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Dec 1 2010: Personal boundaries are when you say, "This far and no closer." 873
Dec 1 2010: Virtual reality is pure addiction — the crack cocaine of the 21st Century. 874
Dec 1 2010: Once upon a time, people went places and did things. They learned directly from reality, not electronic simulations. They had a life! 875
Dec 1 2010: The root of most personal disasters is euphoria, where we think we can do anything and commit to more than we are capable of. 876
Dec 1 2010: Before relying on any data, consider where it came from and who has something to gain by distorting it. 877
Dec 1 2010: Delusions of grandeur don't thrive well on social media, since you can see who's following you, and it ain't many. 878
Dec 1 2010: Social media may actually restrain narcissism, because pure narcissists* don't get followed. [*except celebrities] 879
Dec 1 2010: We all grew up in Disneyland. We spend the rest of our lives learning how naive that world was. 880
Dec 1 2010: It's not The Man holding you down; it's you holding you down! 881
Dec 1 2010: RT @philo_quotes: Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ~ Schopenhauer http://bit.ly/philq 882
Dec 1 2010: CASINO PAYCHECK BONANZA!!! CASH YOUR PAYCHECK HERE!!! YOU COULD BE OUR NEXT ***MILLION DOLLAR WINNER***!!! ... (please gamble responsibly) 883
Dec 1 2010: Is global warming real? Yes. Can it be stopped? Probably not. Politics demand action, but most of us have better things to worry about. 884
Dec 1 2010: NSA bugging your phone? KGB watching your house? Aliens invading your brain? Relax! Now you can consolidate all these services with Google! 885
Dec 1 2010: Photos: HHBDL at the Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico City: http://j.mp/aVJdeG 886
Dec 1 2010: Morality is simply the effort to be consistent with yourself, so your rules of behavior take up the smallest space possibly. 887
Dec 2 2010: The Greatest Hits of His Holiness: http://favstar.fm/users/BadDalaiLama - Our best tweets, selected by readers. Now with a "More" button! 888
Dec 2 2010: Mona Lisa's smile. Hotel California. The role of great art is to conceal, not reveal, to give the illusion of meaning without any. 889
Dec 2 2010: We are fish in a fishbowl looking out on the immensity of all we don't know, but until we can cross the glass, the fishbowl's where it's at! 890
Dec 2 2010: In the market of goods and ideas, "pull" is better than "push". Better to have people drawn to your product than you pushing it on them. 891
Dec 2 2010: truism [ˈtruːɪzəm]—n. an obvious truth; platitude; "goes without saying" ... See tweets of @DalaiLama 892
Dec 2 2010: What good is a house on the seashore or in the mountains? As soon as you move in, you stop looking out the window. 893
Dec 2 2010: Kodachrome: Real life is never as good as the pictures or our nostalgic memories. (MRT Paul Simon) 894
Dec 2 2010: "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith." ~ William James via @philo_quotes 895
Dec 2 2010: Beauty cannot be purchased or possessed. If you try, all you'll get is bragging rights to the beauty that was once there. 896
Dec 2 2010: Charlie the Tuna never figured it out: You can't buy good taste. 897
Dec 2 2010: The rich man thinks he can prove his good taste by purchasing an art collection, but he's still a narcissistic bore. #donaldtrump #stevewynn 898
Dec 2 2010: Inertia: a body in motion stays in motion. Applies to people, too. They continue their trajectory until interrupted—usually by misfortune. 899
Dec 2 2010: Insight: recognizing the defects in ones own behavior and changing course. Exceedingly rare but magical when it happens. 900
Dec 2 2010: If you call yourself creative then create, dammit! Every day you don't create something is a day wasted. 901
Dec 3 2010: Monty Python's Philosophers' Football Match (video) and new essay by HHBDL: "Just Hit the Ball!" (blog) http://j.mp/fHEHhD So few will do it 902
Dec 3 2010: Attention magicians: You can't create illusions for a living and then complain about people believing in the paranormal. What do you expect? 903
Dec 3 2010: "WARNING: DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY CAN OCCUR" (on car visor) Thanks for the existential advice, but shouldn't it be "WILL OCCUR"? 904
Dec 3 2010: RT @laurenahayes: A must read by @BadDalaiLama: "Just Hit the Ball!" http://j.mp/fHEHhD 905
Dec 3 2010: RT @DhammaService: Those who live with the truth, and have nothing to hide, will not fear the truth, nor any Internet Leaks. 906
Dec 3 2010: Adult entertainment is neither. 907
Dec 3 2010: You don't get off the hook by saying "I obeyed the law." That is a coward's excuse. 908
Dec 3 2010: You can spend a lot of time trying to save money, but time can't be replenished. 909
Dec 3 2010: RT @designersays: My dream in life is to start a band with the Dalai Lama and a bunch of girls from the 80's just so I can call it The D ... 910
Dec 3 2010: Is it really "green" to spend twice as much for a hybrid car that uses only slightly less gas? You could plant trees with that money! 911
Dec 3 2010: The chronological snobbery of each new generation is usually followed, some time later, by chronological schadenfreude in their elders. 912
Dec 3 2010: In the spirit of the season, "A Wal-Mart Christmas Carol": http://j.mp/S6l3a - You don't have to pay for it now! 913
Dec 3 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLama I'm really enjoying your www.kilroycafe.com 914
Dec 4 2010: My love for you may be unconditional, but my interactions with you are not. 915
Dec 4 2010: A relationship cannot truly grow unless there is the realistic option to withdraw and renegotiate. 916
Dec 4 2010: There is nothing more dangerous than pure democracy. It is arbitrary rule by the hysteria of the moment. 917
Dec 4 2010: Male pattern autism: mindless babble about sports, preoccupation with all things technical, total inability to relate to others. 918
Dec 4 2010: Doctors, lawyers & engineers are some of the most imprisoned workers—personal growth frozen by their educational investment and high salary. 919
Dec 4 2010: "People suffer because they grasp and don't let go." Mae Chee Kaew 920
Dec 4 2010: RT @NewMindMirror: Researcher has 10 controversial ideas about evolutionary psychology http://su.pr/7054RK #psychology #evolution 921
Dec 4 2010: Both liberalism and conservatism, allowed to proceed unchecked, will end in a police state. 922
Dec 4 2010: "It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to." Walter Linn 923
Dec 4 2010: You are at peace with yourself if you can sit for hours on a long flight—middle seat, no entertainment—and enjoy your own company. 924
Dec 4 2010: "Just close your eyes and jump!" That's the No.1 fallacy of youth. Take initiative, yes, but only jump into what you see and understand. 925
Dec 4 2010: Nothing makes you so uneasy as lavish praise from someone who doesn't understand you. 926
Dec 4 2010: RT @danywino: @BadDalaiLama You are great! Merveilleux! Continuez! Prevail! 927
Dec 4 2010: @laurenahayes: "Anthropologie is a crap collectors paradise" — No, that's scatology. 928
Dec 4 2010: You can't change someone's personality. You can only decide how and whether to interact with them and how much of yourself to expose. 929
Dec 4 2010: Through the magic of romance, any lead can be turned into gold, but it usually turns back to lead again. 930
Dec 4 2010: Hang out with dumb people and you'll be drawn down to their level. Even worse if you marry them. 931
Dec 4 2010: The worst prison is being handcuffed to a person of lesser ability. 932
Dec 4 2010: Essay: His Holiness speaks out against gay marriage. http://j.mp/f3lgUl (heterosexual marriage, too!) 933
Dec 5 2010: Sometimes failure is your best option and accepting it is your wisest move. You have to lose some battles to win others. 934
Dec 5 2010: "Clever" is an ingenious solution to a problem. That's different from "wise", which is solving the right problem. 935
Dec 5 2010: Life gives you too many problems and not enough resources. Your challenge is to choose the right problems to solve. 936
Dec 5 2010: The Rapture has been moved up to 5/21/11: http://j.mp/ik4fRL Some looting is expected as the good Christians depart, but we wish them well. 937
Dec 5 2010: Boredom and entertainment are similar: a surrendering of ones time and the responsibility for it. 938
Dec 5 2010: The number of vain, unproductive hobbies you can engage in is limited only by the time and money at your disposal. 939
Dec 5 2010: Government measures to protect the public, once implemented, rarely go away, even after the threat had passed. 940
Dec 5 2010: Comedy, like candy, is best as a rare treat. Just because something is funny doesn't mean you should consume it every day. 941
Dec 5 2010: No theory alone can adequately prepare you for reality. You have to experiment and make some mistakes before you fully understand. 942
Dec 5 2010: RT @princeboucher: @BadDalaiLama is way cooler than the original @DalaiLama #speaksotrue 943
Dec 5 2010: What makes a person "old" is not the deterioration of the body but an accumulation of investments that makes them unwilling to change. 944
Dec 5 2010: Every televangelist is a latent disgraced televangelist. 945
Dec 5 2010: @princeboucher "I'm loving this @BadDalaiLama guy! Spits straight fire and truth!" — Watch out, some of that fire might be heading your way! 946
Dec 5 2010: He who advocates total openness in diplomatic affairs should feel no discomfort seeing his own private emails placed on public view. 947
Dec 5 2010: The most precious right of individuals and organizations is private deliberation. Final decisions are public. The internal debate is not. 948
Dec 5 2010: To reach just and reasonable decisions, one must be free to think unjust and unreasonable thoughts so they may be tested and discarded. 949
Dec 5 2010: RT @oliverburkeman: !! RT @researchdigest: A successful replication of the Bem reverse-psi effect study: http://ht.ly/3k9o5 Background: ... 950
Dec 5 2010: Coming soon: WikiYou! Ex romantic partners and jealous co-workers post the contents of your hard drive, browser cache, texts and emails. 951
Dec 6 2010: Coming to TV: "Reality Diplomacy". Cameras follow US diplomats, broadcast their strategy meetings and personal feelings during world crises. 952
