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Me: “… I’m just saying, he’s better at CSS than both of us.”
Nathan: “Nah. I doubt that. I’m better at CSS than you are anyway.”
O: “Whatever. You know I’m the best.”

N: “Im just saying… I’m better at being a boy than you.”
O: “Whatever. I’m way better at being a boy than you are. You’re just better at having a weiner.”
N: (trademark scrunched-up-smile) “That’s true. Well that part is true.”

A big arms up to yinz’all Pittsburghers out there and fans of the Pepper Home Improvement ad. I can think of little else right now but…

“Pepperrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”

Yay for tall old men with crazy long arms! Yay for Saturdays! Yay for sugar in all it’s rushy goodness!

Swedish guy: Are you the hippies?
Dreadlock guy: I guess so.
Swedish guy: So, you hippies, do you have the orgies?
Dreadlock girl: Um… We decide that on a hippie by hippie basis.
Swedish guy: Oh, because you say ‘Yes,’ and I sign up now.

Overheard, Queenstown, New Zealand

Let today’s lesson begin:

Origami shirt with collar from a dollar bill
via Chris Glass

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via Stonyfield Farm – for a healthy planet

Normally I don’t post personal stuff but then I thought it might help just one other person. In the last few days I stumbled upon a realisation so obvious I’m amazed I could never quite grasp it before. Here in America where I now live, we are encouraged to believe “You can have it all. You owe it to yourself. ” Think about what those little phrases mean – how deeply ingrained they are in so many cultures. Think about how measuring yourself up against this ‘requirement to happiness’ affects your daily satisfaction levels… (more…)

A lot of people are disturbed by this image, so I had better explain it. According to the ancient classical meditative traditions of India, a person’s life is divided into twenty-five year sections: during the first twenty-five years, one is a student. For the second twenty-five years, one becomes a householder, and tends to worldly affairs. At age fifty, one should become a forest dweller; one should go live in a forest and think only of God. I have always liked this system, and have tried to live according to it. But when I turned fifty, it was obvious that it would be very inconvenient, both for myself and for many other people, if I went to live in a forest. First, in the state where I live it’s illegal to live in the forests, and if I tried to do so I would probably end up being a jail dweller instead. So I decided that the forest in which I would live, thinking of God, would be in my mind, and that’s what this painting is about.

~ Bill Perry, Artist, the molecule farm

A single piece of Bill Perry’s artwork is auctioned off on eBay once a week. Bidding starts at only $2!

Thanks chasmyn!