The Freelance Life : Helena →
helenmarylabao.com
These are my thoughts on the freelance life. :)
August 2012
3 posts
Play
July 2012
9 posts
Geekery →
cut-the-knot.org
85 proofs of Pythagorean theorem
June 2012
29 posts
“There is no comfort in the growth zone, there is no growth in the comfort zone.”
—Michael Doron (via pinagiisipanpabayan)
“I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. Either that, or the latest photos of celebrities’ babies.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert in the New York Times Book Review (via vikingpenguinbooks)
Newsweek: 4 Things Game Theory and Long-term Relationships Have In Common →
newsweek.tumblr.com
1. They both require more than one person.
2. They both involve people who are trying to further their own gains but are limited by the presence of another person.
3. They both offer the possibility of a “cooperative strategy,” in which two parties work together to come up with a reasonable…
“I’ve fallen for all stripes of human beings in this world. I’ve fallen for straight men, I’ve fallen for gay men, I’ve fallen for straight women and gay women. I really have. I had crushes on really every single kind of person in the world. So there was this period of time in my life when I had this sort of romantic idea that everybody was like that, that we’re all human beings and that a person is a person and if there weren’t these sort of societal ideas about gender and sexual orientation, that anybody could fall in love with anybody. Making Humpday was really the experience that showed me that that is not true — that some people really, truly are straight. There’s a spectrum, and some people are really at one or the other.”
—Lynn Shelton on sexual orientation [full interview here] (via nprfreshair)
Willpower and Glucose Intake? Wow. →
casnocha.com
This is pretty groovy.
Avoid Self-Sabotage (Super Ouch!) →
personalexcellence.co
A worthwhile read, especially for women
“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.”
—Ray Bradbury (via bbook)
May 2012
38 posts
Sara Bareilles "Lie To Me"
Sara Bareilles “Lie To Me” song from her Ben Folds produced EP “Once Upon Another Time” released last May 22, 2012. http://smartURL.it/OnceUponAnotherTime
Laters, baby
“hope you’ll make mistakes. If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something. And the mistakes in themselves can be useful. I once misspelled Caroline, in a letter, transposing the A and the O, and I thought, “Coraline looks like a real name…”
—Neil Gaiman’s Keynote Speech
