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5294Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression is psychotherapy, say psychotherapists. 5295Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression is religion, say religious leaders. 5296Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression—the only one that really works over time—is YOU taking control of your own life. 5297Jul 1 2011: Given a choice between changing ones life and taking a drug to alleviate the symptoms of bad decisions, most prefer the drug. 5298Jul 1 2011: Depression is a messenger telling you something isn't right. Should you shoot him or listen to him? 5299Jul 1 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay: "Depression" 5300Jul 1 2011: "Doctor, my woman is coming back home late today. Can you maybe give me something?..." <== Listen, Barry, doc can't help with that. 5301Jul 1 2011: .@ReverendReve "and what to do if one isn't strong or intelligent enough to fight/figure out the 'demons'?" <== Drugs of course! :) 5302Jul 1 2011: RT @ReverendReve: @BadDalaiLama and what to do if one isnt strong or intelligent enough to fight/figure out the 'deamons'? 5303Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama clearly you've never been insane before. 5304Jul 1 2011: RT @shuffleyerfeet: @BadDalaiLama antidepressants = zombie #medicinalmisdirection 5305Jul 1 2011: RT @algekalipso: @BadDalaiLama It can be added, though, that there are 'taking control of your problems'-resistant depressions. 5306Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Antidepressant drugs are the worst, most devastating trick played on society by big medicine and big ph ... 5307Jul 1 2011: I'm thinking of joining the Scientologists on this one. L. Ron and I are thinking along the same lines! 5308Jul 1 2011: See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant 2nd paragraph — In published AND unpublished studies, antidepressants only marginally better than a placebo. 5309Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama antidepressants: Bad Dalai is getting his TRUTH on! Right on brother! 5310Jul 1 2011: .@polkadotminerva "will this essay be anywhere I can read it?" <== at http://BadDalaiLama.com (in a few days) 5311Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama depression that benefits from anti-depressants is often a dysphoria where your emotions do not reflect your ... 5312Jul 1 2011: .@avphibes "...often your emotions do not reflect your life situation." <== So taking drugs to "fix" the problem, how do you get off them? 5313Jul 1 2011: These little essays usually result in an immediate loss of followers. In the words of Spinal Tap: "The audience is getting more selective." 5314Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Essay and audience: You may have lost some followers with the depression essay, but you gained a loyal ... 5315Jul 1 2011: RT @algekalipso: @BadDalaiLama@MikeShawTweet Thanks.Really interesting that active placebos are as good. So the fact that you feel some ... 5316Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @baddalailama I recommend as supplemental reading one of my favorite writings on depression: http://t.co/y5eTQWq 5317Jul 1 2011: A social or therapeutic intervention is most likely to work if the client explicitly wants help and is willing to pay a hefty price for it. 5318Jul 1 2011: All the news you need in one place! http://twitpic.com/5jbjtw #walmart ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5319Jul 1 2011: @avphibes That would be dependence. ←End tweet essay: Antidepressant Fraud 5320
Jul 1 2011: The main function of advertising is to find a trivial advantage of the product and promote it as a major one. 5321
Jul 1 2011: Drug addicts are the closest thing to real zombies. They'll eat your brains to serve their primitive needs. So sad and so scary. 5322
Jul 1 2011: Coen Brothers movies are filled with great technique, but most of them leave you empty, like going on a ride that doesn't take you anywhere. 5323
Jul 1 2011: .@dunebat "I thought 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was good." <== Indeed memorable, but what did it teach you? 5324
Jul 1 2011: Is entertainment the only purpose of art—to pass the time idly and without pain? 5325
Jul 1 2011: Lying on the ground in OK lookin' up at the stars, Milky Way marching across it. (Y'ain't got stars if ya can't see the Milky Way.) 5326
Jul 1 2011: RT @xtinewu: Pay attention class! #FF @baddalailama. But you're already following him right? 5327
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama entertainment is the only purpose of entertainment. Art is meant to provoke/enlighten. 5328
Jul 1 2011: Plant a tree and watch it grow. It used to sound fun. Then you realize, "My God, these things have to be maintained!" 5329
Jul 1 2011: All of the Bad Dalai Lama's tweets come straight from the heart, none from the balls, gall bladder or spleen. 5330
Jul 1 2011: You want a Zombie Apocalypse? Legalize hard drugs and see what happens. 5331
Jul 1 2011: Just paid $80 to a zombie, a young friend who I know will probably use it for meth. Thin as a rail. So sad. So complicated. 5332
Jul 1 2011: .@shuffleyerfeet "if he is a friend give him some food, shelter and water. Not more meth." <== I know my boundaries and do what I can do. 5333
Jul 1 2011: Boundaries mean you can walk comfortably through a disaster zone, knowing what you can do and what you can't. 5334
Jul 1 2011: There's no greater honor in Oklahoma than death by rodeo—except maybe maimed for life. 5335
Jul 1 2011: Fact: If you die by rodeo in Oklahoma, they name a highway interchange after you. Perished in the line of duty. 5336
Jul 1 2011: Fact: If someone starts a tweet with "Fact:" it is almost certainly a lie. 5337
Jul 1 2011: Visiting the Joplin zone of devastation for the first time in daylight. The main swath is 50% cleaned up. Houses removed to foundations. 5338Jul 1 2011: Needs a bit more than a roofing job. Joplin, Missouri. http://twitpic.com/5jo211←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5339
Jul 1 2011: Let's say you could do "time tourism" and visit the deck of the Titanic just before the iceberg. If your safety was assured, would you go? 5340Jul 1 2011: Goaded by several followers: Decriminalization of hard drugs in Portugal, a seeming success: http://t.co/PDVaZmj←Start tweet essay: Legalizing Drugs 5341Jul 1 2011: One little niggling question about Portugal's open drug policy: Where do the drugs come from? Who is supplying the cocaine, heroine, etc.? 5342Jul 1 2011: If the U.S. legalized meth use, would it also legalize massive cross-border shipments? Would Wal-Mart sell it? Ads for it on Super Bowl? 5343Jul 1 2011: Answer this question: If you legalized hard drug possession and use, who would supply the drugs? Describe the supply chain. 5344Jul 1 2011: I acknowledge losing the main argument: Legalizing hard drug use would not necessarily create a Zombie Apocalypse. It didn't in Portugal. 5345Jul 1 2011: Unless... the Portuguese were Zombies to begin with! Bwahaha! 5346Jul 1 2011: If drug use is legal but wholesale distribution is illegal (as in Portugal), then you would STILL have drug wars along the Mexican border. 5347Jul 1 2011: If both drug use AND distribution were legal, who would be the supplier? Philip Morris? Or would the Government have it's own meth labs? 5348Jul 1 2011: Think it through: If drugs were legal across the board, where would they come from and who would profit? Where would incentives lie? 5349Jul 1 2011: What could possibly go wrong in this Utopian plan to legalize all drugs for everyone? 5350Jul 1 2011: #### End. Live essay: "Legalizing Drugs" 5351Jul 1 2011: Tell me who would manufacturer the drugs, and I'll show you the Achilles' Heel of your drug legalization plan. 5352Jul 1 2011: RT @MAndersson1968: @BadDalaiLama Astrazeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. 5353Jul 1 2011: American companies could give their drugs nifty trademarked brand names. "Heroin" is too negative. How about Seabreeze™ or Arabian Gold™? ←End tweet essay: Legalizing Drugs 5354
Jul 1 2011: RT @kstatik: @BadDalaiLama As always, you raise some great points... (re: legalization of drugs / supply chain.) 5355
Jul 1 2011: The main purpose of education is to keep a child occupied with meaningless tasks while his brain matures on its own. 5356
Jul 2 2011: I love you like mosquitos love summer camp. 5357Jul 2 2011: When someone is paranoid, diplomacy will only get you so far. You can give it a shot, but they'll likely see threat in every noble gesture. ←Start tweet essay: Paranoia 5358Jul 2 2011: The safest way to deal with the paranoid is just get away. Slip out quietly if you can but run if you need to. 5359Jul 2 2011: As soon as a paranoid detects you pulling away from him, he'll get even more paranoid—and violent—so you need to get away FAST and FAR! 5360Jul 2 2011: The paranoid sees such great threats against him that any response seems like reasonable self-defense, hence the violence. 5361Jul 2 2011: The "paranoid transformation" can turn even the most benign gesture into a threat. 5362Jul 2 2011: "I'm afraid of losing you." + paranoia = "You're leaving me, but I'm going to get you first!" 5363Jul 2 2011: "I love you." + paranoia = "You can see I'm dependent on you and are trying to take advantage of me." 5364Jul 2 2011: A gift of flowers + paranoia = "What is he trying to get from me?" 5365Jul 2 2011: A smile + paranoia = "Why is he giving me that fake smile?" 5366Jul 2 2011: Paranoia is a mechanism that assures a person's success in the outside world does nor rise above his inner self-esteem. 5367Jul 2 2011: Paranoia accounts for most of the violence of the world—lashing out at an imaginary threat. Much more common than goal-directed violence. 5368Jul 2 2011: .@polkadotminerva "what if you lack paranoia?" <== Drugs can help with that! 5369Jul 2 2011: Anger is the first defense of the guilty. The second is to accuse others of the same crime one is guilty of. 5370Jul 2 2011: Paranoia can rise and fall but is chiefly a function of personality. It is a factor we must evaluate in everyone we deal with. 5371Jul 2 2011: If someone is inherently paranoid, you must be careful about the information you give him, because it could be used against you. 5372Jul 2 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Paranoia" ←End tweet essay: Paranoia 5373
Jul 2 2011: Brilliant idea: the US GOV'T could manufacture and sell hard drugs, using all the proceeds for drug treatment. What could possibly go wrong? 5374
Jul 2 2011: Oh and one little aside on the drug issue: Drug treatment doesn't work! Statistically no better than a placebo program. 5375
Jul 2 2011: My 1-page essay on the failure of drug treatment programs: "Words Don't Work" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/words (2009) 5376
Jul 2 2011: You don't realize until you are lying on the ground how difficult it can be to tell a firefly from a meteor. 5377
Jul 2 2011: Nearly all rejections are blessings in disguise. 5378Jul 2 2011: My campsite last night: an abandoned homestead in Cuba. http://twitpic.com/5jzrlm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5379
