May 2010
55 posts
"you'll be like a giant meaty fruit to passing... →
hahahah hanging sleeping bag cocoon/shelter.
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Osservazioni da Italia (capitolo 1)
Gelato generally costs €2 or €2.50. Anything more than that better be really good. Most gelato matches some market-achieved standard of taste and price, which means you can get tasty gelato anywhere. Most will also do more than one flavor even in a smallest size (piccoli).
Italy, like many Old World cities/countries, requires vicious instinct, killer luck, and hard-headed perseverance to find...
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The (Only) Ten Basic News Stories →
azspot:
1. Shock and Horror. As they say in the news biz, “If it bleeds, it leads.” Murders, especially multiples, acts of unusual violence, brutality, or sadism, shark attacks, and the carnage left by explosions are sure fire grabbers for the attention of a nation of gawkers. 2. Tragedy. Preferably enhanced by the horror factor, as in a suicide bombing, the Tragedy category includes natural...
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How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - Peter Bregman... →
princesshyejin:
this is exactly what i needed to hear for this week. too much going on. time to get going.
timtimedin:
(via lpster)
I’m using the free internet in the Logan airport terminal waiting for our flight to NYC. Saw this on my dashboard. Thanks Hyej & Tim, this article is mad good. I’ve always suspected this is largely true — for instance, I can’t take...
Una vacanze in Italia
I am going to Italy for 2 weeks for vacation. Milan, Florence, Siena, Trento, Bolzano, Venice, Padua & other north country cities. Hurray!
I am very excited to go to Florence and Siena. Ever since “Quantum of Solace” showed that crazy scene with the horse racing around the public square and other pictures of Florence and such Renaissance cities, I’ve wanted to go. And since...
Yay Oatmeal quiz: How addicted to Facebook are...
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You know that summer session owns you when...
breathofmusic608:
TPao: (looking up at the lights as we walk through FFSC) Hey, those lights actually look kinda cool.
Me: … is it bad that i just thought of hybrid orbitals when i saw them?
TPao/EChow: …yeaaah, that’s pretty bad.
so this is what living and breathing orgo is like…
Self-explanatory. Poor KwaKward and other orgo captives.
Nothing new and probably nothing good
I wish I were completely at peace. But I’m not. It wasn’t long, but I spent 20 minutes at the piano today playing sad/break-up songs because that was just how I felt. It was a sudden and overtaking bout of heartache and missing. *sigh* I am so close to being well. I am not going to write anymore than this because it will be nothing new and probably nothing good. I’ll leave it at...
“articulate mr. hsu. you could persuade me to buy air”
– Beka Ouyang, in response to my Facebook status: “Greg Hsu is very thankful that the presentation went so well.”
Love is a Battlefield
Why does sin have power over us? Because we love it. If we didn’t love sin, temptation wouldn’t faze us at all. Sin is not a behavior issue, it’s a heart issue, a love issue. How do we overcome sin? By having a deeper love for something else, for Jesus.
It is clearer than ever that I am messed up. God has been extremely generous in His provision to me by providing me with so many good and...
“Why does sin have power over us? Because we love it. If we didn’t love...”
– Derek Mondeau, quoting another pastor/preacher, in his own talk about “Creation-Fall-Redemption”
“[While that’s good] I think we need to have a broader view of God, that He...”
– David Fan, in response to my desire to have some decent consistency in spiritual disciplines and time spent with God.
First thoughts from home (about... lots of things)
I’m sitting in the Framingham Public Library while my mom teaches an English class to some of the elderly people in our church. My flight left RDU @ 7:00am so props to PNak for driving me so early.
GRADUATING/LEAVING DUKE: Leaving/graduating/moving on has been pretty hard. I think I’ve had an easier time than most because (1) I didn’t leave right after graduation but stayed...
Watch“Sunday’s Coming” — again an ambiguous or ambivalent slight critique of the modern church. Definitely worth thinking about haha.
“Natalie Portman? Or Scarlett Johansson? They’re both so hot. In different...”
– Jane K, on who she would choose of the actresses portraying the Boleyn sisters in “The Other Boylen Girl.”
“Peter N. works out? He doesn’t look like he does”
– TPao, refreshingly honest.
“I have so much efficacy for God, but so little intimacy with Him”
– Rockbridge realization #2
“I am a soldier with no home, roaming the earth in search of wars”
– Rockbridge realization #1
Cloud computing la la la →
BBC explains cloud computing pros and cons.
Jane K is a mess
Jane: oh gregory the delirium has returned
Me: oh dear...
Jane: i am going to wilt away
Me: NO
Jane: away
Me: no no no no wilting
Jane: away
me: not like last night, you were a mess. NO MEGA EMO. STAY AWAY FROM PLATH. AND ALCOHOL. NO. i will not have you dissolve into headdesking mess
Jane: plath. my hero? desks + jane's face = love affair. wilt wilting wilted
WatchHaha, Ke$ha is everywhere. EVERYWHERE.
White Noise Generator = productivity →
Much as I hate to say it, listening to music doesn’t help me study, it may block out other noises or keep from being bored, but it takes up brain space. White noise generator does not. It’s actually really good.
This white noise generator even has three “shades” of noise (different frequencies) to satisfy all of us. My favorite is “Brown” noise at 44%, unless...
How a Cell Phone Works! →
Informative… enough to keep me from doing my Religion Take Home :)
"The desk likes my face"
Greg: Jane, you are a mess.
Jane K: (*headdesk*) No you're a mess!
Greg: I'm not the one head-desking.
Jane K: The desk likes my face.
UVA senior murdered →
This is really awful :\ So close to being graduated too.
Info from the University:
http://www.virginia.edu/emergency/message050310.html
"I'm not being fed" in church or large group →
If you’ve ever felt this way - and haven’t we all — read this.
UVA at a glance facts →
This is where I’m going next year.
