up why comments on a platform like Tumblr is, simply put, useless. All the comments I’ve ever received (in the rare event that I get one) adds little value to my tumblelog. They’re gone.
95 Old School Games You Can Play Online. →
rocketjumper:
dkendall:
Includes Tempest, Spy Hunter, Metroid, Gauntlet(!!), and Dig Dug.
Metriod > *
Wintry
I haven’t been able to update in a long time.
I spent last weekend in Los Angeles landscaping my entire back yard. All 2,100 sq.-ft. of it. My brother and his friend Erik (also the only person who offered to help) spent thirty backbreaking hours planting plants/trees, hoeing, and deweeding.
The atmosphere in San Diego is changing. The sky becomes ever more wintry with the coming days and...
Where you used to be, there’s a hole in the world, which I find myself...
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
(via kaytee) (via pieces) (via finallyseeing)
Opportunity
dihard:
Yes, things are bad. Yes, the job market is tough. Yes, we’ve seen over 1.9 million job losses this year. But change is on the way and with it comes opportunity. Here are a few opportunities that will dominate the financial world in the coming years.
Energy & Environment From renewables to oil to utilities to carbon, opportunity is abound.
Healthcare Despite imminent reform,...
tell me
rocketjumper:
thresca:
A person needs reassurance every now and then no matter how confident he/she seem to be. Sometimes, confidence is just a mask… a mask to keep weakness at bay.
At times I feel that I’m hiding behind this very mask, and have been my entire life; like I’ve been running to some indefinite destination for a very, very long time, and have forgotten why I started...
Durian!
sisterpearl:
I just ate durian! One of the Vietnamese students brought it in to the ESOL teacher. It does indeed smell like cat pee, but it tastes delicious. Kind of like if you took Cracker Jacks and mango and heavy cream and mixed them all together.
Now I can check that off of my list of things I want to try before I die. And put another notch in my foodie victory belt!
I’ve heard...
Not all who wander are lost.
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via makeyourself) (via amandoline)