Jul 2 2011: Antidepressants don't cure depression; they merely defer it. 5380
Jul 2 2011: You can't force creativity, but you can arrange your life so you are free to follow new ideas when they happen. 5381
Jul 2 2011: Creativity can happen only where you allow it to. 5382Jul 2 2011: Staples of the American diet: carbonated high-fructose corn syrup and chips. http://twitpic.com/5k29df←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5383
Jul 2 2011: If you cheat on sleep, you're cheating your own creativity. 5384
Jul 2 2011: RT @JessicarrScott: @BadDalaiLama they defer it till you are living a happier life moron 5385
Jul 2 2011: If the fuel gauge in your car is close to empty and you're anxious about it, would it be helpful to have a button to make it read "Full"? 5386
Jul 2 2011: If your gas gauge shows nearly empty, it doesn't improve your situation to place duct tape over the gauge. 5387
Jul 2 2011: Nothing elevates the level of public discourse like adding "moron!" to the end of your response. 5388
Jul 2 2011: Marriage equality is nice in theory, but most marriages seem to end up with one becoming the parent and the other a child. 5389
Jul 2 2011: Marriage is a relationship of love and understanding where one partner enables the dysfunction of another. 5390
Jul 2 2011: Thanks to my policy of not mentioning Twitter on Facebook, hardly anyone there follows me here. Whew! Lucky that! 5391Jul 2 2011: When you read a book you're being controlled by someone else's thoughts. If you spend the time just thinking, you may accomplish a lot more. ←Start tweet essay: Book Burning 5392Jul 2 2011: Books were the video game scourge of an earlier generation. 5393Jul 2 2011: In the 20 hours it takes to read a book, think of all you could accomplish in the real world. 5394Jul 2 2011: Just because you are reading instead of watching TV doesn't prove your time is being spent wisely. 5395Jul 2 2011: Hypothesis: You learn more and retain it better if you graze for info as needed instead of taking it in sequentially on someone else's plan. 5396Jul 2 2011: The traditional model of learning is a teacher forcing information into you in a sequence he deems appropriate. That's essentially a book. 5397Jul 2 2011: The Wikipedia model of learning is you graze for information as you need it, when you're ready to integrate it into your schema. 5398Jul 2 2011: The book is a product of the 15th Century innovation of moveable type. Is it still the most efficient way to convey information? 5399Jul 2 2011: RT @jachy: @BadDalaiLama Actually both methods are appropriate and necessary, and JIT learning can't succeed if you don't know what to l ... 5400Jul 2 2011: The book persists in the modern world mainly because it is a large marketable unit where publishers can still make a little money. 5401Jul 2 2011: The dirty little secret about fiction: Novelists just make this shit up! 5402Jul 2 2011: However good a novel may be, you're trapped in a simulation—a virtual reality—that is never going to exceed the experience of the author. 5403Jul 2 2011: When you say that a book changed your life, you don't usually mean the whole book but certain memorable parts of it—not the whole 20 hours. 5404Jul 2 2011: The main problem of reading a book is wading through the dull parts to get to the juicy and meaningful bits. The good parts aren't flagged! 5405Jul 2 2011: You could spend years reading all the great works of literature, or just catch the Cliffs Notes versions online. Who is ever going to know? 5406Jul 2 2011: The main cost of reading a book is "loss of opportunity"—i.e. the more productive things you could be doing with the time. 5407Jul 2 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Books" 5408Jul 2 2011: Weak and immature minds need more structure imposed from the outside. Strong minds learn in their own. ←End tweet essay: Book Burning 5409
Jul 2 2011: If my life had an Unrated Director's Cut, it would be pretty much the same as the one in theaters. 5410
Jul 2 2011: You can spend 40 hours in a wind tunnel, bombarded by water, insects, noise and direct sun—or you can ride a motorcycle cross-country. 5411
Jul 2 2011: You never really know someone until they feel secure in your presence and their REAL self emerges. 5412
Jul 2 2011: The only clear and stable pleasure comes from fulfilling a meaningful mission. 5413
Jul 3 2011: Just because something is pleasurable now does not mean that repeating the action will give you the same pleasure again. 5414
Jul 3 2011: There is wisdom in not revealing your intent until you have to. It avoids unnecessary politics and preserves more options for the future. 5415
Jul 3 2011: When your iPhone goes down, all the other organs start to fail as well—liver, kidneys, heart, brain. Not a pleasant way to go. 5416
Jul 3 2011: Without the People of Walmart, how would our species propagate? No other population is more fecund. 5417
Jul 3 2011: All great movies follow the pattern of The Wizard of Oz. There's a journey, but in the end the solution was inside the hero all along. 5418
Jul 3 2011: Retire to a luxury gated community surrounded by a golf course — the ultimate nursing home for those without a brain. 5419
Jul 3 2011: RT @kellyoxford: I prefer to learn from someone else's mistakes. 5420
Jul 3 2011: "Our grandest pretenses conceal not evil or ugliness, but emptiness." @agnosticcc 5421Jul 3 2011: Sunrise in Ohio. http://twitpic.com/5kki1p←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5422
Jul 3 2011: Recent tweeted essays: Paranoia http://j.mp/iiy90r Drugs http://j.mp/itYVDW Antidepressants http://j.mp/kz55AG Books http://j.mp/k3gFEz 5423
Jul 3 2011: Your parent-mind, who knows what is right, has to manage all your little child-selves who don't have the same self-control. 5424Jul 3 2011: A jerk is one who aggressively imposes his ego upon others with little regard for their feelings or needs. ←Start tweet essay: More About Jerks 5425Jul 3 2011: When a passenger berates an airline gate agent for a delay the agent obviously has no control over, we say, "What a jerk!" 5426Jul 3 2011: Jerks can be technically competent and rise high in organizations, where they make life hell for everyone around them. 5427Jul 3 2011: Deputy Barney Fife of Mayberry is a classic jerk—pompous, full of himself, abusive of those weaker than him, yet deeply insecure. 5428Jul 3 2011: A jerk can be comical to watch from a distance but hell to deal with up close, especially if he has any sort of power over you. 5429Jul 3 2011: A jerk is highly narcissistic. He can't see beyond the fog of his own needs to the needs of others. 5430Jul 3 2011: "Paranoid" and "jerk" go together. Most abusive jerk-like behavior arises from the perception of an imaginary threat. 5431Jul 3 2011: Some jerks are know-it-alls who have the solution to everything even if you didn't ask for it. 5432Jul 3 2011: Some jerks will talk your ear off, filling the air with words without detecting your waning interest. Try to pull away and they talk louder. 5433Jul 3 2011: Some jerks seem perfectly nice on first meeting. They reveal themselves only (a) when under stress or (b) when given power. 5434Jul 3 2011: Give a jerk any sort of power and he will use it to abuse others. 5435Jul 3 2011: Jerks are easy to understand because we have all been one: aggressively self-confident on the outside, insecure on the inside. 5436Jul 3 2011: There is no treatment for jerks, at least from the outside. You can only get away from them or manage them cautiously like wild animals. 5437Jul 3 2011: Avoid being generous to a jerk. Don't give him more than you have to—especially information—because it could be used against you. 5438Jul 3 2011: The opposite of a jerk is someone with "no ego" who acknowledges the needs of others and doesn't bulldoze over them. 5439Jul 3 2011: The non-jerk just wants to get the job done with the minimum of conflict. 5440Jul 3 2011: If you are truly secure and self-confident then you don't have to aggressively assert your worth in every interaction. 5441Jul 3 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Jerks" 5442Jul 3 2011: Also see our earlier tweeted essay on Jerks: http://baddalailama.com/archive/?essay=jerks (March 2011) 5443Jul 3 2011: RT @SethMacFarlane: We Americans are proud and will not debase ourselves for anything, except to get on TV, or for a free t-shirt, or fo ... 5444Jul 3 2011: RT @HisHoliness: Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. 5445Jul 3 2011: Someone who expects to be cheated responds to the world in such a way that their prediction usually comes true. #paranoia ←End tweet essay: More About Jerks 5446Jul 3 2011: It's so annoying to nurture a grudge for years, plot your revenge, then find your subject has self-destructed on his own. That is NOT fair! 5447Jul 3 2011: Thar ain't no point in a hangin' if the varmint's half dead anyway. We need Doc to come by, fix him up, heal his wounds—THEN we'll hang 'im! 5448Jul 3 2011: Funny, when it happens on its own, is fun. Funny on demand is not fun. 5449Jul 3 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau 5450Jul 4 2011: Your body and brain can adapt to all sorts of conditions you never thought possible, but you have to be willing to give them the chance. 5451Jul 4 2011: The benefit of a crisis is that it pushes us beyond our comfort zone into waters we wouldn't have tested otherwise. 5452Jul 4 2011: A crisis forces us to make unpleasant but necessary decisions we would otherwise avoid. 5453Jul 4 2011: One of my few sensory weaknesses. A fine delicacy of Oklahoma, now found in Love's Truck Stops nationwide. http://twitpic.com/5lb40n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5454Jul 4 2011: When paranoia becomes florid, violence accelerates and can only be stopped by force. 5455Jul 4 2011: I prefer cold weather over hot. It's easier to get warm than keep cool. (Speaking also for the human species, which is why we lack fur.) 5456Jul 4 2011: Under cover of darkness, you can camp in remarkably obvious places. Tonight I'm nestled in the landscaping of an industrial park near HPN. 5457Jul 4 2011: Camping equipment consists of a $10 Walmart sleeping bag on a $5 tarp. Both will be jettisoned in the morning. 5458Jul 4 2011: You can dream about doing, or you can actually do. 5459Jul 4 2011: Google knows How to build search systems. It is mildly autistic regarding the human world. 5460Jul 4 2011: The best term for the biome in the Eastern United States is "seasonal tropical rainforest". 5461Jul 4 2011: @xtinewu "Set up my new bada$$ shredder. Muahahaha!" <== Can't let that sheet music fall into enemy hands! <eyes shifting right to left> 5462Jul 4 2011: Is the door really locked? Check again. Is the door really locked? Check again. Is the door really locked? Check again. #OCD 5463Jul 4 2011: Germs. Hand sanitizer. Oh no, but I touched the hand sanitizer bottle! More hand sanitizer. #OCD 5464Jul 4 2011: Someday, at the pearly gates of Heaven, St. Peter is going to ask you, "How did you end up with all this stuff?" 