Flappers on Fifth Avenue
My first-grade girlfriend gets quoted in the New York Times.
If you get accustomed to blowing off steam, you become dependent on it.
- David McRaney on Catharsis — in particular the pointless concept of “venting” feelings of anger, aggression or frustration.
Inception Music Comparison — Very clever! I wondered about that particular choice of “kicker” music.
The fact that other people get to decide what they think of your behavior leaves only two strategies for not suffering from those judgments: not doing anything, or not caring about the reaction. Not caring works surprisingly well.
- Clay Shirky, on confidently doing interesting things. (Via Put This On which has the full quote.)
Jewel does undercover karaoke at a random dive bar, and it is awesome.
The essential elements of a man's wardrobe
If nothing else, for my own future reference.
A regular expression to check for prime numbers
/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/
Probably not the best algorithm to find prime numbers, but it certainly is a clever abuse of regular expressions!
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it up carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable… The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is hell.
- C.S. Lewis
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
- Jewish proverb
A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.
- Hardy Amies
Don’t worry, Cat Lassie will save you!