Dec 6 2010: New Essay: "The Limits of Selfishness" http://j.mp/hXtfwA - Tearing into that Ayn Rand bitch! 953
Dec 6 2010: The main fallacy of romance is thinking someone else can give your life meaning when you can't find it yourself. 954
Dec 6 2010: Any idiot can be an anarchist. It takes brains and wisdom to build real workable solutions. 955
Dec 6 2010: People who say "You should write a book," are still trapped in the 20th Century. 956
Dec 6 2010: RT @philo_quotes: The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James http://bit.ly/philq 957
Dec 6 2010: "Total transparency would be good for the society. isn't it?" @sashazykov — Then you should practice it. Show us your passwords, your email. 958
Dec 6 2010: Discretion is the cornerstone of human relationships. 959
Dec 6 2010: His Holiness is loathe to retweet his old wisdom, but this is relevant: http://twitter.com/BadDalaiLama/status/24903779291 960
Dec 6 2010: RT @ambientFen: @BadDalaiLama Anarchists tear down indiscriminately. Assange reveals indiscriminately, with the intention of tearing dow ... 961
Dec 6 2010: "Individuals and institutions should have different rules of transparency." @Knigel — Then military should reveal all operations beforehand. 962
Dec 6 2010: Openness keeps governments honest but also makes them incompetent. Now they must please everyone and reveal every plan. Little gets done. 963
Dec 6 2010: No meaningful work can be accomplished in the full glare of public scrutiny. 964
Dec 6 2010: It is hard to resist temptation if a box of enticing chocolates is sitting in front of you. Get rid of it or remove yourself. 965
Dec 6 2010: If you like to dance along the edge of death, one wouldn't be surprised if, just once, it reached up and grabbed you by the heels. 966
Dec 6 2010: People choose beliefs that support their existing investments. Evidence is then selected to support those beliefs. 967
Dec 6 2010: For the Greatest Hits of the Bad Dalai Lama, follow @BadLamaDaily! One retweet per day of his past Holy Wisdom. Catch what you've missed! 968
Dec 6 2010: You can't explain narcissism to a narcissist. 969
Dec 6 2010: RT @DrStrangeBalls: @BadDalaiLama Your post about getting rid of the box of chocolates reminds me of this: http://j.mp/aUCsCd 970
Dec 6 2010: Spectator politics is jeering from the stands but not joining the game. It gives passive, sedentary people the illusion of action. 971
Dec 6 2010: The Liberal/Conservative debate is as old as politics itself, with rational arguments on both sides. Emotional convenience makes the choice. 972
Dec 6 2010: We would be happy to hear your political opinions if you are running for public office and plan to use them. Otherwise, it's just hot air. 973
Dec 7 2010: If all the empty, ineffective words expended on national politics were converted to action in local politics, something might get done! 974
Dec 7 2010: Where do vampires get their hair cut? For zombies and werewolves it's not an issue, but vampires always look so... well groomed! 975
Dec 7 2010: Every hour of every day, the question must be asked: "Is this the best thing I can do with my time?" 976
Dec 7 2010: Photos: HHBDL on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands: http://j.mp/gxzbiC - A little slice of Paradise! 977
Dec 7 2010: Judging by boy bands through the ages, girls like boys with hair like girls'. 978
Dec 7 2010: You can talk about it all you want, but the rewards go to those who stop talking and do it! 979
Dec 7 2010: What sucks up your life is "infrastructure maintenance"—cleaning, walking the dog, etc. Reduce these things and you'll have more life left. 980
Dec 7 2010: Many talk about social media, but few will use it for anything meaningful—like talking about the road but never traveling it. 981
Dec 7 2010: The only legitimate debate in politics is government power and how and when it should be used. 982
Dec 7 2010: Many of the solutions people create for themselves are appalling to us, but if the basic job gets done without our help, we can't complain. 983
Dec 7 2010: Ratio of talkers to doers: easily 10000 to 1. 984
Dec 7 2010: Love is a fairy tale of holy grails, magic swords, imperiled virgins and dragon-slaying heroes who can't possibly live up to their billing. 985
Dec 7 2010: When starting a new religion, your finest stroke of luck is to be persecuted. Then you can play the victim for millennia! 986
Dec 7 2010: Your favorite storybook characters come alive!... but you have to go to Disney World to see them because Disney owns every damn one. 987
Dec 7 2010: The Malthusian Dilemma says that when you feed the hungry their population expands, creating just as much misery as before. 988
Dec 7 2010: Good intentions are useless without a healthy dose of Machiavellian strategy. 989
Dec 7 2010: The most vapid form of travel is the cruise. You can't find a more artificial environment outside of a video game. 990
Dec 7 2010: Never give up on your dreams—unless they're narcissistic, unobtainable dreams ignoring the opportunities around you. 991
Dec 7 2010: The most dangerous substance on Earth: hubris. 992
Dec 7 2010: The Wisdom Archive has been updated at: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive/ - With a nifty new search system! Searching for love? Find it here! 993
Dec 7 2010: Survival, in modern times, isn't about keeping yourself alive but maintaining the huge bubble of obligations you have created around you. 994
Dec 8 2010: Some of the most dangerous drivers on the road are the wimps who won't make the bold moves necessary to merge into traffic. 995
Dec 8 2010: If someone tells you he has found a fantastic way to beat the system, come back six months later to see if the system hasn't beaten him. 996
Dec 8 2010: Photos: HHBDL in Barcelona, Spain: Rambla http://j.mp/gKX56j Modern http://j.mp/eZfJSr Old http://j.mp/gS538V Night http://j.mp/gmjL5V 997
Dec 8 2010: When life gets too easy, people instinctively create barriers for themselves to give it the illusion of substance. 998
Dec 8 2010: The Rip Van Winkle Effect is when you step into a career then step put of it 20 years later wondering, "What? Huh? What happened?" 999
Dec 8 2010: It's your choice: engage in the core business of life or enslave yourself to its peripheral infrastructure. 1000
Dec 8 2010: The Personality Paradox: (A) Yes, people can change, but (B) No, you can't change them. 1001
Dec 8 2010: People become the roles they play. 1002
Dec 8 2010: People follow the Good @DalaiLama because he doesn't tweet much, he offends no one, and people can say, "I follow the Dalai Lama!" 1003
Dec 8 2010: Watch "Megamind"! Earnest bad guy yapping at the heels of a too-good superhero. Yup, we can identify! 1004
Dec 8 2010: Intellect shuts down when investments get in the way. 1005
Dec 8 2010: RT @TheBosha: Of course honesty increases with age, it takes a lot of youthful energy to bullshit people. 1006
Dec 8 2010: In romance, it can be hard to distinguish what's really there from what we desperately want to be there. 1007
Dec 8 2010: Truth is the hypothesis that is borne out by eventual fact. 1008Dec 8 2010: Video Essay #11: What is Truth? http://youtu.be/m6bGd0TZpeI - From Ithaca, NY. Truth is pretty simple really. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1009
Dec 8 2010: One of the saddest experiences is when a fantastic opportunity comes your way but can't take it due to prior commitments. 1010
Dec 8 2010: You can't plan on unexpected opportunities, but you can plan on being in a position to take advantage of them. 1011
Dec 8 2010: Life planning is a balance between the commitments necessary to get things done and the preservation of future discretion. 1012
Dec 9 2010: No matter how well you think you have planned your life, it will change in ways you never expected. 1013
Dec 9 2010: The neutralizing of future discretion should not be mistaken for a declaration of love. 1014
Dec 9 2010: A "first adopter" is the sucker with too much disposable income who buys a product when it first comes out. Also known as a "guinea pig". 1015
Dec 9 2010: The reward of any endeavor lies not only in the end result but in what you learn in the process. 1016
Dec 9 2010: Most of what passes for "fun" is dull repetition of something that used to be fun. 1017
Dec 9 2010: There isn't much accomplishment in filling up a hole if you're the one who dug it. 1018
Dec 9 2010: The chief advantage of flying First Class is being able to say you did. 1019
Dec 9 2010: news—n. an inexhaustible supply of daily happenings of little significance, designed chiefly to titillate and appall. 1020
Dec 9 2010: .@PoulsNocturne Yes, His Holiness schedules his tweets via @HootSuite. Most important: A waiting period between brain and mouth. 1021
Dec 9 2010: Many of life's tragedies could be avoided if only there was an enforced waiting period between brain and mouth. 1022
Dec 9 2010: Existential regret is the recognition that one has made a profound error in ones own life. 1023
Dec 9 2010: "It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along." — That's existential regret! 1024
Dec 9 2010: "Open the pod bay doors please, Hal." http://plixi.com/p/61893049 1025
Dec 9 2010: Existential regret is being sentenced to life in prison for a crime you DID commit. 1026
Dec 9 2010: @DalaiLama Provided your "best" is always getting better and your compassion isn't wasteful. 1027
Dec 9 2010: Even superheroes have to stop and do their laundry. People are going to die, but you can't be flying around in a soiled supersuit. 1028
Dec 9 2010: To find meaning in life, you need only avoid pain with as much foresight as possible. 1029
Dec 9 2010: The danger of philosophical inquiry is that it might turn out to be meaningful. 1030
Dec 9 2010: You can't choose the Red Pill and then say, "No, wait, I want the Blue Pill for this one little thing!" 1031
Dec 9 2010: Never decide today what you can put off 'til tomorrow (if there is no benefit in deciding now). It's good to preserve your options. 1032
Dec 9 2010: Our most essential right is the secrecy of our own thoughts. 1033
Dec 9 2010: Also follow @BadLamaDaily! This low-volume feed (1-2/day) lets us retweet HHBDL's past wisdom relevant to current topics. http://j.mp/hJtRYD 1034
Dec 10 2010: The paradox of jealousy is that it drives away the person you are jealous about. 1035
