June 2008
11 posts
“I’ve been single for seven years and as I get older, I think all I want is to be...”
– Alec Baldwin to NY Post (via aja)
I both agree and disagree with this on several levels.
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Name something that is bigger and better than you but that could also benefit from your support.
Watchaprilini:
Censorship Wildly Underrated
Fun with censor bars. An incredibly original and creative music video by The BPA- The BPA ‘Toe Jam’ Feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal.
I felt a little embarrased watching this at work! More than some other videos that would be considered not safe for work.
slice of life
What do I really want with this whole 8:36pm.com idea anyway? What’s the desired end result? I messed around with the most obvious functionality this last weekend, but it is leaving me with a feeling of not quite getting the full picture. I think I need to start with the core feeling of amazement around the slice of life idea. That feeling of capturing life in a slice, and then sharing...
“Our emotions must be in the right amount, proportional to the event that called...”
– Aristotle
long live the first emotion
Also, I have to say something about emotions. A child feels all emotions fully, without constraint, without the layer of emotion management that occurs as they slowly learn about manners, society, and in general get socialized. As adults, we have our initial emotions, and then a layer of management emotions, second emotions, that help us control the first emotion.
Emotions though have a bad...
a week on my own
I’ve got low energy and it’s worrying me. So low that I almost can’t even rally. It’s not necessarily low morale even, it’s just the feeling of having my energy past the point of self-replenishing. As if I’ve depleted the energy I usually use to give away and have dipped into my own personal store of energy. I need to replenish that and also stock up a bit...
solar powered moods
Kellianne left for her one-week-every-six-weeks trip to NYC this morning, and so now I’ve got a week on my own again. The last week or so I’ve been feeling very low-energy, unable to even do the minimum that’s expected of me. On top, everyone in Seattle seems to be feeling the same way. Most people are blaming the weather. And that’s probably what’s affecting...
Watchtopherchris:
jakoblodwick:
charlietodd:
The Democratic primary in 8 minutes.
THIS is web video done right. Wow.
Holy crap, yeah. This is superb.
I like the sound effects.
emotional triggers
Reading more of Paul Ekman’s Emotions Revealed and it’s slowly changing the way I think about emotions and moods and self-medication etc.
Rather than think about what your current mood or emotion is (and he makes a distinction between the two by saying a mood lasts several minutes to several days while an emotion lasts a split second to a couple minutes), it’s interesting to...
The Seven Basic Blog Post Types
siddman:
feastingonroadkill:
From here
1. Be upset! 2. Buy a thing! 3. Animals are cute! 4. People are dumb! 5. Something I like, only different! 6. Weird science! 7. Me, the blogger!
I don’t think these are really my categories. I’d put them more along the lines of what kind of response you expect from your post, as listed here:
Entries asking for empathy
Entries asking for...