5465Jul 4 2011: TV watching? Book reading? If you got an active mind working on meaningful things, you ain't got time for that shit. 5466Jul 4 2011: Why does creativity have to be limited to a few isolated circumstances? Why can't you be creative all the time? 5467Jul 4 2011: Don't call it "booze" or "alcohol". Both have implications of inebriation. Use "adult beverage". #languagepolice 5468Jul 4 2011: RT @ShashaModi: It's better to fail fast & correct fast, than to fail & wait a while to find out! And that's the beauty of getting it wr ... 5469Jul 4 2011: Don't call it "moronic self-debasing voyeurism". Use "adult entertainment". #languagepolice 5470Jul 4 2011: "It is better to fail fast and correct fast, than to fail and wait a while to find out." @ShashaModi 5471Jul 4 2011: "You bring meaning to my life," is a good start for a relationship destined to fail. 5472Jul 4 2011: Art is meaningless without a message, just like words are useless without something to say. 5473Jul 4 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Maybe this wasn't the way it was supposed to be. But this is the way it is. Deal with it or it deals with you. 5474Jul 4 2011: 4th of July—Holiday of DEATH! How many pigs were slaughtered for your sacrificial barbecues? How many heat strokes and heart attacks? Bah! 5475Jul 4 2011: Enjoying your Slim Jim™ extruded meat product? You are not alone! Many Americans enjoy the convenience and consistency of extruded snacks. 5476Jul 5 2011: Did you know that pasta, hamburger meat, dry pet foods, most juvenile breakfast cereals and foamy snacks are extruded? That's right! 5477Jul 5 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Keep speaking the TRUTH BD; Give it to them! (even though I have no idea what u r talking about) 5478Jul 5 2011: Extruded food is All American! Most extruded snacks costumed in the USA are made in the USA! (by Chinese machinery) 5479Jul 5 2011: .@jacobc "What the hell are "foamy snacks"?" <== Cheese curls, Pringles, anything with a uniform lattice structure. 5480Jul 5 2011: Most extruded snacks are baked at the same moment they are formed, then packaged shortly thereafter. No food product is more sanitary! 5481Jul 5 2011: When a paranoid person tips into violence or aggressive anger, anything you say or do will only make them angrier. Just get out! 5482Jul 5 2011: The next time you open a sealed snack food product, ask yourself, "Was this extruded?" If so, thank the Food Extruders of America! ←End tweet essay: Extruded Snacks 5483
Jul 5 2011: What makes the paranoid person so dangerous is that he feels completely justified in his aggressive actions. 5484
Jul 5 2011: RT @exurban: @BadDalaiLama I have formed this metal image of your extruded food presentation as a 50s style informative newsreel. 5485
Jul 5 2011: Paranoia is exacerbated by poor intellectual discipline. If someone has trouble processing logic when calm, they'll do worse when angry. 5486
Jul 5 2011: RT @AtheistQ: "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."-Voltaire 5487
Jul 5 2011: I don't want to be anyone's Daddy, literally or metaphorically. 5488
Jul 5 2011: Paranoid people are enraged by logic, especially when your logic is sounder than theirs. They'll find a way to lash out at you for it. 5489
Jul 5 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: Yes, everything happens for a reason. But don't use that as an excuse as to why you make stupid decisions. 5490
Jul 5 2011: Upon learning that Casey Anthony has been acquitted, I am forced to admit, "Who is Casey Anthony?" Kinda blissful to be out of the loop! 5491
Jul 5 2011: Success can bring freedom but more often it's a prison, condemning you to the same acts that brought it. 5492
Jul 5 2011: What is the point in following the news "live"? Can't you just catch up with it later on Wikipedia as and when it is relevant to you? 5493Jul 5 2011: @xtinewu "ALWAYS trust your gut." <== That's one amazing digestive system you have there! Hasn't it ever been wrong? ←Start tweet essay: Trust Your Gut? 5494Jul 5 2011: I just caught up with the Casey Anthony case in 5 minutes' reading. Am I less informed than those who followed it from the start? 5495Jul 5 2011: @xtinewu Do we never consult the brain? Conduct a complex cognitive analysis? Or do ones entrails tell all? "Trust the Force, Luke!" 5496Jul 5 2011: People watch the news for same reason as soap operas. It's a form of serialized entertainment. Hiss at the villains but learn nothing. 5497Jul 5 2011: "Be true to yourself," say the pundits. The only question is, which self? 5498Jul 5 2011: Lurid murders and the trials that follow have been a staple of the tabloid press since the dawn of print. Simple reason: the suckers buy it. 5499Jul 5 2011: Reality requires complex negotiation. You don't know the solution from the start. You experiment, fail and adjust your path accordingly. 5500Jul 5 2011: There's nothing mysterious about Karma. The guilty know they are guilty and usually sabotage themselves through their own paranoia. (See OJ) 5501Jul 5 2011: There is no genuine exploration without failure—instances where your best instincts turned out to be wrong. 5502Jul 5 2011: Maintaining a lie is the most costly of all mental efforts. 5503Jul 5 2011: The trouble with "trusting your feelings" is those buggers are easily bribed and have self-serving motives. 5504Jul 5 2011: Fools know it all from the start, barging ahead without doubt. Wise men step tentatively, knowing how little they know. 5505Jul 5 2011: If wisdom were all in the gut, we would have no need for a brain. 5506Jul 5 2011: #### End. Live, 1-hour essay: "Trust Your Gut?" ←End tweet essay: Trust Your Gut? 5507
Jul 5 2011: It is hard to overestimate the role of triple-screw extrusion of polymer-like foodstuffs in the lives of ordinary Americans. ←Start tweet essay: Extruded Snacks 5508
Jul 5 2011: Facebook is for your bland, offending-no one stuff. Twitter is for the riské. Twitter is harder to follow: You gotta work to be offended. 5509
Jul 6 2011: RT @Kyoks1: Mantener una mentira es el mas costoso de todos los esfuerzos mentales. Via @BadDalaiLama 5510Jul 6 2011: The house where I grew up in Massachusetts. Same phone number for 46 years. Won't be in the family much longer. http://twitpic.com/5lzja6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5511
Jul 6 2011: ...In this humble abode, genius was formed. (nurtured by the miserable weather) 5512
Jul 6 2011: RT @xtinewu: @BadDalaiLama the formative years! stories..... 5513Jul 6 2011: Things I don't miss about New England: poison ivy. Not shown: mosquitoes, humidity. http://twitpic.com/5lznuu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5514
Jul 6 2011: RT @quippdPsych: RT @matthiasrascher Why couples look more alike as time passes. http://bit.ly/mokqSC #psychology 5515
Jul 6 2011: The main thing that stands between the artist and his work is his own ego. "I made this so it must be perfect." 5516
Jul 6 2011: Don't act like you're not going to die. 5517
Jul 6 2011: On the lookout for Langoliers! (@ Bangor International Airport (BGR)) http://4sq.com/pFi9uA 5518Jul 6 2011: PHL Gate B9 — My relaxation resort for the next 12 hours. Finest sleeping gate in America! (earplugs & blanket required) http://twitpic.com/5m83l1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5519
Jul 6 2011: @sbellelauren Whew! Read your blog post but can't figure it out. This is your brain on Diet Coke? 5520
Jul 7 2011: RT @sbellelauren: i wish there was an app to alert me when only 20% battery life was left in my relationship i would probs still just hi ... 5521
Jul 7 2011: RT @quippdPsych: Beauty is in the medial orbito-frontal cortex of the beholder, study finds http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2011/WTVM052038.htm 5522
Jul 7 2011: RT @badbanana: "He died doing what he loved, which was clinging to life and trying not to die, which he was very good at until recently." 5523
Jul 7 2011: There is a fundamental difference between expecting rescue and taking control of your own fate. 5524
Jul 7 2011: 90% of business is serving the perceived needs of addicts. 5525
Jul 7 2011: There is a difference between "offering" a product and actively "selling" it. When offering, the client makes his own moral choices. 5526
Jul 7 2011: Business is all about selling crap to people who don't need it. You free yourself of personal liability if you don't encourage the crap. 5527Jul 7 2011: The shoes that took me to Egypt and back BUSTED after < 30 days. Should I take them back to Walmart and get my $14 back? http://twitpic.com/5mmqsb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5528
Jul 7 2011: "Document everything!" the lawyers say. If you did that you wouldn't have any time left for living. 5529
Jul 7 2011: Avoid saying what you are going to do. Just do it then say what you've done. 5530Jul 7 2011: Childhood in humans is the longest among the animals for a reason: It allows complex cultural programming that aids survival. ←Start tweet essay: End of Human Evolution? 5531Jul 7 2011: If dumb people breed more prodigiously than smart people, has human evolution stopped? Not necessarily. ... 5532Jul 7 2011: Smart people still breed and are increasingly selective, so rest assured there will always be a master race to control the dumb ones. 5533Jul 7 2011: Human evolution has not ended. It has simply bifurcated, with smart lineages getting smarter and dumb ones getting dumber. 5534Jul 7 2011: Musicians tend to breed with other musicians, scientists with other scientists. Over time, this will yield many distinct human sub-species. 5535Jul 7 2011: The many varieties of dogs are the result of selective human breeding. In coming centuries, human breeds may be similarly distinct. 5536Jul 8 2011: Thanks to social media, similar people can now find each other to an extent never before possible. Hence, more precise genetic selection. 5537Jul 8 2011: Beautiful people have a natural affinity for each other, resulting in a distinct race of super-beautiful progeny—although not too bright. 5538Jul 8 2011: Race is no longer a barrier to human breeding, but intelligence still is. We are still conscious of "marrying below ones station" in skills. 5539Jul 8 2011: Future Apartheid will pit the intellectual races in protected enclaves against the worker classes outside—kinda like the suburbs today. 5540Jul 8 2011: As human breeds diverge, there will be growing walls between them. One species will listen to NPR, the other to Howard Stern. 5541Jul 8 2011: Eugenics, as a formal program, is politically impossible, but that doesn't prevent couples from practicing it on their own. 5542Jul 8 2011: As genetic technology advances, wealthy parents will have greater opportunity to choose their offsprings' traits, accelerating evolution. 5543Jul 8 2011: In the Brave New World of genetic manipulation, the upper classes will breed more cautiously while lower class breeding remains haphazard. 5544Jul 8 2011: The walls between genetic classes will remain porous. People can pass through them, but usually in a direction appropriate to their skills. 5545Jul 8 2011: Evolution does not stand still. As long as humans breed, they are fulfilling its destiny. However, it is not one evolution but many. 5546Jul 8 2011: #### End. This has been a live-tweeted essay: "The End of Human Evolution?" ←End tweet essay: End of Human Evolution? 5547Jul 8 2011: @xtinewu Photos or it didn't happen. 