Dec 10 2010: It's nice to have a "Plan B", but sometimes you have to wing it without one. 1036
Dec 10 2010: The world gives you two artistic choices: Either you do things well or you do them to make money. 1037
Dec 10 2010: As a forest needs fire to clear out the dead wood, we all need an occasional catastrophe to burn off our delusions. 1038
Dec 10 2010: Mickey, Minnie, Mighty and Jerry — the four famous faces on Mouse Rushmore. 1039
Dec 10 2010: Amazing, Fantastic, Exhilarating, Extraordinary, Nutritious, Healthy, Beautiful, Powerful... Get Your Meaningless Advertising Words Here! 1040
Dec 10 2010: The ego is biggest in those who least deserve it. 1041
Dec 10 2010: The law is a like a Whac-A-Mole game: Every problem solved makes another one pop up elsewhere. 1042
Dec 10 2010: Long #ff lists are annoying and not very useful. If someone is good, don't tell us but show us by retweeting their best stuff. 1043
Dec 10 2010: Legalized gambling boosts the local economy only in the same sense that methamphetamine gives you energy. 1044
Dec 10 2010: The best way to guarantee judicial incompetence is selecting judges by popular vote. 1045
Dec 10 2010: It used to be steak on payday and beans the rest of the week. With credit, it's now steak for a few years then beans the rest of your life. 1046
Dec 10 2010: RT @Uneven_Pavement: #FF @baddalailama cuz he's a big hitter, the bad llama is! His wedge puts his brother to shame! I'll use the pool... 1047
Dec 10 2010: The likelihood of your dreams coming true depends on how restrictive they are. The bigger your target, the more likely you'll hit it. 1048
Dec 10 2010: It is good to have dreams and goals but not to be trapped by them if something better comes along. 1049
Dec 10 2010: People with money can pay others to solve their problems. Without it, we are forced to deal with life more honestly and efficiently. 1050
Dec 10 2010: We have added a collection of Holy Blurbs to the right margin of our home page: http://BadDalaiLama.com - Do #ff all these Enlightened Ones! 1051
Dec 10 2010: The first step in romance is the mythologizing of potential partners. They become perfect gods or goddesses capable of rescuing us. 1052
Dec 10 2010: If you market yourself as a myth, don't be surprised if people start believing it. They'll see the myth and not you. 1053
Dec 10 2010: "Don't ask, don't tell." — Isn't that an element in every relationship? 1054
Dec 10 2010: Discovery is unpredictable but not random. It happens mainly when we invest in exploration. 1055
Dec 10 2010: The risk of exploration is that it will reveal flaws in our existing investments. That's why most people never leave home. 1056
Dec 11 2010: However you are doing things now, there's probably a cheaper and better way. You just have to experiment to find it. 1057Dec 11 2010: Video Essay #12: People Can Change, But You Can't Change Them. http://youtu.be/OBIGnQlC9ko - From the woods of Massachusetts ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1058
Dec 11 2010: We all have a primal need for "witnesses"—beings more powerful than ourselves taking notice of what we are doing. 1059
Dec 11 2010: Sadists and serial killers are seeking acknowledgment. Turns out, people will pay more attention to you if you're killing them. 1060
Dec 11 2010: We are all performing for others, asking to be judged, and if not judged positively, at least to be feared. By any means, to be noticed. 1061
Dec 11 2010: Why do adults sit in classrooms to learn things from textbooks? Can't they just read the book directly and cut out the middle man? 1062
Dec 11 2010: "Adult Education" implies a passive adult without the initiative to teach himself. 1063
Dec 11 2010: The best sleeping pill is a full day of accomplishment. 1064
Dec 11 2010: Sleep is your body's scheduled maintenance period. You can't cheat on maintenance and expect to remain in top form. 1065
Dec 11 2010: The only honest sleep is without an alarm clock. 1066
Dec 11 2010: RT @AngryDalaiLama: If you have love and compassion towards all living beings, you're going to get fucking killed out there. 1067
Dec 11 2010: The law is a blunt instrument, more like a sledgehammer than a scalpel. It pummels problems, but there's always collateral damage. 1068
Dec 11 2010: "I always tell the truth because having to remember lies would give me conniptions." @NorthernMagic 1069
Dec 11 2010: If you believe in willpower, you'll have it. If you don't, you won't. Psychology Today: http://su.pr/2VyE0J via @laurenahayes and @abmarkman 1070
Dec 11 2010: If we all followed Thoreau's advice to "Simplify, simplify," live efficiently and own only what you need...our whole economy would collapse! 1071
Dec 11 2010: Photo: Thoreau's cabin in the woods. (precisely geotagged for your convenience) Concord, Mass. http://plixi.com/p/62333141 1072Dec 11 2010: The Pigeons of St. Marks Square, Venice, Italy. Travel Video:http://youtu.be/drqCITD_GxI (July 2010) - One of His Holiness' best! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1073
Dec 11 2010: The college student is invested in the parading of knowledge and the expounding of opinions untested by experience. 1074
Dec 11 2010: There is no wisdom without irony. 1075Dec 11 2010: Video Essay #13: In the Footsteps of Thoreau at Walden Pond http://youtu.be/7Yrj7Blai7c - From Thoreau's cabin site in Concord, Mass. Today. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1076
Dec 11 2010: Government is inevitable and inevitably inept. 1077
Dec 12 2010: A healthy life can be lived only in the peripheral vision of the law, not under its direct gaze. 1078
Dec 12 2010: When people feel they have been wronged, they don't want justice; they want Judge Judy justice (public humiliation of their opponent). 1079
Dec 12 2010: Classic paranoiacs: Ted Kaczynski, Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon, Hitler, Saddam, conspiracists, cult leaders, you, me. 1080
Dec 12 2010: Death is inevitable, but old is a choice. 1081Dec 12 2010: Stumbled upon this YouTube girl while searching for "existential" http://youtu.be/cfZHutu1wS8 A little spacey but appealing. #existentialcat ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1082
Dec 12 2010: Let's be honest: The bear shape has no relevance to the flavor of the Gummi Bear. #mythbusting 1083
Dec 12 2010: If you have failed at something, it is easier to believe in a conspiracy than accept your own responsibility for the failure. 1084
Dec 12 2010: While it is within your power to learn anything (Greek, Kanji, particle physics), the question is whether it's the best thing you can learn. 1085
Dec 12 2010: "Has it occurred to @DalaiLama that people behave differently around Dalai Lamas?" @KayM77 1086
Dec 12 2010: "Evolution has no foresight, no sense of where its work will go." Smithsonian http://su.pr/51s8hV 1087
Dec 12 2010: Half of life is knowing the rules. The other half is knowing when to break them. 1088
Dec 12 2010: Why do you need civil rights? Because law enforcement will always be a flawed human operation with a built-in bias toward guilt. 1089
Dec 12 2010: "Are we truly experiencing existential angst or are we just spoiled brats?" @pau_v — Is there a difference? 1090
Dec 12 2010: Police owe their existence—and ego—to crime. If they can't find it, they are nobody. Find it, and they become powerful. That's the bias. 1091
Dec 12 2010: RT @pau_v: @BadDalaiLama You're prolly computerized, but I'd like to answer you anyway for fun! Yes there is a difference. I did say fin ... 1092
Dec 12 2010: @pau_v "You're prolly computerized..." <== I'm not prolly computerized! His Holiness is only computer assisted in tweet scheduling. 1093
Dec 12 2010: Just by interacting with law enforcement you run the risk of being accused of a crime, so you want to limit that interaction. 1094
Dec 12 2010: Police can always find more or less crime by adjusting their tolerance. "Speeding" can start at 5 mph above the limit or 15. They choose. 1095
Dec 12 2010: Whenever a member of a legacy rock group gets a degree in astrophysics, it makes me sad. They had so much more impact with their music. 1096
Dec 12 2010: Some of history's most acclaimed leaders were merely figureheads who happened to be at the bow of the ship when it was turning. 1097
Dec 12 2010: Instead of keeping a gun at your bedside to shoot intruders, try a stick of dynamite. Cheaper, as dangerous and as likely to hit the mark. 1098
Dec 12 2010: The alien data is in! UFO sightings, plotted geographically, tend to cluster around cities where there are UFO groups. 1099
Dec 12 2010: @princeboucher "Did WikiLeaks release it?" <== No. Kinda suspicious, all this diplo traffic but no UFO data. WHEN WILL WIKILEAKS COME CLEAN? 1100
Dec 12 2010: Photos: Lowell, Massachusetts, site of today's video essay DEFENDING SECRECY (coming tonight): http://RoamingPhotos.com/a?lowell 1101
Dec 12 2010: Nothing enrages the borderline so much as you offering solutions. They don't want solutions. They want you to be as miserable as they are. 1102
Dec 12 2010: The downside of love is the loss of control over your own destiny. 1103
Dec 13 2010: Never trust a country music singer who tells you how faithful he's going to be. Them good 'ole boys got a poor track record. 1104Dec 13 2010: Video Essay #14: "In Defense of Secrecy" http://youtu.be/lZI0UqoqeFU — From under a bridge in Lowell, Mass., our response to #wikileaks ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1105
Dec 13 2010: family — n. a shared delusional system by which dysfunctions are transferred from one generation to the next. 1106
Dec 13 2010: Given freedom, most people will move to quickly neutralize it, preferring lives of dull repetition to the anxiety of ongoing choice. 1107
Dec 13 2010: Bored cops are the most dangerous. They will detect more "crime" than busy ones, sometimes more than actually exists. 1108
Dec 13 2010: Ego is the opposite of what it presents itself as. Big ego = low self-esteem. Those with high self-esteem don't parade it around like that. 1109
Dec 13 2010: Virtual reality is not reality. The value of all actions in cyberspace ultimately derives from concrete actions in the real world. 1110
Dec 13 2010: Reality is the ultimate video game. It has more levels of complexity, more unexpected twists than any game created by man. 1111
