At the most hipster coffee place ever. Apple-esque minimalism, arrogant skinny-jeans-wearing staff, ironic Kanye on rotation, & font choices that drip with a dry disdain like their delicious espressos.
Ah, Chicago.
December 2009
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
—L. Boone & a sentiment apropos for a new year.
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Deep reading — the kind that you engage in when you get lost in the syntax and imagery and the long, convoluted sentences of a really meaty book — is a special sort of exercise that creates a new part of the brain that did not exist at birth.
“It’s semi-miraculous, really,” said Dr. Wolf, the director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University. “We don’t have genes for reading. It’s an activity we invented, and by doing it, we show that our brain has the capacity to go beyond itself, to take all these circuits that were created for oral language or vision, and do something entirely different with them — deduction, critical analysis, imagination, contemplation.”
” —Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy - The Endless First Chapter - NYT (via karigee) (via whilebird) (via literarypiano) (via somethingchanged) (via robot-heart) (via notemily) (via nerdgasms)Things that sound similar, but are not…like, at all:
- Boxing Day and the Boxer Rebellion.
It is worth pointing out that at no point in time did I think actual boxers were involved in either of the two. It is also worth pointing out that it didn’t really help the embarrassment.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
—Anaïs Nin (via louobedlam) (via totes) (via roomthily)
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
—Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
“When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.”
—T.S. Eliot (via crashinglybeautiful) (via libraryland) (via sharlala)
Think of someone famous and the internet will read your mind. →
uk.akinator.com
(via:makeyourself:kingofalldetectives)
I’ve been amusing myself with this for like an hour.
this is insane. I thought of haley joel osment and it got it.
I did Mulan and Maggie Gyllenhaal and it got both right! CRAZY GAME.
i did coco chanel and kermit the frog, and he got both right! this is more engaging than it should be while i’m at work.
James Bond AND Teddy Kennedy! What evil interwebs sorcery does this genie use to read my mind?!
