it’s okay. he is a friendly snowman. #avlwx #avlsnomg

there is a runaway snowman in the neighborhood. we found his tracks. #avlwx #avlsnomg

Man is a frivolous, a specious creature, and like a Chess player, cares more for the process of attaining his goal than the goal itself.

Fyodor  Dostoyevsky (via enpasant)

fluffynotes: Click here for larger version.

tinakeightley: Build It Yourself: Holiday Ornament (by Chris McVeigh)

fluffynotes:  Chaos. German style.  Bank Forum, Commerzbank: Chaos | Ads of the World

I’m looking for a hat that looks like this.

enpasant: Baugin, Lubin Nature morte avec un échiquier

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

BOOKSHAKALAKA: The National Book Awards Jam Throws Down for 2010 (via housingworksbookstore)

somethingchanged: Finally I can make beautiful coffee at home (without a huge and silly machine)! Love.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan (via crookedindifference)

npr:  A rejection letter from the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company (1907-1925), best known for making Charlie Chaplin movies.

theatlantic:  On this day in 1857, The Atlantic was born. Our first cover.

The underestimation of the human intelligence is the worst sin of our time…

Mortimer J. Adler

Everything is an aggregator for something else, even every link in the chain dilutes the message a little bit more… Stories spread. Word of mouth gets recommendations. Followers and bit.ly clicks don’t mean a damn thing.

tdhurst of antiprguy from Social media is dead

Who spends $125 at Dollar General store? Apparently the woman in front of me. And there’s only one line. *shaking my head* All I wanted was a single bag of candy corn for $1.

It’s a nice day for a quick walk outside on my work break. I stopped by @MyDollarGeneral (yes, they have a twitter acct) to purchase some post-halloween snackage and a woman shopping asked me where to find the soap.

‘I don’t know,’ I told her.

‘Oh,’ she said. ‘So, you don’t work here?’

‘No,’ I said. 

I guess I’m still wearing my halloween costume. I look like I work at a Dollar General store. 

malty:

I only have one beer left, which means:

GUINNESS CHOCOLATE PUDDING!

  • 8 large egg yolks
  • 1 cup sugar
  • One 14.9-ounce can Guinness Draught
  • 3 cups heavy cream
  • 7 ounces high-quality bittersweet (70 to 72% cacao) chocolate, finely chopped
  • Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Guinness-Goodness-234304#ixzz0nI3GdSqI

    yes, i’m addicted to tweetdeck… but i can stop anytime… if i have too… starting next week…

    explodingdog:

    oh hell. I just zeroed my inbox.

    somethingchanged:
    Authors of a new brain study find that “just as thinking burns energy, stopping a thought burns energy – like stopping a truck on a downhill slope.” 

    Why thinking of nothing can be so tiring: Brain wolfs energy to stop thinking