5548Jul 8 2011: I'm a friend to Kansas. Kansas is a friend to me. Kansas won't deceive you. What you get is what you see. 5549Jul 8 2011: RT @MinnieGupta: Overheard--"I believe it is the downfall of our society that people we would like there to be less of are breeding the ... 5550Jul 8 2011: Ahoy! Kansas off the port bow! http://twitpic.com/5mryip←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5551Jul 8 2011: RT @AncientProverbs: Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. -Chinese Proverbs 5552Jul 8 2011: Ladies, please understand that autism in the male isn't a matter of "yes or no", but "to what degree?" 5553Jul 8 2011: Autism and Borderline Disorder are the two main axes of human personality. One is logic without emotion, the other emotion without logic. 5554Jul 8 2011: Beware of grown men who build tiny railroads in their basements. 5555Jul 8 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: 1st it's one little white lie, then they get easier & easier to tell. Next thing you know, you're a lawyer. 5556Jul 8 2011: Good news! I am now 100% GLUTEN FREE!* (*except for the contents of my digestive tract) 5557Jul 8 2011: RT @Kyoks1: Hay una diferencia fundamental entre esperar ser rescatado y tomar control de tu destino. Via @BadDalaiLama 5558Jul 8 2011: Healthy living can help you reach age 70. After that, all your systems start failing at once. No matter what you do, time is gonna get you! 5559Jul 8 2011: In Western Kansas, roads are spaced exactly one mile apart and form a map-like grid. http://twitpic.com/5n1mpu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5560Jul 8 2011: Dear Billy Joel: I know "she's always a woman to you" but to the rest of us she's a psycho. Spare us the details of your masochism. 5561Jul 8 2011: Google Plus: Don't claim to understand it or know what it's good for, but His Holiness has joined as baddalailama@gmail.com / Glenn Campbell 5562Jul 8 2011: @xtinewu Xtine can cross her toes?!?! 5563Jul 8 2011: Kansas. Toto. Wicked Witch of the West. Do I have to draw you a map? 5564Jul 8 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama I know those are Wizard of Oz refs, but for a moment it sounded like you were just listing off bands. 5565Jul 8 2011: Who gave Greece a credit card? I confess it was me. It seemed like such a nice country, and I thought it would be more responsible. 5566Jul 8 2011: We are now archiving our favorites (the tweets from others we have starred). http://BadDalaiLama.com/favorites/ Mainly for our own use. 5567Jul 9 2011: If some cowboy tells you he'll "love you forever" in a country music song, BUYER BEWARE! Them good ol' boys got a pretty bad track record. 5568Jul 9 2011: The benefits if technology are immediate and irresistible. The costs are less obvious and may take years to emerge. 5569Jul 9 2011: In the nicest little state park (Graham Cave) on a weekend in July, and I'm the only one here. http://twitpic.com/5nm674←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5570Jul 9 2011: I will not be deterred by government bureaucracy! http://twitpic.com/5nmep7←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5571Jul 9 2011: I've just invented a new sport: "river walking" — Just pick a river and walk up the middle of it. Video from MO: http://youtu.be/f-nrI2CBfuk←Our original YouTube video [more] 5572Jul 9 2011: Requirements for river walking: (1) Disposable shoes and socks. (2) Warm river. (3) Gumption. 5573Jul 9 2011: Art and exploration are not the role of government. 5574Jul 9 2011: On My Bucket List: Start and maintain a Ponzi scheme. [See Full Bucket List] 5575Jul 9 2011: It has not been proven that technology improves society as a whole, only that some people win while others lose. 5576Jul 9 2011: "Chronological chauvinism" is the belief of each new generation that it is more advanced than previous ones. 5577Jul 9 2011: Chronological chauvinists see only advances in technology and institutions. They do not acknowledge the good things that have been lost. 5578Jul 9 2011: Young people are usually chronological chauvinists in the forward direction, old people in the reverse. ("The old days were better.") 5579Jul 9 2011: RT @exurban: @BadDalaiLama I just realized the core of your observations is the human inability to be objective. 5580Jul 9 2011: RT @exurban I just realized the core of your observations is the human inability to be objective. <== That's the core of most of my tweets! 5581Jul 9 2011: RT @MsKittyKatBlk: #ff @BadDalaiLama cause I fucking said so! I'm bad like that! See he inspires badness! 5582Jul 9 2011: @xtinewu Carmageddon: Ur being hysterical, like the rest of LA. Taxi or bus #3. No 405 involved. http://ow.ly/i/e5Oo 5583Jul 9 2011: Only in L.A.: A portion of one of our freeways will be closed for repairs for one weekend. ZOMG! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! #carmaggeddon 5584Jul 9 2011: Problem: Coyote needs to eat. His solution: hunt Roadrunner. Trouble is, no matter how bad things go, he never considers any other game. 5585Jul 10 2011: Wile E. Coyote is trapped in the Sunk Cost Fallacy. The more he fails, the more he is compelled to press on, to justify his past investment. 5586Jul 10 2011: You can't expect to move toward new goals without giving up some of your past investments. 5587Jul 10 2011: Many work hard toward their goals and never achieve them. The problem is not lack of will but refusal to adjust ones goals. 5588Jul 10 2011: Most conventional advice is wrong. It isn't hard work, connections or perseverance that get you places, but your own willingness to change. 5589Jul 10 2011: Coyote believes in "No pain, no gain". Why else would he continue pursuing the Roadrunner in the same stupid ways? 5590Jul 10 2011: "No pain, no gain" misses the point. Pain alone won't overcome a bad choice of goals. 5591Jul 10 2011: Failure ought to be a message to you: It's time to change your game plan! 5592Jul 10 2011: Behind your specific goals are meta-goals—the things you really want from life. Obsessing over one goal, you may miss your real calling. 5593Jul 10 2011: Success cannot be demanded from the world on your terms. It must be negotiated, based on what the world is willing to give you. 5594Jul 10 2011: Seriously, Coyote, what would you do with Roadrunner if you caught him? A scrawny bird without much meat—hardly worth the Acme purchases. 5595Jul 10 2011: Maybe the Coyote unconsciously WANTS to fail, because in catching the Roadrunner he would have to acknowledge how empty his life really is. 5596Jul 10 2011: #### End tweeted essay: "The Lessons of Wile E. Coyote" 5597Jul 10 2011: RT @nainysahani: More I think about it, more I believe it. RT@BadDalaiLama Home is an imaginary concept, not an achievable destination. 5598Jul 10 2011: "I yam what I yam." —Popeye 5599Jul 10 2011: (He is speaking metaphorically, I believe, referring to all forms of edible tuber.) ←End tweet essay: Lessons of Wile E. Coyote 5600
Jul 10 2011: The bikini was born 75 years ago and named after the 1946 atomic test at Bikini Atoll. http://ti.me/mOCjeR 5601
Jul 10 2011: CURSE OF THE BIKINI! The first wearers of bikinis are now DYING IN ALARMING NUMBERS! They have shriveled up AS IF CURSED BY GOD! 5602
Jul 10 2011: In the design of bikinis, less is more, up to the point where less is less and you just say, "That's gross!" 5603
Jul 10 2011: It is best to err on the conservative side of sexy to avoid the slide into slutty. 5604
Jul 10 2011: Haggling seems so barbaric, but it teaches you to defend your boundaries and assert your wishes. Should be taught in school! ←Start tweet essay: Haggling 5605
Jul 10 2011: In haggling, the buyer offers a ridiculously low price; the seller feigns offense and quotes an absurdly high price. Then they bicker. 5606
Jul 10 2011: Haggling requires that you hide your true intent. Neither side knows the exact price the other is willing to settle for. 5607
Jul 10 2011: Haggling is part of every meaningful social interaction, including love and especially the raising of children. 5608
Jul 10 2011: Children are the consummate hagglers. They'll weasel everything out of you that you let them get away with. 5609Jul 10 2011: Saturday night drag races, Terre Haute, Indiana. Where men are men and women are bored silly. http://twitpic.com/5nt0jg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5610
Jul 10 2011: "Tweet like a model" means report every meal, photo shoot and gym workout and say "OMG, so sad!" for every natural disaster. 5611
Jul 10 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: Staying with someone because you don't want to hurt their feelings will eventually hurt their feelings. 5612
Jul 10 2011: @xtinewu If you had invested in a flying car you wouldn't have these problems. #Carmageddon 5613
Jul 10 2011: "Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness." <== Latest from the @DalaiLama Automatic Tweet Generator. 5614
Jul 10 2011: Playing dead during a bear attack neglects one fact of nature: Once a bear kills something it usually eats it. 5615
Jul 10 2011: "The best way to teach people is by telling a story." —Kenneth Blanchard via @GreatestQuotes 5616
Jul 10 2011: When bad things happen to Rupert Murdoch, schadenfreude is not inappropriate. 5617Jul 10 2011: State of the art: 3 terabytes for $160. That would hold my life's work to date, including video. http://twitpic.com/5o6d92←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5618
Jul 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Learn the art of bitter sarcasm. [See Full Bucket List] 5619
Jul 10 2011: irony + bitterness = sarcasm 5620
Jul 10 2011: The foundation of all great art is irony—the opposite happening from what is normally expected. 5621
Jul 10 2011: .@nainysahani Home is an imaginary concept, not an achievable destination. 5622
