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Dec 1 2011: After age 70, people stay alive mainly through medical science—at huge cost. Everyone deserves to live, but who is going to pay for it? 7891
Dec 1 2011: RT @brainpicker: A treat for your evening – The Talking Heads perform "This must be the place (Naive Melody)" in 1984 http://t.co/UIqQdD ... 7892
Dec 1 2011: @xtinewu OMG! 7893
Dec 1 2011: On My Bucket List: Have casual sex with a Ghanaian hotel maid in complete disregard of my political career. [See Full Bucket List] 7894
Dec 1 2011: All the items on my Bucket List. http://t.co/Pw6g9uQv (For best effect should be read by Morgan Freeman.) 7895
Dec 1 2011: Every day is Carmageddon in New York City! (@ George Washington Bridge w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/eohQpUhj 7896
Dec 1 2011: Whew! The most intense Interstate driving experience in America: passing through New York City! Now recovering in a New Jersey rest area. 7897
Dec 1 2011: @nilayasabnis Excellent de-eggment! 7898
Dec 1 2011: Reality has its own structure, independent of our theories or wishes. The only way to know it is to test it. 7899
Dec 1 2011: RT @TheEconomist: Using sticker warnings to deter would-be thieves may actually serve as enticements for them to go ahead and break in h ... 7900
Dec 1 2011: Rest areas on the NJ Turnpike are named after famous New Jerseyans: Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, etc. So where are Springsteen and @Sn00ki? 7901
Dec 1 2011: Whatever consciousness may be, it is not infinite. You cannot divide your attention without degrading the quality of your thoughts. 7902
Dec 1 2011: You can't have quantity without sacrificing quality. 7903
Dec 1 2011: Productive living is a process of "outsourcing", where you develop systems, test them, then pass them on to others. 7904
Dec 1 2011: The condition of being fully outsourced is called "death". 7905
Dec 1 2011: Life is easy: Find a mate, get married, buy a house, have children, go into debt, work hard, retire. Voila, life over! 7906
Dec 1 2011: Home acquisition, decoration and maintenance give a mission to those without any. 7907
Dec 1 2011: In all things, you should to be dealing with the guts of life, not its skin. 7908
Dec 1 2011: If you are "receiving" an education, you're doing it all wrong. 7909
Dec 1 2011: Caffeine gives you energy only in the same sense that nicotine gives you pleasure: because addiction has taken it away from you. 7910
Dec 1 2011: A life dedicated to online data and virtual worlds is ultimately no more satisfying than a diet of zero-calorie soft drinks. 7911
Dec 1 2011: New convention here, starting now: If a tweet is posted on the hour, it is recycled from the past. Any other time, it's baked fresh today! 7912
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: You can't both friend hundreds of people and give them free reign on your page. Set "Who can post on your Wall?" to "Only Me". 7913
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: A friend of a friend you don't know to begin with isn't necessarily a friend. 7914
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: You can accept friend requests from people you don't know, but only if seem to add value to the conversation on your page. 7915
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: Never friend anyone you wouldn't want to meet in real life. 7916
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: It is less hurtful to not accept a friend request than to unfriend them later. 7917
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: Stalkers are frustrated friends. 7918
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: Make enough information about you public that when you friend people they can make an informed choice. 7919
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: Know your privacy settings. Don't just accept the default. 7920
Dec 1 2011: Facebook Tip: FB is not the place to speak your mind! Your aunts, uncles and coworkers are listening. Save your penis jokes for Twitter! 7921
Dec 1 2011: Boundaries. Gotta gave 'em! When someone intrudes into your space and steps on your toe, say "Ouch!" and push back! 7922
Dec 1 2011: Nerdy white boy raps to the pancake batter. http://t.co/OIrN5yoe via @laurenahayes 7923
Dec 1 2011: Shit my cousin Bennett says. http://t.co/oVly4fHA via @laurenahayes 7924
Dec 1 2011: Rhian has her man by the balls. http://t.co/VoW9Qi3Y (How did this get by the YouTube censors?) 7925
Dec 1 2011: @noahWG Pro Tip: Common aspirin at the first hint of joint pain. 7926
Dec 1 2011: From your own weakness and insecurity, no rescue is really possible. 7927
Dec 1 2011: Love songs that go, "I was lost 'til you found me," don't record the heartbreak that follows. Truth is, only you can find you! 7928
Dec 1 2011: Love alone cannot bear the weight of all we ask it to do. 7929
Dec 1 2011: @xtinewu Overwrought. 7930
Dec 1 2011: @xtinewu Pirouettes — iPhone video or it didn't happen. 7931
Dec 1 2011: With showbiz people, you always got to ask: Do they really love the art or just covet the applause? 7932
Dec 1 2011: Betwixt NY and DC lies the nicest little tax haven this side of Andorra: Delaware! Flat fields and homey towns. DE is cute! 7933
Dec 1 2011: Middletown, Delaware: Corner of Main and Broad Streets — 360° panorama http://t.co/HLCBFKWA 7934
Dec 1 2011: Between secrecy and exhibitionism lies the medium-level discretion of not hiding something but not broadcasting it either. 7935
Dec 1 2011: It is better to make mistakes and learn from them then never try and learn nothing. 7936
Dec 1 2011: Language Police: Don't call it "retreat". It's "strategic regressive reposturing". 7937
Dec 1 2011: Curiosity killed Schrödinger's cat. 7938
Dec 1 2011: @xtinewu Ihnen fehlt Fantasie. 7939
Dec 1 2011: Any activity must be evaluated not just on its own terms but on what you could be doing otherwise. 7940
Dec 2 2011: If you won the lottery, money would become meaningless, but time would be as valuable as ever. 7941
Dec 2 2011: Fredericksburg, VA — This has to be the Giant Sequoia of McDonalds signs, 8 feet across at the base. http://t.co/h4R9RIGa 7942
Dec 2 2011: There will always be a clear distinction between girl toys and boy toys, and there ain't nothin' you can do about it. http://t.co/c86KsTaO 7943
Dec 2 2011: RT @spyropapaspyrou: i like @BadDalaiLama because he is showing the world to others with his own eyes ;) 7944
Dec 2 2011: Boy toys are all angles and mechanics. Girl toys are curves and feelings. Toy makers didn't invent this. It's what they really want. 7945
Dec 2 2011: RT @piratehook3r Writing a manifesto is hard, y'all. <== No if you're paranoid enough and have plenty of time and bomb-making equipment. 7946
Dec 2 2011: I don't believe in God, but I believe God believes in me. 7947
Dec 2 2011: Believing in a divine plan is a useful fiction to guide you through life. Whatever happens, good or bad, you ask, "What's the plan here?" 7948
Dec 2 2011: Unlike the rest of life, sports obey a well-defined system of rules, so they don't teach you much about creativity in real-world chaos. 7949
Dec 2 2011: In lieu of sports, you could build life skills by throwing yourself into chaotic situations and finding your way out. 7950
Dec 2 2011: People love sports because they are ritualized and not very threatening. You can "challenge yourself" but only within very narrow bounds. 7951
Dec 2 2011: Personal boundaries are when you say, "This far and no closer." 7952
Dec 2 2011: Morality is simply the effort to be consistent with yourself, so your rules of behavior take up the smallest space possibly. 7953
Dec 2 2011: We all grew up in Disneyland. We spend the rest of our lives learning how naive that world was. 7954
Dec 2 2011: It's not The Man holding you down; it's you holding you down! 7955
Dec 2 2011: The root of most personal disasters is euphoria, where we think we can do anything and commit to more than we are capable of. 7956
Dec 2 2011: Once upon a time, people went places and did things. They learned directly from reality, not electronic simulations. They had a life! 7957
Dec 2 2011: Virtual reality is pure addiction — the crack cocaine of the 21st Century. 7958
Dec 2 2011: NSA bugging your phone? KGB watching your house? Aliens invading your brain? Relax! Now all of these services are managed by Google! 7959
Dec 2 2011: CASINO PAYCHECK BONANZA!!! CASH YOUR PAYCHECK HERE!!! YOU COULD BE OUR NEXT MILLION DOLLAR WINNER!!! ... (please gamble responsibly) 7960
Dec 2 2011: Data is an aid to real-world actions, not an end in itself. 7961
Dec 2 2011: The psychology of nakedness. http://t.co/89k8f0bJ - A little flesh can vastly change perceptions, via @NoahWG 7962
Dec 2 2011: Canadian accidentally gets appointed Italian Minister of Agriculture http://t.co/9p0bMwlU <== Happened to me once. So embarrassing! 7963
Dec 2 2011: There are two kinds of public protests: 1) "We want freedom!" and 2) "Someone must protect us!" So which is it? 7964
Dec 2 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama Don't forget the third kind of protest: "down with so-and-so!" 7965
Dec 2 2011: Invertebrates occupy! Why should 1% of the animals have 100% of the backbone? 7966
Dec 2 2011: RT @Kyoks1: "@davidrock101: Wild infographic on Walmart: http://t.co/0YnhixRB"☇ cc @BadDalaiLama 7967
Dec 2 2011: RT @aedison: Not sure what I think about Heisenberg. 7968
Dec 2 2011: Israel is probably the only country with a "Ministry of Immigrant Absorption" Wash Post: http://t.co/CijPn1LG - Would love to see the ad! 7969
Dec 2 2011: Fascinating read from @Schmoodles on why she joined Twitter and why she's now quitting. http://t.co/k8N1hM3o Gonna miss her. :'-( 7970
Dec 2 2011: Flight delay? Missed connection? No problem. I know the system! (@ Charleston International Airport (CHS) w/ 6 others) http://t.co/CsOBSNAL 7971
Dec 2 2011: RT @RexHuppke: Donald Trump is going to moderate a GOP debate because honestly at this juncture why the fuck not. 7972
Dec 3 2011: Wasn't planning to be here! Now by train & bus to BWI. (@ Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)) [pic]: http://t.co/Iy4OrvWQ 7973
Dec 3 2011: RT @philo_quotes: The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ~ Aristotle 7974
Dec 3 2011: Bad idea: Bring us your misbehaving teen and we'll study him but won't give you any help with him. http://t.co/eZFRsJRJ 7975
Dec 3 2011: My sleeping nook at BWI Airport, Terminal E - 360° panorama http://t.co/u7I5GbUg 7976
Dec 3 2011: A primo sleeping airport thanks to one well-padded lounge. Couldn't be happier! [pic]: http://t.co/PXI3ruBY 7977
Dec 3 2011: 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! 7978
Dec 3 2011: Beauty cannot be purchased or possessed. If you try, all you'll get is bragging rights to the beauty that was once there. 7979
Dec 3 2011: The chronological snobbery of each new generation is usually followed, some time later, by chronological schadenfreude in their elders. 7980
Dec 3 2011: Inertia: a body in motion stays in motion. Applies to people, too. They continue their trajectory until interrupted—usually by misfortune. 7981
Dec 3 2011: If you call yourself creative then create, dammit! Every day you don't create something is a day wasted. 7982
Dec 3 2011: Before relying on any data, consider where it came from and who has something to gain by distorting it. 7983
Dec 3 2011: What good is a house on the seashore or in the mountains? As soon as you move in, you stop looking out the window. 7984
Dec 3 2011: I'm proud to be one of Anwar's friends. You could say I'm one of a kind! http://t.co/YOrX2bkG (2009 photo) 7985
Dec 3 2011: There's nothing more pathetic than famous rock stars singing Christmas songs. Someone must burn those records! 7986
Dec 3 2011: The trouble with actors and singers: Although they're only one cog in the production, they think they own it. 7987
Dec 3 2011: Podiatric solicitation in a Walmart restroom. http://t.co/TIWB3mxN 7988
Dec 3 2011: @Schmoodles I'm now in the bargaining phase of the five stages. Twittercide is not the answer. Why not just change your style? 7989
Dec 3 2011: Marketing is the art of taking something routine and making it seem extraordinary. http://t.co/O1sqUDvb 7990
Dec 3 2011: @xtinewu How yummy was he? 7991
Dec 3 2011: @xtinewu One often has to make accommodations for Talent. 7992
