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Just realized I no longer remember how the hell hot 18°F is. Metrication complete.
wait, what? - MoTO #TeamMonique
Hell would be frozen over. - SAM
It's all relative. - John (bird whisperer)
We've been metric since the 70s, but we'll travel miles in 90 degree heat to avoid using it. Although as the temp drops, we do switch to celcius :-) - Le Slip Anglais from Android
wait, what? - MoTO #TeamMonique
Or centigrade, if you want to use the proper term :-) - Le Slip Anglais from Android
I will put a note with your prayer and pray for you at the western wall for $5 - http://fiverr.com/shimonb...
I will put a note with your prayer and pray for you at the western wall for $5
Does this violate the Western Wall's terms of service? - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
Or can cover all bases for about $100 http://fiverr.com/gigs... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Double my money back if the prayer isn't answered? - Todd Hoff
For entertainment purposes only. No guarantee, expressed or implied. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Mobile Grill - Guys, are you ready for the summer? - http://www.strangevehicles.com/images...
Mobile Grill - Guys, are you ready for the summer?
J M W Turner
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"Ruskin wrote that Turner’s underlying theme was Death. I believe rather that it was solitude and violence and the impossibility of redemption. Most of his paintings are as if about the aftermath of a crime. And what is so disturbing about them — what actually allows them to be seen as beautiful — is not the guilt but the global indifference that they record." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"These incredible looking flowers are monkey orchids. There are two species shown here, Dracula simia (the ones that look like monkey faces) and Orchis simia (which resemble little dancing monkeys). Dracula simia are only found in the cloud forests of southeastern Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters and their flowers smell likes ripe oranges. Orchis simia are found in Europe, the Mediterranean, Russia, Asia Minor and Iran and the flowers smell strongly of feces! " - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
They really look like monkeys! - Anika
They really do! :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
The second one from the top right kind of looks like a platypus. - Eivind
♩ Mind me platypus duck, Bill, mind me platypus duck. Don't let him go running amok, Bill, mind me platypus duck. ♩ - Eivind
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
"Just as capital is compelled continually to reproduce itself, so its culture is one of unending anticipation. What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is. The immigrant proletariat, unable to return home, suffering from being who they were, yearned to become, or for their children to become, American. They saw no hope but to exchange...
"...themselves for the future. And although the desperation of this wager was specifically immigrant, the mechanism has become more and more typical of developed capitalism." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"Time, they often say in New York, is money. This can also mean that money is what time is like. Money, being purely quantitative, has no content, but it can be exchanged for content: it purchases. The same has become true of time: it, too, is now being exchanged for the content that it lacks. Work-time for wages, wages for the unlived time 'encapsuled' in the purchase: the 'speed' of... more... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
- About Looking by John Berger - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
TED: Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA - Ron Finley (2013) - http://www.ted.com/talks... (via http://friendfeed.com/my-feed...)
TED: Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA - Ron Finley (2013) - http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html (via http://ff.im/1eQL9a)
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Neil Young - Sugar Mountain, 1968 - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain, 1968 - YouTube
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Eivind is the "Kilroy" of Goodreads - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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LOL. I think we just have very similar tastes, Ken :) - Eivind from Android
For a moment there I thought you meant our Kilroy (Robert Kilroy-Silk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) :-/ *shudders at the memory* - Heleninstitches
I'm in an unexplored corner of the Goodreads wilderness, and come over the rise only to see... "What took you so long?" :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
I went in search of enjoyable Russian classics a while back and had a good time in the outskirts of the canon :) - Eivind from Android
The Passionate Eye: The Secret Life of Dogs - http://www.canada.com/onlinet...
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All Signs Point to Higgs Boson, but Still Waiting for Scientific Certainty - http://www.nytimes.com/2013... (via http://friendfeed.com/cgerris...)
The amazing properties of hexaflexagons! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
The amazing properties of hexaflexagons!
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"Had it not been for the trivial circumstance that British and American notebook paper are not the same size, flexagons might still be undiscovered, and a number of top-flight mathematicians would have been denied the pleasure of analyzing their curious structures." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – Pride and Joy - http://www.last.fm/music...
