Damek.

Having just watched Alexander this weekend, it strikes me that this scientific advice about swatting flies is probably good battle strategy in general: “Aim for the escape route.”

I have been a blue salmon
I have been a wild dog
I have been a cautious stag
I have been a deer on the mountain
and a stump of a tree on a shovel
I have been an axe in the hand
A pin in a pair of tongs
A stallion in stud
A bull in anger
A grain in the growing
I have [...]

You are the most beautiful person… - w4m
Date: 2008-02-09, 8:08PM EST
You are a kind soul who saw something in my that I’d forgotten about….you saw in my eyes an ancient recognition…and you said that we were one..you were right…I was so wrong to allow these doubts to drive you away…and Im so sorry…and maybe there [...]

People sometimes speak of repeating the errors of our parents, or make comments like, “You married your mother/father,” etc. In most cases, it’s just something people say, with little meaning. To the extent that anyone ever actually believes it, they’re most likely committing confirmation bias. I’m sure it does happen, sometimes, but [...]

This is pretty interesting. In response to Beloit College’s 10th Annual Mindset List, which takes a stab at describing the worldview of the incoming Class of 2011 (grew up with bottled water; have always had the World Wide Web), Valleywag’s Nick Douglas presages The Mindset of the Class of 2029.
Some of my favorites: “They [...]