Dec 3 2011: Sometimes, the most productive thing you can do with your time is nothing at all. 7993
Dec 3 2011: "Doing nothing" comes in different varieties. Quiet rumination is different than filling your mind with empty entertainment. 7994
Dec 3 2011: On My Bucket List: Become the hot male model on the cover of romance novels. http://t.co/m8pRUFg9 (I'm feeling sweaty. Must take off shirt!) [See Full Bucket List] 7995
Dec 3 2011: The problem with being sexy is people automatically downgrade your intelligence because of it. 7996
Dec 3 2011: One question should guide your actions: Is this the best thing I can do with my time? 7997
Dec 3 2011: Reunited with my Sweetie! http://t.co/s1tDEoqg 7998
Dec 3 2011: My love for you may be unconditional, but my interactions with you are not. 7999
Dec 4 2011: .@TheLastVirgo Wherever an energy-producing system exists, parasites will arise to exploit it. 8000
Dec 4 2011: Dear Coke: When you've got a successful consumer scam, don't mess with it. (Coke's white cans are scrapped.) http://t.co/qFllRr9W 8001
Dec 4 2011: Dogs smile not with their mouth but their tail. If that thing is swishing back and forth, you got a happy pooch! http://t.co/QoMyHFnI 8002
Dec 4 2011: Early morning flight, Baltimore to Cleveland (yesterday). Just weird enough. http://t.co/s1bNW4Xu 8003
Dec 4 2011: The preceding photo ("Early flight") isn't exactly what you would see if you were there. Here is the source image: http://t.co/MZ3x3v9O 8004
Dec 4 2011: Life is a desperate struggle for most, and the rest of us need to be reminded of that on a regular basis. 8005
Dec 4 2011: Quick! Who's buried in McKinley's Tomb? (@ William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum) [pic]: http://t.co/Mp9YMgQ4 8006
Dec 4 2011: Not sure if this is McKinley's Tomb or the Lost Ark of the Covenant. - 360° interior panorama http://t.co/adIiADSN 8007
Dec 4 2011: McKinley's Tomb - 360° exterior panorama. http://t.co/9GTmIjb5 8008
Dec 4 2011: McKinley is famous for dying and giving us Teddy Roosevelt. 8009
Dec 4 2011: There are bodies outside McKinley's tomb as well! http://t.co/zqvPo8ji 8010
Dec 4 2011: Most people who attempt suicide refuse to consider life changes short of it. They're driven to despair by their own inability to compromise. 8011
Dec 4 2011: Sad Darwinian fact of rural life: The smart and ambitious move to the city. The dim and feckless stay behind. Then those suckers breed. 8012
Dec 4 2011: (No coincidence that the last tweet comes from West Virginia.) 8013
Dec 4 2011: Aawesome Aautomobile! Parkersburg, West Virginia. http://t.co/bp33d476 8014
Dec 4 2011: Suppose you knew you had only five years to live. You'd be doing a lot fewer trivial things. Maybe that's the way to live anyway! 8015
Dec 4 2011: You can't just live for today or you'd invest in nothing, but if the goal is too long, you put off hard decisions and don't act now. 8016
Dec 4 2011: Buffets are wasted on the young. They go straight for the pizza! 8017
Dec 4 2011: I'm a Savings Maniac with my new Giant Eagle Advantage Card! http://t.co/ntCUNuwZ 8018
Dec 4 2011: Doing our part to Save the Environment, BDL now recycles year-old tweets between 12 and 6am ET. What are YOU doing? 8019
Dec 4 2011: A relationship cannot truly grow unless there is the realistic option to withdraw and renegotiate. 8020
Dec 4 2011: Nothing makes you so uneasy as lavish praise from someone who doesn't understand you. 8021
Dec 4 2011: Adult entertainment is neither. 8022
Dec 4 2011: Delusions of grandeur don't thrive well on social media, since you can see who's following you, and it ain't many. 8023
Dec 4 2011: Both liberalism and conservatism, allowed to proceed unchecked, will end in a police state. 8024
Dec 4 2011: "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. 8025
Dec 4 2011: The curse of narcissists is having poor human radar, so they can't tell who's authentic and who's out to con them. 8026
Dec 5 2011: Narcissism is an endemic human condition made malignant by parents who coddle their child and fail to set boundaries. 8027
Dec 5 2011: On My Bucket List: Broaden my horizons by attending the Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia. [See Full Bucket List] 8028
Dec 5 2011: Flashback: 1960. Canton, Ohio. http://t.co/4LAnAb0D 8029
Dec 5 2011: Through the magic lens of romance, any lead can be turned into gold, but it eventually turns back to lead again. 8030
Dec 5 2011: The worst prison is being handcuffed to a person of lesser ability. 8031
Dec 5 2011: Hang out with dumb people and you'll be drawn down to their level. Even worse if you marry them. 8032
Dec 5 2011: What makes someone "old" is not aging of the body but an accumulation of investments that makes them unwilling to change. 8033
Dec 5 2011: Sometimes failure is your best option and accepting it is your wisest move. You have to lose some battles to win others. 8034
Dec 5 2011: Life gives you too many problems and not enough resources. Your challenge is to choose the right problems to solve. 8035
Dec 5 2011: The number of vain, unproductive hobbies you can engage in is limited only by the time and money at your disposal. 8036
Dec 5 2011: .@Zylaw we are on quite the elitist roll with this thread of tweets, aren't we?!! <== This just happens to be what we tweeted one year ago. 8037
Dec 5 2011: Comedy, like candy, is best as a rare treat. Just because something is funny doesn't mean you should consume it every day. 8038
Dec 5 2011: @JamieAndrewsUK Burn it! I wasn't impressed by my own performance. He tried to get me to declare I believed in UFOs, and I gave in. 8039
Dec 5 2011: You can't change someone's personality. You can only decide whether and how to interact with them. 8040
Dec 5 2011: Just because an orifice exists doesn't mean you should stick a penis into it. 8041
Dec 5 2011: (Sorry about that last tweet. We like to run a clean feed here—99.99% penis- and vagina-free. But sometimes we are moved to speak.) 8042
Dec 5 2011: @lovejohntyree Sure, I remember you, Ms. Bwahahaha! 8043
Dec 5 2011: @xtinewu ( 9 + 3 ) / 2 = 6 8044
Dec 5 2011: @xtinewu Xg = 1 / ( Td x Sn x Cf x Fg ) 8045
Dec 5 2011: It is impossible to communicate with someone who is totally happy. 8046
Dec 5 2011: Dear old people: There are many aspects of aging you have little control over, but you can clip your nose and ear hair, dammit! 8047
Dec 5 2011: Blow-up Santas seem like Instagram material. @ Lowe's Home Improvement http://t.co/ss5bpb7v 8048
Dec 5 2011: Statesville, NC — Full burka with a face veil, but she's speaking to her burka'ed children in a local Southern accent. http://t.co/FLBAJrj3 8049
Dec 5 2011: The main idea of suburban living is: "Let's see how many unnecessary systems we can pile on top of life." 8050
Dec 5 2011: @nainysahani Groan! 8051
Dec 5 2011: RT @persdevquotes: Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ~ Thomas Edison 8052
Dec 5 2011: "Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last." ~ Marcus Aurelius <== If we lived by that, no one would invest in the future. 8053
Dec 5 2011: RT @philo_quotes: Your life is what your thoughts make it. ~ Marcus Aurelius http://t.co/U9gFWB48 8054
Dec 5 2011: A bloody Stalinist purge is now taking place over at our FB page, but still friend us if you think you got the stuff. http://t.co/KRaAfjKO 8055
Dec 5 2011: RT @AncientProverbs: Work expands so as to fill the time available. -English proverbs 8056
Dec 5 2011: .@nilayasabnis@xtinewu There is little value in anger. It only clouds the mind and blocks the paths to your goal. 8057
Dec 5 2011: Do not respond to hurt or frustration with anger but with a change in plan. 8058
Dec 5 2011: @nilayasabnis@xtinewu It is the nature of His Badliness to turn observation into prescription. 8059
Dec 5 2011: "Who died and made you king of anything?" <== You did, of course! The king would have no power if you hadn't given it to him. #sarabareilles 8060
Dec 5 2011: RT @ExpertPrimate: If you get sucked into a time or dimension portal without your nunchucks, well it's you're own damn fault. 8061
Dec 5 2011: Coosahootchie? Hoochicoochi! Tooloosahoochie? Kooky! (@ Coosawatchie River @ I-95) [pic]: http://t.co/zwSaO1Zl 8062
Dec 6 2011: RT @TheLastVirgo: In real life, the greatest deeds mainly come from small, often-forgotten favors. 8063
Dec 6 2011: @TheLastVirgo Not sure what that means, but it sounds nice! 8064
Dec 6 2011: The discovery of a Goldilocks planet, Kepler-22b, has exposed stunning information: Disney does NOT own "Goldilocks"? 8065
Dec 6 2011: When you discover a habitable planet, you should send them a message: "Hey, we're over here, totally exposed. Come kill us if you want!" 8066
Dec 6 2011: The most frightening thing about alien contact is that we, as humans, would be totally incapable of a coordinated planetary response to it. 8067
Dec 6 2011: Look at how Earth has handled global warming or the economic crisis and you can imagine the political paralysis if aliens landed. 8068
Dec 6 2011: Sometimes the unknown is best left that way. 8069
Dec 6 2011: On the whole, scientific knowledge does not reduce the problems of Man. It merely rearranges them. 8070
Dec 6 2011: So you've found a new Earth-like planet. Congrats! You have now brought us one step closer to beneficial contact—or planetary annihilation. 8071
Dec 6 2011: How many starving people were on Earth in 1900? How many today? On the whole, has science really improved anything? 8072
Dec 6 2011: Those who believe all knowledge is good fail to address the core issue: What's the best knowledge to seek? 8073
Dec 6 2011: My brain is falling out! It was held in with scotch tape and coffee, but it's no longer sticking. http://t.co/ayu7z9sp 8074
Dec 6 2011: Flat screen TVs in motel rooms are great! They take up no table space, so you never even notice the thing. 8075
Dec 6 2011: "I follow you more that anyone else on FB, I'm tired of seeing people complaining. You on the other hand, intrigue me." http://t.co/lapPhtmP 8076
Dec 6 2011: "You are the only Western dude worth following!"—Kim Jung Il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (and our FB friend) http://t.co/lapPhtmP 8077
Dec 6 2011: People diss Kim Jung (oppressing his people, yada, yada) but as a FB friend, he's the balls! http://t.co/ektQhPJ2 8078
Dec 6 2011: Every televangelist is a latent disgraced televangelist. 8079
Dec 6 2011: Boredom and entertainment are similar: a surrendering of responsibility for ones own time. 8080
Dec 6 2011: The main fallacy of romance is thinking someone else can give your life meaning when you can't find it yourself. 8081
Dec 6 2011: Coming soon: WikiYou! Ex romantic partners and jealous co-workers post the contents of your hard drive, browser cache, texts and emails. 8082
Dec 6 2011: To reach just and reasonable decisions, one must be free to think unjust and unreasonable thoughts so they may be tested and discarded. 8083
Dec 6 2011: He who advocates total openness in diplomatic affairs should feel no discomfort seeing his own private emails placed on public view. 8084
Dec 6 2011: RT @pixieinthedark: Asking the cat for investment advice leads to a rather skewed portfolio. We're rather exposed to Italian debt and tu ... 8085
Dec 6 2011: The most precious right of individuals and organizations is private deliberation. Final decisions are public. The internal debate is not. 8086
Dec 6 2011: RT @pixieinthedark: Email from the cat: Hdeged Itlaian dbet aagisnt Aplpe stcok. BTW, litetr tray flul. 8087
Dec 6 2011: .@pixieinthedark is funny! Also: If you squeeze her boobs her bubble gets bigger! 8088
Dec 6 2011: Jesus helps you live with the status quo. 8089
Dec 6 2011: RT @washingtonpost: What happens in the U.S. if the euro zone fails? It won't be pretty. http://t.co/ByJWAzy4 8090
Dec 6 2011: Just because a little of something makes you happy doesn't mean a lot of the same thing will make you more happy. 8091
Dec 6 2011: What flavor of gas do you prefer? http://t.co/wwIPYqiy 8092
Dec 6 2011: A truly committed artist never retires but remains productive until his dying breath. 8093
Dec 6 2011: Euro crisis in a nutshell: Europe got married. One spouse went on a credit card binge. Now the bills are coming due. 8094
Dec 6 2011: When you marry someone, you are not just marrying their assets but their liabilities. You become responsible for their bad decisions. 8095
