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May 1 2011: Never underestimate the ability of the addict to sabotage any good thing that happens to him. 4609
May 1 2011: Alcoholism seems to go hand-in-hand with self-pity—an attitude that says "Woe is me!" without doing anything about it 4610
May 1 2011: It's hard to imagine, when you first have sex with a new partner, how tedious it can become over time. 4611
May 1 2011: When libido fades, is it a curse or a blessing? Do you reach for the Viagra, or do you say, "Wow! I'm free!" 4612
May 1 2011: Loss of libido is a crisis only if you are already committed to a relationship that depends on it. 4613
May 1 2011: Jerusalem is a magnet for all kinds of religious nutcases. Even Rael wants to build an Extraterrestrial Embassy there! http://j.mp/mtmusX 4614
May 1 2011: If you take chocolate and remove everything flavorful and chocolaty from it, you have "white chocolate" and people buy it as a gourmet item. 4615
May 1 2011: Don't dismiss religion as useless. Most people need that "eye in the sky" to remain honorable and give their lives direction. 4616
May 1 2011: If people need God to help them escape from evil, so be it. We shouldn't argue with what works. 4617
May 1 2011: The high density of donut shops in Canada suggests the per capita consumption is approximately 15 per day. 4618
May 1 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolut ... 4619
May 1 2011: "A true artist does not seek permission." @CrankyPappy 4620
May 1 2011: Fascinating! RT @NewMindMirror Reciprocal altruism - Wikipedia http://su.pr/87AP7j 4621
May 1 2011: Canada, Australia, New Zealand—it's not like they fought for their independence. Britain had to push them out the door! 4622
May 1 2011: RT @CeLeStIaLPhEnYx: I retweet the @BadDalaiLama more than the real Dalai Lama. I either need to stay up to see the Dalai Lama's tweets, ... 4623
May 1 2011: Evil is something that invades the soul, replicates itself and spreads from person to person like an alien virus. 4624
May 1 2011: We don't need demons, devils and supernatural monsters. Humans can do evil just fine on their own! 4625
May 1 2011: There is no dignity in terrifying people, even for entertainment. Even porn is a higher calling! 4626
May 1 2011: Computers can process natural language only to the extent that autistics can: literally and without insight. 4627
May 1 2011: Give young people nuclear weapons and they'll use them! No negotiation, threats or intermediate steps, just directly to Armageddon. 4628
May 1 2011: The early 20s are the "jerk" years. Don't you remember? You were one of them! 4629
May 1 2011: Vegas, do you miss me? (@ McCarran International Airport (LAS) w/ 11 others) http://4sq.com/iXleK4 4630
May 2 2011: The more shame you feel, the more you drink, and the more you drink the more shameful things you do and the more shame you feel. 4631
May 3 2011: The first thing an addict does in a new city is establish connections with suppliers, so a change of venue doesn't usually work. 4632
May 3 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis 4633
May 3 2011: Jealousy speaks of both the weakness of the relationship and the low self-esteem of the jealous. 4634
May 3 2011: The benchmark of a person's character is his addictions. 4635
May 3 2011: RT @TheEconomist: Most trending: Why rich people don't always see themselves as rich http://econ.st/mQTGrb 4636
May 3 2011: Playboy centerfold dead at age 82! Daily Mail http://goo.gl/fb/QHTdE — Don't know what's more horrifying: her mummified state or her age! 4637
May 3 2011: RT @latimes: Mummified body of ex-Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found http://lat.ms/kFl7ue RT @latimesmost 4638
May 3 2011: @dunebat A fresh start? 4639
May 3 2011: "Everyone makes an existential decision: shall I sneak out of prison alone, or shall I organize a prison revolt?" @NewMindMirror Answer: (a) 4640
May 3 2011: @ThatsWright "My dad follows 3 people and none of them are me." <== If only you were more empirical. 4641
May 3 2011: RT @TheBosha: Starting a new paranormal investigation group called FEAR: Find. Evaluate. Authenticate. Run. 4642
May 3 2011: The meaning of life is to make babies and spend the rest of your life raising them. Amazing how many people fall for that. 4643
May 4 2011: RT @philoquotes: What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. ~ Sartre http://bit. ... 4644
May 4 2011: RT @DalaiLama: The ultimate source of a happy life is the attention we pay to our inner values. 4645
May 4 2011: @dunebat I'm at Starbase 51 (Odessa) 4sq.com/jZoNmC <== I'd like a royalty payment on the "51" part! 4646
May 4 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama 4647
May 4 2011: RT @YourAuntLola: Keep yesterday in the back seat, sweetie. That way you can still see it, but it can't touch the controls 4648
May 4 2011: RT @philososaurus: You know it'll be a good day when @BadDalaiLama retweets @DalaiLama 4649
May 4 2011: Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs—like McCartney in his stoner years. 4650May 4 2011: Sunshine Skyway. http://twitpic.com/4tbp0w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4651
May 4 2011: A marriage is no smarter than the stupider partner. 4652
May 4 2011: Best sleeping gate on the East Coast! (@ Gate B9) http://4sq.com/ixqpBm 4653May 4 2011: Nephew damage, Orlando, Florida. http://twitpic.com/4tgptl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4654May 5 2011: Video Postcard: On a bus in Israel http://youtu.be/fpOHtXteEVY Encounter with a fellow passenger on a bus from Eilat to Tel Aviv. April 21. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4655May 5 2011: Video Postcard: Tel Aviv Waterfront (April 22) http://youtu.be/X96j_pzF2Q4 Scanning the resort area of Tel Aviv. 1:36 ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4656May 5 2011: Raw Video: Masada Standups http://youtu.be/S7jNIPsRcIc My on-site narration from Masada, Israel. (Part of a theoretical future video) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4657
May 5 2011: On My Bucket List: Experience life as a British soccer hooligan. [See Full Bucket List] 4658
May 5 2011: RT @brainpicker: "Sleep is the most important behavior in your life to get right and the first one we get wrong." @tonyschwartz #99conf 4659
May 5 2011: Next on Dancing with the Stars: Audrey Tomason. 4660
May 5 2011: "There are aspects of personality that others know about us that we don't know ourselves." Science Daily http://tinyurl.com/3pt6fyb 4661
