BadDalaiLama's Twitter Archive for
April 2012
Please give new life to our Ancient Wisdom by retweeting our old tweets. Click on date for the original tweet.
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Apr 1 2012: Happiness is a dog/cat/human sleeping soundly on my bed, slowly pushing me off.
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Apr 1 2012: RT @TheLastVirgo: Every person wants to explain themselves & to be remembered; instead of leaving this world forgotten, with lots of una ...
10590
Apr 1 2012: You can catch the timbre of a neighborhood by the extent of the bullet-proof glass in their convenience stores.
10591
Apr 1 2012: Whatever the purpose of your life may be, it is not to knit yourself into a cocoon for most of it.
10592
Apr 1 2012: Moderate exercise is important for longevity, but do marathoners and triathletes live any longer? Is there any reward for the time spent?
10593
Apr 1 2012: Anyone can say, "I was a fool," about their past. The challenge is saying it in the present tense and actually changing.
10594
Apr 1 2012: Too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing.
10595
Apr 1 2012: Four bucks for beef jerky is kinda frivolous and not terribly healthy, but it's not as bad as this. http://t.co/K0y4AQ3S
10596
Apr 1 2012: Seen inside a NYC tollbooth: A first-aid size metal box mounted to the wall, marked "BLOODBORN PATHOGEN KIT". Huh?
10597
Apr 1 2012: RT @SteveSeaquist: @BadDalaiLama AKA "blood kit". For rapid response to bloodshed.
10598
Apr 1 2012: @SteveSeaquist What would be the typical use?
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Apr 1 2012: @SteveSeaquist The standard occupational hazards of being toll collector in New York City.
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Apr 1 2012: .@SteveSeaquist Every family should have a portable defibrillator. At least it would shock some sense into the kids when they play with it.
10601
Apr 1 2012: The advertising genius who invented "No price is too high for my family's safety." hit the motherlode of marketing.
10602
Apr 1 2012: "Sure it costs more, but I'm worth it." — Brilliant work, advertising man! Now, you can charge whatever you want!
10603
Apr 1 2012: RT @MicYsa: There are 2 sides to every story. The ugly true side. And the defensive bent side.
10604
Apr 1 2012: RT @WSJ: Is the iPhone the only camera u need? With the right photo apps, editing tricks & shooting know-how, it just might be. http://t ...
10605
Apr 1 2012: Only teenagers have already achieved perfection and need no advice. The rest of us are still struggling.
10606
Apr 1 2012: Beware the hagiography of oneself.
10607
Apr 1 2012: RT @bunnyman2112: @BadDalaiLama Been reading The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography?
10608
Apr 1 2012: @bunnyman2112 Hagiography was just a nice big word I wanted to use in a tweet.
10609
Apr 1 2012: Holy 30-Foot Mother of Jesus! (@ Madonna Shrine) [pic]: http://t.co/Yo2kaHRB
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Apr 1 2012: Fire engines called to the Madonna Shrine in East Boston. (And all I can do is hum, "Like A Virgin.") http://t.co/RHybRffI
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Apr 1 2012: NEVER interrupt me when I am making travel arrangements. It is an intense, all-consuming activity, similar to juggling or making love.
10612
Apr 1 2012: The beautiful skies of New Jersey! (Around dawn this morning. Comment at http://t.co/5inGG5ME ) http://t.co/SroGmZ6T
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Apr 1 2012: Indeed, detox seems appropriate. (Newark, New Jersey, this morning. Comment at http://t.co/utjv2zNx ) http://t.co/Y9wDJrcO
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Apr 1 2012: @xtinewu Surf looks awesome! Any damn fools out there riding it?
10615
Apr 1 2012: @xtinewu @michellebranch The technology looks awesome! I only question the need. Don't kittens print themselves?
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Apr 1 2012: Unless you believe your genes are inherently superior and must be preserved, bringing new children into the world makes no sense.
10617
Apr 1 2012: If a hotel offers FREE wifi and FREE breakfast but their rate is $60 more than the competitor, is it really free?
10618
Apr 2 2012: Richmond: On the banks of the James River - 360 panorama (yesterday) http://t.co/F1GQhxOE More panoramas http://t.co/aDhXkM9X
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Apr 2 2012: I'd be freaked out not finding my car except I know there are two identical garages. A year-round April Fools joke! http://t.co/klf7AWcT
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Apr 2 2012: How and where to spot manatees in eastern Florida—'cuz it's #ManateeMonday in ManateeLand. cc @xtinewu @zenandtheartof http://t.co/nl3ooUvr
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Apr 2 2012: George Washington Bridge (Sunday morning. More at http://t.co/A6Y4OoQz ) http://t.co/iQyiJuKb
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Apr 2 2012: If you want to quit a bad habit, you either do it now or never. If you put it off, then it's not going to happen.
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Apr 2 2012: Check out our FavStar page for the Greatest All-Time Hits of the Bad Dalai Lama, as rated by our readers. http://t.co/LOd0mPJV
10624
Apr 2 2012: @xtinewu @zenandtheartof @savethemanatee Oh, that is SO mean!!! You have totally perverted the Save the Manatee vibe of this holiday! :-P
10625
Apr 2 2012: @xtinewu @zenandtheartof @savethemanatee ...Anyway I'm sure manatees have too much fat for good eatin'. Not like a nice roasted dolphin!
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Apr 2 2012: @xtinewu Hot chick! Centerfold for Violin Musclemania Magazine!
10627
Apr 2 2012: Caffeine is not a victimless addiction! Family members suffer you pre-coffee crankiness, much like the effects of second-hand smoke.