Dec 6 2011: Any good thing can be done to excess, at which point it becomes a bad thing. 8096
Dec 6 2011: This sunset brought to you by the Sanibel Island Tourist Board. (For real! 15 minutes ago.) http://t.co/gHkh1Kj5 8097
Dec 6 2011: @xtinewu Your #manateemonday photo (delayed) http://t.co/1LFm4cYg 8098
Dec 6 2011: Beach Bug. Sanibel Island, Florida. http://t.co/Itg7QYkY 8099
Dec 6 2011: @Jowtok Photos were both taken with Canon T3. Two images at diff exp were combined into one with Dynamic Photo HDR. Edited on the beach! 8100
Dec 6 2011: New photos from Florida http://t.co/EkRlrbju (end of album) 8101
Dec 7 2011: Sanibel Island is far more interesting on the map than on the ground. Just Snowbird residences. http://t.co/dXwPUtf3 8102
Dec 7 2011: No Walmart here. It's as primitive as Gilligan's Island! (@ Sanibel Island Lighthouse and Beach) http://t.co/vuv9zbfA 8103
Dec 7 2011: Oh, thank God! http://t.co/Bh8Mk644 8104
Dec 7 2011: The 1% are always gloating over how the 99% fall for their marketing scams every time. That Christmas gift-giving thing is brilliant! 8105
Dec 7 2011: Late Nite Lama! Tweets between midnight and 6am ET are recycled from our timeline of one year ago. http://t.co/y4PjNWVg 8106
Dec 7 2011: People who say "You should write a book," are still trapped in the 20th Century. 8107
Dec 7 2011: If you like to dance along the edge of death, don't be surprised if, just once, it reaches up and grabs you by the heels. 8108
Dec 7 2011: Society is built on a delicate web of withheld information. Speaking the truth in the wrong circumstances can be as destructive as any lie. 8109
Dec 7 2011: Discretion is the cornerstone of human relationships. 8110
Dec 7 2011: People choose beliefs that support their existing investments. Evidence is then selected to support those beliefs. 8111
Dec 7 2011: You can't explain narcissism to a narcissist. 8112
Dec 7 2011: Every hour of every day, the question must be asked: "Is this the best thing I can do with my time?" 8113
Dec 7 2011: Happy Pearl Harbor Day! It's not just about WWII but a day to celebrate sneak attacks of all kinds. 8114
Dec 7 2011: "I love you, you love me..." — Sorry, Barney, but that alone won't sustain a relationship. 8115
Dec 7 2011: RT @MinnieGupta I once told a man he had Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He didn't know what it was, but he was flattered. 8116
Dec 7 2011: Every Walmart is ever-so-slightly different, and therein lies the pleasure for the Walmart connoisseur. 8117
Dec 7 2011: Connoisseurs defined in a cartoon http://t.co/9M56WLH4 - a gem via @Habbie 8118
Dec 7 2011: Steve Jobs: An ambiguous legacy. http://t.co/JzK3BwSV 8119
Dec 7 2011: On My Bucket List: Get my picture on the cover of Flex or Lowrider. http://t.co/BDyjYEX8 [See Full Bucket List] 8120
Dec 7 2011: Talking "at" someone is not the same as talking "with" them. The difference is whether there is any listening going on. 8121
Dec 7 2011: "Euro", in America, means "adding fake cache so you can charge more". (Washington Reagan Airport) http://t.co/aM305oQh 8122
Dec 7 2011: Having a delightful time in.... (@ Foggy Bottom) http://t.co/q2vnGUgZ 8123
Dec 7 2011: Books — when you have 10-20 hours to kill and nothing better to use them for. Great for prisoners and shut-ins, like television with words! 8124
Dec 7 2011: Alec Baldwin, celebrity prick? I can't imagine! http://t.co/CMlTUUK8 (deletes Twitter account in airline spat) 8125
Dec 7 2011: I'm homeless, living out of a suitcase, and you're living in a comfortable house in the suburbs. I feel so sad for you! 8126
Dec 7 2011: Hedonism is the pursuit of ones own sensory pleasures. Trouble is, those pleasures turn hollow in the long run and fail to satisfy. 8127
Dec 7 2011: Relationships based on hedonism don't last long. 8128
Dec 7 2011: The hedonist does not question why. He does not look below the surface of his own desires. He takes pleasures and their hype at face value. 8129
Dec 7 2011: RT @nainysahani: #GHASTLY There is only 1 year left for you to smoke dope in Amsterdam, come 2013 all tourists are banned from cafes htt ... 8130
Dec 8 2011: Judging by boy bands through the ages, girls like boys with hair like girls'. 8131
Dec 8 2011: What sucks up your life is "infrastructure maintenance"—cleaning, walking the dog, etc. Reduce these things and you'll have more life left. 8132
Dec 8 2011: Where do vampires get their hair cut? For zombies and werewolves it's not an issue, but vampires always look so... well groomed! 8133
Dec 8 2011: Once upon a time, "Imported" had a cachet to it. Now nearly everything is imported, and "Made Here" has the bragging rights. 8134
Dec 8 2011: I have made public some new material on my proposed travel show, Operation Weekend. http://t.co/B9mqbRAm 8135
Dec 8 2011: Samson wants the truffle I'm eating. http://t.co/NVLMYsb2 8136
Dec 8 2011: A showcase of my best "character" videos on YouTube. http://t.co/C6waJGh5 (i.e. videos where I play someone else) 8137
Dec 8 2011: RT @DalaiLama: I am a man of religion, but religion alone cannot answer all our problems. 8138
Dec 8 2011: The problem with hedonism is knowing where to stop. 8139
Dec 8 2011: Satisfaction in life comes not from having fun but from pursuing a meaningful mission—which can be fun but that's not the goal. 8140
Dec 8 2011: .@ealvarezgibson Who ya gonna call?http://t.co/3515AvIo #ghostbusters 8141
Dec 8 2011: @LetsGo2TheBeach You can't have it. It's already gone. In my tummy. 8142
Dec 8 2011: .@shimols "Fun is the only goal!!! Sheryl Crow agrees too." <== Peelin' the label from your bottle of Bud — that's where fun leads you! 8143
Dec 8 2011: The 2nd successful British settlement in the New World. (@ Henricus Historical Park) [pic]: http://t.co/5vvQgrsD 8144
Dec 8 2011: Inside the Corps de Guard cabin, Henricus Historical Park - 360° panorama. http://t.co/kNczZloh 8145
Dec 8 2011: Civil War soldiers, Henricus, Virginia. http://t.co/FZMiKW39 8146
Dec 8 2011: Duty officer (and tailor) at work in the Corps de Guard, Henricus, Virginia. http://t.co/px2yUiym 8147
Dec 8 2011: London cab drivers have swollen hippocampi—as, no doubt, do I! http://t.co/Lnh79pAP via @noahWG 8148
Dec 8 2011: It is silly to call someone a "hero" when they merely fought to survive. 8149
Dec 8 2011: "Courage" usually involves sticking with a long-term plan when the short-term consequences are frightening. 8150
Dec 8 2011: Learned today at Henricus: By 1600, Britain was virtually denuded of trees. Shipping wood from America was a viable business. 8151
Dec 8 2011: Early America was funded by Big Tobacco. Europe couldn't get enough of the demon weed. 8152
Dec 8 2011: Why do we remember the Pilgrims of Plymouth more than earlier settlers at Jamestown? Better P.R.! Most early historians were New Englanders. 8153
Dec 8 2011: A hedonist worships the objects of his desire but does not try to understand them. That would only spoil the aura. 8154
Dec 8 2011: A hedonist likes to make jokes about his own hedonism, usually with a smirk on his face. (Nudge nudge, wink wink!) 8155
Dec 8 2011: Dog wants my dinner. http://t.co/2nmr118D 8156
Dec 8 2011: From Venice, Italy, I discuss the philosophy of my proposed travel show in this 7-minute video. http://t.co/DDh06ZKT 8157
Dec 8 2011: Stonehenge's Biggest Mystery. My video from August, shot just outside the fence at Stonehenge. http://t.co/ns9L7xKL (Uploaded today) 2 min 8158
Dec 8 2011: When starting a new religion, your finest stroke of luck is to be persecuted. Then you can play the victim for millennia! 8159
Dec 8 2011: Good intentions are useless without a healthy dose of Machiavellian strategy. 8160
Dec 8 2011: 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. 8161
Dec 8 2011: You can talk about it all you want, but the rewards go to those who stop talking and do it! 8162
Dec 8 2011: Where do you file for cyber divorce? And under what jurisdiction—Twitter or Facebook? Who gets the Twitpics? 8163
Dec 8 2011: The quality of a relationship usually depends on the "quality time" you spend on it. 8164
Dec 9 2011: You can judge people in Israel by their funny hats. The funnier the hat, the loonier the tune. 8165
Dec 9 2011: You never sausage a place! (@ South Of The Border) http://t.co/0D0hn81F 8166
Dec 9 2011: Never give up, never surrender... but don't rule out a radical course change. 8167
Dec 9 2011: Beep-beep! Look out! Rooster coming through! (Henricus, this afternoon) http://t.co/7ggjcZah 8168
Dec 9 2011: Today's photos from Henricus, a reconstructed 17th Century village in Virginia. http://t.co/QEX55HTk 8169
Dec 9 2011: The Personality Paradox: (A) Yes, people can change, but (B) No, you can't change them. 8170
Dec 9 2011: People become the roles they play. 8171
Dec 9 2011: Never give up on your dreams—unless they're narcissistic, unobtainable dreams ignoring the opportunities around you. 8172
Dec 9 2011: Truth is the hypothesis borne out by eventual fact. 8173
Dec 9 2011: In romance, it can be hard to distinguish what's really there from what we desperately want to be there. 8174
Dec 9 2011: The most dangerous substance on Earth is called hubris. 8175
Dec 9 2011: When life gets too easy, people instinctively create barriers for themselves to give it the illusion of substance. 8176
Dec 9 2011: Your choice: engage in the core business of life or enslave yourself to its peripheral infrastructure. 8177
Dec 9 2011: RT @Erekosse: @BadDalaiLama Or: A) people can't change but B) I can change them!! 8178
Dec 9 2011: Our "Spinach" list is where His Badliness gets his daily inspiration. Lots of smart, pretty ladies! http://t.co/mBGjiCRj #FF 8179
Dec 9 2011: Back in 2007, we started writing a book, "The Case Against Marriage". Got to 30 chapters! http://t.co/3ljqhpZM 8180
Dec 9 2011: "You're probably not going to listen to me, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway." Case Against Marriage: http://t.co/3ljqhpZM 8181
Dec 9 2011: A short history of my "Case Against Marriage" book, just added to my Philosophy page. http://t.co/6fr2HrOZ 8182
Dec 9 2011: Love can turn lead into gold, but it usually turns back again after the honeymoon. 8183
Dec 9 2011: Veterans of the Clone Wars, Henricus, Virginia (yesterday) http://t.co/VNvuCuyP 8184
Dec 9 2011: I get my shoelaces nibbled. http://t.co/bY48g51x 8185
Dec 9 2011: New photos from Henricus (yesterday). http://t.co/vNBEY5l2 8186
Dec 9 2011: RT @nofence420: @BadDalaiLama the one page flyer was awesome!! My fav part "Research shows marriage is the leading cause if divorce" Hah ... 8187
Dec 9 2011: Our one-page crusade against marriage (gay or otherwise). http://t.co/hyAaAoai 8188
Dec 9 2011: When dealing with dysfunctional people, the most important thing is to maintain a firewall between you and them to protect your own life. 8189
Dec 9 2011: Dealing with drug addicts has taught me how to protect myself from them. If you don't, they'll take you for everything you got. 8190
Dec 9 2011: A Facebook friend writes about my "Case Against Marriage" book: "I disagree regarding the work's redundancy... http://t.co/q0w4ViyL 8191
Dec 9 2011: There are many forms of child abuse, but among the worst is making them a child star. The adult outcome is rarely happy. 8192
Dec 9 2011: That an action is legal does not imply that it is moral. 8193
Dec 9 2011: Apart from Ron Howard, there aren't many child stars who escaped major damage on the road to adulthood. Who would do this to their child? 8194
Dec 9 2011: RT @KimKardashian: I 8195
Dec 9 2011: Best one-letter retweet ever! Via @mjmckean ==> RT @KimKardashian: I 8196
Dec 9 2011: Just refollowed the ONLY celebrity worth following: @MJMcKean. A mere 50k followers (vs 11m for Kim) so he must be good! FF 8197
Dec 9 2011: One can't merely "follow" His Badliness. It's a lifestyle commitment. For a lower volume feed (and less real-world noise) try @BadLamaWisdom 8198
Dec 9 2011: My favorite photo from North Carolina: A hamster's view of a very big creature at the Charlotte airport http://t.co/79GJzWZK (March 2010). 8199
Dec 9 2011: Self-portrait in a truck stop gambling apparatus, Walterboro, South Carolina. http://t.co/CWpscWsH 8200
Dec 9 2011: Amazon.com — for all your Blue Pill devices and entertainments. 8201
Dec 9 2011: Jackie Evancho: What responsible parent would put their child on display like that—"voice of an angel" or not? 8202
Dec 9 2011: Rome, in its debauched age, held great spectacles where slaves were torn apart by wild animals. Today, we have televised talent contests. 8203