May 5 2011: RT @brainpicker: The cognitive cost of doing things http://j.mp/lYyyM0 4662May 5 2011: The cost of an activity can be measured in money or time or something even more valuable: the cognitive resources it uses. ←Start tweet essay: Cognitive Resources 4663May 5 2011: "Cognitive resources" are the thinking time required for a task, equivalent to CPU time on a computer. 4664May 5 2011: Driving or jogging require very little thinking time. Reading, watching TV or doing a crossword puzzle require nearly 100%. 4665May 5 2011: Many who are frugal with money would thinking nothing of wasting cognitive resources on TV, novels or other unproductive pursuits. 4666May 5 2011: People who do a lot of reading think of themselves as more literate, but it can be just as unproductive as hours of mindless TV. 4667May 5 2011: What are you doing with your cognitive resources? Are you putting them to good use or just killing time? 4668May 5 2011: RT @brainpicker The cognitive cost of doing things http://j.mp/lYyyM0 4669May 5 2011: "Boredom" to most people is having excess cognitive resources at their disposal. They will do anything to burn them up. 4670May 5 2011: Most people are incapable of unstructured, free-form thinking. They need structure from the outside for their brain to accomplish anything. 4671May 5 2011: Cognitive discipline is being able to sit for hours alone in an empty room and come out of it having accomplished significant work. 4672May 5 2011: Boredom is an affliction of boring people. 4673May 5 2011: Two jobs that pay the same can require vastly different cognitive resources. You can be using 98% of your thinking time or 2%. 4674May 5 2011: Some people prefer all-engrossing jobs because they don't have any meaningful use for their thinking time otherwise. 4675May 5 2011: If you are engaged in a meaningful personal project, the more time you spend thinking about it, the more creative solutions you'll find. 4676May 5 2011: If you're not engaged in any meaningful personal project, then extra thinking time won't help you. You'll merely be bored. 4677May 5 2011: Simply planning your future life is a meaningful project. Some do it continuously; others refuse to do it at all. 4678May 5 2011: To some, a long journey by plane or car is an arduous task disrupting their life. To others, it is a pleasure, a precious chance to think. 4679May 5 2011: Cognitive discipline is to check into a hotel room and never even think to turn on the TV. 4680May 5 2011: How many people really know how to think? Only a tiny portion of the human population. The rest merely react to their environment. 4681May 5 2011: How has your mind been occupied today? Is it meaningful stuff or just neurological junk food? 4682May 5 2011: He who wastes cognitive resources is essentially wasting his life. 4683May 5 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Cognitive Resources". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. ←End tweet essay: Cognitive Resources 4684
May 5 2011: RT @Olivia_Sarai: @BadDalaiLama Processing scientific data!! my neuronal network is working hard, so hard! 4685
May 5 2011: RT @Javi_Air: @BadDalaiLama Your essay is exactly where my mind's at right now! My human resources dept has been slacking. Employing bet ... 4686
May 5 2011: With all the situations I've dealt with in the past, I really need a Situation Room. How do I get one of those? 4687
May 5 2011: Neurotic people can't stand happiness. Whenever it intrudes into their life they find some way to sabotage it. 4688May 6 2011: Part of success is opportunity, the other ability. You can't neglect either side of the equation. ←Start tweet essay: Ability and Opportunity 4689May 6 2011: Ability is how well you do what you claim to. If you want to be a singer, you must sing well, even if no one hears. 4690May 6 2011: Opportunity is the unpredictable circumstances of the world allowing you to exercise your ability. Your main control lies in recognizing it. 4691May 6 2011: There are no perfect opportunities. Each requires compromises. You must adjust your own goals to match what the world is offering. 4692May 6 2011: When the world gives you few opportunities, you can still work on your abilities. 4693May 6 2011: Although opportunity often blesses those of little ability (@ParisHilton@KimKardashian), ability stacks the odds in your favor. 4694May 6 2011: If you would be a songwriter, then write songs! Whether anyone sings them has no bearing on the quality of the product. 4695May 6 2011: Producing a great product is 100% your own responsibility. It has little to do with your opportunities. 4696May 6 2011: If you sit down to write the great novel and can't do it, no opportunity in the world is going to change that situation. 4697May 6 2011: Young people tend to dwell on opportunity—on being "discovered" by powerful others—while neglecting ability. 4698May 6 2011: You have far more control over ability than opportunity. You can always improve your abilities by exercising and fine-tuning them. 4699May 6 2011: Your chief control over opportunity is recognizing it when it happens and seeing it where others don't. 4700May 6 2011: The most important skill of success is seeing opportunity where others see only problems. 4701May 6 2011: "Motivational outsourcing" is when you expect others to inspire you, structure you or push you to succeed. 4702May 6 2011: An example of motivational outsourcing is a class on creativity. If you are taking the class, then you are not being creative. 4703May 6 2011: True creativity can only come from within. 4704May 6 2011: If you want to be creative, then create, dammit! No one can do it for you. 4705May 6 2011: The way to be creative is to get off your ass and actually do the thing you claim to aspire to. 4706May 6 2011: You can't become a movie director overnight, but you can pick up a video camera and use it, putting out the best product possible. 4707May 6 2011: You can't plan on opportunities—They happen when they will.—but you can plan on being ready for opportunities. 4708May 6 2011: The vast majority of opportunities go unrecognized, because no one recognizes them or is prepared to jump on them. 4709May 6 2011: Life is like a railway network without a schedule. Sooner or later a train will pass by going in your direction, but you have to jump on! 4710May 6 2011: When the train of opportunity passes by, will you see it? Will you be free to jump on? Or will the train breeze by, leaving you behind? 4711May 6 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Ability and Opportunity". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4712May 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama you're on FIRE this essay!! :) :) love it. Thank you! 4713May 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama I love for your tweets, they're so insightful... I've said it before, I'll say it again. Thank you. 4714May 6 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama A good old friend use to say. I don't wait for opportunities to show up. I prepare. Then, I track them down ... 4715May 6 2011: RT @Toledowni A good old friend use to say, "I don't wait for opportunities to show up. I prepare. Then, I track them down." ←End tweet essay: Ability and Opportunity 4716
