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“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:59:00 -0400

“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” - Benjamin Franklin.

So here is a secret thing I’ve been working...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:26:35 -0500

So here is a secret thing I’ve been working on:

The Love Letter Scavenger Hunt is a one-day, whimsy-fueled careen through the Mission, where intrepid adventurers will be given clues to find mysterious lost love letters hidden in parks, alleys, and shops.

Come with your sleuthing hat on, ready to solve puzzles, meet weird characters, and unravel a mystery.

DATE: Saturday, February 9th

TIME: Between 12p and 7pm

ADDRESS: 21st & Valencia, San Francisco

This wonder-propelled adventure was made possible by a grant from The Awesome Foundation.

Bring your other half or come solo. We welcome all humans, as long as they are intrepid and pack their sense of adventure. Free and open to all.

Sponsored by The Society Of Lost Letters Outreach Committee

The Society of Lost Letters has the best marketing intern.

Photo

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:57:25 -0500

"Before, the employee playing Cinderella could say hello only in a general way. Now — if parents opt..."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:29:44 -0500

“Before, the employee playing Cinderella could say hello only in a general way. Now — if parents opt in — hidden sensors will read MagicBand data, providing information needed for a personalized greeting: “Hi, Angie,” the character might say without prompting. “I understand it’s your birthday.””

- At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales)

Disney is freaking amazing.

(via superamit)

wnycradiolab: explore-blog: Introducing The Reconstructionists...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:51:26 -0500

wnycradiolab:

explore-blog:

Introducing The Reconstructionists – a yearlong illustrated celebration of trailblazing women across art, science and literature, who have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture and live our lives as individuals of any gender.

Yes, please!

Suddenly have a deep desire to go to...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:22:30 -0500

Suddenly have a deep desire to go to Iceland.

fuckyeahvolcanoes:

volcanic lanscape in Iceland. by Will Govus.

Send your mail back and forth by carrier pigeons, that are sized...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:03:00 -0500

Send your mail back and forth by carrier pigeons, that are sized perfectly to fix inside the mailbox.

Kit here. I’m in love.

"Gratitude can have such a powerful impact on your life because it engages your brain in a virtuous..."

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:44:53 -0500

“Gratitude can have such a powerful impact on your life because it engages your brain in a virtuous cycle. Your brain only has so much power to focus its attention. It cannot easily focus on both positive and negative stimuli. It is like a small child: easily distracted. Oh your tummy hurts? Here’s a lollipop. So you lost your job? Isn’t it wonderful we’re having KFC for dinner? On top of that your brain loves to fall for the confirmation bias, that is it looks for things that prove what it already believes to be true. And the dopamine reinforces that as well. So once you start seeing things to be grateful for, your brain starts looking for more things to be grateful for. That’s how the virtuous cycle gets created.”

- The Grateful Brain – Alex Korb takes a look at recent research exploring our neural reward circuits. Also see the hard-wired limits of the human brain and complement with some famous thoughts on gratitude.

(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)

What Happens When You Click Chat On The Photojojo Website

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:13:00 -0500

Wanna hear a joke? Knock Knock!
→me: who's there?
Allegra: etch
→me: etch who?
Allegra: bless you!
→me: hilarious. You are awesome. :)
Allegra: no, YOU ARE
Allegra: =)
→me: Seriously, you are winning some hardcore point here. :D
→me: +points!
Allegra: how do we win even more?
Allegra: how many do we have so far and can we redeem them for something?
→me: LOL
→me: So far you have a brazilion points. At eleventy brazillion, you can trade them in for an imaginary midget pony that is fluent in 9 languages.
→me: You win them, pretty much, by continuing to be awesome. Which, incidentally, you are already aces at. :D
Allegra: oh mannnnn
→me: Right?
Allegra: im still hung up on that midget pony
→me: He is REALLY cute. He is made of, like, the BEST imaginary stuff imaginary money can buy.
Allegra: i wanna snag that before Christmas if possible, what do i have to do to get that?
→me: Hmmm.... *thinks*
Allegra: ie. How can we earn ten brazillion more points?
→me: I think ASKING me that just earned you five brazillion more points. :D
Allegra: mind = blown
Allegra: http://i.imgur.com/UmpOi.gif
→me: Der lord. Amazing. :D
→me: I think that won the other five. Plus three more for good measure. You get the imaginary midget pony AND a nifty pony carrying case. At like, totally no extra charge.
Allegra: wow, thats amazing customer service, you should work here with us!
→me: HA!
→me: *amaze*
→me: I picked it up from you guys via chat-osmosis. ;)
Allegra: =)
Allegra: i like the cut of your jib
→me: And I you, fine sir/madame.
→me: Also, just FYI, you realize I am totally posting this chat to the intrawob. It's mandatory, at this point. :)
→me: I mean, unless that breaks some pony-related privacy law. :)
Allegra: no way, if anything, i'm pretty sure this makes pony-related privacy laws even stronger
Allegra: marinate on that for a bit
→me: Dear photojojo-human-interface-thing, I think you totally just became my spirit animal.
Allegra: I think we're both equally in awe of each others greatness =)
→me: INTERNET HIGH FIVE
James: i just felt the windows shake in this room
James: so hardcore
→me: Wait.. we're in a room?
James: in space
James: in a series of tubes
James: cuz thats the internet
→me: Dude, how many of you ARE there? Are you ALL this awesome?
James: every. single. person.
→me: Holy friggin crap. I...
→me: have no words. :D
→me: Photojojo multi-headed awesome human, I SALUTE YOU.
James: *F-16s fly overhead as an eagle screams*

What's 'gay' mean?