Dec 9 2011: .@xtinewu Television production seems quite ordinary til someone says, "6 million watched the show" and you wonder, "Who are these people?" 8204
Dec 9 2011: @xtinewu Don't drink and fiddle! Only tragedy can come of it. 8205
Dec 10 2011: My $26 Motel 6 room near Daytona Beach ($30.31 with tax). The dog is free! http://t.co/IPcPCYEK 8206
Dec 10 2011: Caught me a dawg! http://t.co/aomacJGf 8207
Dec 10 2011: I asked Google maps to route me from MIA to TPA and it wants me to journey 12,431 miles to China, kayaking the Pacific. http://t.co/XS78BRG3 8208
Dec 10 2011: People follow the Good @DalaiLama because he doesn't tweet much, he offends no one, and people can say, "I follow the Dalai Lama!" 8209
Dec 10 2011: @xtinewu What distinguishes #epic from #awesome? McCartney's reception was #epic. Bolton seems more in the #awesome vein. 8210
Dec 10 2011: @xtinewu Yo not lyin'! http://t.co/xoIsAfeK 8211
Dec 10 2011: Pro Tip: When a hotel ice machine says "Insert Room Key For Ice," any credit card will do. It's a mechanical switch! http://t.co/XJXgGbIZ 8212
Dec 10 2011: It is not your place to argue someone out of their irrational beliefs. 8213
Dec 10 2011: Florida sunrise. Near Daytona Beach. http://t.co/a8VW6nSP 8214
Dec 10 2011: "Clean" art is straight edges and right angles in a controlled environment. "Dirty" art is an unexpected order wrestled out of chaos. 8215
Dec 10 2011: RT @BrunoG_: @BadDalaiLama Agnostics are just pussys who are afraid of offending people with different convictions. 8216
Dec 10 2011: Any black-and-white moron can be an atheist. It takes subtlety to be an agnostic. 8217
Dec 10 2011: To have absolute conviction there is no God requires a huge leap of faith. 8218
Dec 10 2011: Here's a crazy idea: Let's give guns to all the dysfunctional people and see what happens. Oh wait, that's America! http://t.co/1SLXptFX 8219
Dec 10 2011: Jupiter is cool as long as you can handle the gravity and poisonous atmosphere. (@ Jupiter, Florida) http://t.co/2WyBWKzD 8220
Dec 10 2011: Never knew insurance could be so exciting! (@ Insurance World Of Delray) http://t.co/R6TcRRN6 8221
Dec 10 2011: There are no cascades in Florida, but you can still build a housing development, put a fake waterfall in front and call it The Cascades. 8222
Dec 10 2011: Genetic chauvinism: "My genes are so special that I simply must replicate them, no matter the cost or risk." 8223
Dec 10 2011: Rainbow in the rear view mirror. Near Daytona Beach, this morning. http://t.co/PgkNpLdv 8224
Dec 10 2011: Hair, boots, pose... What more do you need? Ft. Lauderdale airport. http://t.co/SVte68tD 8225
Dec 10 2011: New photos from Florida: http://t.co/EkRlrbju (end of album) 8226
Dec 10 2011: First time here! Toll road across the Everglades. (@ Aligator Alley w/ 2 others) [pic]: http://t.co/1pRiFMqj 8227
Dec 10 2011: The Everglades is looks like vast flooded grassland. No features to speak of. Just flat green far as the eye can see. 8228
Dec 10 2011: Everglades sunset. (20 minutes ago) http://t.co/nFZXkE1S 8229
Dec 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Study the effects of tropical diseases by personally contracting them. [See Full Bucket List] 8230
Dec 10 2011: I've also been to the REAL Naples. http://t.co/J7G3asq9 8231
Dec 11 2011: Naples Beach: hanging with the locals before dawn - 360° panorama http://t.co/uyuKlslH 8232
Dec 11 2011: Being happy right now isn't enough. There's a bigger cycle at work and you've got to understand it to avoid unhappiness in the future. 8233
Dec 11 2011: Solitude. http://t.co/hmRogeUK 8234
Dec 11 2011: The beach is fun for an hour, but spend a whole day here? Vapid and lifeless. 8235
Dec 11 2011: Beach mushrooms. http://t.co/lJoO4bWj 8236
Dec 11 2011: Hedonists blindly accept whatever is sold to them by marketers and peers. They're suckers for sizzle, not true satisfaction. 8237
Dec 11 2011: Parents: Treating your kid like the center of the universe is breeding a future jerk. Don't give him expectations life can't sustain. 8238
Dec 11 2011: RT @joyfulpath: @BadDalaiLama in my defense, I do try to clarify "you are the center of MY universe. you'll have to prove yourself to ev ... 8239
Dec 11 2011: @joyfulpath But still you are defensive. 8240
Dec 11 2011: Usually, there's only one movie per year that sticks in my mind. This year it was Rango. Last year: Megamind. 8241
Dec 11 2011: My hippocampus really hurts! Time to despacialize. 8242
Dec 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Cultivate some gnarly dreadlocks. (Related: Grow some hair.) [See Full Bucket List] 8243
Dec 11 2011: Late Night Lama! - The following tweets published on the hour are recycled from our own feed one year ago. http://t.co/Ox0GUNZo 8244
Dec 11 2011: To find meaning in life, you need only avoid pain with as much foresight as possible. 8245
Dec 11 2011: My rental car in the Everglades. http://t.co/zD9jK7u4 8246
Dec 11 2011: Many of life's tragedies could be avoided if only there was an enforced waiting period between brain and mouth. 8247
Dec 11 2011: You can't choose the Red Pill but then say, "No, wait, I want the Blue Pill for this one little thing!" 8248
Dec 11 2011: Most of what passes for "fun" is merely dull repetition of something that used to be fun. 8249
Dec 11 2011: You can't plan on unexpected opportunities, but you can plan on being in a position to take advantage of them. 8250
Dec 11 2011: Life planning is a balance between the commitments necessary to get things done and the preservation of future discretion. 8251
Dec 11 2011: The neutralizing of future discretion should not be mistaken for a declaration of love. 8252
Dec 11 2011: No matter how well you think you have planned your life, it will change in ways you never expected. 8253
Dec 11 2011: There isn't much accomplishment in filling up a hole if you're the one who dug it. 8254
Dec 11 2011: 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. 8255
Dec 11 2011: .@JessOnCrack: "How do u come up with these topics?" <== They're a by-product of my thinking processes. I do a LOT of thinking. 8256
Dec 11 2011: @JessOnCrack One has to make compromises for the 140-character format. No space for caveats and qualifications. 8257
Dec 11 2011: Last night slept in the open air! Back seat of a rental car with the sun roof open. Just one thin blanket. 7.5 hours solid. Comfy! 8258
Dec 11 2011: ... Could have slept in the Everglades but chose the middle of a Walmart parking lot. Same refreshing tropical air but no mosquitoes. 8259
Dec 11 2011: Your morning Walmart moment: Black is Back. (may cause gum disease and tooth loss) http://t.co/5624IRb1 8260
Dec 11 2011: Naples Beach before dawn. (@ 5th Ave S Beach) [pic]: http://t.co/2DcM1IWS 8261
Dec 11 2011: RT @MailOnline: Rocket car fulled by Coke and Mentos breaks distance record travelling 239 feet http://t.co/eHRyqpYd 8262
Dec 12 2011: Late Nite Lama! The following on-the-hour tweets are recycled from one year ago. Source: http://t.co/GLGXU7NF 8263
Dec 12 2011: The risk of exploration is that it will reveal flaws in our existing investments. That's why most people rarely leave home. 8264
Dec 12 2011: Death is inevitable, but old is a choice. 8265
Dec 12 2011: The ego is biggest in those who least deserve it. 8266
Dec 12 2011: 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. 8267
Dec 12 2011: The paradox of jealousy is that it drives away the person you are jealous about. 8268
Dec 12 2011: As a forest needs fire to clear out the dead wood, we all need an occasional catastrophe to burn off our delusions. 8269
Dec 12 2011: Discovery is unpredictable but not random. It happens mainly when we invest in exploration. 8270
Dec 12 2011: If a relationship needs alcohol to lubricate, then it's not a real relationship but a pretend one. 8271
Dec 12 2011: There is no wisdom without irony. 8272
Dec 12 2011: On My Bucket List: Some quality guy-pal bonding time with Kanye West. [See Full Bucket List] 8273
Dec 12 2011: The 2nd half of the 20th Century was the Golden Era of popular music. Post-Y2K—the Dark Ages! 8274
Dec 12 2011: Singers today are venerated today for their tabloid tribulations, not their music. 8275
Dec 12 2011: [OTOH:] Current music has always been mostly crap. Time just distills the good stuff for us, and that's what we remember. 8276
Dec 12 2011: The trouble with current music, in any era, is it's selected mainly by young people, whose tastes favor the loud, sappy or obnoxious. 8277
Dec 12 2011: RT @DoruTARITA: There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley 8278
Dec 12 2011: RT @DoruTARITA: One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. Alexander Chase 8279
Dec 12 2011: Celebrity assholes always win (if they're famous enough) ==> Alec Baldwin apologizes to self on SNL http://t.co/pUsQuGYU via @laurenahayes 8280
Dec 12 2011: "The Secret of Great Performances" Our last one-page philosophy essay (Mar 2010) http://t.co/2CkQvAv8 - Remarkably good—but aren't they all? 8281
Dec 12 2011: Happiness is logarithmic, not linear. If $1 million make you happy, it doesn't follow the $10 million will make you 10 times happier. 8282
Dec 12 2011: All our Kilroy Cafe one-page philosophy essays, published between May 2008 and March 2010. http://t.co/YisQvahI - Many gems! 8283
Dec 12 2011: "Life is Logarithmic, Not Linear" - Our 1-page essay from Feb. 2010 http://t.co/Op5IIDns 8284
Dec 12 2011: Me and Luke. (All my friends are dogs!) http://t.co/gqnE1koD 8285
Dec 12 2011: "Come with me Luke. I am your father!" Original Star Wars clip: http://t.co/R9ScFNOy 8286
Dec 12 2011: RT @oliverburkeman: Teachers prefer students who aren't creative http://t.co/IESin9qU 8287
Dec 12 2011: Spooky little corner of Tallahassee - 360° panorama http://t.co/g0qtor9D 8288
Dec 12 2011: Unless you're some kind of crazy autistic who likes to collect such things, I've been to more Walmarts than you have. #justsaying #notcrazy 8289
Dec 12 2011: RT @PritsWire: @BadDalaiLama I think its time to republish your essays on addiction. 8290
Dec 12 2011: When a truck is careening toward someone, it's easy to convince them, "Move or die!" Not so easy with a creeping threat like drugs. 8291
Dec 12 2011: Trailer for Wim Wender's "Pina" http://t.co/XTcIM4Z6 - Not sure I can take a whole movie of this, but cool trailer. 8292
Dec 12 2011: "Words Don't Work" - our one-page essay from 2009 http://t.co/l9PWqNWy - An essay on addiction at the request of @PritsWire 8293
Dec 13 2011: When I hear that someone has caught the "acting bug" I despair. Not as bad as cocaine but almost. 8294
Dec 13 2011: Homophonophobia — the fear of sounding gay when you're not. 8295
Dec 13 2011: Pseudohomophonophobia — pretending to be afraid of sounding gay. 8296
Dec 13 2011: Pseudohomophonophobophallifellatio — pretending to be afraid of sounding gay while having penis-oriented oral sex. 8297
Dec 13 2011: Pseudohomophonophobophallifellatic fatigue — doing it too much. 8298
Dec 13 2011: Pseudohomophonophobophallifellatic fatigue — full etymology http://t.co/8I1hTcI8 8299
Dec 13 2011: 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. 8300
Dec 13 2011: The downside of love is the loss of control over your own destiny. 8301
Dec 13 2011: family — n. a shared delusional system by which dysfunctions are transferred from one generation to the next. 8302
Dec 13 2011: Given freedom, most people will move to quickly neutralize it, preferring lives of dull repetition to the anxiety of ongoing choice. 8303
Dec 13 2011: 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. 8304
Dec 13 2011: Reality is the ultimate video game. It has more levels of complexity, more unexpected twists than any game created by man. 8305
Dec 13 2011: RT @nainysahani: "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." Oscar Wilde 8306
Dec 13 2011: RT @noahWG: Despite the cacophony, frogs hear only what they want & need to hear, for they are tuned to their species' call. Like in pol ... 8307
Dec 13 2011: RT @MJMcKean: If unions are so great, why don't they carry them at WalMart? 8308
Dec 13 2011: "Flipping" drove housing bubble in Nevada http://t.co/WGShAI6O <== These speculators saved my ass in Las Vegas! #divorcedattherighttime 8309
Dec 13 2011: 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. 8310