May 6 2011: There may be a huge market for junk food, pornography and placebos, but you build your own self-esteem only by offering quality. 4717May 6 2011: Now when are the French going to apologize for 1066? ==> RT @telegraph Jews receive apology over Spanish Inquisition http://tgr.ph/j14iwa←Start tweet essay: The Oppressed Anglo-Saxon Male 4718May 6 2011: Sept. 28, 1066—a day that will live in infamy! My people will never forgive or forget until we receive an apology. #whiteoppression 4719May 6 2011: AD 64—Nero throws Christians to the lions, giving them the persecution they need to become a major religion. http://T.CO/x6W1Mnh 4720May 6 2011: White Christian Anglo-Saxon males—an abused minority ignored by history. 4721May 6 2011: AD 1969—NBC cancels Star Trek after only three seasons. Ethnic discrimination against the White male? #whiteoppression 4722May 6 2011: The male throughout history has been oppressed by the female, who demands that he support her while she stays home and cooks supper. 4723May 6 2011: Whenever there's a war, who is going to fight and die? The male! We are the cannon fodder of history. 4724May 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Are you trying to weed out all your followers that can't sense sarcasm? 4725May 6 2011: It's not just the White Christian Anglo-Saxon males who are discriminated against, but especially the bald ones! 4726May 6 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama I don't know, it takes a certain something to pull off the bald look successfully. I know I ain't got it. 4727May 6 2011: Rise up, join hands, raise your voices together, White Baldies: "We shall overcome!" (Um, we can stop holding hands now.) 4728May 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: Closing argument for the Lex Luthor defense team. ←End tweet essay: The Oppressed Anglo-Saxon Male 4729
May 6 2011: What makes young people such dangerous drivers is that their assessment of their own ability far exceeds their actual ability. 4730
May 6 2011: Never trust anyone under 30. Idealistic, yes, but also narcissistic. 4731
May 6 2011: It is easier to deal with someone who has been seasoned by a few solid failures, and young people haven't had the chance. 4732
May 6 2011: RT @PoulsNocturne: I know a lot of old people who the failures didn't season them at all. And a lot of young people who are much better. 4733
May 6 2011: .@PoulsNocturne Here at @BadDalaiLama we prefer to deal in simplistic stereotypes. 4734
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Retire in Florida to a house adjacent to a golf course so I can play golf. Every. Single. Day. [See Full Bucket List] 4735
May 6 2011: RT @RexHuppke: You know who should be the most appreciative of mothers? Therapists. That's who. 4736
May 6 2011: RT @kellyoxford: Whenever you justify an action with, "I've done WAY riskier stuff than this." Remember: Steve Irwin was killed by a fish. 4737
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Become the enabler of someone else's addiction (again). [See Full Bucket List] 4738
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Munchausen by Proxy. [See Full Bucket List] 4739
May 6 2011: He who has not been humbled by failure in the past believes himself charmed and thus will court it in the future. 4740
May 6 2011: The downside of love is the outsourcing of personal responsibility. 4741
May 6 2011: To a dog, there are no bad smells, only information. 4742
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Get so drunk I don't remember what I did the night before. [See Full Bucket List] 4743
May 7 2011: .@TheBlondieSays "Is this a joke?" <== His Holy Badliness does not joke. http://T.CO/74TNITZ 4744
May 7 2011: You're cruising the FM dial and you hear a song you haven't heard before and it sounds kinda nice until you realize, "Eww, it's Christian!" 4745
May 7 2011: The paradox of technology: We can communicate with each other instantly but have less to say, because no one has time to think. 4746
May 7 2011: "Liberal vs. Conservative" is as old as politics itself. Give either too much power and they'll destroy society. 4747
May 7 2011: @dunebat "Greetings, programs. Shabbat is almost upon us!" <== Man, that thing is a pain in the ass! All of Israel shuts down. 4748
May 7 2011: Wisdom is the replacing of faith with knowledge. 4749
May 7 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. 4750
May 7 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. <== Dude has run out of new platitudes so is retweeting old ones. 4751
May 7 2011: RT @kellyoxford: "WHOA THIS LADY RIGHT HERE IS FAT. A FAT FAT LADY. RIGHT HERE." - 2yr old daughter, to everyone in the food court today 4752
May 7 2011: Maximum downsizing leaves you with a laptop, smartphone, camera and passport. Everything else can be acquired temporarily as you need it. 4753
May 7 2011: Everyone likes to play with babies. That's what they're designed for! 4754
May 7 2011: It's just one little baby. I'll raise him in my spare time. He'll be no problem at all! #happymothersday 4755May 8 2011: The law tells you the speed limit. It doesn't tell you the speed where officers write tickets. That gap is where most of life is lived. ←Start tweet essay: Rules and Creativity 4756May 8 2011: The gap between rules and their enforcement is where most of life is lived. 4757May 8 2011: Governments are incompetent because they are bound by rigid rules that can't adapt to changing circumstances. 4758May 8 2011: Creativity is "playing the gap" between rules and enforcement. 4759May 8 2011: Non-creative people see a rule or barrier and take it at face value. Creative people will push that boundary to see what it really means. 4760May 8 2011: Conventional thinking is seeing a fence and turning back. Creativity is walking the fence line, testing it and looking for ways around. 4761May 8 2011: Creativity is always a little dangerous. It requires thinking the unthinkable, even if you don't actually do it. 4762May 8 2011: You say: "You can't do that. It's against the law." I say: "What law? Whose law? What's the penalty? What's the chance of getting caught?" 4763May 8 2011: Creativity has little to do with arts and crafts. It's coming up with ingenious solutions to your problems using the resources you have. 4764May 8 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Rules and Creativity" 4765May 8 2011: RT @badbanana: Trying to write a romantic Mother's Day poem for my wife. What's a word that rhymes with Lunchables? 4766May 8 2011: RT @agnosticcc: Spent a lot of time with "loved ones" and "people who are close to me" today, so you can imagine the kind of mood I'm in. 4767May 8 2011: Dreams are a training ground for reality. 4768May 8 2011: If you can outwit the monsters in your nightmares you'll be better equipped to deal with them in real life. 4769May 8 2011: The monsters in your dreams can follow you wherever you go—until you change your strategy. ←End tweet essay: Rules and Creativity 4770