Jul 10 2011: Our childhood is the lens through which we will always view the world. 5623Jul 10 2011: ++++ Begin tweeted essay: "The Lessons of Wile E. Coyote" ←Start tweet essay: Lessons of Wile E. Coyote 5624Jul 10 2011: Wile E. Coyote is so like the rest of us! One Acme device backfires so he tries another, never rethinking his deluded mission. 5625Jul 10 2011: Wile E. Coyote has plenty of will and perseverance. He works hard, believes in himself and never gives up, so why can't he succeed? 5626Jul 10 2011: The Coyote fails because he misses the point. He obsesses over a goal while losing sight of his purpose. 5627Jul 10 2011: The road to success is not just perseverance and hard work but adjusting your goals according to the feedback you receive. 5628Jul 10 2011: Parenting isn't just a matter of laying down the law. Both sides have to negotiate for what they want. 5629Jul 11 2011: Those who advocate total openness fail to understand the social importance of haggling—and of guarding ones intent. 5630Jul 11 2011: It is one thing to lie, quite another to not reveal everything you know. Lying is usually bad, but concealing is essential to society. 5631Jul 11 2011: When talking to even the closest friend, no sane person would blurt out everything they are thinking. 5632Jul 11 2011: It would be nice to be able to speak your mind to everyone, but with many people it's just not possible. You know they'll react badly. 5633Jul 11 2011: Concealing your thoughts means you can focus on the issue at hand: getting the behavior you want from the other party. 5634Jul 11 2011: The main purpose of human interaction is not to change someone's attitudes or beliefs but to get the behavior you want from them. 5635Jul 11 2011: #### End live-tweeted essay: "Haggling" ←End tweet essay: Haggling 5636Jul 11 2011: It is not your place to correct someone's delusions or mental disorders. Your only goal is to change the behavior getting in your way. 5637Jul 11 2011: The most disturbing revelation of childhood is that adults don't know anything either. 5638Jul 11 2011: In a movie, what prevents the hero from defeating the bad guy is his own defective thinking. He must change it to win the prize. 5639Jul 11 2011: Hitler Rants About the Closing of the 405 Freeway — ROFL! Video: http://ow.ly/5BbWR via @xtinewu #Carmageddon 5640Jul 11 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Whether we like it or not, we're all connected, and it is unthinkable to be happy all by oneself. 5641Jul 11 2011: @xtinewu Face it, you're going to die, but I would just get on a #3 bus and wait. Der Fuerer can't see these things. 5642Jul 11 2011: @xtinewu Yes, bus, the transportation of the proletariate. I use it all the time. How many bags you have? 5643Jul 11 2011: RT @xtinewu: Just realized I retweeted the @DalaiLama and retweeted by @BadDalaiLama all in the same 5 minutes. Ha! 5644Jul 11 2011: RT @InjusticeFacts: 95% of causes sponsored by corporations end up fizzling into nothing more than corporate publicity stunts. 5645Jul 11 2011: @xtinewu A bit too much for the bus. Just drive your car to LAX, park it and drive home. I bet it takes you only a little longer than normal 5646Jul 11 2011: @xtinewu You'll be bringing your 1782 violin with you I assume. 5647Jul 11 2011: @xtinewu Take ur own car then. You survived Y2K and the May 25 end of the world; you may survive this as well. 5648Jul 11 2011: Best explanation of the economic collapse: Everyone got caught in Ponzi scheme—Greece, Iceland, US homeowners, etc. 5649Jul 11 2011: From where I sit. Fluvanna Cemetery, Jamestown, New York. http://twitpic.com/5olecm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5650Jul 11 2011: RT @abmarkman: Buying products associated with charities can reduce charitable giving. http://t.co/LHcjxfC 5651Jul 11 2011: @nainysahani I really like your twitter avi. Don't change it! 5652Jul 11 2011: .@Zen_Bubba "Would the plural of Bigfoot be Bigfoots or Bigfeet?" <== You should be happy enough to find one, let alone plural. 5653Jul 11 2011: Geo Fact: Gibraltar is British, which Spain has long protested, but Spain has a similar outpost in Africa, Ceuta, which Morocco protests. 5654Jul 11 2011: RT @AndrewBober: @BadDalaiLama colonialism. The legacy that bites. Remember to throw in the Falklands and Northern Ireland when dealing ... 5655Jul 11 2011: Failure is the best teacher, as long as you are willing to listen to its lessons. 5656Jul 11 2011: Knowledge of Zamboni operation is required for Canadian citizenship. 5657Jul 11 2011: RT @jendenbrat: You've got to fly your remaining ships deep into the core and fire at the main reactor to destroy Oprah. 5658Jul 11 2011: RT @kellyoxford: Wish there was a way to take all of these people commenting on the internet and make them useful. 5659Jul 11 2011: Every time you go back to your old home town it gets smaller. 5660Jul 11 2011: Dusk near Albany. http://twitpic.com/5otmzv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5661Jul 12 2011: It is absurd to demand an apology. If an apology comes in response to your demand, then it is coerced and not genuine. 5662Jul 12 2011: An apology is a free-will act. It can't be demanded, coerced or court-ordered. 5663Jul 12 2011: Thanks to Oxycontin™, I have now heard of Coheed & Cambria. American pharmaceuticals have many uses, including band publicity. 5664Jul 12 2011: An addict will take absurd risks to support his habit, which is why he is so dangerous. 5665Jul 12 2011: RT @philo_quotes: If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ~ William James http ... 5666Jul 12 2011: RT @MinnieGupta: It's so easy to fall madly in love with a fictional hero. Isn't all love merely fiction? 5667Jul 12 2011: "Myspace, was bought for $580 million in 2005 and sold for $35 million a few weeks ago." Poor Murdoch, things aren't going his way. 5668Jul 12 2011: Automotive existentialism. Indeed, death or serious injury WILL OCCUR. It will happen to us all sooner or later. http://twitpic.com/5p0gtb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5669Jul 12 2011: Given the choice of dying or changing ones habits, most will choose death. 5670Jul 12 2011: It is fine to deal with dysfunction for a living (as a social worker, etc.) but don't accept it in your personal life. 5671Jul 12 2011: In the Boston suburbs, they call this a "small" ice cream cone. You can't handle the medium or large. http://twitpic.com/5p494u←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5672Jul 12 2011: Local residents of my hometown. They have never set foot outside it. http://twitpic.com/5p4iqm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5673Jul 12 2011: Handsome devil! http://twitpic.com/5p4kh6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5674Jul 12 2011: Was going through some family heirlooms and look what I found: My first smartphone! Isn't it quaint? http://twitpic.com/5p5stt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5675Jul 12 2011: (Amazing what we put up with back then. We thought we were so advanced.) 5676Jul 12 2011: "Circle Me" on Google+ http://gplus.to/BadDalaiLama (I guess. Seems harmless enough.) 5677Jul 12 2011: Our Sacred Archive has been updated at http://BadDalaiLama.com - Now with our Journeys and archived favorites. 5678Jul 12 2011: #### End of live-tweeted essay: "Hoarders" 5679Jul 13 2011: The sole value of a possession is its use as a tool. If it can't be justified on this basis, then it has to go! ←End tweet essay: Hoarders 5680
Jul 13 2011: Religions of the affluent suburbs: (1) Christianity. (2) Judaism. (3) Whole Foods. 5681
Jul 13 2011: RT @sbellelauren: hey guys, i think we're good on babies, you can stop now 5682
Jul 13 2011: RT @philoquotes: If you wish to be a writer, write. ~ Epictetus 5683Jul 13 2011: Little yellow people in the Boston subway. "Wish you were here!" http://twitpic.com/5pn4xm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5684Jul 13 2011: Dark clouds over Boston. http://twitpic.com/5pnize←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5685
Jul 13 2011: Humans are generically programmed hoarders, like a squirrel saving nuts for a winter that never comes. ←Start tweet essay: Hoarders 5686
Jul 13 2011: People are attached to their possessions in the same way as their limbs. Tools are essential to human survival, so we guard them jealously. 5687
Jul 13 2011: As the mind breaks down—in Alzheimer's or other mental illness—natural instincts like hoarding become more prominent. 5688
Jul 13 2011: On My Bucket List: Dedicate my life to a certain breed of dangerous pet. [See Full Bucket List] 5689
Jul 13 2011: Hoarders can't stop collecting like the obese can't resist food. They know there's a problem but can't walk away from the food on the plate. 5690
Jul 13 2011: I can't remember now: Did Steve Irwin win a Darwin Award? 5691
Jul 13 2011: The belongings of a hoarder are like the web of a spider. You can't move anything without a defensive reaction: "Don't touch that!" 5692
Jul 13 2011: Archive photo albums: Key West Pirate Festival 2008 http://j.mp/oRqMY1 Key West and the Florida Keys http://j.mp/qh1uWk 5693
Jul 13 2011: The main burden of the mentally ill homeless is not their personal presence but all the junk they collect around them. 5694
Jul 13 2011: Homeless people build "nests" of treasured belongings the same way hoarders with homes do. 5695
Jul 13 2011: The mantra of the hoarder is, "You never know when you might need it." 5696
Jul 13 2011: The limiting rule of hoarders—and indeed most humans—is that ones possessions will expand to fill whatever storage space is available. 5697
Jul 13 2011: Hoarding made perfect sense in most of human history, when every scrap of string was precious. 5698
Jul 13 2011: Hoarding makes little practical sense today, when most goods are easily obtained at low cost. Future value rarely justifies storage cost. 5699
Jul 13 2011: Hoarding isn't limited to physical possessions. One can hoard data—stockpiling information that hardly justifies the expense. 5700
Jul 13 2011: One of the greatest burdens of owning a home is all the useless stuff that usually accumulates in it. 5701
Jul 13 2011: In the past, some hoarding seemed justified, because albums and keepsakes took up physical space. Now most albums are virtual. 5702
Jul 13 2011: The most effective way to prevent physical hoarding is to simply not have any storage space. Living on the road, hoarding is impossible. 5703
Jul 13 2011: The most dangerous thing you can give some people is a large home. They don't have the discipline to manage the space. 5704
Jul 13 2011: Even the very rich can become hoarders, collecting homes and possessions until the whole system collapses. 5705
Jul 13 2011: Misfortune is a natural limitation on dysfunction. Without it, most would know no limits and eventually self-destruct on their own. 5706
Jul 13 2011: A hoarder in a one-room apartment is less dysfunctional than one in a six-room house. The "good fortune" of a house is bad for its owner. 5707
Jul 13 2011: Nicholas Cage: hoarder! How else do you explain his financial problems with his enormous income? He couldn't stop collecting homes! 5708
Jul 13 2011: Who can resist a bigger home, more income, more free time? Yet good fortune is often our demise, as our resources exceed our discipline. 5709
Jul 13 2011: The thing that rarely influences a hoarder: their limited time on earth. One way or another, you're going to lose all your stuff! 5710
Jul 13 2011: If you can't dispose of your stuff while alive, your heirs will do it for you after you're gone. And it won't be pretty. 5711
Jul 13 2011: Ultimately, you will be remembered for what you have done, not what you have owned. 5712
Jul 13 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a social media expert, terrorism expert, UFO expert or some other expert where no one can question my skills. [See Full Bucket List] 5713
Jul 14 2011: Q: If you could go back to the year 2000 and kill some villain before he did any damage, who would it be? A: Ralph Nader. 5714
Jul 14 2011: Shamefully walking (@ Walk Of Shame Moving Sidewalk) http://4sq.com/mTDd63 5715
Jul 14 2011: @Ch8rming "Dick Cheney?" <== If there were no Ralph Nader there would have been no Dick Cheney. 5716
Jul 14 2011: RT @Ch8rming: @BadDalaiLama I can't argue with that. Although it's hard to accept. 5717
Jul 14 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Don't tell me what you think, know or believe. Tell me what you did. 5718
Jul 14 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: We all want someone to tell us what is right, what is wrong & what matters. Grow up. That person is you. 5719
Jul 14 2011: .@CrankyPappy is cranky, lives in a stairwell and is a little overabundant with his output—but often nails it dead on! #worththeeffort #ff 5720