Dec 13 2011: Much of what I know about people I learned from dogs. Take away symbolic language and we're basically the same creatures. 8311
Dec 13 2011: Most of the world population may not understand this, but in America they give out toilet paper for FREE. What a country! 8312
Dec 13 2011: .@CGarison "We sniff each others butts to great each other !?!" <== In a manner of speaking. 8313
Dec 13 2011: Rainbow over Lake City, Florida (yesterday) http://t.co/uQ7RaT4E 8314
Dec 13 2011: Sweet Home Babblama! (@ USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park) [pic]: http://t.co/hBYdVySG 8315
Dec 13 2011: Every dog has his unique personality, his own operating style, just like people. You can't assume anything until you test him. 8316
Dec 13 2011: Luke is not much to look at but a really good dog. Attentive and mild-mannered. Listens well and comes when called. http://t.co/lSs4e62m 8317
Dec 13 2011: Battleship Alabama. http://t.co/DBmXb9xn 8318
Dec 13 2011: Upbringing certainly has something to do with dog personality, but some dogs are smart and well-behaved in spite of their no-good owners. 8319
Dec 13 2011: RT @brainpicker: Tuileries – twisted short film by the Coen brothers, starring Steve Buscemi, free to watch online http://t.co/auJt8WWV 8320
Dec 13 2011: It is amazing how many "essential" things turn out to be useless in hindsight. 8321
Dec 14 2011: Although we don't know exactly what consciousness is, it is clear that if you divide it across many tasks, the quality of it goes down. 8322
Dec 14 2011: For learning about addiction, mental illness, personality and human delusional systems there is no finer laboratory than a failed romance. 8323
Dec 14 2011: @nilayasabnis Yer learnin' this Twitter thang right good! 8324
Dec 14 2011: If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. 8325
Dec 14 2011: Social media, without an anchor in the real world, is just another addiction. 8326
Dec 14 2011: The value of any activity in cyberspace ultimately derives from concrete actions in the real world. 8327
Dec 14 2011: Most of the things you now see as essential are only imaginary barriers you have created for yourself to avoid the anxiety of choice. 8328
Dec 14 2011: The needless risk-taking of youth is usually replaced by pathological risk aversion in old age. 8329
Dec 14 2011: Pity the suburban homeowner, trapped in his self-made prison, thrilled to death to see a certain breed of bird appear at his birdfeeder. 8330
Dec 14 2011: Wine and cheese were the junk food of the Middle Ages. Years from now, we'll probably be treating Hostess Twinkies with the same reverence. 8331
Dec 14 2011: @xtinewu Bravo! All those celeb industry hangs are the reason why celebs, once they hit the big time, completely lose their edge. 8332
Dec 14 2011: @nilayasabnis Most honorable sensai @xtinewu but never play tennis with her (#buttkicked) or openly acknowledge her greatness (#upperhand). 8333
Dec 14 2011: It is a blessed relief that most people don't "get" Twitter. It means we can tweet with impunity, without fear of offending the sensitive. 8334
Dec 14 2011: @nainysahani Hi Nainy! How do you generate those fb.me short links? 8335
Dec 14 2011: The whole female species NAILED in a 1-minute video! "Shit Girls Say" http://t.co/r7iXFxXu via @nainysahani Also see: @shitgirlssay 8336
Dec 14 2011: RT @shitgirlssay: I think it's funny that she thinks she can go around saying those things about me and I won't find out about it. 8337
Dec 14 2011: RT @shitgirlssay: She's not even that pretty. 8338
Dec 14 2011: Crossing Tampa Bay (2 days ago). http://t.co/8WS2M3sO 8339
Dec 14 2011: @nainysahani Thanks! 8340
Dec 14 2011: RT @shitgirlssay: The thing is, I shouldn't have to ask. 8341
Dec 14 2011: RT @shitgirlssay: I feel like I'm in the way. 8342
Dec 14 2011: RT @shitgirlssay: I'm just kind of in a weird mood today. 8343
Dec 14 2011: RT @shitgirlssay: I honestly don't know how to feel about that. 8344
Dec 14 2011: Many Nachos, Louisiana. http://t.co/PlO4zySN 8345
Dec 14 2011: @ljmusik I'll be passing you on I-20, Shreveport to Dallas. 8346
Dec 14 2011: RT @philoquotes: The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. ~ Socrates http://t.co/f4loa27z 8347
Dec 14 2011: RT @Wise_Quotes4U: Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them ~ Alfred North Whitehead 8348
Dec 14 2011: Billy G's Mo Better Blues, Shreveport, Louisiana - 360° panorama http://t.co/SQuSbVeZ 8349
Dec 14 2011: Conspicuous Designer Fashions, Shreveport, Louisiana http://t.co/URcECbGe 8350
Dec 14 2011: Initiative is rare in humans — seeing a problem or opportunity and doing something about it without being forced. 8351
Dec 14 2011: People, on the whole, are reactive—responding to outside events but not initiating them. 8352
Dec 14 2011: This is how Real Men hunt in Texas. Set up this friendly deer feeder, then snipe at them from the tower. Sporting! http://t.co/83hp36mU 8353
Dec 14 2011: (Real Men don't exert themselves unnecessarily. You can be fat and drink beer and still kill things.) 8354
Dec 14 2011: It seems to me that if you enjoyed killing things—as hunters evidently do—you would want those things to put up a decent fight. 8355
Dec 14 2011: If you want a fine example of religious obfuscation, get a hunter to explain to you why he does it. 8356
Dec 14 2011: What's a Texas tittie twister? I'm NOT falling for that one again! 8357
Dec 14 2011: State-sponsored gambling at a vending machine in Wichita Falls, Texas. I'm impressed by the prices! http://t.co/SBieyR8n 8358
Dec 15 2011: If you understand how addicts think you'll also know how to protect yourself from crime, since most of it is addiction driven. 8359
Dec 15 2011: Grand Theatre, Electra, Texas - 360° panorama http://t.co/vOpCp8GG 8360
Dec 15 2011: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ...i love these Panorama shots....makes me feel like i'm standing there right next to you! 8361
Dec 15 2011: @cottonmouth1 Not too close, please! 8362
Dec 15 2011: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ...just fer that...u get a snuggle...a good, CLOSE snuggle.... 8363
Dec 15 2011: Give people a choice between a good thing and a bad thing and it's amazing how often they choose the bad. 8364
Dec 15 2011: Good things cause anxiety in people who are used to bad things. Often it seems easier to sabotage the good thing and relieve the pressure. 8365
Dec 15 2011: The dog's credo: Eat first, ask questions later. You can always vomit it up if it doesn't work. 8366
Dec 15 2011: RT @Telegraph: #Facebook has begun the global roll out of #Timeline, the site's new type of profile: http://t.co/0dgHNmPT 8367
Dec 15 2011: Downtown Memphis, Texas - 360° panorama http://t.co/ycWA5weP 8368
Dec 15 2011: This town is NOT pronounced "Dumbass Texas", although some may be tempted. (@ Dumas, Texas) http://t.co/B41uAQSP 8369
Dec 15 2011: @xtinewu In Wu's World, if it's worth doing it's worth doing til you bleed! 8370
Dec 15 2011: I am deeply offended when water chooses to take a solid form. I want no part of it. Get me outta here! http://t.co/PZwx8b3F 8371
Dec 15 2011: Shrine of the Testaments, Downtown Clayton, New Mexico - 360° panorama http://t.co/C8iEEqSe 8372
Dec 15 2011: Impressive cinder cone. (@ Capulin Volcano National Monument) [pic]: http://t.co/NvaATvVK 8373
Dec 15 2011: When in Rhome, do as the Rhomans do. (@ Rhome,TX) http://t.co/SOr7AATw 8374
Dec 15 2011: The "Casino Delusion" is that only the winners get publicity while the more numerous losers are forgotten, skewing public perception. 8375
Dec 15 2011: Our own Holiday tradition! Our very own "Wal-Mart Christmas Carol" from 2008 http://t.co/5n7i9GPt - You don't have to pay for it now! 8376
Dec 15 2011: RT @Arhanious: @BadDalaiLama that's called "selection bias" in statistical analysis. 8377
Dec 15 2011: In this Holiday Season, let us not forget those millions who gave their lives, at starvation wages, to defend our Always Low Prices. 8378
Dec 15 2011: High Definition only makes my hatred of television more refined. 8379
Dec 15 2011: A natural corollary of freedom is loneliness. 8380
Dec 15 2011: Freedom, in practice, means anxiety, uncertainty, loneliness and constant awareness of how close you are to the edge of the abyss. 8381
Dec 15 2011: The opposite of freedom is entrusting your fate to someone else. 8382
Dec 15 2011: Anything good also has its dark and destructive side. If you can't see it, then you haven't grasped the whole picture. 8383
Dec 15 2011: Face fact: No one is going to rescue you. Only you can rescue you. 8384
Dec 15 2011: It is better to be real than perfect. 8385
Dec 15 2011: RT @noemiruth: And you can't rescue anyone else, either. RT @BadDalaiLama: Face fact: No one is going to rescue you. Only you can rescue ... 8386
Dec 15 2011: The world cannot be saved virtually. Non-virtual intervention is required. 8387
Dec 15 2011: 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. 8388
Dec 15 2011: RT @laurenahayes: Good or bad, you get more of whatever you focus on. 8389
Dec 15 2011: People talk about creativity, but in practice it requires you to go your own way and make your own judgments, which most are loath to do. 8390
Dec 15 2011: Shrine of the Testaments, Clayton, New Mexico (earlier today) http://t.co/WuL8ftW4 8391
Dec 16 2011: Beauty can be an ugly business. 8392
Dec 16 2011: Reality is like a video game but better designed, with more complexity levels and bigger rewards and risks. Caveat: You can die only once. 8393
Dec 16 2011: Music is the subcarrier of language. Before an infant knows any words, he learns the song of his parents speaking. 8394
Dec 16 2011: Inflammation of the brain caused by too much thinking can be quickly treated by the application of alcohol, cannabis or television. 8395
Dec 16 2011: Fatalism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. 8396
Dec 16 2011: Freedom is your ability to adapt to unexpected changes in yourself and the world around you. 8397
Dec 16 2011: Timeless Wisdom of the BDL is retweeted by @BadLamaWisdom - All of these gems are own original work! (We plagiarize only our own past feed.) 8398
Dec 16 2011: Check out Favstar for the Bad Dalai Lama's Greatest Hits http://t.co/LOd0mPJV and our current tweets people like http://t.co/XUhCmZdZ 8399
Dec 16 2011: @xtinewu@lornebalfe We Campbells haven't trusted the McWus since the Glencoe Massacre in 1639. You think we've forgotten? 8400
Dec 16 2011: Do us a favor? Check out our Greatest Hits and star the ones you like. http://t.co/LOd0mPJV (You may need to sign in to FavStar first.) 8401
Dec 16 2011: One of life's great accomplishments is saying: "This thing feels good but isn't good for me, so I'm not going to do it." 8402
Dec 16 2011: "After so many years, I suddenly remembered that I enjoyed your writings and I decided to check what you are up to." http://t.co/MnkAiSku 8403
Dec 16 2011: RT @shuffleyerfeet: @BadDalaiLama "if you can talk you can sing, if you can walk you can dance." 8404
Dec 16 2011: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama and achievements! Don't forget achievements, which you can show off to other players 8405
Dec 16 2011: A fatal flaw in any artist: An inability to absorb and process criticism. 8406
Dec 16 2011: Damn! How many French Revolutions were there? What a messy batch of history! http://t.co/We2qHmnd 8407
Dec 16 2011: The guillotine was a vast improvement over the previous method of execution, the Breaking Wheel. Now killing was easier, more antiseptic. 8408
Dec 16 2011: C-C-Colorado is f-f-frickin' f-f-frigid! M-m-must g-g-get b-b-back t-t-to F-F-Florida! http://t.co/6D78DMar 8409
Dec 16 2011: Just caught a glimpse of Occupy Boulder (I presume) camped out in the snow at the Municipal Building. Couldn't they Occupy someplace warmer? 8410
Dec 16 2011: RT @evidentlyblonde: "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" -Dog Barking Translated 8411
Dec 16 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama 8412
Dec 16 2011: RT @sparklekaz: If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.T.S. Eliot 8413
Dec 16 2011: RT @MysteryGuru: Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood: Ralph Waldo Emerson 8414
Dec 16 2011: "Mother Teresa was a fraud" http://t.co/I2V8Lu1v via @laurenahayes—But I still like to say, "Do I look like Mother Teresa?" in a NY accent. 8415
Dec 16 2011: Few remember Gruyère Cheese War. 8416