May 8 2011: The defects of democracy are (a) Most voters are idiots, and (b) Even the non-idiots have inadequate information on who they are voting for. 4771
May 8 2011: "Democracy is the worst form of government save for the alternatives." MRT Winston Churchill 4772May 8 2011: Chroma Key Experiment (20 seconds) http://youtu.be/iZ_NCUMl8PY Now I can fly around the world without leaving my motel room! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4773
May 8 2011: Here's an awesome 4-minute video showing how chroma key is used in the movies. http://j.mp/ks5fb3 It's so easy! 4774
May 8 2011: Offer a dog steak and he won't eat the dog chow. 4775
May 8 2011: As a New Englander, I bear the shame of the Salem Witch Trials. Also Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and about 1,000 pedophile priests. 4776May 9 2011: Exploring Harry's Hideaway, an abandoned roadhouse on the north shore of Lake Superior. http://youtu.be/zYXewpQgw4M (5:40) 9 days ago. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4777May 9 2011: New video: Canada Explained in Two Minutes! http://youtu.be/B2ePV6XuJLA Shot 10 days ago in the boreal forest north of Lake Superior. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4778
May 9 2011: RT @TIME: Dalai Lama: "bin Laden deserves compassion" | http://ti.me/kmhEqg (via @TIMEWorld) 4779
May 9 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: If someone points out your mistake, be happy that at least someone is interested in what you've done. 4780
May 9 2011: If you were a dung beetle, you'd be rolling in shit. 4781May 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Travel the world accepting honorary degrees from any university that will give me one. http://twitpic.com/4vt97v [See Full Bucket List] ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4782
May 10 2011: Our Sacred Archive of Ancient Wisdom has been updated at http://BadDalaiLama.com - Search our tweets in myriad ways! 4783May 10 2011: Could this be the solution to my green-screen needs? http://twitpic.com/4vwcmr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4784
May 10 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Give out money: What you say is true but does not diminish the value of charity. Charity like everythin ... 4785May 10 2011: Green screen test now under way! Results shortly. http://twitpic.com/4vy6kv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4786May 10 2011: I am beside myself! Awesome green-screen proof of concept test in North Carolina. http://youtu.be/n_8RfCw8_7I (0:53) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4787
May 10 2011: You don't go into a poor neighborhood and give out money. It's not the joy you bring that matters but what happens after you're gone. 4788
May 10 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: The end of the world as we know it? 10 dates when the world failed to end http://tgr.ph/iMFZNQ 4789
May 10 2011: Existential Star Wars – Sartre vs. Darth Vader http://j.mp/mwhODa remixed movie via @brainpicker 4790
May 10 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: Former Nepal foreign minister dies climbing Mount Everest http://tgr.ph/jZTmNc 4791
May 10 2011: Do not pretend to make conclusions based on that which can not be demonstrated. #agnosticism 4792
May 10 2011: RT @JolineTowers: Omniscience is driving me crazy. Or Solipsism, 4793
May 10 2011: My love for you may be unconditional but my interactions with you are not. 4794
May 10 2011: Anyone can talk about it. Few will actually do it. 4795
May 10 2011: "You never sausage a place. You're always a wiener at Pedro's!" http://roamingphotos.com/a?sob 4796May 10 2011: This is trick photography. There's only one Sponge Bob. The rest are created with green-screen technology. http://twitpic.com/4vthtq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4797
May 10 2011: Moviemaking is a negotiation with reality. You know the story you want to tell, but you have to adapt it to the tools available. 4798
May 11 2011: Lots of living creatures love shit. There's good nutrition there! But urine is poisonous to everyone. 4799
May 11 2011: Government is renowned for the institutionalization of "solutions" that only make matters worse. 4800
May 11 2011: The most boring career is to have to keep repeating something you have already mastered. 4801
May 11 2011: The greatest defeats come to those who took too much pride in their previous victory. 4802
May 11 2011: @AlannaChats Sure, why not! ... But my bucket list aims for some sort of tragic irony. 4803
May 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Be required to register as a sex offender for an incident I cannot clearly remember and gained no satisfaction from. [See Full Bucket List] 4804
May 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Be ticketed for texting on the New York State Thruway. [See Full Bucket List] 4805
May 11 2011: Möbius and his strip freak me out. 4806
May 11 2011: RT @xanadu_xero: @BadDalaiLama re strip: Ooh, did he do it slow? 4807
May 11 2011: RT @xanadu_xero: Ooh, did he do it slow? <== Möbius was Escheresque, infinitely recursive and perhaps even Pythonesque. His strip, that is. 4808
May 11 2011: @xanadu_xero Smelling salts should cure that. 4809
May 11 2011: Clint Eastwood: You gotta respect a guy who has paid his dues as an A-list star and finally does something productive. 4810May 11 2011: Wow! Get a load of those knockers! http://twitpic.com/4weupn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4811
May 11 2011: RT @FlyoverJoel: I keep licking frogs, but I never seem to get high. I do have a surplus of princes though if anyone needs one. 4812
