Musings of a Chicagoan
Amanda Palmer, Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day and Neil Gaiman, in one photograph (via WilWheaton).

Amanda Palmer, Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day and Neil Gaiman, in one photograph (via WilWheaton).

There are cycles of good and bad times, ups and downs, periods of joy and sadness, and times of plenty as well as scarcity. When our lives turn in an unanticipated and undesirable direction, sometimes we experience stress and anxiety. One of the challenges of this mortal experience is to not allow the stresses and strains of life to get the better of us—to endure the varied seasons of life while remaining positive, even optimistic. Perhaps when difficulties and challenges strike, we should have these hopeful words of Robert Browning etched in our minds: ‘The best is yet to be’.

I like my keywords better, but worth bookmarking.

Message board for English-speaking hikikomori.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O’Reilly and Associates) (via mnmal)
Do not fail
To learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks.
Morihei Ueshiba, the Art of Peace (via mnmal)

RT @tinybuddha: “Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” ~Unknown

“I thought I’d let you in on a much more effective fire starter, petroleum jelly coated cotton balls. It burns longer(3-4 mins) and can be easily ignited with flint and steel. Just one of these is…

Just watched a BBC theological debate in which Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens completely totaled their opposition. Quite fun to watch.

Companies pricing legal secretary jobs at minimum wage pisses me off. It’s an insult (and not a living wage). It’s FAR from a Mickey D job!

“A 15-year-old Brisbane school girl has been suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research. […] Ms Pridham decided to shave her head as part of a fundraiser for cancer…

“[T]he number of Americans who can’t point to some use of taxpayer money that they’re against is probably so tiny as to be almost non-existent. By this argument, should Quakers be forced to pay for…