January 2012
10 posts
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Inspiring! Teenage girls explain their cancer and asthma research #fb
December 2011
6 posts
Yelping with Cormac: P. F. Chang's China Bistro →
yelpingwithcormac:
Emeryville, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
You think that I am petty. You think that I am self important. I am nothing. I am a vessel. I am a crucible in which truth resides for a brief instant. I hear the stillsmall voice of God and I bow before it in ecstasy and…
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Wow. Is it just me, or is this an incredibly exciting medical breakthrough? #fb
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
4 posts
7 tags
Every cigarette smoked shortens your life expectancy by 14.4 to 14.8 minutes.
– Linus Pauling, chemist, physiologist, 2-time Nobel Prize winner. (via cranquis) #fb
September 2011
3 posts
5 tags
BYOT (Bring Your Own Tech) keeps gaining ground in... →
stoweboyd:
Verne G. Kopytoff via the NY Times
Some companies have even surrendered to what is being called the consumerization of I.T. At Kraft Foods, the I.T. department’s involvement in choosing technology for employees is limited to handing out a stipend. Employees use the money to buy whatever laptop they want from Best Buy, Amazon.com or the local Apple store.
“We heard from people...
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: illegal...
– Edward Tufte
August 2011
6 posts
6 tags
iPad kicking HP out of PC business? →
minimalmac:
You should know by now that I normally do not get into much “news” around here. Especially when it’s not specifically Mac news. There are a ton of great Mac news sites out there and I leave that job up to them. That said, Chairman Gruber linked to a highly fascinating Wall Street Journal…
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Brilliant!
whimsicalallure:
If the government really wanted to save money it would eliminate the post office and let Jehovah’s Witnesses deliver the mail.
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#Sewanee students increase an SUV’s gas mileage by 50% with only $1500 in parts. #eco
Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake →
via soupsoup: The U.S. Treasury’s response to the S&P downgrade. #fb
July 2011
6 posts
We will only make products that we’re very proud of, that we want to own, that...
– Tim Cook, COO of Apple, Inc. speaking to analysts on quarterly conference call.
minimalmac:
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
I agree! #fb
Let’s obsess about what is best for the end user. We often make product...
– An open letter to Blackberry bosses (via soupsoup)
Well said
June 2011
9 posts
1 tag
A Note to Say...
The older I get, the more I love and appreciate my Father and Father-in-law. Danny Luna and Mack Taylor are to fatherhood what Michael Jordan is to basketball. Even though I continually fall short of their example, I at least have the goal clearly established by them. Happy Father’s Day, GranDanny and Dad-Dad! #fb
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Getting Out Of The Academic Cost Spiral →
VC John McCardell’s article in Forbes Magazine #fb
May 2011
5 posts
Fear causes hesitation, & hesitation will cause your worst fears to come...
– Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) in Point Break (1991)