May 12 2011: Gravity is such a downer! 4813May 12 2011: People are addicted to repetition. Once they find a pattern that isn't too painful, they stick with it. ←Start tweet essay: Initiative 4814May 12 2011: The rarest human skill is motivation—the ability to independently initiate an action. 4815May 12 2011: Most human behavior is either repetition of a past pattern or reaction to events of the outside world. Initiative is extremely rare. 4816May 12 2011: The test of someone's independent initiative is what they do with their spare time. 4817May 12 2011: Given some free time, most people will "outsource" it by turning it over to programmed entertainment. 4818May 12 2011: Initiative is doing something you haven't done before in a way you haven't done before to improve or expand yourself. 4819May 12 2011: It takes initiative to actively explore the world. Most will simply wait for the world to impose itself on them. 4820May 12 2011: If someone throws something at you and you duck, that's not initiative; that's reaction. Most human behavior is like that. 4821May 12 2011: People rarely change course unless change is forced upon them by a crisis or significant pain. 4822May 12 2011: Success is the assassin of initiative. Once people reach it, their development usually stops and they rarely go any farther. 4823May 12 2011: Look at all the past stars of pop music? How many are still producing? Paul Simon. That's it! The others are merely resting on their past. 4824May 12 2011: Right now, you could watch TV, or you could do something new and innovative with your time, building your future. Guess which one wins. 4825May 12 2011: Young people start out with big plans, but after a few stabs at initiative, they usually quit, falling into a dull, comfortable routine. 4826May 12 2011: Retirement, for most, means years of programmed, repetitive activities. And crossword puzzles, lots of crossword puzzles. 4827May 12 2011: Unhappiness is the promoter of initiative. If you're unhappy enough with your current lot, you just might get off your ass and do something! 4828May 12 2011: Initiative is a skill that gets stronger the more you use it. 4829May 12 2011: Initiative is the pro-active step of solving problems in your life before they become problems. 4830May 12 2011: Look at your friends. How many are actually doing things, and how many are stuck in a routine? 4831May 12 2011: Look at yourself. Are you actually doing things—taking initiative—or are you stuck in a comfortable, repetitive routine? 4832May 12 2011: Thank God for catastrophe! Without it, most people would never leave their safe zone. 4833May 12 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Initiative" ←End tweet essay: Initiative 4834
May 12 2011: Trailer Trash Parenting 101: Your child is crying in Walmart, what to do? Whack him hard and tell him to shut up. That always works. 4835
May 12 2011: In the long term, most romantic relationships seem to end up the same: a long-suffered "parent" and a high-maintenance "child". 4836May 12 2011: Madison, Wisconsin. http://twitpic.com/4wqk57←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4837May 12 2011: Nigerian compensation emails are a SCAM... says this Nigerian scam email. http://twitpic.com/4wr3fo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4838
May 12 2011: Advice to Nigerian scammers: Real Americans rarely use honorifics (Mr, Mrs, Dr). That, and they have spellcheck on their computers. 4839
May 12 2011: A college town (like Madison) is a society that never grows up, never has to deal with reality. Especially the adults. 4840
May 12 2011: The Onion is the perfect journalism business model. No reporting expense. Just make shit up. 4841
May 12 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Onion business model: I wasn't aware that there were newspapers or news shows that did it any other way. 4842
May 12 2011: The Weekly World News was a nearly perfect news organization. Just make it up! Their only flaw was that they had to print physical copies. 4843
May 12 2011: There's a fine line between a safe haven and prison. 4844
May 12 2011: The unmarried look longingly over the fence at those who are married. The married look longingly back. 4845
May 12 2011: .@Sluty_iris "Can I get that essay in a 'to go' bag?" [this morning's essay on Initiative] <== As you wish! Bagged: http://j.mp/keNIkF 4846May 12 2011: Wow! Get a load of those knockers! http://twitpic.com/4weupn <== Come on, you gotta love this! Straight out of Young Frankenstein. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4847
May 12 2011: Of all the ambivalent forms of love, none can match the fierce loyalty and supreme mutual annoyance of siblings. 4848
May 12 2011: RT @luisesc21: @BadDalaiLama I have recently noticed that, as days go by, you look less like an evil @DalaiLama and more like a good @Lo ... 4849
May 12 2011: The benefit of having lived through catastrophe is that you can better see the big picture. You don't get hung up on little things. 4850
May 13 2011: RT @garamiredux: I read Kierkegaard and I despair. I read @BadDalaiLama and I wanna kick your collective asses. 4851
May 13 2011: People can lie about themselves but they can't hide their fundamental nature, which manifests itself when they are under stress. 4852
May 13 2011: The best way to know a person is to spend years with them. Barring that, you must infer their whole character from smaller clues. 4853
May 13 2011: Success is usually rejected if it doesn't match ones preconceptions of what success should be. 4854
May 13 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Success rejected: Wow. Bad Dalai: This is one of your best #insights. I tip my hat to you. 4855
May 13 2011: RT @Kyoks1: La mejor manera d conocer a alguien es con los años. Aparte d eso, puedes inferir su naturaliza en base a pequeñas pistas.vi ... 4856
May 13 2011: It is Important to nurture dissenting viewpoints but also to overrule them when they say you can't do something you know you can. 4857
May 13 2011: When people think love will save them, they are ripe for a con job. 4858
May 13 2011: On My Bucket List: Die while trying to execute a death-defying feat. [See Full Bucket List] 4859
May 13 2011: Success is the assassin of initiative. 4860
May 13 2011: RT @noahWG An expert has simply spent more time learning about one topic at the expense of all others. 4861
May 13 2011: A book author wants to quote from our 2006 article on human motivation: "Why Do People Do What They Do?" http://j.mp/io5R1B Not bad! 4862May 13 2011: Spooky abandoned cathedral, shot today. This 10-second clip took me hours to produce. http://youtu.be/GzfETXS-Ab0←Our original YouTube video [more] 4863