10628
Apr 2 2012: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama They also suffer our hyperactive caffeine-fueled rants.
10629
Apr 2 2012: New philosophy essay: "What I Learned While Quitting Caffeine" http://t.co/vRJp4Abz
10630
Apr 2 2012: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama So, you're no longer a Mountain Dew drinker?
10631
Apr 2 2012: @dunebat That was the 1990's, man! I don't dew that shit no mo'!
10632
Apr 2 2012: Listen to your body and it will tell you what it needs. (except when it wants drugs, sugar, fat, salt or sexual contact without permission)
10633
Apr 2 2012: On My Bucket List: Become so Jewish that I buy my matzos by the 5-pound case. http://t.co/YKRdFjzE [See Full Bucket List]
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Apr 2 2012: Nearly everyone is struggling with addiction. There are things we know we shouldn't be doing that we end up doing anyway.
10635
Apr 2 2012: Talking about Twitter: $0.02. Talking about Facebook: $0.02. Talking about Apple & Google: $0.02. Producing meaningful content: Priceless.
10636
Apr 2 2012: Addiction is a disease, like cancer, but unlike cancer only the victim himself can cure it.
10637
Apr 2 2012: @alekanakalea But five pounds of matzo is not enjoyment, regardless of ones faith.
10638
Apr 2 2012: Just revised this morning's essay on quitting caffeine (new ending and new 3rd paragraph) http://t.co/vRJp4Abz
10639
Apr 2 2012: RT @noahWG: "To make a long story short" is more effective when used BEFORE you've told the long story, rather than as a transition to y ...
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Apr 2 2012: RT @MicYsa: I have no patience helping those who refuse to help themselves.
10641
Apr 2 2012: RT @MailOnline: Human beings were using fire a million years ago - 300,000 years earlier than previously thought http://t.co/XgQd5H54
10642
Apr 2 2012: RT @DalaiLama: HHDL during his visit to Rewalsar Sahib, a Sikh shrine in Tso Pema (Rewalsar), HP, India on April 3rd, 2012. http:/ ...
10643
Apr 3 2012: RT @leahjohnston: The resulting photo from my trip to death valley with a skeleton! http://t.co/lp02Kkl8
10644
Apr 3 2012: RT @shitgirlssay: That's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me!
10645
Apr 3 2012: RT @MailOnline: Parrot learns unlocks his own cage and causes disruption at school by screeching 'Mick Jagger' repeatedly http://t.co/9G ...
10646
Apr 3 2012: Analyst Predicts Teenager Will Be Thirty Feet Tall By Middle Age Based On Current Growth Trends
10647
Apr 3 2012: An angry sky. Right now! http://t.co/Sqq4c8MS
10648
Apr 3 2012: Humans have the unique ability to perceive patterns where none exist and pass that "knowledge" on to others.
10649
Apr 3 2012: Take a chance? Kingsland, Georgia. http://t.co/s0IUa12U
10650
Apr 3 2012: The really dangerous part of manic-depression is the mania, when you feel overconfident and take on more commitments than you can handle.
10651
Apr 3 2012: Just learned at new word: Apophenia — seeing meaningful patterns in random data. (a gem from @xtinewu)
10652
Apr 3 2012: Apophenia is looking up at the clouds and seeing faces or animal shapes or turning on an old-style TV and seeing patterns in the static.
10653
Apr 3 2012: Apophenia is a key element of paranoia. Random events are seen an evidence of the conspiracy against you.
10654
Apr 3 2012: @dunebat You beat me to it!
10655
Apr 3 2012: Apophenia could be seen as the basis for religion. In random natural events, you see the hand of God.
10656
Apr 3 2012: Wikipedia on apophenia http://t.co/ORpK5Lcr
10657
Apr 3 2012: Apophenia is a rationale behind gambling. Gamblers see favorable patterns that can't be justified on statistical grounds.
10658
Apr 3 2012: Apophenia isn't all bad. Sometimes it is better to see imaginary meaning than none at all.
10659
Apr 3 2012: Sometimes you create meaning by seeing meaning that isn't really there.
10660
Apr 3 2012: Although I don't believe in God, I still believe "everything happens for a reason". That's apophenia at work.
10661
Apr 3 2012: To get through hardship, it is useful to treat it as a meaningful life lesson, not a random insult.
10662
Apr 3 2012: Depressed people see imaginary patterns working against them. Euphoric people see patterns in their favor. Both are deluded.
10663
Apr 3 2012: Writing music can be an exercise in apophenia. You listen to the noises in your head, pull out imaginary patterns and soon you have a song.
10664
Apr 3 2012: Healthy apophenia is recognizing the randomness of life while also looking for patterns that can be helpful.
10665
Apr 3 2012: Some of the greatest works of were inspired by random events.
10666
Apr 3 2012: If you are struck by a random disaster, your job is to find meaning in the chaos. It may be imaginary meaning at first, but it becomes real.
10667
Apr 3 2012: Don't deny people their apophenia if it helps them survive an otherwise intolerable situation.
10668
Apr 3 2012: In the midst of a crisis, people often find God. This God may not be real, but the soothing effects are.
10669
Apr 3 2012: Where would any of us be without apophenia? Would we even have the strength to get up in the morning?
10670
Apr 3 2012: If you start making hard investment decisions based on apophenia, you're screwed, but you can still find inspiration in it.
10671
Apr 3 2012: Love is an exercise in apophoria—thinking you have so much in common. In the end, it is either a delusion or a self-fulfilling prophesy.
10672
Apr 3 2012: What starts out as apophoria often ends up as serendipity.
