- Sorry reductionists, there is rarely a single culprit. #
- All you Aussie babies bitching about the "cold" weather need to shut the fuck up. You don't know what cold is. #
- A key question I've learned to ask potential employers is "How comfortable are you with flexible schedules?" #
- Small crack near the usb jack on my iPhone. = free new iPhone. Thank you AppleCare! #
- Prepare to be shocked and amused. Visit http://chatroulette.com/. I just had a guy singing to me. Read more here: http://bit.ly/aDmIqq. #
- Only a fool expects apples from an orange tree. #
- We work to buy things that are built to die so that we must work to buy more things that will break. Fascinating read: http://bit.ly/amgiIF #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16
May 16th, 2010 · Twitter Updates
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My Favorite Quotes
May 14th, 2010 · General Updates, Personal Development, Random Thoughts
Benjamin Disraeli once said, “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.” Below is a selection of my favorites. Click here to download the full list.
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A journey can only begin with your decision to embark. – Michael Dell
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. —Oscar Wilde
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
Those with more talent require fewer props. – Hugh
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
It’s not about being treating like a superstar, it’s about being treated like part of the family. – Steve Lawler (DJ)
I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don’t have to work extremely hard doing what I hate. – Hugh
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not. -Isabel Allende
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? – Maurice Freehill
Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway – Nick Gleason
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Too thirsty for feedback?
May 14th, 2010 · Random Thoughts
Is my generation so week that we constantly need twitter style self-esteem boosters administered in quick shots of “microfeedback”?
I’m beginning to think so after reading an article in the May Harvard Business Review entitled, “Mentoring Millennials”. In it, the authors discuss millennials desire for near constant feedback, or “microfeedback”. They describe microfeedback as “performance assessment for twitterholoics”.
Hmmm…is feedback limited to 140 characters what it’s come down to?
Yes, a thirst for guidance and constructive feedback is normally positive. And yet, I fear that my generation has crossed the line from wanting feedback for personal and career development into needing constant feedback for validation.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09
May 9th, 2010 · Twitter Updates
- I'll let you get back too x = I'm done talking with you now. #
- 1 frozen banana, 1 scoop of chocolate protein powder, big scoop of peanut butter and milk. Mmmmm. What is your favorite protein shake? #
- fixed work routine = puke #
- Notice how Apple always tweaks design just enough to make owners of "old" generations feel "out of date". Yeah, I dislike that. #
- The story of how soda companies manufactured demand for bottled water is both sad & fascinating. Watch this video: http://bit.ly/bWpveG #
- There is no turning back. #
- It's sad how people living in tremendous abundance can still feel completely miserable. #
- Restless but not energetic. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02
May 2nd, 2010 · Twitter Updates
- Put yo mum jeans on and shake that jelly booty!!! #
- The Jonagold apples in Sydney are orgasmic. Crisp & juicy with a sweet-sour taste. Mmmmm #
- Snap a picture of your screen or record video of onscreen action. Share instantly over the web, IM, email. http://www.jingproject.com/ #
- Hazel Dooney has unknowingly become the art teacher I always wanted, but never had. http://bit.ly/77CaD #
- 2 hour gym sessions are the Hail Marys of calorie conscious binge drinkers. #
- Shocked after reading that Bill Moyer's Journal is going off the air! #
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The Fashion/Style Gap
April 27th, 2010 · General Updates
I just read “The Style Imparative” on Psyshology Today, which continues to be one of my favorite websites. In it, Estroff Marano clearly articulates the difference between fashion and style. What you wear not only says a lot about you, but it communicates so much more
Fashion is about clothes and their relationship to the moment. Style is about you and your relationship to yourself. Fashion is in the clothes. Style is in the wearer. The distinction could not be more revealing.
Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge. You can’t have style until you have articulated a self. And style requires security—feeling at home in one’s body, physically and mentally. Of course, like all knowledge, self-knowledge must be updated as you grow and evolve; style takes ongoing self-assessment.
“Clothes are separated from all other objects by being inseparable from the self,” Anne Hollander writes in her classic Seeing Through Clothes. “They give a visual aspect to consciousness itself.” Through clothes, we reinvent ourselves every time we get dressed. Our wardrobe is our visual vocabulary. Style is our distinctive pattern of speech, our individual poetry.
As the speed of all our transactions increases, we need fast ways of transmitting information about ourselves without losing authenticity
Style, on the other hand, doesn’t demand a credit card. It prospers on courage and creativity. Unlike fashion, style consumption isn’t promiscuous or random, at the whim of the marketplace or the urging of marketers. Rather, it is focused on what is personally suitable and expressive.
Style presumes that you are a person of interest, that the world is a place of interest, that life is worth making the effort for.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25
April 25th, 2010 · Twitter Updates
- U.S Army Using Video Games to Tempt Recruits…”The Army Experience”. It makes me want to puke. How sad http://bit.ly/d2NZ4a #
- Why is Microsoft Word’s spell checker complete shit compared to the Google version built into every search? Oh yeah, it’s Microsoft. #
- Bill Moyers Journal & The Daily Show are the only “must see” TV shows for me. I don’t own a TV, but thankfully, both are available online. #
- Experiencing Sydney fatigue. #
- To get accustomed to life with an iPhone and then voluntarily give it up would be an incredible test of simplicity. Could you do? #
- It’s incredible what introspection – either forced or voluntary – can teach us about ourselves…about life. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18
April 18th, 2010 · Twitter Updates
- Reading & thinking a lot about constraint-based/frugal innovation recently. #
- Listening to “Friday I’m In Love” by The Cure has become a Friday afternoon ritual. #
- The mask is the only garment that will never go out of fashion. #
- “Sweet Disposition” by The Temper Trap and “Invisible Light” by the Scissor Sisters are both on heavy rotation. #
- Habit keeps resistance from raising its ugly head and starting to talk me into sluffing off. – Steven Pressfield #
- People usually think of habits as bad. A drug habit, an alcohol habit. But habits can be tremendously positive too. Like yoga or the gym. #
- When sincere, “It wasn’t the same without you” has to be one of the best compliments you can give a person. What are some others? #
- Another day, another crisis. #
- So tired at starting at screens all day. #
- So tried of staring at screens all day day. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28
March 28th, 2010 · Twitter Updates
- Wine weekend in Hunter Valley. #
- Who else is over faux-vintage t-shirts? It’s especially tired when they bare the insignias of athletic departments that don’t exist. #
- Just discovered that Melbourne is a well-regarded stencil graffiti hub. Anyone know what neighborhoods have the best work? #
- Just discovered that Melbourne is a well-regarded stencil graffiti hub. Anyone know what neighbors have the best work? #
- Made in Milwaukee, aged in Chicago, Barcelona and Sydney, exported to the world. #
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So many firsts, so much fun
March 23rd, 2010 · Fun, General Updates
The past month was full of all types of firsts. Below are the highlights. Up next? Melbourne Easter weekend and Hunter Valley the following weekend.
Sydney
- Manly Beach
- Taronga Zoo
- Aquarium
- Mardi Gras (Harbour, Mardi Gras Party, Parade, Frisky, Love Muscle, Extra Dirty & Toy Box)
Cairns
- Cape Tribulation
- Daintree Rainforest
- Diving & snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef
Fraser Island Camping
- Maheno ship wreak
- Eli creek
- Indian head
- Lake mckenzie
- Lake boomanjin
Byron Bay
- Dinner @ Balcony
- Beach, beach and more beach
Gold Coast
- Prodigy concert
- Clubs & Dancing
- Sirromet Wine Tour
- Hotel party
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