Journey to the Sea of Cortez - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Journey to the Sea of Cortez
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"This documentary is retracing the famous Steinbeck/Ricketts expedition of 1940, when they sailed down the coast of California and Mexico to the Sea of Cortez. “The abundance of life here gives one an exuberance,” they wrote, “a feeling of fullness and richness.” Their stated purpose was to document the creatures that inhabit shallow waters and tide pools on the margins of the Sea of Cortez. But it became much more. In these mysterious, phosphorescent waters they sought an understanding of mankind’s relationship to the natural world, and a wellspring of hope for a world headed toward war." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
I've been meaning to get to that book. - Eivind from Android
Me too. Book first or documentary? That is teh question. :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
I am a book first kind of guy, but I can make exceptions :) - Eivind from Android
RAIN RAIN sun RAIN RAIN RAIN sun RAIN
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I can see clearly now, the rain has...nevermind. - Eivind from Android
Actually it's stopped for a bit. I think I may need to go out and work in the garden. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
That looks like our forecast. - Headless Gnad Kicker
This is weather I do not like. - Anika
A beautiful day today though, so I'm in my happy place. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Going for a "John Adams" constitutional... a 5 mile walk followed by a shot of bourbon.
At least it's not a "Grizzly Adams" constitutional... a 25 mile hike followed by a mauling from a bear. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Or an "Amy Adams" constitutional... a short walk on the red carpet followed by... no Oscar. #toomean? - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
I approve. - Kelli H.
DIY Wood Burning Sauna - http://www.instructables.com/id...
DIY Wood Burning Sauna
Wood burning sauna made from wood? - Johnny
Looks pretty safe as they've lined around the stove with cement board. I'd be more worried about the CO. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Though I did have the Dumb Ways to Die song stuck in my head as I was read it :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
1. Wood burning sauna made from wood - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
2. Carbon monoxide poisoning - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
3. Cutting a propane tank with an angle grinder http://youtu.be/bsYFWy9o1_o - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
5. Exploding rocks - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
6. Heat stress - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
7. Using sheet asbestos instead of cement board - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
I would totally hot box in there. - Rodfather
Rod. :D - Kelli H.
Not nearly enough room in there for yoga Rod. ;) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Makes a nice looking table! - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
He used 7 gallons of epoxy to level it!! - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Dreamer's gotta dream
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The life of π/2 - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Nailed it. - Juan Pablo González
You just know that SOMEbody was shaking a shiny object just off camera. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I watched this last night, and I liked the movie much more than the book. That doesn't happen very often. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"Oh, my smile meant something quite different. I'll tell you why I smiled. Not long ago I read the criticism made by a German who had lived in Russia, on our students and schoolboys of to-day. 'Show a Russian schoolboy,' he writes, 'a map of the stars, which he knows nothing about, and he will give you back the map next day with corrections on...
...it.' No knowledge and unbounded conceit- that's what the German meant to say about the Russian schoolboy." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"Yes, that's perfectly right," Kolya laughed suddenly, "exactly so! Bravo the German! But he did not see the good side, what do you think? Conceit may be, that comes from youth, that will be corrected if need be, but, on the other hand, there is an independent spirit almost from childhood, boldness of thought and conviction, and not the spirit of these sausage makers, grovelling before... more... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"During the second half of the 20th century the judgment of history has been abandoned by all except the under-privileged and dispossessed. The industrialised, 'developed" world, terrified of the past, blind to the future, lives within an opportunism which has emptied the principle of justice of all credibility. Such opportunism turns everything...
...-- nature, history, suffering, other people, catastrophes, sport, sex, politics -- into spectacle. And the implement used to do this -- until the act becomes so habitual that the conditioned imagination may do it alone -- is the camera." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
- About Looking by John Berger - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
C'est moi! C'est moi! I blush to disclose, I'm far too noble to lie That man in whom these qualities bloom C'est moi, c'est moi, 'tis I http://www.guntheranderson.com/v... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
I think he must have been the inspiration for Gaston in Beauty and the Beast: http://youtu.be/PK3x2DOoJIc - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up (Live in London) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up (Live in London)
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Whenever you're upset... - http://s20.postimage.org/45111n6...
Whenever you're upset...
Cuz his arms are short... get it? :D - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet
"Corporations are in love with the idea of the strategic plan. They need to pay to figure out where they are going. Yet there is no evidence that strategic planning works—we even seem to have evidence against it. A management scholar, William Starbuck, has published a few papers debunking the effectiveness of planning—it makes the corporation...
option-blind, as it gets locked into a non-opportunistic course of action." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"Almost everything theoretical in management, from Taylorism to all productivity stories, upon empirical testing, has been exposed as pseudoscience—and like most economic theories, lives in a world parallel to the evidence. Matthew Stewart, who, trained as a philosopher, found himself in a management consultant job, gives a pretty revolting, if funny, inside story in The Management... more... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
"For an illustration of business drift, rational and opportunistic business drift, take the following. Coca-Cola began as a pharmaceutical product. Tiffany & Co., the fancy jewelry store company, started life as a stationery store. The last two examples are close, perhaps, but consider next: Raytheon, which made the first missile guidance system, was a refrigerator maker (one of the... more... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
- from Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
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