Be excellent to each other!
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Be excellent to each other! →
Fighting authoritarianism: 20 lessons from the 20th century →
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today.
~ Jaon Kottke from, Fighting Authoritarianism
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The original of this is a Facebook post… I really wish people would stop doing that. Facebook is a terrible publishing platform. Anyway, above is a link to a web site that has permission to reproduce the entire thing.
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Coffee Festival? →
Turns out, if you follow me, we get free coffee as the fest ends! @redbudroasters
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Everything’s bigger in Texas! →
uh, except this ‘river’ at the ‘river walk’. :P Time to do stuff!!
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San Antonio →
Ok! After some reluctance, the SUN rose and I can feel my feet again…
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Humans work magic →
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
~ Carl Sagan
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Seriously →
22 ‘and falling’
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Wat. the F**K Texas??! →
Tower of americas in San Antonio, icicles. ICICLES. 1500 miles and im still – apparently in Pennsylvania. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr
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The Shoe Cushioning Myth →
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The above is a great article! It’s long, detailed, and clear. But first, think about this…
You know — intuitively — that some amount of energy goes into your legs any time you move on your feet. You know that shoes are not magic; They don’t magically consume energy making it disappear. So the energy from any impact (walk, run, jump) is still coming into your legs from the ground. Cushioned shoes TRICK your perception into feeling things are going great. In reality, the only way to control/lessen the impact on your joints is to CHANGE the mechanics of your feet, ankle, knee, stride, jump, etc.
Think of your shoes as a power tool! Those who can use a screw driver well — who fully understand everything about screws and all the features of the power screw driver — can really get a lot of quality work done with a power screw driver. Conversely, a lot of damage can be done with a power tool in unskilled hands.
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The plot thickens →
Jesse has arrived…
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