May 13 2011: May 6 was my one year anniversary of making videos. My first uploaded video was "A Rooster Eats My Ice Cream" on FB: http://j.mp/hohf26 4864
May 14 2011: It is better to get a slice of the pie than have 100% of no pie. 4865May 14 2011: A manly man's place for real men. Better than any strip club! http://twitpic.com/4xkmqb #harborfreighttools ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4866
May 14 2011: RT @HuffingtonPost: Disney trademarks name of Navy unit that killed bin Laden http://huff.to/m6ynHa 4867
May 14 2011: Disney already owns all of your favorite storybook characters. Now they own "Seal Team Six". http://huff.to/m6ynHa 4868
May 14 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: Roswell: 'a Soviet plot to create US panic involving a stealth plane piloted by Dr Joseph Mengele' http://tgr.ph/lYlech 4869
May 14 2011: RT @Sports_Greats: We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes 4870
May 14 2011: RT @AtheistQ: "Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind." -John A. Hutchinson 4871
May 14 2011: Bruckheimer = the synonym for "overproduced" 4872
May 14 2011: While you are waiting for your "big break", countless opportunities pass you by that you refuse to see. 4873
May 15 2011: It was ingenious. It was ornate. It was the sort of brilliant, can't-fail mechanism that coyotes use to whack roadrunners. 4874
May 15 2011: The most valuable superpower isn't seeing through walls but accurately perceiving what's right in front of you. 4875May 15 2011: A Walmart parking lot amenity you find only in Pennsylvania: a hitchin' post for your horse and buggy. http://twitpic.com/4y0jci←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4876May 15 2011: Poor man's auto jack. The problem: blown radiator hose. Methinks I can fix it myself. http://twitpic.com/4y0nn3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4877May 15 2011: The offending auto part! http://twitpic.com/4y0xkx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4878
May 15 2011: The highest achievement of acting is to be yourself. 4879May 15 2011: On a Q train through Queens to LaGuardia airport. http://twitpic.com/4yecbq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4880
May 16 2011: How many of you are cleaning your tongue daily? Experts recommend it. Don't you feel guilty for not doing what experts say? 4881
May 16 2011: Experts make a lot of this shit up, experts say. 4882
May 16 2011: RT @sbellelauren: whenever i think about getting married, i just read through all your tweets. all better! 4883
May 16 2011: Chupacabras on the roof, keeping me awake. Damn demons! 4884
May 17 2011: RT @QuantumJester: @BadDalaiLama who drew the face on the egg? 4885
May 17 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus 4886
May 17 2011: Comedians' hopes for a Trump-Palin ticket are dashed! 4887
May 17 2011: One of our semi-active blogs, Kilroy Cafe, gets a nice review from @MGLeet here: http://bit.ly/jVxteJ 4888
May 17 2011: MRT @sbellelauren Whenever i think about getting married, I just read the tweets of those who already are. All better! 4889
May 17 2011: Maybe marriage wasn't the thing? We were amused by the Wikipedia entry on actress Sarah Polley. http://j.mp/m2UfLP (See "Personal Life") 4890
May 17 2011: The good George, not the evil one. (@ George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) w/ 42 others) http://4sq.com/lJTzxD 4891
May 17 2011: Ego is like alcohol. It intoxicated you, distorts your behavior and sets you up for a fall. 4892May 17 2011: Houston, do you read? http://twitpic.com/4yzx1i (Yes, it says, "One Way".) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4893
May 17 2011: "Real estate is the one investment that always appreciates, never depreciates." — One of our friends during the housing boom. 4894
May 17 2011: promisoholic — n. one who is addicted to making promises but who rarely fulfills them. 4895
May 18 2011: The promisoholic wants to please others—hence the promises—but makes so many they cannot all be realized. 4896
May 18 2011: The Rapture is coming, May 21. Now is the time to sell all your worldly possessions... and send the money to me. I'll hold it for you. 4897
May 18 2011: In Dec. 1999, I made a generous offer to relieve you of your assets before Y2K. http://j.mp/lTr64A Same offer for the coming Rapture! 4898
May 18 2011: Rapture Pet Service — I'll care for your pets while you go on to Heaven. Prepayment required. No refunds. 4899May 18 2011: My new how-to video: "Elementary Phase Shifting: How to Move Instantly Between Parallel Universes" http://youtu.be/SD22PALC8fU Easy as pie! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4900
May 18 2011: For the record, I don't have 479 photos in my facebook albums, but 479 *ALBUMS*! We're talking galaxies, not stars. http://j.mp/hCy23K 4901
May 18 2011: On My Bucket List: Botch my one and only suicide attack by yelling "Die, infidels!" just a little too soon. [See Full Bucket List] 4902
May 18 2011: On My Bucket List... Here are all our bucket list items on a single page: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive?search=bucket [See Full Bucket List] 4903
May 18 2011: Horror movies are violence porn. 4904
May 18 2011: I love you like big fish love those little cleaner fish that swim inside their mouth but don't get eaten. 4905May 18 2011: Alien anal probe, Pensacola, Florida. http://twitpic.com/4zrssj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4906
May 19 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end." - Ursula Le Guin 4907
May 19 2011: RT @nainysahani: Priceless. Gene Weingarten: "Restraint of trademark" - The Washington Post http://me.lt/7X7oE #stetson #asshats 4908
May 19 2011: "We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." — William James via @philo_quotes 4909
May 19 2011: Both lies and promises tax ones memory. 4910
May 19 2011: Everything I know about current TV shows I learned from Wikipedia. So much easier than actually watching! 4911
May 19 2011: I deeply appreciate the education we are all getting on the International Monetary Fund. Never knew economics could be so interesting! #DSK 4912
May 20 2011: Songs for Borderlines: Please Don't Leave Me, by Pink. Hot N Cold by Katy Perry. 4913
May 20 2011: Your damnation in Hell will be listening to positive affirmations from John Tesh. 4914
May 20 2011: The greatest enemy of the artist is his own ego, which prevents him from seeing his own work accurately. 4915
May 20 2011: RT @dunebat: My thoughts on the new Area 51 book (Goth.net): http://bit.ly/lk1pJw (Mirrored @lunaticoutposthttp://bit.ly/k0Kisx) 4916