Jul 14 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Having a baby is like throwing a hand-grenade into a marriage. N. Ephron 5721
Jul 14 2011: I'm taking up a collection for Rup's legal defense fund. Give whatever you can afford—a nickel, a dime. No gum wrappers, please! 5722Jul 14 2011: Unopened Red Bull found outside airport security. My first Red Bull ever! Sampling now... when do I get my wings? http://twitpic.com/5pzie5←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5723
Jul 14 2011: ... Red Bull analysis: Tastes like refined bubble gum. 5724
Jul 14 2011: When you reveal that you're not a caffeine addict, people are all like, "Waa? You some kinda freak?" — So best to keep it quiet. 5725
Jul 14 2011: ... I couldn't finish the Red Bull. Into the dumpster with it! 5726
Jul 14 2011: On My Bucket List: Enjoy a royal postnuptial worldwide tour. [See Full Bucket List] 5727
Jul 14 2011: Deactivate a cat? 30 second video shows how. http://t.co/nSz1CkS via @oliverburkeman 5728
Jul 14 2011: Wealth is best measured not in income but in freedom remaining after obligations. 5729
Jul 14 2011: RT @YourFavFunnyMan: @BadDalaiLama My father has been teaching that for years, well said. At the end of the day an electrician is richer ... 5730
Jul 14 2011: Don't complain about getting old. That disclosure has always been part of the rental agreement. 5731Jul 14 2011: It's nice of the airport to offer free hand sanitizer, but you need to touch a button, which means MORE GERMS! http://twitpic.com/5q2sb9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5732
Jul 14 2011: Gay is fine as a sexual preference. What's fruity is hysterical speech and mannerisms, or lesbian boots and crewcuts, that cry out, "Gay!" 5733
Jul 14 2011: You are not responsible for your parents' choices. 5734Jul 14 2011: Summer skiing in Park City. http://twitpic.com/5q4x4o←Live photo from the road! [location|more]←Start tweet essay: Utah to Colorado 5735Jul 14 2011: Zipline riding, Park City. http://twitpic.com/5q545c←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5736Jul 14 2011: The point of Park City: Instead of mining lead from the ground, mine gold directly from tourists. Otherwise pointless. http://twitpic.com/5q5jg5←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5737
Jul 14 2011: What disturbs people most is not being treated badly but being treated differently from who they believe they are. 5738
Jul 15 2011: The main purpose of religion is to justify the investments you have already made. 5739Jul 15 2011: Utah-Colorado state line. http://twitpic.com/5q9utq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5740Jul 15 2011: Nice little motel for sale. A fixer upper. http://twitpic.com/5qa04i←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5741Jul 15 2011: My campsite is beside this road, which no one has driven since the last rains. 100s of miles of empty desert around me. http://twitpic.com/5qas77←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5742
Jul 15 2011: @xtinewu No, you're wrong! The moon is over here in Colorado. Big full moon shining over the desert. 5743
Jul 15 2011: @xtinewu It's my moon, you can't have it! http://ow.ly/i/elUj 5744
Jul 15 2011: If someone is being a jerk, there is nothing you can say to change them. Just let them have the last word then withdraw. 5745
Jul 15 2011: Many can mix paints, dab them on canvas and talk about painting, but few can actually paint a compelling picture. 5746
Jul 15 2011: @xtinewu Cabbie is just as hysterical as the rest of LA. 5747
Jul 15 2011: @xtinewu My, my! You seem to be having the vapors! Quick, fetch the smelling salts! 5748Jul 15 2011: Steamboat Springs: You can pay $15 for a bland swimming pool, or enjoy this warm corner of the river for free. http://twitpic.com/5qli3g←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5749
Jul 15 2011: A treasured childhood can be as crippling as an abusive one. You're always expecting that special-for-who-you-are treatment. 5750Jul 15 2011: Colorado traffic jam. http://twitpic.com/5qncft←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5751Jul 15 2011: Passive-aggressive chess is where you maneuver your opponent into a position where he can't win no matter what he does. ←Start tweet essay: Passive-Aggressive 5752Jul 15 2011: Passive-aggressive chess usually ends with, "Fine, take my queen. I'm too stupid to play this game anyway." 5753Jul 15 2011: Passive-aggressive Battleship usually ends with, "Go ahead, sink my battleship. I don't care. It's what you always want to do, so do it." 5754Jul 15 2011: Passive-aggressive strategy: Refuse to say what you want, then complain bitterly when you don't get your wishes. 5755Jul 15 2011: Passive-aggression can persist only in a protected environment, where one party is willing to support the other unconditionally. ←End tweet essay: Passive-Aggressive 5756Jul 15 2011: Grand Lake, Colorado. http://twitpic.com/5qow57←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5757Jul 15 2011: How to spot wildlife in a National Park: Look for cars pulled over beside the road (in this case for a distant moose). http://twitpic.com/5qpmj1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5758Jul 15 2011: An adorable family at Rocky Mountain National Park. http://twitpic.com/5qrsod←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5759Jul 16 2011: Was invited to an Elks convention. Wasn't too exciting but at least it was well-attended. http://twitpic.com/5qs0i8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5760Jul 16 2011: @djackmanson "How do they fit in those tiny little cars?" <== You may be thinking of Shiners—with the circus. I'm not sure what Elks do. 5761Jul 16 2011: "On the rocks." http://twitpic.com/5qsazb (Rocky Mountain National Park) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5762Jul 16 2011: All of today's photos from Rocky Mountain National Park. FB album: http://t.co/OucAQCh 5763Jul 16 2011: RT @ebertchicago: Gay scientists isolate Christian gene. (rt) http://bit.ly/n2qGHD 5764Jul 16 2011: ROFL! Trailer for a movie that's certain to win an Oscar. http://bit.ly/9vH9N0 via @xtinewu 5765Jul 16 2011: Emergency bacon run from Golden Coral. That's $1.56 worth (buffet-by-the-pound). Cheaper than raw bacon! http://twitpic.com/5r2rt7←Live photo from the road! [location|more]←End tweet essay: Utah to Colorado 5766Jul 16 2011: A delusion will persist for as long as there are resources to support it. ←Start tweet essay: Delusions 5767Jul 16 2011: A delusion is a belief that serves our emotional needs but does not match the real-world data. 5768Jul 16 2011: The only danger of following a delusion is that it eventually leads you to bad decisions. 5769Jul 16 2011: You may have the belief you can fly. You'll find out whether it's a delusion the moment you step off a cliff. 5770Jul 16 2011: Delusions are essential for social control because they keep people sedated and moving along the same path. 5771Jul 16 2011: The job of advertising is to foster delusions. 5772Jul 16 2011: The function of delusions in the individual is to help one avoid facing unpleasant truths. 5773Jul 16 2011: We may be able to see the delusions of our past. It's the delusions of the present that are hard to discern. 5774Jul 16 2011: Most of the decisions of our past life were based on delusions. Nonetheless, those decisions moved us forward and are part of us now. 5775Jul 16 2011: You can never erase a past decision. No apology or penance will change it. You can only work with what it has given you. 5776Jul 16 2011: Most delusions are emotionally reinforced and are impervious to logic or outside argument. 5777Jul 16 2011: The only thing likely to change a delusion is directly experiencing bad consequences from it — but even that doesn't always work. 5778Jul 16 2011: If you think you can fly but crash trying, you can still retain the delusion. The theory was correct, you say, only the execution flawed. 5779Jul 16 2011: The strength with which a delusion is held is proportional to the investment one has already made in it. 5780Jul 16 2011: You could say that every human belief is a delusion. Perhaps, but some delusions match the data better than others. 5781Jul 16 2011: Life can be seen as the refinement of ones delusions. We start with the absurd and naive, but move toward the more useful and consistent. 5782Jul 16 2011: Most people will abandon their delusions only when forced into checkmate, where circumstance gives them no choice but face the truth. 5783Jul 16 2011: Nothing reforms delusion like catastrophe. 5784Jul 16 2011: The wise recognize their own delusions based on data alone. They don't wait for catastrophe but change before it happens. 5785Jul 16 2011: When results don't match the theory, it's time to question the theory. 5786Jul 16 2011: Sometimes it all comes down to one bit of data. You were expecting 0, but the world gave you 1, and that changes everything. 5787Jul 16 2011: #### End of live-tweeted essay: "Delusions" ←End tweet essay: Delusions 5788
Jul 16 2011: RT @_gallina: @BadDalaiLama ¡Gracias! 5789
Jul 16 2011: RT @Adhyetaa: RT @BadDalaiLama Nothing reforms delusion like catastrophe. || So true, and sooner or later the only possible destination. ... 5790
Jul 16 2011: Relaxation has little to do with where you are, only with how you arrange your schedule. 5791
Jul 16 2011: If you feel that you must go to a luxury resort to "relax", you're missing the point. 5792
Jul 16 2011: RT @Adhyetaa: RT @BadDalaiLama #### End of live-tweeted essay: "Delusions" || Very true and insightful. Namaste, BDL. 5793
Jul 16 2011: Nirvana is walking through a shopping mall and not seeing a single thing you want. 5794
Jul 16 2011: Nothing seems quite so ironic as former Hollywood sex symbols dying of old age. 5795
Jul 16 2011: @JolineTowers LOL! I bet OJ is doing very well in prison. A celebrity respected by all the other inmates (seriously!) 5796
Jul 16 2011: Imprisoned serial killers get all the girls. They are the perfect romantic combination of danger and inaccessibility. 5797
Jul 16 2011: RT @crankfetter: Everybody's parked over the lines so I have to park over the line. Everybody else leaves. Now I'm the A-hole who can't ... 5798
Jul 16 2011: You can't be blamed for the family you were born into, but the same can't be said for romance, where you get what you set yourself up for. 5799
Jul 16 2011: "The word impossible is not in my dictionary." --Napoleon (pre-Waterloo) 5800
Jul 16 2011: There is no US state I have visited less than five times. Most: ten times or more. 5801
Jul 16 2011: "A picture is a fact."—Wittgenstein <== Not exactly. A picture is a highly restricted and carefully selected view of reality. 5802
Jul 16 2011: Circle our channeler on Google+ http://gplus.to/BadDalaiLama (although we're still not sure what it's good for) 5803
Jul 16 2011: Carmageddon could also be spelled "Karma-geddon" — meaning LA is only getting what it deserves. 5804Jul 16 2011: Cathedral of the plains. http://twitpic.com/5rkz8y←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5805
Jul 17 2011: On My Bucket List: Take a good hard look inside myself... in the world's first self-colonoscopy procedure. [See Full Bucket List] 5806
