Wine, Exercise and Song

Kill Fat Me: Crap. Better get ready to find a new home.

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:23:39 -0700

Kill Fat Me: Crap. Better get ready to find a new home. :

If this Yahoo deal goes through (and it looks likely), you’d better start looking for a new home. I know a lot about these types of acquisitions. It won’t end well. It will take a few years for Tumblr to decline into oblivion, but decline it will.

I’ve worked for corporate giants. We didn’t buy…

chill-outt-bro:

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:12:00 -0700

chill-outt-bro:

jess-nelson: My life

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:11:41 -0700

jess-nelson:

My life

putthison: The Man Who Thrifted A Ferrari Who’d have thought...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:54:47 -0700

putthison:

The Man Who Thrifted A Ferrari

Who’d have thought you could thrift a Ferrari?

Matthew R. is an inveterate thrifter. He says he works seventy hours a week, and he’s been buying and selling second-hand clothes since 1998. Not long ago, he started a consignment service, Luxeswap, and not only do their auctions often crop up in our eBay picks, but I’ve personally trusted him to consign a number of clothes in the past. He’s one of the best menswear sellers on eBay. But truly: I had no idea.

This week, Matthew bought a Ferrari. With thrift store money.

Here’s how it happened…

Matthew started thrifting in the late nineties, and quickly learned that when he found something good that didn’t fit him, he could sell it on eBay and make a little dough. The first item was an Emporio Armani sportcoat. It sold for fifty bucks. Like most of us, Matthew took the extra money and spent it on clothes and small indulgences.

In 2007, he read a book called One Red Paperclip. It was written by a man, Kyle MacDonald, who traded a paperclip for a pen for a doorknob for a camping stove and on and on for a year until he had traded for a new house. Matthew thought: how could I turn my own little hobby into something special?

So he started a savings account.

His business money went into a business account. His personal money - the money from his own personal purchases - went into the savings account. And year after year, that money grew.

Then, last week, he took the money and bought a Ferrari.

Matthew says: “This car was born of things that nobody else wanted. Things that people discarded. I wanted to be able to say I thrifted a Ferrari. And I did.”

A genuinely remarkable achievement.

"High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:37:28 -0700

“High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vitality, with vim, vigor, and brewing lust — these kids are working at old age homes, cramming for tests, popping Adderall just to make the literal and proverbial grade. And for what? So they can go to a school that puts them in debt for the rest of their lives. School has become a great vehicle of capitalism: it quashes the revolution implicit in adolescence while simultaneously fomenting perpetual indebtedness.”

- Daniel Coffeen (via setbabiesonfire)

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im-gonna-get-heuge: fuckyeahcrossfit: I dont remember Titanic...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:20:35 -0800

im-gonna-get-heuge:

fuckyeahcrossfit:

I dont remember Titanic being so romantic.

this is amazing.

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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:16:22 -0800

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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:03:01 -0800

Lies fitblr has told me and how to combat them:

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:05:40 -0800

Don't keep junk food in the house and you won't be tempted to eat it: Don't keep junk food in the house and you'll end up taking out the entire jar of nut butter with a spatula since it's the only thing around.
Binging is because of lack of self-control: Binging is because of unresolved emotional tensions or not allowing yourself to eat what you really want, when you really want it.
Have a cheat meal once in a while to cut down cravings: Don't put any foods off limits and they'll stop being so special.
Don't add sugar to anything because processed sugar is BAD: If adding a spoonful of sugar to your cocoa powdered oatmeal will satisfy your chocolate craving, don't pretend that unsweetened chocolate will satisfy you.
White flour is BAD, whole grains are GOOD: Food is not inherently good or bad. Food is neutral.
When you feel a craving coming on, it's because you're lacking x nutrient, so eat this food: When you feel a craving for chocolate coming on, eat half a chocolate bar instead of greek yogurt, a big bowl of fruit, three pieces of ezekiel bread, a cup of nuts, and three chocolate bars anyway.
Scrolling through pages of fitness models will motivate you to get in shape: Scrolling through pages of fitness models will cause feelings of inadequacy and self-disrespect.
Lack of discipline and self-control are responsible for fitness failures: Depriving yourself of what you really want and getting burned out on exercise are responsible for fitness failures.
You can look like this fit person if you stay on track: You will look like what healthy you is supposed to look like when you do exercise that makes you happy and eat foods that make your body AND mind feel good!

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Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:40:44 -0800

So true

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:24:22 -0800

So true

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yogapantsandpanties: This is a hold up; show me the goods

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:04:11 -0800

yogapantsandpanties:

This is a hold up; show me the goods

One Month After Selling To Microsoft For $1.2B, Yammer CEO Predicts End Of Silicon Valley

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:34:54 -0700

One Month After Selling To Microsoft For $1.2B, Yammer CEO Predicts End Of Silicon Valley:

chipotle:

Alexia Tsotsis quotes Yammer CEO David Sacks:

“I think Silicon Valley as we know it may be coming to an end,” Sacks posts, arguing that because major Internet companies are on the prowl for innovative ideas, it’s too risky and costly for entrepreneurs to attempt to create successful new companies. “How many [viable] ideas like that are left?”

This is certainly concerning. As you probably know, startup ideas are a limited natural resource, and despite recent advancements in extraction techniques there’s increasing concern that we’re approaching, if not already past, “peak idea.” I hear there’s talk in Congress of tapping the Strategic Idea Reserve.

I’m still against offshore drilling for it, though. It’ll be too disruptive to the migratory patterns of venture capitalists following the yacht trails to Cabo San Lucas.

cargohoo: David Bowie - Sound And Vision Such a great song

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:35:12 -0700

cargohoo:

David Bowie - Sound And Vision

Such a great song

atsoukalidis: This is a bright clear medium- ruby color wine...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:33:15 -0700

atsoukalidis:

This is a bright clear medium- ruby color wine with garnet notes on the wide rim and long legs on the glass. Clean on the nose with medium+ intensity developing aromas suggesting strawberry, tomato, cassis, wet leaves, pepper, violet, redcurrant, cranberry and vanilla. Dry on the palate, with medium+ acidity, medium- ripe and fine-grained tannins, medium alcohol, medium+ body and medium+ flavor intensity displaying strawberry, plum, wet leaves, pepper, violet, redcurrant, marmalade, cranberry and vanilla. The sweet fruit and warm alcohol are balanced by the zesty acidity and its supple tannins. Its texture is supple for an overall expressive and well-defined wine from a cool climate region. Its length is medium+. Very good quality for a well-balanced wine, with good fruit concentration, good complexity and length. Typical Australian Pinot Noir around 36 euros from 2008 in Adelaide Hills, good to drink now but with ageing potential.

I was impressed with the Australian Pinots that I had in and en route to Melbourne. You never see them in California, which is a shame.