May 20 2011: RT @avphibes: Okay guys, awesome plan: at 6:00 tomorrow, throw a pile of clothes on the ground and hide. Best prank ever! 4917
May 20 2011: Best way to convince: Speak at 3.5 words per second, with a few pauses. http://ti.me/jmVr1q 4918
May 20 2011: Hello, goodbye! (@ Grand Central Terminal w/ 58 others) http://4sq.com/jsVpmC 4919
May 20 2011: Each person you meet helps you understand the next person you meet. 4920May 20 2011: Video Experiment: Grand Central Station in Fast Forward. http://youtu.be/6JHbl4_wLbY - 14-second video shot yesterday in Manhattan. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4921
May 21 2011: Ego is like alcohol. It intoxicates you, distorts your behavior and sets you up for a fall. 4922
May 21 2011: Nice photo I took in October of a member of "The Wild", a vicious band of medieval mercenaries. FB photo: http://j.mp/mztuG0 4923May 21 2011: Video Postcard: End of the World in Times Square. http://youtu.be/rXKqWV3xrP0 1:30 - Filmed just before the Apocalypse last night. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4924
May 22 2011: Archive photos: Times Square. http://j.mp/iOm9TI (FB album) 4925
May 22 2011: RT @TheEconomist: Is a bubble in higher education even possible when there is no asset to be sold? http://econ.st/it5SI2 4926
May 22 2011: You Rapture believers, now you will suffer God's economic wrath! 4927
May 22 2011: Advice to religious zealots: Vague, unprovable predictions are always better than specific, disprovable ones. 4928
May 22 2011: In New York City, honking a car horn is now illegal! For video I shot in Times Square, I'll need to go to Athens for appropriate sounds. 4929
May 22 2011: "Experienced" doesn't necessarily mean "competent". There are plenty of people who repeat the same actions without learning anything. 4930
May 23 2011: Wisdom is knowing what you don't know. 4931May 23 2011: One of the best movies ever made: Scooby Doo! Watching the director's commentary version at Costco. http://twitpic.com/51j7qj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4932
May 23 2011: The people who make the movies don't make the trailers—for good reason. They can't see their own project from the outside. 4933
May 23 2011: I have been told I should be listening to this NPR interview: "Area 51 Uncensored: Was It UFOs Or The USSR?" http://j.mp/imCpAY Eventually. 4934
May 23 2011: Just listened to the Fresh Air interview on Area 51 {ibid}. Annie Jacobson: total bullshitter! 4935
May 23 2011: If anyone deserves to be mythologized, it's Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi — not Elvis! 4936
May 24 2011: Just because someone has a "Q" clearance doesn't mean they're not a bullshitter. #area51 4937May 24 2011: Video Experiment: Grand Central Station at Hyperspeed http://youtu.be/aS_Mzz_2aws 18 seconds. 2 days ago. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4938May 24 2011: Visiting Joplin MO in search of tornado devastation. So far no signs of it. ←Start tweet essay: Joplin Tornado 4939May 25 2011: In downtown Joplin, Missouri, looking for tornado damage. WHERE IS IT? Everything I've seen so far is completely normal. 4940May 25 2011: The news coverage suggests this town has been wiped off the map. Not true! Must be in some highly localized part of town. Still searching... 4941May 25 2011: Still searching for tornado devastation in Joplin MO. Can't find it. Not even a downed tree. See my geotags. Am I in the right town? 4942May 25 2011: Massive tornado Sunday night in Joplin. Supposedly wiped our most of the town. WHERE IS THE DEVASTATION??? Am I crazy? 4943May 25 2011: The Joplin tornado must have been brought to us by the same people who faked the moon landing. I can't find it! 4944May 25 2011: See my geotags. I'm engaged in a search pattern, looking for devastation, looking for ANYTHING out of the ordinary. So far nada. 4945May 25 2011: RT @lunarchic: @BadDalaiLama it's further south than where you are. 4946May 25 2011: RT @ChefTariqHanna: @BadDalaiLama Look for Anderson Cooper's shock of white hair, you'll find it! 4947May 25 2011: RT @lunarchichttp://yfrog.com/hsh9pcdj <== Thanks! That's helpful. #Joplin 4948May 25 2011: This is embarrassing. Major, CNN-level natural disaster and I can't find it. #Joplin 4949May 25 2011: Okay, I'm a little south of town and the power is out. No obvious damage, just no power. Temporary stop signs at the stoplights. 4950May 25 2011: All businesses shut down due to lack of power. Some light debris piled along sides if the road. A few broken windows. 4951May 25 2011: Cop pulls up beside me and says through his loudspeaker: "You have seven minutes to seek shelter," then he races off! 4952May 25 2011: For real!? I think they're just a little oversensitive. The likelihood of another tornado in the same place seems slim. 4953May 25 2011: I see a storm to the south but I'm at a convenience store that's open and has power. 4954May 25 2011: I saw downed trees and power lines, but the streets are open. Lots of police cars, and I turned back when one seemed to block the road. 4955May 25 2011: The rest you've probably seen on CNN. 4956May 25 2011: I'm going to park and go walking 4957May 25 2011: There's a big thunderstorm coming and it's going to dump here in a minute. No walk right now. 4958May 25 2011: Tornado siren sounding, but I have nowhere to go. People running! 4959May 25 2011: It's spooky, but I'm not afraid. The likelihood of another tornado is slim. People are just shellshocked and overreacting. 4960May 25 2011: RT @ereva foolish. 70mph winds, hail and rotation spotted. Apparently you need to experience it first hand to learn respect. 4961May 25 2011: The problem is no knowing which way to go. See my geotag and tell me. 4962May 25 2011: It's raining but not a downpour. The thunderstorm is all around me, so if I were to run I wouldn't know which way to go. 4963May 25 2011: RT @jlctb1: @BadDalaiLama south and west 4964May 25 2011: ."@jlctb1: "south and west" <== As you wish. I'll drive west... casually. 4965May 25 2011: Is it any safer in Oklahoma? I hear it's a garden spot. 4966May 25 2011: So all I saw was details: some downed power lines and trees. It's dark and the affected neighborhoods have no power, so nothing to see. 4967May 25 2011: The tornado siren and the cop telling me to seek shelter were a nice touch. 4968May 25 2011: RT @ChefTariqHanna: Cnn's reporting a tornado heading that way at 45 mph. <== Ha! I can outrun that! 4969May 25 2011: Now I'm in it! The zone of devastation. The lightning illuminates the ghosts of broken trees. Wish I could see more. 4970May 25 2011: Pretty gnarly storm right now. 4971May 25 2011: Back at the freeway now. Big thunderstorm. Heavy rain. But I've seen worse. Will fuel up and head west. 4972May 25 2011: Are 100 deaths by tornado more important than the other million dying today? 