Dec 16 2011: That's a pretty stiff fine: $750k for "causing a disturbance". I'll remember that next time. http://t.co/Yp7x5vam 8417
Dec 16 2011: Little bitty plane, not suitable for vertically overendowed. http://t.co/rwXGkInb 8418
Dec 16 2011: These two orange pills are the perfect cure for all forms of Christmas music, reducing symptoms by 80%! http://t.co/9YgKJO4w 8419
Dec 17 2011: Comfy night in an empty office behind an unused service counter near Gate A9. [pic]: http://t.co/3GzkP9al 8420
Dec 17 2011: My free private room at the Pittsburgh airport. Carpeted floor was a little hard, but got a full 7 hours. http://t.co/kwhBQsGg 8421
Dec 17 2011: Well, I'm using it anyway, because I like to defy authority that way. http://t.co/a4dmjqmT 8422
Dec 17 2011: Who's standing up for the rights of the white, male, non-gay, non-disabled citizen? By God, I am! http://t.co/T1qC3LlF 8423
Dec 17 2011: @pixieinthedark I'm with Alan. Are we being discriminating? 8424
Dec 17 2011: Few remember the Gruyère Cheese War. 8425
Dec 17 2011: RT @SpiritOfMadison: R. Lee Ermey is that you? MT @BadDalaiLamahttp://t.co/jh9mDEvT 8426
Dec 17 2011: Waiting for a bus in downtown Pittsburgh - 360° panorama http://t.co/bYNP3AbE 8427
Dec 17 2011: Circle K, Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania - 360° panorama http://t.co/L63z4DK7 8428
Dec 17 2011: Corner of Phineas Street and Ahlers Way, Pittsburgh - 360° panorama http://t.co/salcSZ6k 8429
Dec 17 2011: Coffee cake, Duquesne University http://t.co/oIzcRv8B 8430
Dec 17 2011: Occupy Pittsburgh (Remind me again: What is the goal of this movement?) http://t.co/PhEHCvOB 8431
Dec 17 2011: Upgraded to Timeline on Facebook. http://t.co/3O1JHIk4 Rather addictive! Thank you, Zuckerberg! 8432
Dec 17 2011: Duquesne University http://t.co/p7lDo7hG 8433
Dec 17 2011: In the spirit of #occupy, I'm going to freeze my ass off in the Northern cold til there are some serious changes in society. #notreally 8434
Dec 17 2011: "Sooner or later you will realize it's not about you. It never was." —@nainysahani 8435
Dec 17 2011: Volcano of Mordor, West Virginia http://t.co/PbNELlhV 8436
Dec 17 2011: "Existential" is when you are sentenced to life in prison for a crime you DID commit. 8437
Dec 17 2011: People are defeated in life mainly because they can't let go of things that are no longer useful to them. 8438
Dec 18 2011: Not an exciting place. (@ Bland Virginia) http://t.co/u7dCQcTx 8439
Dec 18 2011: Before posting your family photos online, please consider this: "Awkward Family Photos" http://t.co/hTHX4lQD 8440
Dec 18 2011: More "Awkward Family Photos" http://t.co/11iFwOuV 8441
Dec 18 2011: edutopia — n. a well-funded institution of higher learning, pleasant to attend but completely detached from real life. 8442
Dec 18 2011: edutainment — n. entertainment masquerading as education 8443
Dec 18 2011: eduholic — n. a student who uses ongoing formal education as a way to avoid the real world. 8444
Dec 18 2011: eduflatulance — n. college courses intended to endlessly discuss vague topics that don't really benefit from endless discussion. 8445
Dec 18 2011: gender-based eduflatulance — n. eduflatulant college courses with the word "gender" in the course title 8446
Dec 18 2011: eduholic stupor — n. the deleterious effect of overeducation, where the individual has lost all ability to teach himself. 8447
Dec 18 2011: educationism — n. the religious belief that one is incapable of learning anything without taking a course and obeying an instructor. 8448
Dec 18 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama I thought it was the "high" that some narcissistic teachers get from the attention/admiration from their young ... 8449
Dec 18 2011: eduegotism — n. the sense of entitlement and superiority expressed by college professors who have never experienced the real world directly. 8450
Dec 18 2011: semester — n. the academic cycle in which students are moved in and out of a professor's class before they can realize he's full of shit. 8451
Dec 18 2011: edugogic worship — n. fawning attention paid by students to their professors, facilitated by frequent importation of gullible new students. 8452
Dec 18 2011: tenure — n. a communistic system of guaranteed employment allowing a professor to slack off and stop trying once he receives it. 8453
Dec 18 2011: Science predicts whether a song will be a chart hit http://t.co/qt2vcviY — But a "classic hit" is predicted only by "Is it good?" 8454
Dec 18 2011: "Social networking has robbed us of our nostalgia." http://t.co/RIBfp70O <== Not a bad thing actually. Nostalgia was always overrated. 8455
Dec 18 2011: The future of nostalgia, for better or worse, is people filling in their Facebook Timeline. 8456
Dec 18 2011: My justification for another Reece's McFlurry is that it's For A Limited Time Only. #roadcuisine http://t.co/qEa6KZ0v 8457
Dec 18 2011: Khrushchev's "We will bury you" might have been true if he were Chinese. "We will bury you by serving your Capitalist consumer needs." 8458
Dec 18 2011: Sooner or later China's bubble will burst and markets will see it for what it is: the sweatshop for Capitalist forces outside the country. 8459
Dec 18 2011: Kim Jung Il is still alive!... and still my Facebook friend. http://t.co/EWJafzrH He just needed some "me" time and this was the best way. 8460
Dec 19 2011: Facebook won't let me enter Timeline dates before my birth. Bummer! How am a supposed to chronicle my ancestors back to Eve? 8461
Dec 19 2011: RT @Telegraph: Nietzsche was right: adversity makes you stronger http://t.co/NbOX0rAf 8462
Dec 19 2011: It is a lot easier to protest against something than for something, especially if you can't decide what you want. 8463
Dec 19 2011: When someone seems bent on self-destruction, your first priority is to assure they don't take you with them. 8464
Dec 19 2011: RT @MailOnline: The uninformed are essential to a working democracy, study finds http://t.co/jcLllNGn 8465
Dec 19 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: 50 fascinating facts: Kim Jong-il and North Korea http://t.co/FCZi4pxM 8466
Dec 19 2011: RT @absolutelytrue: 10 absurd facts about Kim Jong-Il | Matador Network http://t.co/x9NCavZ6 via @matadornetwork 8467
Dec 19 2011: RT @philoquotes: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. ~ Sartre http://t.co/f4loa27z 8468
Dec 19 2011: RT @persdevquotes: Don't find fault, find a remedy. ~ Henry Ford http://t.co/FBFmRht5 8469
Dec 19 2011: Intermodal transfer. (@ Titusville Greyhound Gas Station) [pic]: http://t.co/HKmm2I1w 8470
Dec 19 2011: Private Waterfront, Titusville, Florida - 360° panorama http://t.co/LEdZ7x2m 8471
Dec 19 2011: Orlando Central Bus Station - 360° indoor panorama http://t.co/fIXUc3ZH 8472
Dec 19 2011: New photos from Titusville added to Florida album. http://t.co/EkRlrbju 8473
Dec 19 2011: @MinnieGupta I remember you were once served by Kim Jung. This must be especially hard for you. 8474
Dec 20 2011: @xtinewu Have YOU adopted a manatee? What's his/her name? Place of residence? 8475
Dec 20 2011: The question about Kim Jong-un: Is he sociopathic enough? 8476
Dec 20 2011: @xtinewu How about some pix of your baby? 8477
Dec 20 2011: Lake Conway, Orlando, Florida - 360° panorama http://t.co/XBiMOi7K 8478
Dec 20 2011: @xtinewu Here we go, Wu! Just the data. baseline/sustainable/peak http://t.co/XFEM2MlF 8479
Dec 20 2011: Volkswagen Heaven (or Hell). Orlando, Florida. http://t.co/KrTPsOo0 8480
Dec 20 2011: Luxury Marketing 101. The suckers fall for it every time! http://t.co/QCgtLEBt 8481
Dec 20 2011: @xtinewu Oh, well, I could max out at 193 too! (but you'd miss me!) 8482
Dec 20 2011: A twisted dream. http://t.co/Mj0OonrM 8483
Dec 20 2011: @xtinewu What could be more fun than a barrel full of manatees? Sorry I'm late! http://t.co/sipQ8Or8 8484
Dec 20 2011: My low-tech solution to a high-tech malfunction. (Damn thing won't turn off!) http://t.co/ACzJ3WPs 8485
Dec 20 2011: Trapped in line in the Walmart from Hell, White Plains. Watching poor people buy shit. Tons and tons of advertised shit for Xmas. So sad. 8486
Dec 21 2011: In the checkout line at Walmart White Plains - partial panorama http://t.co/FXNHD6Qc 8487
Dec 21 2011: @piratehook3r "driving through mississippi forever" <== That movie is "Oh Brother Where Art Thou". 8488
Dec 21 2011: RT @domesticH: if you like being hovered over and second guessed while performing simple tasks, marriage is totally for you. 8489
Dec 21 2011: A warm holiday feeling (seriously!): No gifts to give or receive. 8490
Dec 21 2011: Kim Jong Il's problem? Just lonely. http://t.co/4sfeNlNz PLUS special bonus video: blowing away Alec Baldwin! http://t.co/nj7ZvMcl 8491
Dec 21 2011: My new airport sleeping review for BWI - Baltimore/Washington (Dec. 2) http://t.co/Da3dnr9l 8492
Dec 21 2011: It was foolish for Washington to cross the Delaware standing up like that. I bet he did it only for the paparazzi. 8493
Dec 21 2011: I am a UFO agnostic. If aliens exist, I'm just grateful that they're staying out of our business. 8494
Dec 21 2011: Advertising preys upon people's basic insecurity about making decisions on their own. 8495
Dec 21 2011: @xtinewu@nilayasabnis I don't know ballet, but isn't pointe the Wu equivalent of going from pot to heroin? Should we steal those shoes? 8496
Dec 22 2011: Is time just for burning? 8497
Dec 22 2011: That an activity is beneficial doesn't make it worth doing. The benefit has to be worth the cost relative to other things you can do. 8498
Dec 22 2011: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: @BadDalaiLama Your tweets are gift enough, Bad. You make people think :-) 8499
Dec 22 2011: @zenandtheartof@xtinewu That hell is a shop at the Orlando airport... But I forgot to flag it #ManateeMonday! http://t.co/sipQ8Or8 8500
Dec 22 2011: option paralysis — The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. (via @AndrewBober) 8501
Dec 22 2011: Have iPhone? Get Dr. Steven Greer's E.T. Contact Tool. http://t.co/0cDtPfO7 Price a bit steep but—Christ!—it detects ETs! v@spyropapaspyrou 8502
Dec 22 2011: If ETs came to Earth, Dr. Steven Greer is the LAST human I would want representing my race. HE IS NOT AN AUTHORIZED EARTH SPOKESPERSON! 8503
Dec 22 2011: Our permanent tweet archive has just been updated at http://t.co/o7IVLwc4 - All the past wisdom of His Badliness in searchable form 8504
Dec 22 2011: We all have a primal need for "witnesses"—beings more powerful than ourselves taking notice of what we are doing. 8505
Dec 22 2011: While it is within your power to learn anything (Greek, particle physics), the question is whether it's the best investment of your time. 8506
Dec 22 2011: If you have failed at something, it is easier to believe in a conspiracy than accept your own responsibility for the failure. 8507
Dec 22 2011: A healthy life can be lived only in the peripheral vision of the law, not under its direct gaze. 8508
Dec 22 2011: Some of history's most acclaimed leaders were merely figureheads who happened to be at the bow of the ship when it was turning. 8509
Dec 22 2011: Every superpower has its dark side. 8510
Dec 22 2011: Life is an ongoing struggle to focus on what is most important and purge what is getting in the way. 8511
Dec 22 2011: RT @SirRocket: @BadDalaiLama ...and to get a free trip to Lanulos aboard their excellent ships. 8512
Dec 22 2011: On My Bucket List: Take a ride to Lanulos aboard the excellent ships of the Guiding Council. [See Full Bucket List] 8513
Dec 22 2011: We are all struggling with addiction, seduced into repetitive and comfortable habits instead of what is most productive. 8514
Dec 22 2011: Youth thinks it has all the time in the world, but that's a delusion. The allocation is still limited and none can be wasted. 8515
Dec 22 2011: Having a million dollars doesn't give you license to waste it. To make it last, you must treat it like it's almost gone. 8516
Dec 22 2011: People find it easy to burn money—or time—when there seems to be a lot of it lying around, but there's never as much as you think. 8517
Dec 22 2011: RT @SexCigarsBooze: How can you tell when someone is about to be a dick? http://t.co/gevaXpWk 8518
Dec 22 2011: Taco Bell semantics: Isn't "cheese quesadilla" redundant? I mean, cheesiness is implied in the "quesa" portion of the dilla, right? 8519
Dec 22 2011: This is so L.A.! ==> TV weatherman storm off set http://t.co/kfxkoTEE I'm going to my trailer! 8520
