In five weeks in the Galapagos in 1835, Charles Darwin identified 12 separate species of finches. After watching a 90-minute documentary on the Galapagos in 2001, Mel Kiper Jr. identified 35 species of finches, ranked them on strength, quickness, and “football instincts,” and correctly predicted that a land tortoise named “Jorges” would go to Indianapolis in the sixth round.
I was shocked and dismayed –I think we all were- to learn that Goldman Sachs had been involved in whatever it was they did. I had always ranked them with unlicensed boxing promoters and taxi drivers in Cairo, as people who inspire one with absolute confidence.
The Conceptualists would answer: It’s not permanence and materials, all that Winsor & Newton paint and other crap, that are at the heart of art, but two things only: Genius and the process of creation! Later they decided that Genius might as well take a walk, too.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
I saw this video of a cat playing with an iPad. I love how the guy at the end says “You sure are a smart cat, buddy.”
LOL! That is a DOPEY cat! He’s as dopey as those dopey dogs that chase laser pointers at the dog park.
Is THAT all you have to do to be a smart cat? Bat at things that move or make noise?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
— Lightning 
Sometimes it is worth trying to find a way to solve problems that doesn’t involve more structure, more meetings, more roles, more documents, more setup.
I was walking my dog when we met an Asian man with a Pomeranian.
“Friendly?” I asked, pointing at the dog.
“Poh-mah-ranian,” the man replied.
This is our office parking lot at 6:30 p.m. on a Friday . . .
LOS ANGELES — Dixie Carter, the “Designing Women” star who used her Southern charm, quick wit and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, died Saturday. She was 70.
Publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook, said Carter died Saturday morning.
I must say this comes as quite a shock — not that Dixie Carter died but that Hal Holbrook is still alive.
I have great anxiety, hope, desperation, regret, anger, joy, shingles and insight. I balance all of these just saying hello to someone.
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