10673
Apr 3 2012: I-95 in South Carolina is a long green tunnel. Nothing to see but jungle. http://t.co/QJfz3InF
10674
Apr 3 2012: Billboard says, "A Family That Prays Together Stays Together," but I think "Preys" and imagine a pack of hyenas. They stay together, too!
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Apr 3 2012: RT @xtinewu: @BadDalaiLama i would say that purposeful apophenia to bolster investment decision = data-mining. Omitting anything contrar ...
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Apr 3 2012: .@xtinewu Apophoria is useful not for the data it gives you but for the potential shift in perspective—to see things in a new light.
10677
Apr 3 2012: When I look up at the clouds, I see figures that I know aren't real, but those images can shake me up and give me new ideas.
10678
Apr 3 2012: Just passed this dilapidated southern belle, did a U-y and came back for another look. http://t.co/iDyozp3i
10679
Apr 3 2012: When I take a photo of a chaotic scene, I compose and crop in such a way that it seems to have meaning. It may not be real but it works.
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Apr 3 2012: Chaos is given structure and meaning by the forces of life. When life withdraws, entropy begins.
10681
Apr 3 2012: Another alien abduction. I get a lot of inquiries like this. http://t.co/pwintJuX
10682
Apr 3 2012: (Come to think of it, I was abducted at least once. They brought me to this damn planet!)
10683
Apr 3 2012: @LadyFriday Did it! Done!.. Come to think of it, I worked for about a week at a bank in Luxembourg. Seriously!
10684
Apr 3 2012: Most people need a certain level of misery in their lives to protect them from even more dangerous euphoria.
10685
Apr 3 2012: "Everything was going well for them... and BAM! they got married."
10686
Apr 3 2012: I'm on an anthropological mission to this M-class planet. As long as my cloaking device is operational, I have no right to intervene.
10687
Apr 3 2012: Dude, I can hear you car stereo 50 feet away with both our windows closed. Do you have any hearing left?
10688
Apr 3 2012: .@jimmychanclas Religion, for example. No matter how bizarre the belief, people pass it to their children, who usually accept it.
10689
Apr 4 2012: How a person speaks tells you more about their personality than what they say about themselves.
10690
Apr 4 2012: @xtinewu @JennyJohnsonHi5 Alas, the attitude of spouses these days is, "Fix it yourself!" The whole institution has deteriorated.
10691
Apr 4 2012: RT @noemiruth: @BadDalaiLama or, how a person talks about others.
10692
Apr 4 2012: For a relationship to be sustainable, people must not just be compatible; they must have a common mission.
10693
Apr 4 2012: Couples without a common mission usually make one up, such as raising children or pets or interior decoration.
10694
Apr 4 2012: Some of the greatest works of art were inspired by random events.
10695
Apr 4 2012: In any relationship, how you argue is more important than what you argue about.
10696
Apr 4 2012: The main danger of marriage—or any reliable human relationship—is that it gives people a crutch to avoid dealing with their own problems.
10697
Apr 4 2012: A relationship is a more intimate form of war.
10698
Apr 4 2012: Just because you love your child/spouse/partner doesn't mean you're going to let them get away with anything.
10699
Apr 4 2012: Eternal vigilance is the price of relationship.
10700
Apr 4 2012: It's not much of a relationship if you constantly live in fear of saying the wrong thing.
10701
Apr 4 2012: RT @DalaiLama: An inflated sense of self-importance deflects us from the inner peace and happiness we seek and affects those around us n ...
10702
Apr 4 2012: @ddianapril Forget the followers. Forget the stars. It's all about the tweets, woman!
10703
Apr 4 2012: RT @umeshranglani: Eternal vigilance is the price of a relationship - @BadDalaiLama tweet
10704
Apr 4 2012: @umeshranglani The "a" is something I struggled with.
10705
Apr 4 2012: Criticism must walk a fine line between effectiveness and useless nagging.
10706
Apr 4 2012: The best dollar-fifty snack in Walmart! Sort of like smokeless cigarettes for nicotine addicts. http://t.co/xrHNoOwW
10707
Apr 4 2012: It's sad Catholicism can't tolerate homosexuality, birth control, etc., but get over it. What about "religion" do you not understand?
10708
Apr 4 2012: When eating bacon it is important to respect the pig and consume it reverently, never flippantly.
10709
Apr 4 2012: People are suckers for sizzle over substance.
10710
Apr 4 2012: It's not discrimination. It's not bad luck. It's not society that holds you down. It's what you do to yourself.
10711
Apr 4 2012: If you're considering becoming a parent and think you're committed to "only" 18-21 years, think again! This thing never really ends.
10712
Apr 4 2012: "Oh, God, why have you forsaken me?" Honestly, that's the only thing He can do. If He intervenes, then you become dependent on him.
10713
Apr 4 2012: The thing that bugs me most about religious people is their absolute certainty. They know what the truth is and need no further inquiry.
10714
Apr 5 2012: Letting someone else handle your travel arrangements is like putting them in charge of your love life. You can't expect a good match.
10715
Apr 5 2012: Sometimes not getting what you want is a blessing in disguise. Sometimes getting what you want is a curse.
10716
Apr 5 2012: Love is an exercise in apophenia—thinking you have so much in common. In the end, it is either a delusion or a self-fulfilling prophesy.
10717
Apr 5 2012: What starts out as apophenia often ends up as serendipity.
10718
Apr 5 2012: BDL endorsement: Sign up for free http://t.co/Klwi3vVc and they maintain a permanent downloadable archive of your tweets. Fantastic!
10719
Apr 5 2012: Our permanent tweet archive at http://t.co/o7IVLwc4 is derived from an archive file we download from @TweetBackup.
