Reminder to be Yourself

Under the Bodhi Tree

Watch the full episode. See more The Buddha.

Quote of the week

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.  
- Lao Tzu

Favorite NEW Word

savoir-faire
(sav'wahr fair') [Fr.]: the ability to say and do the correct thing.


Read more: Foreign Words and Phrases — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001619.html#ixzz19HhmPOhy

Another day, another song to get you through it

Home Cookin'

Beautiful Photography/Models

I have job envy.  Officially.

http://www.love-lost.net/index.php?/projects/matsuki-neiuwezijds-voorburgwal/

If I brought lunch in...

this is how I would do it.

http://shop.artifactbags.com/products/no-216

Favorite new Quote

"Luck favors the prepared."
-Louis Pasteur

A Reason to love PBS & math (& the future)

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA.

Quote of the week

"Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration."

- Edwin H. Land,
American scientist and inventor

Forever Young - MUST WATCH!

We All Want to Be Young from box1824 on Vimeo.

In watching this, I was inspired.  

Inspired to take up the torch of my generation.

Inspired to voice my opinion contrarian to the box this video-report puts me in.

Inspired to dance.

Inspired to be.

Be well, Do good.

BG

Cinematography

Beauty by design

shinya kimura @ chabott engineering from Henrik Hansen on Vimeo.

Context Free Picture

Courtesy of A Conversation on Cool.

Freakonomics Blog hits the spot

Quoting one of the blogs in my news feed:

"A number of Freakonomics readers have alerted us to yet another novel lottery idea. As Wired reports, Kevin Richardson won Volkswagen’s Fun Theory contest for his idea: “Kevin’s idea is both smart and simple. As well as ticketing you when you run through a speed-radar too fast, Kevin’s ‘Speed Camera Lottery‘ also notices you when you come in at or under the speed-limit. It then automatically enters you in a lottery. And here’s the really smart part: the prizes come from the fines paid by speeders.” The camera is currently in use in Stockholm, where the “average speed of cars passing the camera dropped from 32km/h before the experiment to 25km/h after."

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/paying-drivers-to-not-speed/

Favorite find of the Day

Found a blog picturing defaced currency.... love it!

Courtesy of de-noted.co.uk: Easy.

When Reading Thoreau's "Walden"

"There are nowadays Professors of Philosophy, but not philosophers"


And that was in the 1850's.  Don't want to even think about today.


Be well, Do good.


BG

Catching up on 2 months of reading

Memorable reads from my night in of reading for the past 4 hours:

"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
- Salman Rushdie

"All the strength you need to achieve anything is within you."
- Sara Henderson

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
- Mary Pickford


"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
- Jim Henson

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
- Sir Winston Churchill 

"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest."
- William Faulkner

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
- Lorraine Hansberry 

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."
- Helen Keller 

"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson 

3 to Think about

Challenge.     Disturb.      Enlighten.

Quote of the week

"Photo: courtesy of Google Reader"

Inner City Pressure