Dec 13 2010: Social media, without an anchor in the real world, is merely addiction. 1112
Dec 13 2010: "It is only in our decisions that we are important."—Sartre 1113
Dec 13 2010: "The brain is oriented to make sense of the world even if the result is unenjoyable." Research on curiosity: http://su.pr/1uOkaa 1114
Dec 13 2010: Wine and cheese: junk food of the Middle Ages. 1000 years from now, we'll probably be treating Hostess Twinkies with the same reverence. 1115
Dec 13 2010: "One of the human mind's chief preoccupations is prediction." WSJ http://su.pr/7ZYVX0 via @NewMindMirror 1116
Dec 13 2010: Music is a software problem. The singer gets all the glory, but the real credit should go to the programmer who wrote the notes and words. 1117
Dec 13 2010: If you try to please everyone, you'll end up pleasing no one. 1118
Dec 13 2010: Photos: A Day at the Museum (Harvard Natural History Museum) http://j.mp/fLlbCJ - Mar. 08. Cool skeletons and stuff! 1119
Dec 13 2010: For learning about philosophy, personality, mental illness and human delusional systems there is no finer laboratory than a failed romance. 1120
Dec 13 2010: Most of the things you now see as essential are only imaginary barriers you have created for yourself to avoid the anxiety of choice. 1121
Dec 13 2010: It is amazing what we can comfortably do without when forced to, but we are loathe to give these things up on our own. 1122
Dec 13 2010: Photos from Harvard University, setting of tonight's video essay, QUALITY & DECEPTION (coming soon) http://roamingphotos.com/a?harvard 1123Dec 13 2010: A clear evolutionary trend. Notice the increased cranial capacity. http://twitpic.com/3fnnnu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1124
Dec 13 2010: Two devastating wars and a shattered economy, but that's not important now. The main thing is, George is looking good and feeling positive. 1125
Dec 13 2010: The needless risk-taking of youth is usually replaced by pathological risk aversion in old age. 1126
Dec 13 2010: Pity the suburban homeowner, trapped in their self-made prison, thrilled to death to see a certain breed of bird appear at their birdfeeder. 1127
Dec 13 2010: Here again, for your shopping pleasure, our "Wal-Mart Christmas Carol" http://j.mp/S6l3a - You don't have to pay for it now! 1128
Dec 14 2010: "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."—Rodin <== Yes, but you must still seek the most useful experiences. 1129
Dec 14 2010: Thank God for breeders—people willing to put their lives on hold for 20 years to propagate our species. More power to 'em! 1130
Dec 14 2010: In this Holiday Season, let us not forget those millions who gave their lives, at starvation wages, to defend our Always Low Prices. 1131
Dec 14 2010: A natural corollary of freedom is loneliness. 1132
Dec 14 2010: The world cannot be saved virtually. Non-virtual intervention will be required. 1133
Dec 14 2010: High Definition only makes my hatred of television more refined. 1134
Dec 14 2010: Money is poison to truth. 1135
Dec 14 2010: Anything "good" also has its dark side. If you can't see it, then you haven't grasped the whole picture. 1136
Dec 14 2010: "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis via @linkibol 1137
Dec 14 2010: FACEBOOK CRIMEWAVE! Facebook crimes up 540% in 3 years. Police chiefs sound the alarm. http://bit.ly/fa5h7S (Duh! Who was on FB 3 yrs ago?) 1138
Dec 14 2010: His Holiness compassionately stars tweets he likes. Check our Favorites every day for articles and wisdom intruding into His Consciousness. 1139
Dec 14 2010: RT @GreatestQuotes: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." - Colin L. ... 1140
Dec 14 2010: RT @philoquotes: We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. ~ Schopenhauer 1141
Dec 14 2010: It is a form of child abuse to raise a child in conditions of wealth and privilege he can never reasonably attain himself. 1142
Dec 14 2010: .@rejecter: "This day started with me signing for a package of salmon in my underwear." <== What were the salmon doing in your underwear?!?! 1143
Dec 14 2010: No one cries for the "poor little rich kids" but their adjustment to adult life can be difficult and traumatic as anyone else's. 1144
Dec 14 2010: Real estate is so 20th Century. 1145
Dec 14 2010: Freedom, in practice, means anxiety, uncertainty, loneliness and constant awareness of how close you are to the edge. 1146
Dec 14 2010: The opposite of freedom is entrusting your fate to someone else. 1147
Dec 14 2010: Face fact: No one is going to rescue you. 1148Dec 14 2010: Mystery location. Identify. http://twitpic.com/3fxcjw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1149
Dec 14 2010: "Intelligent people live longer—the correlation is as strong as that between smoking and premature death." Sci American http://j.mp/gZIoZK 1150
Dec 14 2010: ...or stated differently: Stupidity is as damaging to your health as smoking. SO STOP BEING STUPID. Just quit. You can do it! 1151
Dec 14 2010: Reality is like a video game but better designed, with more complexity levels and bigger rewards and risks. Caveat: You die only once. 1152
Dec 14 2010: RT @noahWG: Old people are worthless. At least to big companies with big advertising budgets. But can social media change that? http://b ... 1153
Dec 14 2010: Lord, give me the serenity to deal with my parents without going ballistic. Help me accept what I cannot change—which is everything. Amen. 1154
Dec 14 2010: It is better to be real than perfect. 1155
Dec 14 2010: Pro Tip: When people ask, "How are you?" they don't really mean it. If you can't be positive, no one wants to hear it. 1156
Dec 14 2010: The future is here! Instant communication with anyone via our handheld devices. We should all be wearing Rudi Gernreich moon suits! 1157
Dec 15 2010: Language Police: "cowboy" and "cowgirl" are sexist and belittling. From now on: "cowperson". Thank you for your cooperation. 1158
Dec 15 2010: Beauty can be an ugly business. 1159
Dec 15 2010: WikiLeaks: Lots of fun, lots of little trinkets to take home—like casual looting after an earthquake. 1160
Dec 15 2010: Music is the subcarrier of language. Before an infant knows any words, he learns the song of his language. 1161Dec 15 2010: Video Essay #15: From the Harvard Museum of Natural History, "Quality and Deception" http://youtu.be/zYU84symCCM - With free museum tour! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1162
Dec 15 2010: In Ireland, most language on the street that you think is Gaelic is really just English, all slurred up by a few too many! 1163
Dec 15 2010: Inflammation of the brain caused by too much thinking can be quickly treated by the application of alcohol, cannabis or television. 1164
Dec 15 2010: To be happily married, it helps to be deluded. Time: http://j.mp/gTwxj8 1165
Dec 15 2010: "neurotic — those who tend to view life as a state invented so that bad things could happen to them." http://j.mp/gJFmSa Sounds borderline. 1166
Dec 15 2010: Best way to deal with a neurotic (borderline) spouse? Leave. Seriously, it's best for both of you. 1167
Dec 15 2010: "I'm more impressed with the fact that the @DalaiLama has a Twitter account than with his words of wisdom." @lynniekitt 1168
Dec 15 2010: .@DalaiLama Correction: The aims of religion are to help people escape their responsibility and to give more power to religious leaders. 1169
Dec 15 2010: On My Bucket List: Become morbidly obese, use an electric scooter, park in handicap spaces and demand special attention for my "disability". [See Full Bucket List] 1170
Dec 15 2010: Music isn't just music. It's our worldwide religion! More people can sing a Beatles tune than any hymn. 1171
Dec 15 2010: Photos: 1000 Greeks singing Beatles songs. Athens, June 21, 2009. http://j.mp/icfJmV 1172
Dec 15 2010: The subtlety of acting is in the eyes. 1173
Dec 15 2010: Anarchy is always in fashion. It's easy to tear things down, fun to watch the demolition, but then what? 1174
Dec 15 2010: You gotta admire Al Franken, regardless of his politics. Instead of sniping from the outside like most, he moved from talk to action. 1175
Dec 15 2010: It is easier to succeed without fixed goals. Instead, pursue "meta goals"—general outcomes that will serve your needs. 1176
Dec 15 2010: No war was ever won without some strategic retreats. 1177
Dec 15 2010: .@heckadecimal: "God, you're righteous." <== I am not God, just a humble lama. 1178
Dec 15 2010: Cats, like humans, are not easily trained, but if you put out food, they will come, and you can set conditions on giving it. 1179
Dec 15 2010: Fatalism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. 1180Dec 15 2010: Chicago (right now) ==> That's all most people use their freedom for: to choose their own addictive substances. http://twitpic.com/3g8jsm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1181
Dec 15 2010: Freedom is your ability to adapt to unexpected changes in yourself and the world around you. 1182Dec 15 2010: Millennium Park in Chicago, site of our next inspirational video. http://twitpic.com/3g8zvc←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1183
Dec 15 2010: Today is the 3-month birthday of His Holiness. The score: @BadDalaiLama: 690. Some other lama: 1,138,226 1184
Dec 15 2010: Hard work and perseverance have their virtues, but intelligence and wise decision making are more valuable. 1185
Dec 16 2010: Aliens did not create the problems of Planet Earth. It is unreasonable to expect them to save us. 1186
Dec 16 2010: Language Police: "dinosaur" is derogatory, implying something inefficient, overgrown and destined for oblivion. Use "jurassic reptile". 1187
Dec 16 2010: Technology, schmectology! You still need Vanna White to turn the letters. 1188
Dec 16 2010: Oz legitimized the Scarecrow by giving him an advanced degree. It's amazing how many buffoons we respect based on the same criteria. 1189
Dec 16 2010: The usual penalty for mistakes in life is some form of imprisonment. 1190
Dec 16 2010: In childhood, there was someone looking out for us. In adulthood there isn't. Between the two is a difficult and painful transition. 1191
Dec 16 2010: Twitter and Facebook let you indulge in narcissism but also make you see how few people care. 1192