10720
Apr 5 2012: From my secret campsite at the FLL airport. Got 5 hours of solid sleep on a tarp on the grass. Perfect! 3rd time here! http://t.co/3hokRw0u
10721
Apr 5 2012: Good rule of thumb in South Florida: Sudden gusts of wind mean a downpour is coming momentarily. Seek shelter fast! (I just made it!)
10722
Apr 5 2012: Like it or not, Facebook is part of your personal presentation to the world. If your page looks disorganized and unoriginal then you do too.
10723
Apr 5 2012: Whenever you see a charity and think "That's a noble cause," you must also think, "What MORE noble cause is it stealing contributions from?"
10724
Apr 5 2012: @TheLastVirgo You in Hawaii?
10725
Apr 5 2012: "Predatory charities" are nonprofit entities that seem a noble but that mainly steal contributions from other charities. #valuescom
10726
Apr 5 2012: There are people you can speak your mind to and others you have to tiptoe around. Those tiptoe people are the ones you don't need.
10727
Apr 5 2012: Unsolicited endorsement of our photo skills. http://t.co/ACbFDpTL
10728
Apr 5 2012: The Travel Guide Dilemma: If you give advice and it turns out wrong, you get blamed, so it's safest to say nothing.
10729
Apr 5 2012: Intellect is art of understanding and processing viewpoints that differ from our own.
10730
Apr 5 2012: People are getting older faster. The old farts now gripe about the "new" Facebook and how things were so much better in the old days.
10731
Apr 5 2012: RT @anakron: @BadDalaiLama you _do_ have a great photographic 'eye'... And an interesting view on the world.. #justmy2cents
10732
Apr 5 2012: RT @RowdyPrimate: The upside of having made so many bad choices in my life is that I'm not burdened with a whole lot of choices anymore.
10733
Apr 5 2012: Everything has a good side and a bad side, and you need to understand both to make an intelligent choice.
10734
Apr 5 2012: RT @ddianapril: The truth is out there, but I haven't figured out the URL yet.
10735
Apr 5 2012: @RhodiHawk A fleeting sign of life on the Hawk account?
10736
Apr 5 2012: Awesome! More profound than you first think. RT @ddianapril: The truth is out there, but I haven't figured out the URL yet.
10737
Apr 5 2012: RT @SteveSeaquist: @BadDalaiLama I agree. Also, charity that arises from within is free to be molded by the intellect and take its most ...
10738
Apr 5 2012: I have tried to drink alcohol but can't seem to do it right. My reflexes slow down, my thinking gets murky and I think, "Why?"
10739
Apr 5 2012: People who need alcohol to have fun are conventional and restricted. They need it to release themselves from themselves.
10740
Apr 5 2012: The chief hazard of liberalism is "fixing" problems with seemingly compassionate solutions that only make matters worse.
10741
Apr 5 2012: Whenever government tries to fix a social problem, there's a high risk of collateral damage worst than the original affliction.
10742
Apr 5 2012: This is probably the first Baitmobile you've ever seen! http://t.co/1a1a5628
10743
Apr 5 2012: The most effective charities are those providing services to at-risk children. A small investment can have a huge benefit to society.
10744
Apr 5 2012: American society would rather spend billions on prisons than a fraction of that on youth diversionary programs.
10745
Apr 5 2012: Education vs. incarceration — who's winning? http://t.co/MUlrQJjp
10746
Apr 5 2012: Check out my public Facebook page for a nearly 500 photo albums from around the world. http://t.co/KRaAfjKO
10747
Apr 5 2012: A random spot in the woods, Palm Coast, Florida - 360° panorama http://t.co/RQnQfgzU
10748
Apr 5 2012: Sound philosophical advice from the St. Lucie News Tribune. http://t.co/LNZWcnes
10749
Apr 5 2012: Last night I dreamed I was in Ljubljana deciding where to go next. How many of YOU have dreamt that? http://t.co/RLT2Oje6 (2010 album)
10750
Apr 6 2012: Jumping the Pond: Fly NY to London in June for $1,112 r/t—or to Kiev via Moscow on Aeroflot for only $940. #dreaming http://t.co/AXuiENGU
10751
Apr 6 2012: US visitors to Russia need a visa, which is a bitch to get, but Ukraine requires no visa. Only crime is an issue. http://t.co/YB37YAyN
10752
Apr 6 2012: Better yet: Fly into Riga and out of Kiev for $919. (The most bizarre thing: "Lunch" on a 1.5 hour flight.) #dreaming http://t.co/o6kBAJLF
10753
Apr 6 2012: I've seen this same chef all over the world! Miami http://t.co/rR59PsKv Instanbul http://t.co/x7ArHk6U Slovenia http://t.co/he280mCs
10754
Apr 6 2012: RT @TrekkieGirls: @BadDalaiLama He said he keeps seeing you all over the world too!
10755
Apr 6 2012: Every activity has its cost-benefit ratio which tells you whether to do it and how much.
10756
Apr 6 2012: Follow @BadLamaWisdom (in addition to this account) for a random selection of our past wisdom (max 4 per day).
10757
Apr 6 2012: You can either be an ant, preoccupied with local ant issues, or a bird seeing the world from above.
10758
Apr 6 2012: MRT @YourAuntLola: %99 of your physical flaws are invisible to everyone but you and people who work on beauty counters
10759
Apr 6 2012: Worlds's most terrifying Easter Bunnies http://t.co/0Fj22An9 via @bybeautydamned
10760
Apr 6 2012: RT @TheBosha: MEMO re: Ancient aliens Yes they were here. Yes they intermingled their DNA with ours and yes they left because honestly, ...
