Stremf in Numbers
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Choices
A recent entry in the Best Commercials Series:
When I was young I thought "Bold Choices" meant doing the thing that was most difficult or most volatile for its own sake. And maybe that is the bold choice for someone entering adulthood. Distance and danger are helpful ingredients when forging your own identity.
Now I think bold choices are the choices that you own, and don't look back. Having a stable (and sometimes boring) career and owning a house as a domicile rather than an investment are choices that you have to completely embrace if you're going to be successful at them. Or if you choose not to have these things you have to own them.
Labels: Keep Walking
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Monday, May 16, 2011
I Hope the Drinks Are Comped
As you may have heard, we're scrapping the Space Shuttle program. Now we must buy seats aboard Russian ships to access the Space Station. The ticket price is $57,000,000 per ride. I'll never disparage anyone for flying first class again.
Labels: window seat please
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Google as Hippocampus
One of my jr high teachers refused to make us memorize anything beyond the essential concepts. Rather, she made sure that we could organize our information and devise a method of retrieval. She believed that the long-term trend was veering away from rote learning and moving towards the ability to look up information.
That was actually the smartest policy of any of my teachers until college.
That was actually the smartest policy of any of my teachers until college.
Labels: Hippo Campus Crusade
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