Jul 17 2011: On My Bucket List: Own the pony I never had as a child (and never really wanted). [See Full Bucket List] 5807
Jul 17 2011: If you are going to dedicate your life to Christ, it seems to me the first thing you'd do is visit the Holy Land and see where He hung out. 5808
Jul 17 2011: All things in life can be viewed either at the level of display (taste and sensation) or function (nutrition and purpose). You choose. 5809
Jul 17 2011: Money can be the key to many things, but it can also form a protective cocoon that blocks your growth. 5810
Jul 17 2011: If you don't have the option to buy your way out of a problem, you're forced to try creative solutions that are usually more efficient. 5811
Jul 17 2011: Language Police: The feminine form of "douche bag" is "douche baguette", not "slut". Douchebagism does not necessarily imply sluttiness. 5812
Jul 17 2011: Members of the opposite sex are idiots! Exhibit "A": Look at the douche bags (and douche baguettes) they always seem to fall for. 5813
Jul 17 2011: Douche bagistas are female douche bags with a flair for fashion. 5814
Jul 17 2011: A "jerk" is a sociopath with lower entry requirements. 5815
Jul 17 2011: Conspiracy theory: Cancer was invented by the medical industry to promote business. Think—you only know you have it AFTER seeing the doctor. 5816
Jul 17 2011: To those with "ADOPTION NOT ABORTION" bumper stickers: How many unwanted children have YOU adopted? 5817
Jul 17 2011: Period, spelled out, is the most meaningless rhetorical device. Period. 5818Jul 17 2011: Kansas twilight. Purdiest picture this week! http://twitpic.com/5rbyn7/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5819Jul 17 2011: Nearly all of my twitpic photos are taken with my iPhone, often using the proHDR app. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5820
Jul 17 2011: There is no more fragile a career choice than one that depends on your good looks and acting ability. 5821Jul 17 2011: His Holiness the Good Dalai Lama meets with Obama today. http://twitpic.com/5r7jzo <== Man, I want to be photoshopped into this scene! ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5822
Jul 17 2011: One thing you notice in Kansas after being in Colorado: There are NO bear-proof trash cans! So how do they keep the bears out? 5823
Jul 17 2011: Anyone who claims to be a gourmet has made a lifestyle choice to not inquire too deeply into the world. 5824Jul 17 2011: The following week will be dedicated to this distasteful fictional character: http://ow.ly/i/euHe←Start tweet essay: Scotland 5825Jul 18 2011: Six hours ago, was heading to Green Bay, Wisconsin. Sudden change of plans and I'm going somewhere else. Hint: rain, rain and more rain. 5826Jul 18 2011: Carmageddon turning into Carmaheaven illustrates the astounding power of public hysteria. The commercial possibilities are endless! 5827Jul 18 2011: Three-Mile Island from the air (1 hour ago). http://twitpic.com/5ru41z←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5828Jul 18 2011: Minor perturbations of the gaseous planetary mantle. http://twitpic.com/5ru5mj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5829Jul 18 2011: @trixieboots We're all suffering sympathetic labor pains. Let's make this happen! 5830Jul 18 2011: Five minutes in the country and already got a chip on me shoulder. http://twitpic.com/5s066r←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5831Jul 18 2011: A uniquely Scottish atrocity: haggis flavored potato chips. http://twitpic.com/5s34s8 (Glasgow Tesco) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5832Jul 18 2011: Photos from Scotland, as they are uploaded. FB album: http://j.mp/oV3FOy 5833Jul 18 2011: Cheery Edinburgh. http://twitpic.com/5s3a57←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5834Jul 18 2011: Decent enough lodging. $27/night (@ Caledonian Backpackers Hostel) http://4sq.com/pbMznV 5835Jul 18 2011: My hostel in Edinburgh. Right now! Must sleep now. http://twitpic.com/5s3bzq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5836Jul 18 2011: View from my hostel window, Edinburgh. http://twitpic.com/5s3oqq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5837Jul 18 2011: Being good at something and being publicly successful at it are two different things, often completely contradictory. 5838Jul 18 2011: The common room of my hostel in Edinburgh. http://twitpic.com/5s6599←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5839Jul 18 2011: An upstanding citizen. http://twitpic.com/5s6xlm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5840Jul 18 2011: Edinburgh Castle. http://twitpic.com/5sc2vq/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5841Jul 19 2011: Who're ya callin' a pinhead? http://twitpic.com/5scakc←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5842Jul 19 2011: Many people want to travel, but they also don't want to leave their possessions and routines, so it doesn't get beyond the wanting stage. 5843Jul 19 2011: One can become morbidly obese with possessions just as with food—attached to so many things it's impossible to move. 5844Jul 19 2011: A wee lass and a man with no trousers. http://twitpic.com/5sf60i←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5845Jul 19 2011: So this is wild: Checked into this hostel in Edinburgh, and the owner turns out to be one of our followers, the ever-mysterious @stuwad. 5846Jul 19 2011: Hosteling: Not only do you pay less; you usually get MORE services (kitchen, wifi) and great human experiences you can't find at the Hilton. 5847Jul 19 2011: My home for the next 24 hours. Now approaching Loch Ness. http://twitpic.com/5sl7zz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5848Jul 19 2011: Paging Dr. Who. http://twitpic.com/5t5tyj (Kinlochewe, Scotland) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5849Jul 20 2011: Back from the dark, brooding, internet-free lochs of the Scottish Highlands. (@ Highlander Hostel Inverness) http://4sq.com/mQlgaD 5850Jul 20 2011: Photos from Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands (as I add them). FB album http://j.mp/r2Xiid 5851Jul 20 2011: Reenacting the famous attack scene from "Loch Ness—The Movie". I *AM* the monster! http://twitpic.com/5t3bwv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5852Jul 20 2011: @ZeusThaDog Hey Zeuster, give us PIX! —Bad Dalai 5853Jul 21 2011: There are many obvious observations you make about others that you can't tell them, because you know they're invested and can't change. 5854Jul 21 2011: Do you have ESP? Few close friends? Are you right handed? Harvard is looking for you! (subway ad in Boston) http://twitpic.com/5tpv4w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5855Jul 21 2011: Left Inverness this morning. 5 buses, two planes, one subway and 21 hours later, arriving in the Boston suburbs. Another typical day. 5856Jul 22 2011: Video postcard: In the airport in Glasgow, an absurd escalator safety warning. British nannyism run amok? http://youtu.be/A5Hx9WVqFMI (0:30) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5857Jul 22 2011: All my photos from 3 days in Scotland: Highlands & Loch Ness http://j.mp/r2Xiid Edinburgh http://j.mp/oV3FOy Bus http://j.mp/pkmCHI←End tweet essay: Scotland 5858
Jul 22 2011: The biggest mistake of youth: "I can't imagine doing anything other than what I'm doing now." 5859
Jul 22 2011: I figure I have 15,000+ travel photos on Facebook. Do your own calculation: http://t.co/DUyrOiG 5860
Jul 22 2011: Don't expect an apology. Even if it comes, It won't be as satisfying as you think it will be. Study: http://su.pr/2CLVQZ via @quippdPsych 5861
Jul 22 2011: New overview page on my still photos: http://Glenn-Campbell.com/photo 5862
Jul 22 2011: Funny is fun only as long as you don't have to be funny. 5863
Jul 22 2011: After 24 hours driving on the left, driving on the right seems so wrong. It only proves the depravity of the Americans. 5864
Jul 22 2011: It is remarkable how, as one ages, the age of naive youth also increases. 5865
Jul 22 2011: Fame is poisonous if you take it seriously. You start believing the hype and forget who you really are. 5866Jul 22 2011: Our new philosophy video: "Existentialism Defined" http://youtu.be/mm16ZIM_0fM (6 minutes) From the woods of New England ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5867
Jul 22 2011: @xtinewu ICU2 Wu! ==> Video: http://j.mp/odOw4C 5868Jul 23 2011: My first voiceover/character sample: "Machiavelli" http://youtu.be/rev8Nfp7F3Q (37 sec) Dabbling in acting. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5869
Jul 23 2011: MRT @maleger: You can only deny reality for so long until it bites you in the ass. 5870
Jul 23 2011: A catalyst is an agent that promotes a reaction between two other parties while maintaining plausible deniability. 5871
Jul 23 2011: @beingtheo Me, too, but it's so hard to find AC outlets. 5872
Jul 23 2011: Youth thinks the sky's the limit. Later it will learn how low the sky can be. 5873
Jul 24 2011: Histrionic personality disorder defined. http://bit.ly/cKb58M Yup, know her well! Everything is a crisis. Definitely high maintenance. 5874
Jul 24 2011: RT @wilsonfinancial: @BadDalaiLama so they finally came up with a medical term for 'fruit-loop' 5875
Jul 24 2011: Personality disorders cannot be treated. (At least YOU cannot treat them.) All you can do is quietly move these people out of your life. 5876
Jul 24 2011: Google+ is growing on me! Elegant and minimalist. Comments & posts are editable. Photos can be geotagged. http://gplus.to/BadDalaiLama 5877
Jul 24 2011: You will always be living in two worlds: the things you know to be true and the simpler position you can realistically express to others. 5878
Jul 24 2011: With 7 billion humans, it follows there will be murders, terrorist attacks, tragic deaths every day. Do we have to keep up with all of them? 5879
Jul 24 2011: The news will give you the most lurid and photogenic events of the past 24 hours. It won't tell you what is relevant to your own life. 5880Jul 24 2011: BDL Psychic Prediction: Within the next few months, there will be a major disaster, killing hundreds if not thousands. #duh ←Start tweet essay: Psychic Predictions 5881Jul 24 2011: BDL Psychic Prediction: A rising star will soon fall from grace. #duh 5882Jul 24 2011: BDL Psychic Prediction: Terrorism will strike where it is least expected. #duh 5883Jul 24 2011: BDL Psychic Prediction: A celebrity marriage will disintegrate into a bitter custody battle. #duh 5884Jul 24 2011: BDL Psychic Prediction: A prominent politician will be found to have been leading a secret life at odds with his rhetoric. #duh 5885Jul 24 2011: BDL Psychic Prediction: Negotiations will reach an impasse, but an agreement will be worked out in the nick of time. #duh ←End tweet essay: Psychic Predictions 5886
Jul 24 2011: If we lived on a planet of 30 billion or 100 billion, would be still have to keep up with all the OJ's and Casey Anthony's? 5887
Jul 24 2011: The only true "news" is that which is relevant to your own life or that you can reasonably do something about. All the rest is voyeurism. 5888
Jul 24 2011: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: @BadDalaiLama Thats the human brain for you. Obsessed with the dysfunctional events of the world. Bored with the or ... 5889