10761
Apr 6 2012: RT @RowdyPrimate: Every time I mention something I enjoy, some tight-ass cries "addiction!"
10762
Apr 6 2012: There are no permanent pleasures.
10763
Apr 6 2012: The most common mistakes of life planning are attempts to take a temporary sensation and make it permanent.
10764
Apr 6 2012: These girls crack me up! (@ Dollar Tree, Florence SC) http://t.co/qVK6X33J
10765
Apr 6 2012: RT @TheBosha: Die today. That's what Jesus would do.
10766
Apr 7 2012: Kaliningrad is a tiny outpost of Russia between Lithuania and Poland. http://t.co/rT4zhbpP I did not know this! #geographylesson
10767
Apr 7 2012: She enjoyed a pimp-free lifestyle, marketing herself on the Internet. Still, filtering the clientele was the problem. These guys were slobs.
10768
Apr 7 2012: "I run a respectable business here!" she shouted, grabbing the money and running for the door.
10769
Apr 7 2012: My gift is seeing the black comedy in any cheerful proposal.
10770
Apr 7 2012: RT @YWIR: Every day that isn't the apocalypse just brings the apocalypse one day closer.
10771
Apr 7 2012: Me and my buddy Sam. http://t.co/gFrsO9f7
10772
Apr 7 2012: Field of fallen monoliths, Emporia, Virginia - 360° panorama http://t.co/M7l3PQ41
10773
Apr 7 2012: B+W iPhone self-portrait in a motel room. Better than my current avi? http://t.co/GxmSLgxQ
10774
Apr 7 2012: New trial avi (B+W). Compare to original attached. Better or worse? http://t.co/ysHv57TH
10775
Apr 7 2012: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama Both pics are cool, but I like the new avi much better. :D
10776
Apr 7 2012: RT @aaroncajes: @BadDalaiLama Hey, you look like paulo coelho on this new B&W dp! Haha. Cool.
10777
Apr 7 2012: Anger is a form of violence. Even if not physically violent, it is violently expressed.
10778
Apr 7 2012: Most anger is directed at family members, employees and others who are trapped with you. No one else would hang around for that shit.
10779
Apr 7 2012: You have achieved prima donna status when you can spew venom at people and they don't walk out on you.
10780
Apr 7 2012: I believe in my heart that this would be a better world if we were just nicer to each other. (channeling the @DalaiLama)
10781
Apr 7 2012: Through compassion and understanding, we can promote peace and encourage tolerance. (channeling the @DalaiLama)
10782
Apr 7 2012: Synonyms: truism, bromide, platitude, @DalaiLama
10783
Apr 7 2012: The American Revolution was the world's first and last "clean" revolution, that wasn't hijacked by despots along the way.
10784
Apr 7 2012: The best way to shut down communication with someone is to get angry with them.
10785
Apr 7 2012: Dumfries-Manassas, Virginia — a region known collectively as Dumass. (@ ManASSas) http://t.co/IzlBp990
10786
Apr 7 2012: "A man doesn't know what happiness is until he gets married, and then it's too late."
10787
Apr 8 2012: @cottonmouth1 I went glam when I went Kojak about a year ago. The old photos look so... ewww!
10788
Apr 8 2012: He lured her in with the promise of bacon and she fell for it, poor girl.
10789
Apr 8 2012: About 1/3 of the wine section of a Florida supermarket. I seriously don't have a clue how to tell them apart. http://t.co/u3j3c05N
10790
Apr 8 2012: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ....isn't that always just how it goes....such a shame...
10791
Apr 8 2012: The BEST EVER cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" sung by a drunk in the back of a police car. http://t.co/QEETHWIc via @Andreaof9
10792
Apr 8 2012: @cottonmouth1 @DefineYellow You can always "Ask Bad" right here.
10793
Apr 8 2012: @stevepheby Alaska? ("Fifty-four forty or fight!" I always say.)
10794
Apr 8 2012: RT @washingtonpost: Five myths about water -- 2: Bottled water is better than tap water. http://t.co/z07Uqcnb
10795
Apr 8 2012: I don't believe in God but still have the conviction that He gave me this life to do something with.
10796
Apr 8 2012: RT @RowdyPrimate: Living with a teenager is a lot like owning a parrot that hates you.
10797
Apr 8 2012: Yes, and he is one of the perpetrators. ==> Pope Benedict XVI warns of 'moral darkness' as he celebrates Easter Mass http://t.co/DwzIAAUZ
10798
Apr 8 2012: RT @AndrewBober: @BadDalaiLama quite a literal rendering of "better the devil you know than the devil you don't" (says i the Catholic of ...
10799
Apr 8 2012: @stevepheby Wow! I didn't know that! Right near the Tsawwassen ferry. (Not sure Canada qualifies as a "country" though.)
10800
Apr 8 2012: Dogs are the Waylon Smithers of the animal world.
10801
Apr 8 2012: Any "safety net" shouldn't be too pleasant or people will be tempted to stay there.
10802
Apr 8 2012: Easter thought: A feast day is meaningful only if the rest of the year isn't already a feast. #prosperity #obesity
10803
Apr 8 2012: Brian is risen!
10804
Apr 8 2012: Thanks to @HostelWorld you don't need to plan a European tour. Just book your first night and figure out the rest on the fly. #exceptaugust
10805
Apr 8 2012: RT @washingtonpost: Roman "gladiators" climb Colosseum to protest crackdown on snapshots with tourists: http://t.co/LxR7VON6
10806
Apr 8 2012: Never decide something now when there is no substantial benefit in it. Keep your options open for as long as possible.