Dec 16 2010: The First Class traveler is a crippled one, cut off from most of the world by his own luxury requirements. 1193
Dec 16 2010: .@laurenahayes "Fox News Makes You Stupid" http://bit.ly/fLx2fc <== The causal link is tenuous, as Fox viewers are already stupid. 1194
Dec 16 2010: In an intellectually bifurcated society, the smart get smarter while the dumb get dumber. Then those dumb suckers breed! 1195
Dec 16 2010: On My Bucket List: Buy an expensive RV, make one trip across the country then store it in my backyard for the next 10 years. [See Full Bucket List] 1196
Dec 16 2010: The 4th body of a strangled, nude young woman has been discovered in Philadelphia. "It is a suspicious death," said Police Commissioner. 1197Dec 16 2010: Just your ordinary crippled harpist on the Washington Metro. http://twitpic.com/3gggw7←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1198
Dec 16 2010: Education is the refuge of the semi-competent. 1199
Dec 16 2010: Most of the Einsteins and Edisons of the world have been self-taught, with little patience for schooling. 1200
Dec 16 2010: North Korea wouldn't be the belligerent character it is if it didn't in some way serve China's interests. 1201
Dec 16 2010: Enlightenment is "fukasetsu"—beyond words—but so is everything else, like driving or skiing. Words are crude instruments. cc:@laurenahayes 1202
Dec 16 2010: Twitter taught me brevity. 1203Dec 16 2010: Video #15, from Chicago's Millennium Park: "Goals and How to Achieve Them" http://youtu.be/fZ4d0Q9BFPY (not our most coherent) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1204
Dec 16 2010: The most important lesson you learn in foreign countries is what things are universal. 1205Dec 16 2010: Archive Video: "Message from a Tribal Elder in New Mexico" http://youtu.be/iSiNNb-MbZo Please gamble responsibly. (One of our first videos) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1206
Dec 17 2010: It seems unconscionable to bring a new child into the world when there are already millions here with inadequate care. 1207
Dec 17 2010: "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer"—a cynical story of power and influence. You're nobody until the big guy picks you, then everyone loves you. 1208
Dec 17 2010: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" describes the ultimate police state. Big Brother sees and knows all. Even pouting gets you in trouble! 1209
Dec 17 2010: Dogs live in a perpetual "now". Humans live in the past or future but hardly ever in the now. 1210Dec 17 2010: Don't resort to Plan 9 from Outer Space until you've exhausted your eight plans on Earth. http://twitpic.com/3egwhx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1211
Dec 17 2010: On every planet in the universe there are mathematical constants like Pi and existential ones like freedom, death and regret. 1212
Dec 17 2010: Language Police: "smart" has connotations of elitism and superiority. Use "idiocy challenged". 1213
Dec 17 2010: While discrimination by race or gender is deplorable, little attention has been paid to our society's marginalization of smart people. 1214
Dec 17 2010: Smart people have little power in our society because they're immune to advertising, don't buy much and are a tiny minority of voters. 1215
Dec 17 2010: National debts are the great nuclear bombs of our time, more devastating, deadly and long-lasting than anything North Korea can cook up. 1216
Dec 17 2010: If you doubt the potential speed of evolution, look at the many breeds of dogs, mostly created by human selection within historical times. 1217Dec 17 2010: .@Knigel "How do you know how dogs think?" <== Some of my best friends are dogs. They tell me. (Samson in NC) http://twitpic.com/3gp7h2←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1218
Dec 17 2010: .@URGodAlso "Where are the smart people? I thought they ran companies & bought politicians..." <== You call that smart? (smart = wise) 1219
Dec 17 2010: Just because someone holds a high position in society doesn't make them wise. It only means they're crafty. 1220
Dec 17 2010: Statistically, income rises with intelligence, but only up to a point, then it starts falling. Why would that be? 1221
Dec 17 2010: The Wisdom Archive has been updated: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive — Please help rescue old tweets from oblivion by retweeting them! 1222
Dec 17 2010: Wisdom has many outward manifestations—calmness, humor, grace under pressure—but material success isn't necessarily one of them. 1223
Dec 17 2010: On My Bucket List: Become a drag queen and own a nightclub where other drag queens hang out and take advantage of me horribly. [See Full Bucket List] 1224
Dec 17 2010: When a product promises to "kill 99.9% of germs", it is really breeding stronger germs (the 0.1% that survive). 1225
Dec 17 2010: RT @DOGENZEN: It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has wo ... 1226
Dec 17 2010: To walk down the street of any busy city is to witness a thousand forms of human slavery. 1227Dec 17 2010: A holiday self-portrait. Walmart, Lumberton, NC. http://twitpic.com/3gsnz4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1228
Dec 17 2010: You can't lie to your dog. His nose knows. 1229
Dec 17 2010: Romance is not charity. You do it to enhance your own growth. If a relationship isn't doing that for you, you shouldn't be in it. 1230
Dec 17 2010: Casual sex is impossible. Sooner or later, someone is going to take it seriously. 1231
Dec 17 2010: RT @ederguillermo: Sigan a @BadDalaiLama si quieren ver la cruda, realidad. 1232
Dec 17 2010: "Try telling me that!" @S_BerlusconiPM (re: casual sex) <== We are very pleased to have Mr Silvio Berlusconi of Italy following us. Welcome! 1233
Dec 17 2010: Humans have far more sex than necessary for procreation. Females enjoy it even when not in estrus. Why? 1234
Dec 17 2010: The purpose of sex, in humans, is not just procreation but bonding, to encourage partners to stay together for child rearing. 1235
Dec 17 2010: Language Police: "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are sexist and belittling. Use "personfriend". Thank you for your cooperation. 1236
Dec 18 2010: Progressive levels of senior care: In Home, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Alzheimer's Care, Nursing Home, Hospice Care, Funeral Home. 1237
Dec 18 2010: Society allows young people a reasonable period of creativity and freedom before settling into a normal adult life of debt and servitude. 1238
Dec 18 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: Billy Mays dead!!! But wait, there's more! Act now and get NO MORE BILLY MAYS INFOMERCIALS! Operators are standing by. 1239
Dec 18 2010: You can't erase your trace! In the 21st Century, everything you have ever done or will do, there will be a permanent record of it. 1240
Dec 18 2010: One human year is equivalent to 7 dog years or 26 Zuckerberg years. 1241
Dec 18 2010: Tron is supposed to be about these guys trapped in a software program. Like that's exotic. Do you know anyone who isn't? 1242
Dec 18 2010: Someone can be "smart" and "talented" but that's only part of the story. The rest is how they are emotionally invested. 1243
Dec 18 2010: Every new technology creates new diseases and breeds new parasites. 1244
Dec 18 2010: For every new object or obligation one acquires, there must be a corresponding release of an existing burden or the system overloads. 1245
Dec 18 2010: The Holy Grail of commerce is to make something for pennies and sell it for dollars. Examples: perfume, soft drinks, fashion. 1246
Dec 18 2010: "Emotional intelligence peaks in our 60s." http://su.pr/1xHOTI <== Does that mean we become more childish in our 70s and 80s? 1247
Dec 18 2010: @laurenahayes "Inspecting/critiquing/digesting is the new seeing/observing/accepting" <== Alas, the human brain only does the former. 1248
Dec 18 2010: See FavStar for the all-time Greatest Hits of His Holiness (as rated by our readers): http://favstar.fm/users/BadDalaiLama Also see "Recent" 1249
Dec 18 2010: On My Bucket List: Have an incurable, progressively degenerative disease named after me, like that lucky stiff Alzheimer. [See Full Bucket List] 1250
Dec 18 2010: Education requires that you slow your learning down to the pace of the instructor. 1251
Dec 18 2010: You can't own a home. A home owns you. 1252
Dec 18 2010: 99% of the consumer economy depends on the consumer having poor reasoning skills. 1253
Dec 18 2010: When you reduce TV, radio, news, websurfing and music to a minimum, you regain your brain and can begin to think again. 1254
Dec 18 2010: If you give the average person extra resources, he will only use them to dig himself a deeper hole. 1255
Dec 18 2010: After 9/11, it was a matter of civic pride that terrorists would target your city next. Every town in Kansas was prepared! 1256
Dec 18 2010: No human can obey every law and regulation. It's not possible and still get things done. You must decide which rules to comply with and why. 1257
Dec 18 2010: So Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, who was married to Joseph. Does that mean married people didn't have sex back then? 1258
Dec 18 2010: Why did the tortoise cross the road? I'm afraid we'll never know. R.I.P. 1259Dec 18 2010: Video #16: "Universal Health Care: A Southern Perspective" http://youtu.be/FBKeMR3h6Kg - Funny and meaningful. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1260
Dec 18 2010: Digital is the new slavery. 1261
Dec 19 2010: Each individual has built his life on a platform of delusion. It is not usually our role to pull it out from under him. 1262
Dec 19 2010: Language Police: "topless" has risqué and pornographic connotations. Use "topfree". http://j.mp/dYDSiU 1263
Dec 19 2010: Nothing says Christmas like festive holiday products made by Chinese slave labor. 1264
Dec 19 2010: The Devil always makes the same deal, and people always fall for it: sell your soul for the illusion of security. 1265
Dec 19 2010: Paranoia creates new enemies—real ones—where none previously existed. 1266
Dec 19 2010: Paranoia, once it reaches a certain level, is self-sustaining, creating new enemies to match those imagined. 1267