4973May 25 2011: Now in Oklahoma now. Only light rain. 4974May 25 2011: Are deaths broadcast on CNN more important than those not broadcast on CNN? Do they deserve more mourning? 4975May 25 2011: A siren sounds and people run for cover, yet a mile away all is bright and cheerful and no one is running. Why? 4976May 25 2011: Am I safer now that I have crossed from Missouri to Oklahoma? Do tornados respect state lines? 4977May 25 2011: What the news reports don't make clear: 90% of Joplin is completely unaffected. The city has not been destroyed. 4978May 25 2011: If you experience the world only through television, the thing you'll never get is perspective. You can't tell a big threat from a tiny one. 4979May 25 2011: Is it proper to mourn someone you didn't care about when they were alive? 4980May 25 2011: On My Bucket List: Race around the world to help people wherever there are television cameras to show me helping people. [See Full Bucket List] 4981May 25 2011: Television always takes you to the epicenter of the worst devastation. It never shows you what is normal and functioning. 4982May 25 2011: Absolutely everything in Oklahoma is named after Will Rogers. I know this from scientific observation. 4983May 25 2011: Even if 500 people die this year in tornados, it's still a statistically trivial source of death, behind 1000s of accidents and diseases. 4984May 25 2011: To grow, you always have to give something up. That's the hardest part: letting go of your past investments. 4985May 25 2011: RT @washingtonpost: Violent thunderstorms leave 9 dead in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, days after Joplin tornado http://wapo.st/kfjI4F 4986May 25 2011: The main deception of photos and video is showing you a detail of something and leading you to believe it represents the whole. 4987May 25 2011: Photography will always show you the most dramatic portion of the most dramatic event, which may completely misrepresent the whole reality. 4988May 25 2011: the frame illusion — n. the viewer's assumption that whatever is cut off by the frame of a photo or video extends infinitely beyond it. 4989May 25 2011: Viewers infer the whole starship Enterprise from just a few sets. That's the frame illusion at work. 4990May 25 2011: The greatest carnal pleasure: being liberated, at the end of the day, from the confines of restrictive bras and underwear. Ahhhh! 4991May 26 2011: @literarybabe "How true! Especially after a stressful day. How would you know?" <== Males deal with their own construction, below the belt. 4992May 26 2011: My free lodging last night, within sight of Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo, Texas. http://twitpic.com/52onzn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4993May 26 2011: In TV "documentaries", only ratings matter, not accuracy. Think if it as "fact-based fiction". 4994May 26 2011: My 1994 report on the media and how it works, including my first introduction to "infotainment" television. http://j.mp/j2bAkx Desert Rat 4995May 26 2011: Video Postcard: Cattle Call, Amarillo, Texas. http://youtu.be/socUtH6vqnM 2-minute visit with hamburger-on-the-hoof at a massive feed lot. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4996May 26 2011: What goes up, must come down! (@ Sandia Peak Tramway) http://4sq.com/k5nDiU 4997May 26 2011: Most adults are like potted plants. They've set down roots and ain't gonna move on their own. 4998May 26 2011: Between seeing your parents as gods and seeing them as ordinary people, there's a period of "Oh My God, how embarrassing!" 4999May 26 2011: Hubris is thinking your romance will last forever. 5000May 27 2011: Digital is the new slavery. 5001May 27 2011: Joplin, Missouri, 3 days ago. I passed through at night, and all I could see was illuminated by lightning. FB photo: http://j.mp/mwcVzk←End tweet essay: Joplin Tornado 5002
May 27 2011: "Practice" is different from "experience". Mere repetition doesn't get you anywhere; only learning counts. 5003May 28 2011: Good news! L.A. parking meters now take COINS as well as credit cards! http://twitpic.com/53p8i4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5004May 28 2011: Griffith Park Observatory. Sometimes L.A. is totally cool! http://twitpic.com/53ezs9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5005
May 28 2011: If there is nothing so close to true evil on Planet Earth as drugs. They take a good person and turn them to the dark side. 5006
May 28 2011: The lament of many: "I had it all and blew it." 5007May 28 2011: At the Grove. http://twitpic.com/53gmy6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5008May 28 2011: In the Local Interests section at Barnes & Noble at The Grove. California culture and horticulture. http://twitpic.com/53gwxa←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5009
May 28 2011: This is a man with macaroni balls! http://j.mp/lfLa7L (FB photo) 5010May 29 2011: Video Postcard: View of the Acropolis from the balcony of my hostel room in Athens. http://youtu.be/Nj9qmhv9PG8 45 seconds ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5011May 30 2011: A political rally I encountered in Athens a few hours ago... if only I knew what for! http://youtu.be/t6F8oyvw7zQ 1:42 Syntagma Square. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5012May 30 2011: The Acropolis from the roof of my $25 hostel in Athens. Right now! http://twitpic.com/54j18w←Live photo from the road! [location|more]←Start tweet essay: Athens 5013May 30 2011: Arriving in Athens, this somewhat sinister 17-second video describes my first order of business: http://youtu.be/ZO2RSjMKU4I←Our original YouTube video [more] 5014
May 30 2011: Decent enough hostel for €18/nt. Fantastic view of the Acropolis from the roof! (@ Hotel Pella) http://4sq.com/jd8m4k 5015May 30 2011: View from my dorm room window in Athens. Pretty darn amazing! http://twitpic.com/54jm0d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5016
May 30 2011: RT @danywino: Me encanta el pelón @BadDalaiLama es genial en su crudeza. Realmente será gringo, o ése es su disfraz? 5017
May 31 2011: Human brain is limited to 150 friends http://j.mp/jKx7AW Interview http://j.mp/bUETk7 via @brainpicker 5018
May 31 2011: RT @washingtonpost: Compared with other disasters, tornadoes have small environmental impact http://wapo.st/kXq0Wl 5019
May 31 2011: RT @Sheamus: The 5 Stages Of ‘Getting' Twitter. http://bit.ly/kAjjH0
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