10807
Apr 8 2012: True wealth is the freedom to use your time as you wish. Money can give you this, but only up to the point where more doesn't buy more time.
10808
Apr 8 2012: The easiest way to make more money is to cut costs.
10809
Apr 8 2012: What do people talk about when guaranteed anonymity? Twitter answers that. Sex and alcohol mainly.
10810
Apr 8 2012: .@CGarison Illegal drugs crop up in anonymity, but none can match the tweet-generating power of alcohol.
10811
Apr 9 2012: People think they are SO clever when drunk, but in the morning whatever they produced just looks stupid.
10812
Apr 9 2012: Chemical enhancement of human performance is a myth.
10813
Apr 9 2012: Ever seen the intricate mechanical creations of a meth addict? Truly amazing! But usually applied to an inane and irrelevant purpose.
10814
Apr 9 2012: There is no "free energy" in the human brain. Any chemical enhancement of mood results in a loss somewhere else.
10815
Apr 9 2012: @LadyFriday Hey, you gave me one of my few alcohol experiences. Level 40! That was fun actually!
10816
Apr 9 2012: RT @SirRocket: @BadDalaiLama Sounds like a great idea for a new American museum. Or amusement park. #methland
10817
Apr 9 2012: .@dramapad Steroids can certainly enhance performance in the short term, but there is a long term cost to your health and longevity.
10818
Apr 9 2012: Would you make a deal with the Devil: enhanced performance now for a much greater cost later? Many would, and chemicals give us the chance.
10819
Apr 9 2012: Chemical mood enhancers (alcohol, drugs, caffeine) are like payday loan centers. You get your cash now but at usury rates.
10820
Apr 9 2012: Antidepressants work! They usually lift the depression for a while. The problem, then, is how to get off them.
10821
Apr 9 2012: The claim that antidepressants are non-addictive is bull! How can you NOT get addicted to something that makes you feel good?
10822
Apr 9 2012: The only lasting cure for depression, anxiety or social awkwardness must come from within. A chemical can only bail you out temporarily.
10823
Apr 9 2012: Mood stabilizers and anti-psychotic drugs are a boon to mankind. Antidepressants and mood enhancers are different—more voodoo than medicine.
10824
Apr 9 2012: Satan is always standing by to make a loan to anyone who wants one. The only problem is the interest rate.
10825
Apr 9 2012: A solution is not real if it merely displaces a problem into the future.
10826
Apr 9 2012: Eeyore was depressed. Tigger was ADHD. And Pooh had a serious honey addiction. Nowadays, we'd have meds for all that.
10827
Apr 9 2012: RT @ZoroastrianFunk: @BadDalaiLama the prophet Muhammad was bipolar, and John the Baptist was schizophrenic. Then- prophets. Now- patients.
10828
Apr 9 2012: Walking into a Walmart restroom, this sign stopped me in my tracks. OMG, this can't be the men's room?! http://t.co/A8HSW1Vh
10829
Apr 9 2012: Whenever someone says, "Intense!" there's only one proper response: "Repo Man's always intense."
10830
Apr 9 2012: New word of the day: "anosognosia" — lack of awareness of what ails you. e.g. "I have no problem. YOU have a problem." Brilliant word!
10831
Apr 9 2012: RT @dramapad: @BadDalaiLama I like the theory that the human brain is optimal in a deep sense. Do you have further info about this? (Res ...
10832
Apr 9 2012: .@dramapad Ha! Here at the Lama Pad we have no need for research, but google up "methamphetamine anhedonia" for some insight.
10833
Apr 9 2012: RT @Ruys: @BadDalaiLama What about Piglet? Low self-esteem issues?
10834
Apr 9 2012: Do you like our occasional insight but think our volume is too much? Monitor Favstar Recent for our vetted tweets. http://t.co/XUhCmZdZ
10835
Apr 9 2012: If you love His Badliness and appreciate his insight, please give generously: Star his best tweets!
10836
Apr 9 2012: "In blind taste tests, people can't reliably tell bottled water from tap water." Main difference: Bottled water is usually served colder.
10837
Apr 9 2012: Acting is a reasonable career choice for those who want to spend the rest of their lives pretending to be someone else.
10838
Apr 9 2012: Someone morally suspect is offering you heaps of cash to do something you are not comfortable with. Can you resist?
10839
Apr 9 2012: RT @BonnieLCoffey: @BadDalaiLama Till death do you part can be a long friggin time. Or not.
10840
Apr 9 2012: RT @jdnaude: @BadDalaiLama how big are the heaps???
10841
Apr 9 2012: Coyote Springs, a "new" ghost town in the Nevada desert whose demise I predicted long before the crash. http://t.co/Yjv1b7wp via @angusbatey
10842
Apr 9 2012: Loyalty isn't all that admirable if it makes you hold on to a dysfunctional relationship.
10843
Apr 9 2012: RT @SteveSeaquist: @BadDalaiLama A principle is an idea that you adhere to even if it costs you something. If it violates your principle ...
10844
Apr 9 2012: RT @MJMcKean: A happy 84th to the great Tom Lehrer.
10845
Apr 9 2012: RT @washingtonpost: German boys' choir copes with increasingly urgent threat: Puberty http://t.co/mxjZD3Pe
10846
Apr 9 2012: RT @pixiedintheark: Recently my masculine and feminine sides are in conflict. My feminine side bought a new laptop; my masculine side b ...
10847
Apr 9 2012: UFOs may or may not be real, but thinking they are worth your precious time on Earth is totally delusional.