Dec 22 2011: Without irony, there is nothing to say. 8521
Dec 22 2011: Florida-bound matryoshka. http://t.co/9XwUloWE 8522
Dec 22 2011: When I see a Southern highway plastered with anti-abortion billboards I think, "What a waste!" They could get better results with a TV spot. 8523
Dec 22 2011: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" describes the ultimate police state. Big Brother sees and knows all. Even pouting gets you in trouble! 8524
Dec 23 2011: On every planet in the universe there are mathematical constants like Pi and existential ones like freedom, death and regret. 8525
Dec 23 2011: An alumna of USC keeps trying to friend me under a variety of fake guises. Our amusing exchange: http://t.co/Wv73Ypca 8526
Dec 23 2011: @xtinewu Wikipedia says "Cristal" is a Veblen good... and I AM jealous! 8527
Dec 23 2011: @xtinewu One would assume so. As a point of reference, Welch's grape juice is NOT a Veblen good. 8528
Dec 23 2011: @xtinewu Connoisseurs defined: http://t.co/9M56WLH4 8529
Dec 23 2011: (On a serious note re USC: I didn't toy with "Jessica" any further. You know there's desperation below the surface.) 8530
Dec 23 2011: @TheLastVirgo Wow! Where is this? 8531
Dec 23 2011: @laurenahayes Saks is a ZOO http://t.co/1uQxgfV0 <== God, yes! It's worse than Walmart! 8532
Dec 23 2011: Would anyone care about Dom Perignon if it sold for $5 at Walmart? Of course not! That's the definition of a Verblen good. 8533
Dec 23 2011: @xtinewu "Veblen good" — What you give to someone when you want to impress them in stereotypical way. 8534
Dec 23 2011: On My Bucket List: Shower the one I love with Veblen goods. [See Full Bucket List] 8535
Dec 23 2011: Lowering the price of Veblen goods decreases demand because they are no longer perceived as exclusive. 8536
Dec 23 2011: On My Bucket List: Develop a refined, erudite pseudo-British accent so I can do voiceover work for Lexus commercials. [See Full Bucket List] 8537
Dec 23 2011: Your purchase of SmartWater only proves the opposite. Sucker! Everyone knows smart people get their water from Fiji. 8538
Dec 23 2011: The most basic flaw of human perception is judging a product by its packaging. 8539
Dec 23 2011: People praise the singer for what the songwriter did and treat the actor like he made the movie. The real creator usually goes unnoticed. 8540
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #1: "Sure it costs more, but I'm worth it!" 8541
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #2: "Go ahead, spoil yourself!" 8542
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #3: It costs more, so it must be worth more. 8543
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #4: Beautiful and famous people are using it, so it must be good. 8544
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #5: Adjectives. Refined, exclusive, exceptional, extraordinary, exquisite, stylish, remarkable... adjectives! 8545
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #6: "For all you've done, you deserve it." 8546
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #7: "Limited Edition." 8547
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #8: Sanitary presentation wiped clean of any imperfection or human weakness. 8548
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #9: No price is too high for peace of mind. 8549
Dec 23 2011: Luxury Marketing Ploy #10: "Exceptional Value" (Note: You can say this even if it isn't.) 8550
Dec 23 2011: 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. 8551
Dec 23 2011: Technology, schmectology! We will always need Vanna White to turn the letters. 8552
Dec 23 2011: Education is the refuge of those who aren't inspired enough to do it themselves. 8553
Dec 23 2011: Sleep is your body's scheduled maintenance period. You can't cheat on maintenance and expect to remain in top form. 8554
Dec 23 2011: The First Class traveler is a crippled one, cut off from most of the world by his own luxury requirements. 8555
Dec 23 2011: The most important lesson you learn in foreign countries is what things are universal. 8556
Dec 23 2011: "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. 8557
Dec 23 2011: Main factor in your risk of crime: Is this Cracktown or Suburbatopia? 8558
Dec 24 2011: Any quest for perfection in one area usually comes at the cost of everything else. 8559
Dec 24 2011: Hanging with Bogie & Bacall. "Here's looking at you, kid!" (@ Key Largo) [pic]: http://t.co/HdJ9kMs1 8560
Dec 24 2011: Dock at Caribbean Club, Key Largo - 360° panorama http://t.co/gNmZueWb 8561
Dec 24 2011: New photos from Key Largo, shot this morning. Interviewing some locals. http://t.co/xpvPKDTi 8562
Dec 24 2011: Chubby little guy, Key Largo. http://t.co/O82IhuzY 8563
Dec 24 2011: .@xtinewu Have a very manatee Christmas! From the Florida Keys. #ManateeMonday http://t.co/Dtrot7Oa 8564
Dec 24 2011: Abandoned mansion on the Florida Keys - 360° panorama http://t.co/XsfOIBkl 8565
Dec 24 2011: Before you acquire something—be it an object or obligation—you must ask yourself how you're going to get rid of it. 8566
Dec 24 2011: Time is not for killing. 8567
Dec 24 2011: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ...you find some amazing little nooks. i'd love to roam the inner chambers of that lonely structure... 8568
Dec 24 2011: @xtinewu OMG, Wu! A BIG Manatee Christmas! Key West. http://t.co/Ui02raGv 8569
Dec 24 2011: Key West: End of the road. Can't go no mo'! http://t.co/LC4OuCLG 8570
Dec 24 2011: Duval Street, Key West - 360° panorama http://t.co/M3OCCo1Y 8571
Dec 24 2011: The key to success is practice, we are told, but some people practice for years and never improve. The real key is getting better. 8572
Dec 25 2011: RT @PraveenSawh: @BadDalaiLama True. Moreover, practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. 8573
Dec 25 2011: Palm reading on Duval Street, Key West. http://t.co/X2WaXjho 8574
Dec 25 2011: New photos from Key West. http://t.co/FIgr6aDt (end of album) 8575
Dec 25 2011: Let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas: a minor holiday even to Christians until commercial interests made it big. 8576
Dec 25 2011: Government is inevitable and inevitably inept. 8577
Dec 25 2011: @xtinewu A bit of a shoe fetish, have we? Inviting them for dinner and drinks? 8578
Dec 25 2011: RT @laurenahayes: "Make sure that the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need." 8579
Dec 25 2011: For your daily dose of First World Problems, follow @FirstWorldPains — e.g. "My European luxury sedan requires premium unleaded." 8580
Dec 25 2011: If you're worried about any of the problems listed at @FirstWorldPains, your life is on a crash course with oblivion. 8581
Dec 25 2011: You thought Greece was a crisis? Wait for China! ==> We all have a stake in China's real estate bubble http://t.co/5fHSPHAQ 8582
Dec 25 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama Couldn`t agree more. Specially when people get carried away over china. I rather look at "not growing" coun ... 8583
Dec 25 2011: The proliferation of car alarms assures that no one listens to car alarms. 8584
Dec 25 2011: My Christmas is so sad and lonely. No family or holiday cheer. Swimming in the warm Caribbean at sunrise in Key West. http://t.co/Uk45nIn7 8585
Dec 25 2011: Telephoto lenses are a symptom of photographic autism—the inability to see the more intimate and meaningful scenes right in front of you. 8586
Dec 25 2011: The key to great photography—and success in life—is seeing what is actually in the viewfinder, not what you want to be there. 8587
Dec 25 2011: Latitude 25 is a very nice latitude, especially when there are sea breezes. (@ Latitude 25) http://t.co/QDChN57U 8588
Dec 25 2011: The greatest joy of Christmas is that it means the Christmas music is going to stop. 8589
Dec 25 2011: Travel is always teaching you humility and that you're never as smart as you think you are. 8590
Dec 25 2011: The trouble with spectacular growth is it usually ends spectacularly. 8591
Dec 25 2011: Becoming an actor is so appealing to young people because you don't have to have anything to say. Others will write lines for you. 8592
Dec 25 2011: If you want to be functional, you have to build firewalls between you and the dysfunctionals of society so they don't draw you down. 8593
Dec 25 2011: Christmas is almost over. Relax. Take a breather. Then get ready for our next fake consumer holiday: Super Bowl! 8594
Dec 26 2011: Christmas Pelicans! New photos taken yesterday on the Florida Keys. http://t.co/xpvPKDTi 8595
Dec 26 2011: Let me be the first to wish you a Merry Not Christmas Anymore! 8596
Dec 26 2011: "If you can't state it simply, you don't understand it well enough." 8597
Dec 26 2011: I may not agree with what you do, but I'll defend to the death your right to do it. On second thought, never mind. You're on your own. 8598
Dec 26 2011: Just updated my G+ travel notes on Key West and the Florida Keys: "Best cheap winter vacation in America!" https://t.co/0Fx4aMTk - Go now! 8599
Dec 26 2011: Your morning Walmart moment — Two exciting new magazines: Ground Beef and Comfort Food! http://t.co/7eQlcoch 8600
Dec 26 2011: Boy feeding the fish... and hopefully not the other way around! Giant tarpon on the Florida Keys. http://t.co/dUN56Q1W 8601
Dec 26 2011: @cottonmouth1 Ah, the quality 'toons of my youth. Thanks! 8602
Dec 26 2011: Vlad Tepis was big on revenge, punishing not just his enemies but their families and villages. It makes you wonder where revenge ends. 8603
Dec 26 2011: If you decide to pursue revenge, the main question is, where are you going to stop? 8604
Dec 26 2011: @LadyFriday "It's a dish best served cold, as they say." <== But how much should you eat? 8605
Dec 26 2011: Revenge is different than asserting your boundaries and pushing back when they are violated. 8606
Dec 26 2011: Revenge is seeking an emotional compensation that isn't truly obtainable. 8607
Dec 26 2011: The essence of music is people making noise and figuring out what sounds good. 8608
Dec 26 2011: Attempting to manage your mood though chemicals will always backfire. Only you can manage your mood by listening to your body and mind. 8609
Dec 26 2011: Alcohol, caffeine and drugs are mood management by chemistry. Ultimately they make your mood worse, and now you're dependent. 8610
Dec 26 2011: Today is the day I quit caffeine. Here is the first awful step. http://t.co/ZAZobpgp 8611
Dec 26 2011: Caffeine-free diet Pepsi tastes like regular but doesn't clear the fuzziness in my head. The fuzziness is caused by caffeine withdrawal. 8612
Dec 26 2011: I used to be a sober citizen. What triggered my slide into addiction was McDonalds' Mocha Frappé. The caffeine went down too easy. 8613
Dec 26 2011: On My Bucket List: Look straight in the eye of a Marine recruit from six inches away and yell, "What's your malfunction, soldier!" [See Full Bucket List] 8614
Dec 26 2011: The benefits of kicking caffeine: 1) Save money. 2) Save time. 3) You don't feel bad when you don't have it. 4) FEWER BATHROOM BREAKS! 8615
Dec 26 2011: Songwriting is moviemaking on a very small budget. 8616
Dec 26 2011: .@AlternateEthos "What is movie score writing then?" <== The most important part of the movie! cc: @xtinewu 8617
Dec 26 2011: The greatest danger to good people is getting swallowed up in the needs of others. 8618
Dec 27 2011: The prison for good people is when a few compassionate decisions lead to huge obligations that absorb everything you have. 8619
Dec 27 2011: "Just because the voices aren't real, doesn't mean they don't have good ideas." @LetsGo2TheBeach 8620
Dec 27 2011: Good people have a conscience. The problem for them is learning how to turn it off. 8621
Dec 27 2011: Hopefully, the reader dwells on the bright, optimistic surface of the world. BDL must commute to the dark underbelly where it's not so nice. 8622
Dec 27 2011: Most of the BDL's wisdom is the product of whatever past trauma he is processing. He reaches into chaos and tries to pull out meaning. 8623
Dec 27 2011: BDL can't be bought — which sometimes makes it hard to pay the bills. 8624
Dec 27 2011: Many artists have great skills but nothing to say. BDL has plenty to say but never enough skills to do it. 8625
Dec 27 2011: BDL is a pretty good photographer, but he won't do weddings or glamorize commercial products. Ergo, no profit. 8626