Dec 19 2010: History has never known an anarchist who actually improved the world. They're only remembered for starting wars and blowing things up. 1268Dec 19 2010: Chains are required on Donner Pass. http://twitpic.com/3hhrgb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1269Dec 19 2010: And this is why chains are required on Donner Pass. (BTW: Chains are awesome! Turns your car into a snowmobile.) http://twitpic.com/3him33←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1270
Dec 19 2010: RT @Pokersoul: I will leave you now. Apparently the real world is real and some of the other accounts demand food. 1271
Dec 19 2010: How it looks only matters for the first 15 minutes. After that all that matters is how it works. 1272Dec 19 2010: Found a little elbow room in Northern Nevada. http://twitpic.com/3hjilh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1273
Dec 19 2010: Get this straight: A peanut is not a "nut" but a legume, like peas and beans. When will the hypocrisy end? 1274
Dec 19 2010: On My Bucket List: Violate a restraining order. [See Full Bucket List] 1275
Dec 19 2010: Heroes are neither made nor born but are invented by the press whenever they are needed. 1276
Dec 19 2010: Your greatest thrill is the first. You repeat the same motions but sensation fades, until you're only remembering the thrill not feeling it. 1277
Dec 20 2010: The best way to show your love for HHBDL is to retweet him. Barring that, a simple star shows you care. Costs so little, means so much! 1278
Dec 20 2010: Our greatest instrument of growth is catastrophe, which forces us to make decisions we couldn't face otherwise. 1279
Dec 20 2010: Language Police: They aren't "Gypsies" anymore. They're "Romani people". Also: "Bohemians" are now "employment challenged". 1280
Dec 20 2010: Trying to capture love with marriage is like displaying a wild animal on your wall. As soon as you have nailed it down, you've killed it. 1281
Dec 20 2010: Art is the process of reducing reality to its simplest symbolic form. 1282
Dec 20 2010: You cannot walk through walls, but you can overcome any barrier of will or discomfort, simply by deciding to do it. 1283
Dec 20 2010: The easiest way to avoid temptation is to remove yourself from its vicinity. 1284
Dec 20 2010: Nirvana, on Earth, is being able to live your life as you know it should be lived, where your wishes and actions coincide. 1285
Dec 20 2010: You can make the best of any circumstance, but you should still try to choose the best circumstances. 1286
Dec 20 2010: A degree proves only that you can follow instructions, not your ability to think for yourself or solve real-world problems. 1287
Dec 20 2010: On My Bucket List: Get caught on tape in a misogynistic anti-Semitic tirade. [See Full Bucket List] 1288
Dec 20 2010: Do you have profound questions for His Holiness? DM or @ them to us and HHBDL may answer with a short essay or video. 1289
Dec 20 2010: Looking back on our worst mistakes, we can usually say: "I had the data. It was all in front of me. If only I had listened." 1290
Dec 20 2010: The wisest choice is usually the one that best promotes future choice. 1291Dec 20 2010: On the edge of the Great Salt Lake — the setting of our upcoming inspirational video, "The Problem with Love" http://twitpic.com/3hsn3f←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1292
Dec 20 2010: Cool beauty is perfect geometry, detached and inaccessible. Warm beauty is a smile, imperfect but real, that engages the viewer personally. 1293
Dec 20 2010: An honorable mission is to explore the world, learn how it works, make some mistakes, assemble some wisdom and convey it to others. 1294
Dec 20 2010: Parenting is not possible by positive reinforcement alone. From time to time, one has to inflict pain. 1295
Dec 20 2010: If you're a parent and your child wants something, don't just give it to him. Make him pay! Else what you give will be taken for granted. 1296Dec 20 2010: Rest area near Coalville, Utah. http://twitpic.com/3hukme←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1297
Dec 20 2010: Most of life's hardest falls stem from foolish decisions we made during moments of success. 1298
Dec 20 2010: Christmas is a holiday of "enforced giving". You don't have any choice. That's different from a spontaneous gift you give on your own. 1299
Dec 20 2010: Intellect isn't worth much if you aren't willing to apply it to your most emotional decisions. 1300
Dec 20 2010: You can never really know another person's thoughts, because the act of reporting the thoughts destroys them—like Heisenberg. 1301Dec 21 2010: Video #17: "The Problem with Love" http://youtu.be/Xun4mhWnuJU From Utah (today). The risk of love is losing control over your own destiny. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1302
Dec 21 2010: What most people take for "thirst" is really an addict's craving for caffeine. Bodily fluid levels are fine. 1303
Dec 21 2010: The most dangerous people are those with absolute moral certainty about what should be done. 1304
Dec 21 2010: Most people make poor photographers because they can't separate their own feelings from what actually appears in the viewfinder. 1305
Dec 21 2010: Half the battle of life is learning to see what's actually in front of you instead of what you want to be there. 1306
Dec 21 2010: We construct our own romantic disasters. The opposite gender just fulfills them for us. 1307
Dec 21 2010: On My Bucket List: Listen to an entire country song from start to finish and take its advice to heart. [See Full Bucket List] 1308
Dec 21 2010: The law, in practice, is more an escape from responsibility than an expression of it. 1309Dec 21 2010: It's kitsch, but bearable. Denver International Airport. http://twitpic.com/3i4tro←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1310
Dec 21 2010: People usually choose their lifestyle based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. 1311
Dec 21 2010: The cost of security is loss of freedom. 1312
Dec 21 2010: In love, as in cell phone contracts, pay-as-you-go is usually preferable to long commitments. 1313
Dec 22 2010: ...(Unless you get a free phone. But then again, is it really free?.. And a 2-year commitment, tops! Read the fine print before you sign.) 1314
Dec 22 2010: RT @ImAVeronica: "Don't use me" is scrawled in chalk on the washroom wall. I thought it was a lament, but it's instructions. To which I ... 1315
Dec 22 2010: Darn near the best existential song ever written: "Desperado" by the Eagles. 1316
Dec 22 2010: Probably the best song you've never heard: "Houdini's Box" by Jill Sobule. Check it out! 1317
Dec 22 2010: His Holiness will be spending Christmas in the most Christmassy place possible. Maximal Christmasositiness! 1318
Dec 22 2010: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the word almost always refers to some form of graceful simplicity. 1319
Dec 22 2010: The right of privacy does not extend after death. 1320
Dec 22 2010: Privacy and secrecy are only temporary. Whatever you do, it will be known eventually. 1321
Dec 22 2010: It is plain enough to us when a friend gets drawn into an unproductive relationship. If only we had that same insight for ourselves! 1322
Dec 22 2010: Dreams, once fulfilled, often become prisons. 1323
Dec 22 2010: A true friend will tell you when you smell bad. 1324Dec 22 2010: Checked into my hostel in this very Christmassy place. 4 nights' lodging is setting me back $80. http://twitpic.com/3ifdle←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1325
Dec 22 2010: The brain is an analog system. Billions of connections but not one certainty. 1326
Dec 22 2010: Charity must never seem like charity. For the gift to be effective, the recipient must work for it. 1327
Dec 22 2010: Curiosity is the luxury of children and those with the freedom to change. 1328Dec 22 2010: I'm in Jerusalem for Christmas, hoping to produce a few new videos for you. In the meantime, photos from my last visit: http://j.mp/ePqnpw←Start tweet essay: Visiting Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Christmas 1329Dec 22 2010: My hostel in Jerusalem: http://j.mp/giqAW6 - 75 Shekels a night! (Oy, vey—can you imagine such a thing!?) Location: http://j.mp/h0jMuV 1330Dec 22 2010: "Hot" stocks (P:E > 25) are more like a game of Hot Potato. Everyone makes money except the sucker holding the potato when the stock tanks. 1331Dec 23 2010: Today's hot new technology is tomorrow's hopeless dinosaur. 1332Dec 23 2010: Every fast-growing company will eventually be crippled by its bigness and stop growing, to be outwitted by the next new thing. #facebook 1333Dec 23 2010: People do their best work without a safety net. 1334Dec 23 2010: There's not much money is supplying people's needs. Serving their addictions is far more lucrative! 1335Dec 23 2010: "Merely getting into Harvard is as good an indicator of future success as actually going." http://bit.ly/ijKNOI via @laurenahayes 1336Dec 23 2010: In front of my hostel in Davidka Square, Jerusalem. More at http://j.mp/3Rrs7g - Going exploring now! http://twitpic.com/3inykm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1337Dec 23 2010: On My Bucket List: Start and maintain a stamp collection, because that's much more interesting than visiting actual countries. [See Full Bucket List] 1338Dec 23 2010: Awesome shot from the Muslim Quarter of Old Jerusalem! Now adding more to FB album: http://j.mp/2uwh9ghttp://twitpic.com/3iqp6w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1339Dec 23 2010: Just say "No" to tattoos! They (a) deteriorate with time and (b) commit you to a message you might not always agree with. 1340Dec 23 2010: Video #18: Jerusalem, Israel: Crossing the Old City. http://youtu.be/8Fzh5iNH65s - Intro tour from Damascus Gate to the Western Wall. Today! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1341Dec 23 2010: There's a certain freedom in not speaking a word of the local language. You can claim ignorance of local politics. 1342Dec 23 2010: Today's best photos from Old Jerusalem! http://j.mp/fW8YAwhttp://j.mp/fsOejdhttp://j.mp/goxIk0http://j.mp/e5O1fChttp://j.mp/fn4Ahl 1343Dec 24 2010: Monetary wealth should not be measured by income but by remaining freedom after commitments. 1344Dec 24 2010: RT @NewMindMirror: A reversal on carbs: Are sugar and refined grains greater health risks than fat? - LA Times http://su.pr/2H5eIz #diet 1345Dec 24 2010: The most common and disastrous mistake of life is to assume the trend of the moment is a permanent state of affairs. 