10848
Apr 9 2012: 65 years after the first flying saucer claims, still no visible progress in the investigation. Time to hang it up? #UFOs
10849
Apr 9 2012: UFOs = apophenia?
10850
Apr 9 2012: A whole generation of UFO investigators has lived and died without getting any closer to "the truth". Martyrs to the cause! Are you next?
10851
Apr 9 2012: For 65 years, UFO investigators have been on the verge of a great breakthrough. Alas, it always gets delayed.
10852
Apr 9 2012: If aliens visiting Earth are a superior race, they will reveal themselves when they choose to. Until then, relax. Focus on earthly life.
10853
Apr 9 2012: Right now! Driving behind a convoy of unmarked armor-plated government SUVs. Coincidence, or did they read my tweets? http://t.co/GwnMu0NA
10854
Apr 9 2012: The existence of government secrecy does not prove the existence of UFOs.
10855
Apr 9 2012: The government is massively inefficient and moderately incompetent in everything it does. Absurd to think it could keep UFO info secret.
10856
Apr 9 2012: Government conspiracy theories assume a hyper-efficient "secret government" within our incompetent one, actually getting things done.
10857
Apr 9 2012: .@Kyoks1 The armored convoy is keeping their distance as I approach Washington. They must have received the word: "Back off! He's onto you."
10858
Apr 9 2012: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama they know better...
10859
Apr 9 2012: This is it! I'm waking in the front door and demanding answers! #UFOs (@ National Security Agency (NSA)) [pic]: http://t.co/ck0SlZ0d
10860
Apr 9 2012: Detained by NSA security, RIGHT NOW, for taking photos of the buildings (from a public aircraft display). They're running my ID right now!
10861
Apr 9 2012: Itching to take a photo of them, uniformed security 30 yards away, discussing me. They have my ID!
10862
Apr 9 2012: Still detained (gently) while and "agent" comes from from HQ to check me out. Just like old times! See geotag for location.
10863
Apr 9 2012: Still detained. They're checking me out, but don't seem to know about my previous encounter here.
10864
Apr 9 2012: Hey, NSA! Can't you figure out that I had my film confiscated here IN ALMOST THE SAME PLACE 18 years ago?!?! So much for "intelligence"!
10865
Apr 9 2012: Still detained. Running my plates now. They made me delete the dozen photos I took of the NSA buildings. No loss.
10866
Apr 9 2012: Got my film confiscated here AGAIN! 18 years later. Like old times! (@ National Cryptologic Museum) http://t.co/rZJq42q4
10867
Apr 9 2012: I'm free to go! Thanks, NSA, for that free entertainment.
10868
Apr 9 2012: Gonna shoot the hell out of that building as I drive out! #NSA
10869
Apr 9 2012: @xtinewu It is ESSENTIAL to judge others, to draw lessons from them to apply to your own life.
10870
Apr 9 2012: There is no perception without making judgments.
10871
Apr 9 2012: Human perception is not a photographic process but one of evaluation and reduction.
10872
Apr 9 2012: Perception is deeply emotional and personal. No data is neutral.
10873
Apr 9 2012: You won't remember something if you don't make an emotional judgment about it.
10874
Apr 9 2012: Ha! I got some sneaky photos of the NSA guys AFTER they made me delete the building photos from my camera. Coming soon!
10875
Apr 9 2012: While exiting the NSA grounds, I took a whole slew of building photos MUCH BETTER than the ones they made me delete. #lastlaugh
10876
Apr 9 2012: National Cryptologic Museum, exhibit hall - 360° panorama http://t.co/6cBKZgPV
10877
Apr 9 2012: Typing on the Nazi Enigma machine from WWII. They let you play with it! http://t.co/BahQR6xp
10878
Apr 9 2012: I wonder if NSA reads public tweets that are hash tagged #NSA? That would be sophisticated SigInt!
10879
Apr 9 2012: NSA = National Silly Agency, the American counterpart of Britain's Ministry of Silly Walks. NSA does silly walks, talks and silly security.
10880
Apr 9 2012: On May 8, 1994, I had my film seized at NSA HQ after taking a photo of a "No Photography" sign. Same place as today! http://t.co/2hORD9iS
10881
Apr 9 2012: Public aircraft display at NSA HQ, 1 hour ago. OK to shoot the planes, not OK to turn my camera in the other direction. http://t.co/2thxB5TN
10882
Apr 9 2012: These NSA security guys detained me for 35 minutes for taking photos of distant NSA buildings from this public park. http://t.co/e9vaPjW6
10883
Apr 9 2012: These NSA guys made me delete my distant photos of NSA buildings. I took this photo AFTER the deletion. Ha Ha! http://t.co/hbX6YuBo
10884
Apr 9 2012: NSA police accompanied me back to my car so they could run my plates. "Standard procedure." http://t.co/g1SHxTfy
10885
Apr 9 2012: They are still talking about me on cellphones 30 min after the encounter began. Seem to have no clue about my past tho. http://t.co/ENO7W4tK
10886
Apr 9 2012: While exiting NSA grounds, I took BETTER building photos then the ones they made me delete. The black SUV is security. http://t.co/cFQalPAI
10887
Apr 9 2012: For the record, there were NO obvious signs saying No Photography. (This time. There were in 1994.) Photos were ALLOWED in the museum. #NSA
10888
Apr 9 2012: .@pjsimons No cloak and dagger intended. I didn't go looking for trouble at NSA. Trouble found me!
10889
Apr 9 2012: .@pjsimons All these guys are just there for our entertainment. They don't even know about the UFOs. (Security clearance isn't high enough.)