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:24:06 -0500

7-year-old girl: What's 'gay' mean?
11-year-old boy: It means…
14-year-old girl: Don't tell her.
7-year-old girl: Tell me!
11-year-old boy: It means…
14-year-old girl: Don't tell her.
11-year-old boy: She knows what it means.
14-year-old girl: DON'T tell her!
7-year-old girl: Tell me!
11-year-old boy: It means two men who get married.
7-year-old girl: …um…actually, two women can get married, too.

A conversation on the subway. Ages approximate.

neil-gaiman: shannawesome: neil-gaiman: “Advice to Aspiring...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:20:05 -0500

neil-gaiman:

shannawesome:

neil-gaiman:

“Advice to Aspiring Artists”.

This is very short. But if you only ever watch or reblog one YouTube video with me in it, make it this one. I mean it. This is important.

Transcribed for your quoting convenience:

“Saying that we have enough artists is like saying we have enough scientists, we have enough designers, we have enough politicians — we have enough politicians — but, you know, nobody gets to be you except you. Nobody has your point of view except you. Nobody gets to bring to the world the things that you get to bring to the world — uniquely get to bring to the world — except you. So, saying that there are enough writers out there, enough directors out there, enough people with points of view. Well yeah, there are, but none of them are you. And none of those people is going to make the art that you are going to make. None of them is going to change people and change the world in the way that you could change it. So if you believe somebody that says, “no, no, we’ve got enough of those,” then all it means is that you are giving up your chance to change the world in the way that only you can change it.”

Signal boost for the transcription. (Thank you.)

thisisamemoryof: On November 30, 2012, I emailed the 21,632...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:55:55 -0500

thisisamemoryof:

On November 30, 2012, I emailed the 21,632 members
of the Listserve this letter, asking them a question.

Many of them called the phone number in the letter, leaving
unexpected, beautiful, and often heart-breaking answers on
my voicemail. Feel free to call the number for yourself.
I’d love to hear your answers.

Ira Glass On Storytelling

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:29:54 -0500

Ira Glass On Storytelling

Awash With Love: Storm Resurfaces 1940s Letters“These...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:33:00 -0500

Awash With Love: Storm Resurfaces 1940s Letters

“These stories are gone, these people are gone, you never have access to these moments again,” she says. “It’s going to be wonderful to have a peek into what it was like to be 19 and 20 years old, and to be in love in the 1940s.”

Photo by himmelhoch

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:44:00 -0500

Photo by himmelhoch

I want all alcohol to carry warning labels like these.

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:29:11 -0500

I want all alcohol to carry warning labels like these.

odditiesoflife: The Aokigahara Suicide Forest The Aokigahara...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:14:00 -0500

Skull of suicide victim.

A sign warning visitors to "please" not commit suicide.

Human skeleton sunk into a growing tree.

Another skull of suicide victim.

A blue jacket is all the remains of this suicide victim. Animals and morbid collectors will take bones from the dead.

odditiesoflife:

The Aokigahara Suicide Forest

The Aokigahara forest has the unfortunate distinction as the world’s second most popular place to take one’s life. The first is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Since the 1950s, depressed Japanese citizens have wandered in, and at least 1000 of them haven’t wandered out. In 2002, 78 bodies were found within the forest, exceeding the previous record of 74 in 1998. In 2003, the rate climbed to 100, and in recent years, the local government has stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to downplay Aokigahara’s association with suicide. In 2004, 108 people killed themselves in the forest. In 2010, 247 people attempted suicide in the forest, 54 of whom completed the act.

Japanese spiritualists believe that the suicides committed in the forest have permeated Aokigahara’s trees, generating paranormal activity and preventing many who enter from escaping the forest’s depths. Complicating matters further is the common experience of compasses being rendered useless by the rich deposits of magnetic iron in the area’s volcanic soil.

Due to the vastness of the forest, desperate visitors are unlikely to encounter anyone once inside the so-called “Sea of Trees,” so the police have mounted signs reading “Your life is a precious gift from your parents,” and “Please consult the police before you decide to die!” on trees throughout the forest.

The place has long been associated with death. Ubasute, literally translates to ”abandoning an old woman.” Ubasute may have been practiced there into the 19th century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the Yurei (angry spirits) of those left to die.

The green guitar is the handiwork of a farmer named Pedro Martin...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:15:00 -0400

The green guitar is the handiwork of a farmer named Pedro Martin Ureta, who is now 70. He embedded the design into his farm many years ago, and maintains it to this day, as a tribute to his late wife, Graciela Yraizoz, who died in 1977 at the age of 25. “It’s incredible to see a design that was so carefully planned, so far below,” says Gabriel Pindek, a commercial pilot for Argentina’s Austral Lineas Aereas. “There’s nothing else like it.”

"When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for..."

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:48:36 -0400

““When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.””

- Caitlin Moran (‘How to be a Woman’)

sockdreams: Portia breaks it down. ♥ Jess~ Find us @ Facebook |...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:05:26 -0400

sockdreams:

Portia breaks it down. ♥

Jess~

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