1346Dec 24 2010: Relationships are damaging when they disrupt the individual's direct negotiation with outside reality. 1347Dec 24 2010: If I claimed to be a Christian, the first thing I'd do is come here—the Holy Land—to find out exactly what I'm buying into. 1348Dec 24 2010: The two-parent family may still be the norm, but consistent parenting between them is rare. Sometimes, one is better! 1349Dec 24 2010: There's not much money in supplying people's needs. Serving their addictions is far more lucrative! 1350Dec 24 2010: Anyone can fly through the air like Superman! (But you can only go in one direction, and landing is a bitch.) 1351Dec 24 2010: RT @JousinPalafox: @DalaiLama I apreciate your advice about happiness but you should follow @BadDalaiLama, because believe it or not he ... 1352Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE — My favorite photo from today. More coming soon! (Christmas Eve in Bethlehem!) http://twitpic.com/3j4ruu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1353Dec 24 2010: JERUSALEM — Sabbath enforcer appears at the door of my hostel to make sure we are not doing business (just now!) http://twitpic.com/3j5dzd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1354Dec 24 2010: In deference to the Christian holiday, HHBDL is suspending his usual words of wisdom to report LIVE from JERUSALEM and BETHLEHEM! 1355Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — Bagpipes on Christmas Eve! TODAY!! Not the procession you'd expect at Jesus' birthplace. http://youtu.be/ABqn3W5NKrU (Video #19) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1356Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — There are multiple story lines in this photo. http://twitpic.com/3j7c9a←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1357Dec 24 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLama You've got 779 followers and no one is commenting on your wonderful photos from the Holy Land on Christmas? 1358Dec 24 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLamahttp://twitpic.com/3j4ruu - Beautiful shot. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1359Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — OMG! Nailed another one! http://twitpic.com/3j7xbm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1360Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — First album from the Scouts Parade. Some of my best photos yet! Shot today (Christmas Eve) in Palestine. http://j.mp/gOXeMz 1361Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — Touring the Church of the Nativity, alleged site of Jesus' birth, on Christmas Eve! http://youtu.be/iQinzwUZ1xM (Video #20) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1362Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Wrapping up my Christmas Eve experience in Bethlehem. From outside a Santa shop on the edge of town. http://youtu.be/RJqbvMZAcCA←Our original YouTube video [more] 1363Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Archive photos from the Western Wall http://j.mp/g0zIAT & an Israeli Army graduation ceremony there http://j.mp/ihmJjG (Oct 09) 1364Dec 25 2010: I walk the streets of Jerusalem with complete equanimity toward Jews, Christians and Muslims. They're all Loony Tunes! 1365Dec 25 2010: It is useful to believe in fate in retrospect ("Everything happens for a reason") but not in the future ("I am powerless to change it"). 1366Dec 25 2010: @laurenahayes "Excessive consumerism makes me nauseous; we already have everything we need" <== It all depends on how you define "excessive" 1367Dec 25 2010: Christmas morning in Jerusalem! Weird dreams last night. Men in funny hats are chasing me for not keeping Shabbat. Also Area 51 security. 1368Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Santas in Palestine tend to run on the scrawny side. http://twitpic.com/3jelt3 - More Bethlehem photos: http://j.mp/gOXeMz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1369Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Moi-même in Manger Square last night (Christmas Eve). Photo: http://j.mp/eJkftv 1370Dec 25 2010: I'm in Jerusalem, right? It is supposed to be controlled by the Jews. SO WHY CAN'T THEY STOP THE DAMN CHRISTMAS MUSIC?!?! 1371Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — The PLO wishes you a Very Merry Christmas! http://twitpic.com/3jewn1 - More at http://j.mp/gOXeMz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1372Dec 25 2010: Shabbat in the Jewish areas of Jerusalem means being able to walk down the middle of a city street that's normally packed with traffic. 1373Dec 25 2010: Just returned to my Jerusalem hostel after a second visit to Bethlehem for Christmas. Videos and photos coming! 1374Dec 25 2010: Video: Panoramic view of Old Jerusalem from the top of the Damascus Gate on Christmas morning. http://youtu.be/kCKkKdyiMxQ (Video #22) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1375Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Bible, Talmud or Koran? This pilgrim to the Old City brought his own sacred text. Photo: http://j.mp/eAVD3k (Christmas Morning) 1376Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — A miraculous appearance of the Virgin Mary on a bus from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. http://j.mp/gyGKpm 1377Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Christmas party at the Abraham Hostel, happening RIGHT NOW! Come on down! FB Album: http://j.mp/ffpfVw 1378Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Report from the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier (like the Berlin Wall). Almost journalism! http://youtu.be/zbfxbOmGOyY←Our original YouTube video [more] 1379Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Moi-même on the Damascus Gate, Christmas Morning. Photo: http://j.mp/dMAAZr 1380Dec 26 2010: @PoulsNocturne "We can now see his holiness ;)" <== That's only the CHANNELER of His Holiness (who has no corporeal form). 1381Dec 26 2010: If you don't want a flabby immune system, do you? Give it some exercise. Revel in dirt! 1382Dec 26 2010: The difference between studying history and living it is that when you live it you don't know how it will turn out. 1383Dec 26 2010: There are no greater barriers to personal growth than money and social success. Why would you leave that comfortable bubble? 1384Dec 26 2010: TEL AVIV — Leaving Israel in a few hours. Conclusion: This has to be the weirdest patchwork country on Earth—like a rhinogiraffalope! 1385Dec 26 2010: Charity must never seem like charity. For the gift to be effective, the recipient must work for it. 1386Dec 26 2010: .@rejecter "So, BDL supports Israeli apartheid policies by supporting the Israeli economy" <== Hardly! 600 Shekels total over 4.5 days! 1387Dec 26 2010: Passing through the Israeli checkpoint from Bethlehem back to Jerusalem (essentially a "Checkpoint Charlie"). http://yfrog.com/gziwxzj 1388Dec 26 2010: Strange but true: The Israeli partition wall has encouraged more Palestinian workers to live in Israel, diluting some Jewish neighborhoods. 1389Dec 26 2010: Isreali security consists primarily of teenagers with big guns, more concerned with their social lives than terrorism. http://j.mp/ihmJjG 1390Dec 26 2010: .@rejecter "Israel doesn't need a PR department now that they have the Bad Dalai Lama." <== Also equal PR for Bethlehem, Palestine. 1391Dec 26 2010: BETHLEHEM — Christmas message from the birthplace of Christ: TURN OFF THE DAMN INTERNET AND DO SOMETHING! http://youtu.be/hA2RNf3QIMA (#24) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1392Dec 26 2010: It is not the place of His Holiness to right the wrongs of the Middle East or to take sides, merely to understand and find irony! 1393Dec 26 2010: Competence is rarely recognized in organizations because it threatens the incompetent, who will do their best to stamp it out. 1394Dec 27 2010: The funnest part of "Celebrity Douchebag Rehab" would be watching the douchebags admit they are douchebags. 1395Dec 27 2010: I'm sure this is a respectable dental practice, but it just can't shake the Mengele connection. Photo: http://j.mp/hgWlgD (Bethlehem) 1396Dec 27 2010: Education is the passive form of learning. Curiosity is the active form. 1397Dec 27 2010: Let us have a moment of silence for the many who gave their lives for our entertainment. 1398Dec 27 2010: There is nothing sadder than a suburban life dedicated to recycling. 1399Dec 27 2010: UFO evidence that seems clear at the beginning turns muddy upon closer examination. Damn humans keep getting in the way! 1400Dec 27 2010: chronological chauvinism — the belief that ones own generation is inherently more enlightened than any previous one. 1401Dec 27 2010: You can praise the "common man" in the abstract, but you don't want to be trapped in the same room with him. Them folks is dumb! 1402Dec 27 2010: Strange but true: Israelis can't visit the West Bank, but the Shekel is the local currency, and nearly all store products are Israeli. 1403Dec 27 2010: Golf, skiing, tennis, sailing — sports invented to help rich people spend their money. 1404Dec 27 2010: Video #25: Exploring an abandoned building in Jerusalem (on Christmas). http://youtu.be/KajWJPiR6MM←Our original YouTube video [more] 1405Dec 28 2010: People are willing to endure great inconvenience for the appearance of luxury. 1406Dec 28 2010: Whatever consciousness may be, you can't keep dividing it and get the same quality from it. 1407Dec 28 2010: Life is a negotiation with reality. You arrive on this strange planet with its own rules and start bargaining to fulfill your needs. 1408Dec 28 2010: MACEDONIA, OHIO — Wandering Walmart at 4am in search of food. Alas, they only have "processed food product". http://twitpic.com/3kh548←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1409Dec 28 2010: Flooding the internet with free porn is like legalizing drugs. It's still not healthy but it cuts out the criminal middle man. 1410Dec 28 2010: The internet has democratized porn, making it accessible to children but also diluting its destructive power. Now kids say, "So what?" 1411Dec 28 2010: @GisforGangstaa "What do you expect at 4am? Let alone Walmart?" <== The source of nearly all my supplies, except food. 4am = jetlagged. 