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Denver was often skipped by cross-country rock tours in years past because of its distance from other major cities until Barry Fey, Chuck Morris and other local promoters spent years developing the market’s potential.
— Mark Harden, Denver is ready to rock, says StubHub - Denver Business Journal:
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Now that I’ve had it both ways, I can highly recommend choosing to make things you like with people you think are awesome. By comparison, the private consolations of doing otherwise turn out to be surprisingly modest.
— Merlin Mann, kung fu grippe
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Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years. For me, a 25-year-old American, the probability of dying during the next year is a fairly miniscule 0.03% — about 1 in 3,000. When I’m 33 it will be about 1 in 1,500, when I’m 42 it will be about 1 in 750, and so on. By the time I reach age 100 (and I do plan on it) the probability of living to 101 will only be about 50%. This is seriously fast growth — my mortality rate is increasing exponentially with age.
— Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates « Gravity and Levity
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These languages are interchangeable, especially for building web application. Neither are more awesome. They get the job done and they make programmers happy.
— Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth « Rudimentary Art of Programming & Development
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Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. It’s short, and it’s simple. Here’s my diet plan: Cook it yourself. That’s it. Eat anything you want — just as long as you’re willing to cook it yourself.
— Harry Balzer, Magazine Preview - Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch - NYTimes.com
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I JUST WANNA BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM. I NEED TO JUST GET PAST MYSELF. DROP THE BRAVADO AND JUST MAKE DOPE PRODUCT. EVERYTHING IS NOT THAT SERIOUS. AS LONG AS PEOPLE THINK I ACT LIKE A BITCH THIS TYPE OF SHIT WILL HAPPEN TO ME. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I’M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE BUT I’M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE.
— Kanye West, kanYe West : Blog :
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President Obama is so damn smart. He just drips smart. He clearly understands stuff that we could never understand. He’s trustworthy. If Obama were teaching fire-eating, we would all learn fast. If he told you that the burns would be minor and the fire would go out when you closed your mouth, you’d believe him. If I weren’t twice his weight, I’d fall back with my eyes closed into his caring arms in one of those cheesy ’70s church trust exercises. He could talk me into anything.
— Penn Jillette, Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing? - CNN.com
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This would basically match or surpass what we would make touring 200-plus days out of the year. And, two, this allows us to be home.
— ?uestlove, The Roots say Fallon gig `enabled us to survive'
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Our Lady Of Sorrows was initially named Our Virgin of the Seven Sorrows (or Swords), but Pope Pio X (1913), fixed the liturgical feast on September 15 and the name we have today. Our Lady Of Sorrows has a broken heart by seven swords, because seven were the most principal sorrows during her life: the prophecy of the old Simeon, the exile in Egypt, the loss of Jesus in the Jerusalem’s Temple, the Way of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the Deposition from the Cross and the Burial. Our iconography, often, represents St. Mary with one sword, only the sorrow of the Simeon’s prophecy (the statues of the 19th century).
— Florigium - The tree of my life - Coming back from the Golgotha!
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As best I can tell, there are two useful types of meeting: alignment and creation. Briefly:
Alignment meetings sound like this: “It’s red, are we all in agreement it’s red? Ok, swell. Wait, Phil thinks it’s blue. Phil, here are the 18 compelling reasons it’s red. Convinced? Done now?”
Creation meetings sound like this: “We need more blue. How are we going to do that? Phil, you’re our blue man. What should we do here?”
— Rands In Repose: A Disclosure
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One measure of the absurdity of the system: Every year you, the American taxpayer, send me a check for $588 in exchange for me not growing crops on timberland I own in Oregon (I forward the money to a charity). That’s right. The Agriculture Department pays a New York journalist not to grow crops in a forest in Oregon.
— NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’? - NYTimes.com
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It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if that gives them certain rights. It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. “I’m offended by that.” Well, so fucking what?
— Christopher Hitchens, via David Smith
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