Dec 27 2011: BDL will only photograph a scene as he sees it, not as a client wants it to be seen. Ergo, no clients. 8627
Dec 27 2011: BDL's mission is to broadcast as much of his hard-earned wisdom as possible so others don't make the same mistakes he has. 8628
Dec 27 2011: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: @BadDalaiLama but nobody can handle the underbelly better than u! 8629
Dec 27 2011: .@joyfulpath: "why must you?" [commute to the dark side] <== Why would anyone choose the Red Pill when they can have the Blue Pill? 8630
Dec 27 2011: RT @RobArtPhoto: @BadDalaiLama You may have not found your audience yet. They are there! 8631
Dec 27 2011: The deepest, most meaningful photos are when the photographer is engaged in the action, not viewing it from afar. 8632
Dec 27 2011: When the business of the day turns into bizarre hallucinations, you know you're right on the edge of sleep. 8633
Dec 27 2011: Most entertainment is disposable, rolling on and off the screen. Only the tiniest portion passes into the future—usually because it's good! 8634
Dec 27 2011: If all you share with your loved one is products you consume together, your relationship is in big trouble. 8635
Dec 27 2011: Nothing is so Pythonesque as ultra-Orthodox Jews rioting (I've seen it! Looks like the Ministry of Silly Hats!) http://t.co/Ywjl37yw #Israel 8636
Dec 27 2011: One year ago, we spent Christmas in Jerusalem and Bethlehem (for real!) Check out are archived tweets, photos & videos: http://t.co/KhORbNLR 8637
Dec 27 2011: .@aaroncajes "When will you visit the vatican?" <== http://t.co/ndhmDOI2 8638
Dec 27 2011: @aaroncajes "Jerusalem, check! Vatican, check! How'bout mecca? :D" <== Two out of three ain't bad! 8639
Dec 27 2011: Statistically, "Have a Nice Day!" won't change my day, so a simple "Goodbye" will suffice. 8640
Dec 27 2011: If you removed all the "Please Drive Safely!" signs from the highways, would it change the accident rate? 8641
Dec 27 2011: To what do I attribute my excellent health? Different toilet seat every day. Helps strengthen my immune system! 8642
Dec 27 2011: Don't let dysfunctional people into your castle. Defend your moat. You can send care packages out but don't let them in. 8643
Dec 27 2011: The best way to "strengthen your immune system" is expose it to a variety of pathogens. Dirt! Germs! Revel in them! 8644
Dec 27 2011: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ...i wish there were a Triple-Decker "Fave" Star option, fer that 1.... 8645
Dec 27 2011: On My Bucket List: Become my company's regional sales manager for Northeastern Idaho. [See Full Bucket List] 8646
Dec 27 2011: RT @EvilSchwartzie: Today's Justin Bieber is tomorrow's Justin Timberlake and next year's David Cassidy. Or Danny Bonaduce. 8647
Dec 27 2011: @laurenahayes A sucker for Veblen goods! 8648
Dec 27 2011: RT @pixieinthedark: I met Santa. He spoke English well, and had no sense of urgency. 8649
Dec 27 2011: @xtinewu Now I see you're going to walk in the water in a footless garment drinking expensive wine from the bottle. Photos please! #baglady 8650
Dec 27 2011: @xtinewu I thought of it first! Tucked into my own Snuggie in NC. http://t.co/a8Uu4ifX 8651
Dec 27 2011: OMG! 24 hours off caffeine and MY PEE HAS CHANGED COLOR! Instead of clear it's now dark yellow. What do I do? 8652
Dec 27 2011: .@joyfulpath "Drink water!" <== But how much? What is the proper shade of yellow? Maybe I need expert help—a pee consultant! 8653
Dec 27 2011: .@joyfulpath "I am your pee consultant: drink water until your pee is light yellow" <== Okay, but what did people do before pee consultants? 8654
Dec 27 2011: .@joyfulpath This is a radical idea, post-caffeine, but maybe I should just drink whenever I'm thirsty? (And save on pee consultant fees.) 8655
Dec 27 2011: @the_anastasia Poor Eeyore! 8656
Dec 27 2011: @xtinewu You had to buy your own Snuggie? I thought someone gave it to you. 8657
Dec 27 2011: When a bum asks, "Can you help out the homeless?" what he really means is, "Can you help out the self-destructive?" 8658
Dec 27 2011: Impressions of Cairo (six months ago): Everyone living on the edge, hustling to survive. Our archived tweets: http://t.co/OUshdh2b 8659
Dec 28 2011: Travel in Third World countries is inherently traumatic. It's not a cruise in the Caribbean. 8660
Dec 28 2011: Now playing in my head: "Man on the Moon" by REM. 8661
Dec 28 2011: Your morning Walmart moment: OCD illustrated (not only the TP but declining to remove it after use) http://t.co/QHS0vsRb 8662
Dec 28 2011: America's on the mend! ==> Shoppers return to credit to pay for holidays http://t.co/507On1Mc 8663
Dec 28 2011: RT @xtinewu: Damn its true!! RT @Danni_G Of course someone will preach "leave the past in the past" if they're the one who fucked up.... 8664
Dec 28 2011: RT @xtinewu: RT @gregorcollins "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Leo Tolstoy 8665
Dec 28 2011: @TheBosha OMG! I see your face! Security has been breached! 8666
Dec 28 2011: Waiting for the aliens to arrive... and waiting and waiting... (@ UFO WELCOME CENTER) [pic]: http://t.co/mGsGjzdD 8667
Dec 28 2011: UFO Welcome Center, Bowman, SC. (The aliens are operating on a different timescale than us, so you must be patient.) http://t.co/G0CTZeXF 8668
Dec 28 2011: RT @MailOnline: Cheeta the chimp dies aged 80 after outliving both of his Tarzan co-stars http://t.co/pYzj7AiU 8669
Dec 28 2011: RT @brainpicker: Inside the production process of The Hobbit with Peter Jackson on location in New Zealand http://t.co/SosTD5Jn 8670
Dec 28 2011: The job of advertising is to distort the truth in favor of the advertiser without technically lying. 8671
Dec 28 2011: RT @latimes The bond between mother and toddler could affect obesity later http://t.co/uizCYfvi <== Duh! Doesn't it affect EVERYTHING later? 8672
Dec 28 2011: Times may have changed, but you can still get a "Support Home Ownership For All" Florida license plate. http://t.co/9ADZ1qHE 8673
Dec 28 2011: On My Bucket List: Quit alcohol, cigarettes, pot, television, impulse shopping and casual sex (but first I'll have to take up these habits). [See Full Bucket List] 8674
Dec 28 2011: Inspired by my 2-day-old success in quitting caffeine, I have upped the ante on abstinence,quitting all Junk Food. http://t.co/eruF26dn 8675
Dec 28 2011: RT @kfan People who start projects and never finish them are cooler than people who never start <== But not as cool as those who finish them 8676
Dec 29 2011: RT @durtyfeet: This pic says it all. No child left behind means many children being held back.... http://t.co/weKmoDfS 8677
Dec 29 2011: French gangsters love barbecue! "Trois hommes exécutés près de Marseille selon la méthode du 'barbecue'" http://t.co/H9Vi56n3 via @jacquep 8678
Dec 29 2011: No amount of musical training can teach you to write an interesting song everyone is compelled to listen to. 8679
Dec 29 2011: Satellite analysis, Orlando FL: Periodically, this parking lot fills with cars then empties a few hours later. Why? http://t.co/lyPGvbMe 8680
Dec 29 2011: It's sunny in Northern Florida but not warm enough to swim. #firstworldproblems 8681
Dec 29 2011: .@Andreaof9 "Is it a sports arena?" <== Of course, but that still doesn't answer the "Why?" 8682
Dec 29 2011: Working my Facebook at the Orlando airport - panorama. http://t.co/4GS6jK9W 8683
Dec 29 2011: Actually nothing seems LESS magical to me than boarding Disney's Magical Express. 8684
Dec 29 2011: "I don't have time for your little reindeer games" is a phrase that has apparently gone out of fashion, for reasons I cannot fathom. 8685
Dec 29 2011: Unclear if this is a billboard for a medical center... or a divorce attorney! http://t.co/b4ocpFX9 8686
Dec 29 2011: The acquisition phase is usually joyful, the divestment phase more difficult. 8687
Dec 29 2011: Ah, the Orange Pills! So seductive and beautiful, especially when Christmas music doesn't end on Christmas. http://t.co/9Gd30xJk 8688
Dec 29 2011: @xtinewu OMG! That's scarier than playing the violin in front of 10 million people! Pray for no wardrobe malfunction! 8689
Dec 29 2011: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ...naww...look how cute u are in ur lil' stocking feet! 8690
Dec 29 2011: On My Bucket List: Matching designer luggage. [See Full Bucket List] 8691
Dec 29 2011: Human field observation: Little boys can't dance with each other. Any attempt turns into play fighting. 8692
Dec 29 2011: The American Revolution was probably the only one in history that worked like it was supposed to. 8693
Dec 29 2011: Isn't "self-help book" an oxymoron? If you are really going to help yourself, why do you need the book? 8694
Dec 29 2011: Is there a self-help book to cure people of self-help book addiction? 8695
Dec 29 2011: Bad Dalai Lama's self-help advice: Don't wait for a book or guru or New Years Eve or anything. Just do it, dumbass! 8696
Dec 29 2011: RT @Electfro: Lyfe is hard on da streets of Twitter, niggas be subtweetin',tryna block yo ass, unfollow you an shyt,you gotta be hard 2 ... 8697
Dec 29 2011: RT @PritsWire: @BadDalaiLama what's the difference between advice held in a book to improve yourself, and advice held in a tweet to impr ... 8698
Dec 29 2011: The worst crime, short of murder, is the indiscriminate making of babies. 8699
Dec 30 2011: RT @EvilSchwartzie: I like to blame my problems on hubris because it sounds  cool, like I have an Egyptian curse or something. 8700
Dec 30 2011: .@Kim_Jong_1l is alive! His "death" was greatly exaggerated. Follow him! 8701
Dec 30 2011: Vines have it too good. Instead of growing their own trunks, they can just gob onto someone else's. #parasites #plantoutrage 8702
Dec 30 2011: Drug crime is marked by the need for immediate cash and the willingness to take risks no "sane" person would accept. 8703
Dec 30 2011: Aboard a Megabus from Orlando to Atlanta. I paid $5 for this ticket, but it's not as rough as it looks. http://t.co/VzuL3QkI 8704
Dec 30 2011: Oops! Bus went in the wrong direction! Heading back to Orlando now. (I offered the driver my iPhone.) http://t.co/lmfWWoYg 8705
Dec 30 2011: .@ziggzagzac There are actually two drivers. Apparently both have never driven this route before. 8706
Dec 30 2011: We're back on track. Never mind! http://t.co/ehUu11J5 8707
Dec 30 2011: @xtinewu It's footing failure I'm worried about. Long way down from there! ("She died performing Kashmir in stilettos" is a noble epitaph.) 8708
Dec 30 2011: A difference in photographic styles: long lens shooting from a distance (him) vs becoming one with the pelican (me) http://t.co/USu4oe0V 8709
Dec 30 2011: Pelican dispute: http://t.co/nApTWfsR (FB photo) 8710
Dec 30 2011: This is what I used to do! The journey of checked baggage http://t.co/a1xx5qjZ video via @brainpicker 8711
Dec 30 2011: Megabus drop-off, Atlanta. http://t.co/VahmWpTP 8712
Dec 30 2011: The dumbing-down of higher education marketing. Atlanta transit. http://t.co/uTRTY7EQ 8713
Dec 30 2011: ...and a wider view. http://t.co/toOwWMp7 8714
Dec 30 2011: Major urban scams preying on the poor: payday loan centers, lotteries, for-profit colleges. 8715
Dec 30 2011: @mecotterill Truly terrifying! "The Hidden Buddhist Threat" http://t.co/Q8pwoE9h 8716
Dec 30 2011: My first taste of Fiji water. Tastes crisp and wet with just the right amount of hydration. The flavor is very subtle. http://t.co/pjloBl8N 8717
Dec 30 2011: Violating the Fiji Water End User Agreement. http://t.co/diblqnj0 8718
Dec 30 2011: It is much easier to see the mistakes others are making in their lives than our own. 8719
Dec 31 2011: Sometimes you have to remind people of the old technology. http://t.co/bNEBAlKz 8720
Dec 31 2011: Something the rich never get: It's not the opulence of the surroundings that makes the party but the quality of the interaction. 8721
Dec 31 2011: An active body does not imply an active mind. 8722
Dec 31 2011: If I was a wayward youth in this Mississippi cow town, I'd be changing every "P" to "F". http://t.co/zWZXZmVv 8723
Dec 31 2011: The flippancy of youth: "It's only time. I've got plenty of it!" 8724
Dec 31 2011: RT @MailOnline: 16,000 New Year tweets a second crash Twitter http://t.co/MGhR7ZFN 8725
Dec 31 2011: "Bible Belt" no longer describes the South as you see it on the street. Today, it's the "Blubber Belt". 8726
Dec 31 2011: Why think about human suffering when you can watch happy shows on TV?
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