Jul 24 2011: In January, we made some psychic predictions for 2011. Look how many have already come true! http://t.co/EGcNYj6 5890
Jul 24 2011: The number one mistake of novice travelers: bringing too much stuff. 5891
Jul 24 2011: Do you love someone because they are best for you or because you have already invested so much that you have no choice? 5892
Jul 24 2011: People aren't motivated by goals as much as they are motivated to keep busy. Study: http://tinyurl.com/63t7wlo 5893
Jul 24 2011: RT @badbanana: I'd respect the teachings of the Dalai Lama even more if I knew he'd ever been through an Embassy Suites breakfast buffet. 5894
Jul 24 2011: "You can't live in a comfortable suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life." 5895
Jul 24 2011: Humans live well beyond the age of breeding for good reason: Grannies help us survive. Daily Mail: http://bit.ly/r0d7P6 5896Jul 24 2011: On the tarmac at LGA. Right now! http://twitpic.com/5vdmco←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5897
Jul 24 2011: Never underestimate the ability of the British to do things a certain way just because that's how they've always been done. #anglophobia 5898
Jul 25 2011: Enjoying fine Transylvanian cuisine — in Florida! (@ Transylvania Romanian Restaurant) http://4sq.com/pGGEfd 5899Jul 25 2011: Been to Transylvania, but had my first Transylvanian meal in Hollywood, Florida. (Transylvania Romanian Restaurant) http://twitpic.com/5vtoum←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5900
Jul 25 2011: RT @AtheistQ: "Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it"-Christoph ... 5901
Jul 25 2011: Photos from Transylvania, Romania (last July): FB album: http://j.mp/abQSHQ 5902Jul 25 2011: Checked into my favorite hostel in Miami Beach ($29/nt). Never expected to be here, but them's the breaks. http://twitpic.com/5vuy7q←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5903
Jul 25 2011: Why is it that people are swayed by actors who are paid to say things in television ads? 5904
Jul 25 2011: You don't want to be involved in the daily lives of most people. Instead of helping them you'll only enable their dysfunction. 5905
Jul 26 2011: Just had my iPhone stolen on Miami Beach. Going through the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and Apple Store. 5906
Jul 26 2011: Had a nice swim before dawn on Miami Beach. Perfect bath temp, but a costly outing: my iPhone, with my clothes on the beach, gone! 5907
Jul 26 2011: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: @BadDalaiLama when someone steals your phone it's like they stole your life. Sorry dude. I totally understand your ... 5908
Jul 26 2011: Petty theft happens mainly where druggies can patrol in anonymity. 5909
Jul 26 2011: The temporary loss of my iPhone has reintroduced me to an ancient artform: the etching of characters on paper with a pen. Imagine! 5910
Jul 26 2011: I'm back in business with a new Verizon iPhone ($212 out of pocket). Almost EIGHT HOURS without one! It was Hell! 5911
Jul 26 2011: Face-to-face is essential for some things, but it's overrated for the routine transactions of life. 5912Jul 26 2011: On the prowl with new iPhone. http://yfrog.com/kjy5cpaj #twitpic ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5913Jul 26 2011: Indoor surfing, Aventura, Florida. http://yfrog.com/h4ry3aij #twitpic ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5914
Jul 26 2011: Any technology created by idealists eventually gets taken over by sharks. 5915Jul 27 2011: You can't train people to be autodidacts. ←Start tweet essay: Autodidactism 5916Jul 27 2011: Effective learning is a combination of theoretical study and direct experience. One alone isn't enough. 5917Jul 27 2011: There is little school can teach you that you can't learn on your own. The question is whether you have the initiative to do so. 5918Jul 27 2011: An autodidact uses people in his own education, learning something from every person he interacts with. 5919Jul 27 2011: An autodidact is the primary active force in his own education, vs. a "student", who is merely a passive receiver. 5920Jul 27 2011: Formal education is a system of outsourcing responsibility for your own education. 5921Jul 27 2011: An autodidact is a "grazer" of education, picking up skills and information wherever they can be found. 5922Jul 27 2011: Most people make poor autodidacts because they lack intellectual discipline. They are easily distracted and waylaid. 5923Jul 27 2011: Formal education is for mediocre minds without the discipline to structure their own learning. 5924Jul 27 2011: Autodidactism should not be confused with data collection. You can collect a lot of information on a certain topic and not learn anything. 5925Jul 27 2011: "Stay in school" is the best advice for most. Without that outside structure, they'll be watching TV all day. 5926Jul 27 2011: There is a big difference between realizing, "Hey, I can learn this on my own!" and actually doing it. 5927Jul 27 2011: A true autodidact, when stuck in school, refuses to go at the pace of the teacher but jumps ahead in the text to find out what happens next. 5928Jul 27 2011: True learning is not about memorizing facts but about compressing ones knowledge into a smaller and more efficient package. 5929Jul 27 2011: To the autodidact, the whole world is their classroom. No hour passes without a lesson learned. 5930Jul 27 2011: Personal growth isn't picking a goal and following a straight line there. It's heading in a certain direction and looking for opportunities. 5931Jul 27 2011: An autodidact is an educational opportunist. 5932Jul 27 2011: An autodidact asks questions and listens to the answers. 5933Jul 27 2011: He who learns only from the Internet, books and television may have assembled some facts but is inevitably missing some critical ones. 5934Jul 27 2011: "Remote learning" is when you try to understand something from afar without direct experience. Your perspective will always be distorted. 5935Jul 27 2011: You can read books, look at photos and study maps of a place, but you can never really know it until you go there. 5936Jul 27 2011: Some of the most naive and ill-informed people are those who watch the news and read the newspapers every day. 5937Jul 27 2011: Just because you read a lot of books and articles doesn't make you an autodidact. Where is your direct experience with the world? 5938Jul 27 2011: New philosophy video: "Autodidactism" http://youtu.be/R6kXQYtYXvE (10 minutes) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5939Jul 27 2011: #### End tweeted essay: "Autodidactism" ←End tweet essay: Autodidactism 5940
Jul 27 2011: Romance fiction panders to the female fantasy of rescue. Some handsome dude's going to save you. 5941Jul 27 2011: Bostonians are readers. http://twitpic.com/5wuvj1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5942Jul 27 2011: For a hoot, here is our appearance on UFO Hunters about 3 years ago. http://youtu.be/csR1G19eK48 (Glenn Campbell shows up around 04:00) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5943
Jul 28 2011: I think I've worked out how Google+ fits into my personal social media plan. G+ essay: http://t.co/uBKugRY 5944Jul 28 2011: Kisses! (Carlisle, Mass.) http://twitpic.com/5x8jzs←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5945Jul 28 2011: Supercat gone missing! http://twitpic.com/5x8pcc←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5946Jul 28 2011: Do you know your bovine terms? How is a heifer different from a cow? http://twitpic.com/5x92p1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5947
Jul 28 2011: I do not regard my own genome to be so superior that I need to replicate it with tiny little partial clones of myself. That's just creepy! 5948
Jul 28 2011: When adults come into a little money, they try to reproduce their ideal childhood (perfect home, all the toys), which becomes their prison. 5949
Jul 28 2011: The greatest disservice you can do to someone is elevate them to a position beyond their true abilities. 5950Jul 29 2011: Video stabilization in the YouTube editor is pretty damn amazing. Check out our "Landing in Washington" http://youtu.be/6SvyN7bhvRU←Our original YouTube video [more] 5951Jul 29 2011: Face to face in the barnyard. http://twitpic.com/5xfgog/full (Great Brook Farm, Carlisle, Mass.) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5952
Jul 29 2011: 29 new photos added today to this FB album. From the countryside in Carlisle and Chelmsford, Mass. http://j.mp/nUvkSY 5953
Jul 29 2011: You can have great knowledge of brushes, canvas and pigments, but that doesn't mean you can paint. 5954
Jul 29 2011: Must FF @the_anastasia - Chick is hilarious! See her Favstar http://j.mp/oLwOVb Blog http://j.mp/pX0yRh & YouTube http://j.mp/mTbo6S 5955
Jul 29 2011: You can't permanently own a home. Eventually you will have to sell the delusion to someone else. 5956
Jul 29 2011: Just saw the movie "Cowboys and Aliens". SPOILER ALERT: Cowboys win, humanity is saved! (although things were looking grim for a while) 5957
Jul 29 2011: All of us, at some point, are tempted to give up choice and join a religious order. Alas, the penalty is usually some form of abuse. 5958
Jul 29 2011: Pedophile priests. Why does that surprise anyone? You give sexually repressed people absolute power over others, and what do you expect? 5959
Jul 29 2011: Another long-lost cache of photos: Lorain County Fair (Ohio), Aug. 2010. FB album: http://j.mp/qFVmkb 5960
Jul 30 2011: All of our AMAZING overseas travel photos are now indexed on one page. 100s of albums from 25 countries over 3 years. http://Glenn-Campbell.com/photo/ 5961
Jul 30 2011: Fuk Wu and pay the price. http://bit.ly/owNemL 5962
Jul 30 2011: Our long-lost photos from Belgrade, Serbia (1 year ago) Never published until now! FB album: http://t.co/f2Nmef6 5963
Jul 30 2011: 99% of all crime is opportunistic. It happens because the victim provides the criminal with an easy and obvious opportunity. 5964
Jul 30 2011: RT @MelAlmighty: Pornography is anything you lose interest in 2 minutes after orgasm. 5965
Jul 31 2011: Knowledge alone is not wisdom. 5966Jul 31 2011: Video Postcard: Sarajevo, Bosnia - walking through the marketplace: http://youtu.be/Rt7uYuFYboI (10:48, July 2010 but newly published) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5967
Jul 31 2011: Most of the human social process is occupied with carefully tiptoeing around other people's sensitivities. 5968Jul 31 2011: Near Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Right now! http://twitpic.com/5ywlq8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5969Jul 31 2011: Sunday at the beach, Onset, Mass. (I don't understand the appeal.) http://twitpic.com/5yx20v←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5970
Jul 31 2011: Numbers don't lie, but the underlying assumptions can. 5971
Jul 31 2011: Pornography is anything you immediately lose interest in as soon as you obtain it. 5972
Jul 31 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. 5973Jul 31 2011: "Babied" indeed! Summer cottage with private beach. http://twitpic.com/5z38wl More photos from today at the MA shore: FB: http://j.mp/pvLcy6←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
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