Whether you’re pulling your hair out over finals, your mom’s incessant phone calls or the fact that your roommate refuses to use ear buds while you’re studying, it’s easy to lose your cool. We have all been there. However, there are many healthy ways to deal with college stressors in healthy ways. For the purpose of this blog, I did some research on stress relief and would love nothing more than to share my findings with you Read the rest of this entry »
An amazing TRON inspired performance by dance group Wrecking Crew Orchestra. WCO is an 8 man dance group formed in 2003, they are masters of hip hop and electronic dance.
Sweatpants: Nothing says “I fail at life” like a pair of ash-grey sweatpants. At least, switch to trackpants, which basically say “I fail at life, but at least I made it as a successful cocaine dealer”. There are however some exceptions, such as this:
An inquiry report released Tuesday concludes (name withheld) who died in November 2008 of “excited delirium” (totally bogus term coined by Taser International, manufacturer and seller of stun-guns) was brought on by cocaine in his body. Read the rest of this entry »
Lulu is a single mom who went back to school and didn’t want to have to work full-time hours on top of her studies just to pay her rent. Instead, she and her daughter moved into a shipping container — for a steal.
“I think I’m a little claustrophobic, so the storage container was a little daunting, but I got the container for free,” she said.
Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.
If getting through a job interview with no major gaffs is a noble beginning for a newbie career hunter, why set such low expectations?
When I had my first job interview for an entry-level job straight out of university in (sorry the number pad has been disabled) there was no Career Advice web site to warn me against divulging my passionate political feelings to the interviewer. Today, the world is more open, the Internet is a free-for-all, but the corporate world is still conservative, prim and proper (even if it’s just an illusion).
You already know more than we did at your age, or should if you’ve been properly taking advantage of the Internet, which simply didn’t exist when I used to walk 22 miles to school in a blizzard 🙂 Read the rest of this entry »
In the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin’s routines focused on the flaws in modern-day America. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture
In case you missed it, in the lead up to the release (or leak, if you prefer) of Daft Punk’s Tron score, there were a bunch of tracks leaked that were allegedly the score, but were later debunked. These tracks were attributed to The Third Twin instead, and it was just assumed that The Third Twin were some a-holes capitalizing on everyone wanting new Daft Punk. But it turns out that maybe The Third Twin is a hoax perpetrated by Daft Punk.
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered ( moved, seconded carried and minuted ) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices"
-- C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
from The Screwtape Letters
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Mr. Anonymous® enjoys long walks on the beach. Naked. In the moonlight. With firearms and fudge. "As the host, co-producer and co-writer of a weekly two hour-long talk show, there is little time left for the simple pleasures in life"
"You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home."
Virgin Brain
Virginbrain is a blog by Richard Derks. Feel free to leave a comment, to react. I don’t mind it if you like to annoy me. Of course I prefer a lick every now and then
WikiLeaks
The controversial “uncensorable, anonymous whistleblowing” website based currently in Sweden
'Her dress was split to the frontiers of decency and was so tight you could see what she was thinking" -- Sebastian Horsley
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything"
-- Oscar Wilde
What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits. - Albert Einstein
"Never regret growing older, as it is a privilege denied to many !"
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love." -- Bob Marley
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." –Gandhi
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -- Oscar Wilde
»Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not gonna make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you've felt that way.«
-CHARLES BUKOWSKI
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr. Seuss
“Abundance comes from making others better off.” — Anonymous
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
-- Steve Jobs
'Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions"
-- Edgar Cayce
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Every day, in every little way, Scientology is changing me for the better." -- Susan Meister on 01/09/1971
On 06/25/71 she was found with a bullet in her head.
'Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable' --Sydney J. Harris
"You must have LONG term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures."
-- Charles C. Noble
Sex won't make him love you, and a baby won't make him stay. -- Your Mom!