1412Dec 28 2010: It's tragic how no one is making any money in porn anymore. Actors, producers, marketers out of work! Another casualty of the internet! 1413Dec 28 2010: Not a scam, but a placebo. The iRenew™ bracelet for only $20. MAY enhance strength. WILL make a profit. Photo: http://j.mp/eG97pC 1414Dec 28 2010: Free speech includes "puffery"—the right to make any inflated claim or implied promise as long as it is not technically a lie. #iRenew 1415Dec 28 2010: As deceptive as advertising may be, it would be even more offensive for the government to police claims that are merely implied, not stated. 1416Dec 28 2010: "Gonna Do's" aren't worth anything if there aren't any "Already Done's" to back them up. 1417Dec 28 2010: The greatest luxury of all is time, and no marketed luxury product can give you that. Mostly, they just steal your time. 1418Dec 28 2010: A future dream itinerary: Tel Aviv to Cairo by bus for less than $100. Map: http://j.mp/exBadn 1419Dec 28 2010: CANTON, OHIO — I have the power of God at my fingertips! (short but electrifying video shot today) http://youtu.be/ozUkIw3Pi9Y (Video #26) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1420Dec 28 2010: A person's beliefs are dictated by their existing investments, with reasons backfilled later to support the chosen beliefs. 1421Dec 29 2010: People run on tracks, like trains. They have feet, not wheels, and can leave the track anytime they want, but they rarely do. 1422Dec 29 2010: Video #27: Settlement protests in Jerusalem. I infiltrate two opposing demonstrations in Zion Square. http://youtu.be/0pQgdvC1ocw (Dec. 23) ←Our original YouTube video [more]←End tweet essay: Visiting Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Christmas 1423
Dec 29 2010: Dear pot legalization advocates: You seem to be getting your way these days, but honestly, is that the best social cause you can think of? 1424
Dec 29 2010: True morality often lies in skirting the law. You don't openly defy it but quietly evade it to reach an ethically acceptable conclusion. 1425
Dec 29 2010: RT @lolahayes: Americans Admire Glenn Beck More Than the Dalai Lama http://bit.ly/eOYQI6 1426
Dec 29 2010: @lolahayes Kalonkinesioöpticity is in the eye of the beholder. A colonoscopy, on the other hand, is quite concrete. 1427
Dec 29 2010: RT @ispeakfemale: The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works for 24 hours, 365 days, right from your birth until you fall in love. 1428Dec 29 2010: Video #28: Who is buried in McKinley's Tomb? (And who really cares?) http://youtu.be/hTNv32VsshI Canton, Ohio - Yesterday. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1429
Dec 29 2010: That an activity is legal doesn't make it wise. It only means the government isn't interfering in your Right to Stupidity. 1430
Dec 29 2010: "If you are not a master of your own will and your own actions, you can't be a master of anything else." @brooksbayne 1431
Dec 29 2010: If you cherish your brain, why would you do any drug, legal or not? It's like throwing dirt in the engine of a high-performance sports car. 1432
Dec 29 2010: Israeli airport security is overrated. Are they really incompetent or just pretending to be? That must be the security! 1433
Dec 29 2010: Just because a cause is worthy doesn't mean you should support it. It must also be the best thing you can do with your resources. 1434
Dec 29 2010: Give young people the impression they're breaking the mold, and they'll buy into just about anything. 1435
Dec 29 2010: The actor may find success, but only as the character he is playing, not as himself. 1436
Dec 29 2010: RT @DOGENZEN: We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses ~Carl Jung 1437
Dec 29 2010: Buffets are wasted on children. They go straight for the pizza! 1438
Dec 29 2010: @LolaHayes Welcome, Lola! You already have your own theme song: "Lola" by the Kinks. ♫ http://blip.fm/~105uhc 1439
Dec 29 2010: Simple, haunting song that's a fav of His Holiness: Houdini's Box – Jill Sobule ♫ http://blip.fm/~105v1c 1440
Dec 29 2010: What does "Hotel California" mean? That's the beauty of it. It's an uncrackable mystery! ♫ http://blip.fm/~105vdu 1441
Dec 29 2010: Life is a struggle against passivity and inertia. The first step to solving any problem is to take control and stop being a victim. 1442
Dec 29 2010: As a visitor from outer space, you are not responsible for all of Earth's problems, only those that you caused. 1443
Dec 30 2010: luxury — n. infinite gradations of taste invented by marketers to absorb the excess resources of those who have them. 1444
Dec 30 2010: Every intervention, no matter how well intended, carries the risk of making things worse rather than better. 1445Dec 30 2010: REPOST: Our inspirational Christmas message from Bethlehem, Palestine: GET OFF THE DAMN INTERNET! http://youtu.be/hA2RNf3QIMA (Video #24) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1446
Dec 30 2010: The Peter Principle says that an employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence then remain in place, neither fired nor promoted. 1447
Dec 30 2010: Every large organization becomes incompetent with time, crippled by lackluster employees and its own internal complexity. 1448
Dec 30 2010: Every hot new company will eventually stop growing and decline, overtaken by the next new thing that it just isn't prepared for. 1449
Dec 30 2010: I am the internet user from Hell! I enjoy those wonderful free services but never click on ads or sponsored links. I am the future. Bite me! 1450
Dec 30 2010: @chachiTHEgr8 "I liked u better when u were mysterious... Kinda killed it when u geotagged tweets" <== A deliberate choice to exist. 1451
Dec 30 2010: A sad passing: Kodachrome (the film but not the metaphor) http://nyti.ms/gLLOfI My own Kodachrome moment: http://j.mp/i4PTGH 1452
Dec 30 2010: The witchdoctor gives people the illusion of control when they have none. He mixes a potion, says a few words, and the customer is relieved. 1453
Dec 30 2010: It is one thing to know the laws of aerodynamics, quite another to fly a plane and land it safely. Theory can't replace experience. 1454
Dec 30 2010: Human nakedness (lack of fur) suggests that getting rid of heat was more important to our survival than keeping warm. 1455
Dec 30 2010: Show me a pot legalization advocate and I'll show you someone trying to justify his own use. Concern for humanity has little to do with it. 1456
Dec 30 2010: @ValdemarLethin "Wow, who's not burdened by politics?" (re: pot) <== Oops! Did we stumble into politics there? Sorry, won't happen again! 1457
Dec 30 2010: Theory: Pot damages the initiative centers of the brain. Think of the potheads you know. Aren't they stuck in an infinite loop? 1458
Dec 30 2010: Wikipedia is the key to intergenerational understanding. 1459
Dec 30 2010: For every successful viral marketing campaign (Old Spice Man), there are probably 1,000 failures you never heard of. Reproducible or fluke? 1460
Dec 30 2010: The trouble with viral marketing (like real viruses) is that the immune system adapts quickly and won't accept the same campaign twice. 1461
Dec 30 2010: Advertising people are suckers for the same sort of scams they perpetuate. 1462
Dec 30 2010: I can't prove I have free will, but I seem to, and that's good enough to justify trying. 1463
Dec 30 2010: The two human errors of planning are a) not planning at all (impulsivity) and b) overplanning for a permanent future one can't possibly see. 1464
Dec 30 2010: Any art that doesn't teach you something about life isn't worth the effort to take in. 1465
Dec 30 2010: Heading to Rome for New Years. Flying for free, ample seats. Got to the gate. Then a voice inside said, "I don't want to go." So I didn't. 1466
Dec 30 2010: RT @GisforGangstaa: @BadDalaiLama ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Wait, never mind only people with such luck can turn down Rome like nothing. 1467
Dec 30 2010: @GisforGangstaa Sometimes inner peace is more important. Israel & Palestine last week. Internal digestion is backlogged. 1468
Dec 30 2010: Archive photos from Rome & Italy (in lieu of going there): http://j.mp/h8TGRf 1469
Dec 30 2010: You can't prove love by killing freedom. 1470Dec 31 2010: Video #29: We propose a new world currency: hamburgers! http://youtu.be/eOMeLD3zHTg From McDonalds, Deltona, Florida. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1471
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Gibraltar http://j.mp/dgmyD3 Tarifa, Spain http://j.mp/aOYglK (Sept.) ←Start tweet essay: 2011 Photo Highlights 1472
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Mexico City: Teotihuacan Pyramids http://j.mp/aVJdeG Guadalupe Shrine http://j.mp/gP8Inc More http://j.mp/gtielp (May) 1473
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Tangier, Morocco http://j.mp/bA2wN4 (Sept) 1474
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Las Vegas Age of Chivalry Renaissance Faire http://j.mp/9JSzBN (Oct) 1475
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Seville, Spain http://j.mp/hboOl9 Parade http://j.mp/a7iHmB (Sept) 1476
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Eastern Europe. Budapest http://j.mp/bT2qga Zagreb http://j.mp/hAiPEn Ljubljana http://j.mp/bEhGYp (July) 1477
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Quebec City http://j.mp/aPb8nK Trois Rivieres http://j.mp/f0Rv0j Prince Edward Island http://j.mp/gVeFoE (April) 1478
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Las Vegas Celebrity Impersonators Convention http://j.mp/aQrV30 On Stage http://j.mp/dhA0sl (March) 1479
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Waikiki Beach, Hawaii http://j.mp/d8dWYe Oahu Shore http://j.mp/awGVX5 Honolulu http://j.mp/gIyhBa (March) 1480
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Sarajevo, Bosnia http://j.mp/bI0ONC (July) 1481
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Island of Santorini, Greece http://j.mp/cmY9LB Our favorite destination of the year! (June) 1482
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Alaska Highway http://j.mp/yQOqg Whitehorse Yukon http://j.mp/iby2W1 Bear Flats http://j.mp/1DU0Pq (Nov) 1483
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Film crew shooting SyFy special at Area 51 http://j.mp/9KwOrj (March)
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