10890
Apr 9 2012: If you work for NSA, you must have "REPORT ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS" drilled into you ten times a day. Today, I fit the bill. #baldterroristspy
10891
Apr 9 2012: RT @cottonmouth1: @BadDalaiLama ...and again...we don't call ya "Mr. Bad" fer nothin'... ;-) ....we'll still be here fer ya when u get ...
10892
Apr 9 2012: @cottonmouth1 I think I could handle the prison experience, right up to the point where they said, "NO INTERNET."
10893
Apr 10 2012: I want to become an iconoclast, an innovator, a rebel. Is there a course or seminar I can take for that?
10894
Apr 10 2012: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: @BadDalaiLama I like how u continued taking pics after being detained. #BadAssRebel
10895
Apr 10 2012: .@LetsGo2TheBeach Timing was important. I took new spy photos only AFTER my camera was reviewed and the original ones were deleted.
10896
Apr 10 2012: Although I try to be discreet, authorities have tried to seize my film a dozen times. Once I was arrested for resisting. I know the drill.
10897
Apr 10 2012: Luckily, America isn't some draconian 1984 surveillance society where you have no rights, like Britain.
10898
Apr 10 2012: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: @BadDalaiLama Oh Mr Bad, how I do admire your ability to stir up mischief! You have the natural ability to bring ou ...
10899
Apr 10 2012: A "bromide" is not an antacid but a nice sounding statement that says nothing. ("Children are our future.")
10900
Apr 10 2012: The Good @DalaiLama is a Random Bromide Generator (RBG). @BadDalaiLama is an Anti-Bromide Generator (ABG). Heaven forbid they should meet!
10901
Apr 10 2012: .@The_Lie_Lama You're a Random Lie Generator (RLG), Your Worshipfulness.
10902
Apr 10 2012: Today I visited NSA. 15 min in museum. 5 min at public aircraft display. 35 min in security encounter for photos taken at aircraft display.
10903
Apr 10 2012: NSA must be a great place to work if you enjoy working on abstract problems in a tiny cubicle in a huge honeycomb.
10904
Apr 10 2012: OMG, I hope NSA isn't reading my National Security Agency tweets, hashtags #nsa #nationalsecurityagency !!!
10905
Apr 10 2012: @bprabawabr Allow me my short window of glory.
10906
Apr 10 2012: Good people often make bad choices then spend the rest of their lives justifying them.
10907
Apr 10 2012: "Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" was a good song, but "Can't Trust This Feeling Anymore" would have been more interesting and realistic.
10908
Apr 10 2012: There is no light without darkness to compare it to.
10909
Apr 10 2012: You can't expect love to just sit there and perform. You have to train it. You have to do something with it.
10910
Apr 10 2012: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." ― W.C. Fields' most useful advice
10911
Apr 10 2012: There is nothing so quaint as a little New England town, perfectly preserved from the 1800s, choked with SUV and minivan traffic.
10912
Apr 10 2012: Passing close to Walden Pond. My past photos: http://t.co/r8kNDMlF http://t.co/ckkE3WXo
10913
Apr 10 2012: It takes constant vigilance to be non-paranoid.
10914
Apr 10 2012: Modern medicine can only be done one way: the perfect and expensive way. That means fewer people are served and more lives are lost. #triage
10915
Apr 10 2012: The only thing constant in my life is recognizing my own incredible naïveté just a few years before.
10916
Apr 10 2012: Sometimes whole armies can't do what one person can who is close to the situation and understands it.
10917
Apr 10 2012: Can't figure out if this is a Planet of the Apes or Lord of the Rings bus stop. http://t.co/ZwO8zIL0
10918
Apr 10 2012: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama "One does not just walk into Ape Od..."
10919
Apr 10 2012: Honesty is not a virtue without discretion.
10920
Apr 10 2012: RT @MinnieGupta: #relationshipadvice never deny your PMSing partner her cupcake!
10921
Apr 10 2012: @Smethanie You're cookin', girl!
10922
Apr 10 2012: Explaining the ancient Cray supercomputer, now a museum piece. To learn more about the Cray, ask Siri. http://t.co/SljsGroA
10923
Apr 10 2012: Just bought a roundtrip nonstop ticket from USA to a foreign land. Can you determine the origin and destination? http://t.co/ZnOYpIgT
10924
Apr 10 2012: @LadyFriday Indeed awesome! But raises a vexing issue: Jones's or Jones'? (Same dilemma with Burns.)
10925
Apr 10 2012: On My Bucket List: Develop some gender identity issues. [See Full Bucket List]
10926
Apr 10 2012: Instagram for $1 billion? Definitely don't understand that one. Facebook digging itself a deeper hole? #FacebookBubble
10927
Apr 11 2012: Passengers behind me are talking about their rehab experiences, but still glorifying their drugs. Had to use my own orange pills. #earplugs
10928
Apr 11 2012: Court ordered rehab has zero effectiveness in getting people off drugs. People get off drugs only when THEY choose to do it.
10929
Apr 11 2012: "They made me go to rehab" is a pretty good sign it won't work. The prerequisite attitude isn't there.
10930
Apr 11 2012: RT @tzycore: @BadDalaiLama i love your new profile picture. awesome! :)
10931
Apr 11 2012: @tzycore Thanks! Maybe I'll keep it.
10932
Apr 11 2012: Now the drug addicts behind me (a man and woman who just met) are sharing photos of their non-custodial children. Figures.
10933
Apr 11 2012: Man and woman behind me have already exchanged phone numbers. Addicts find it SO easy to connect.
10934
Apr 11 2012: Now switching to bipedal transport. 4 hours to perambulate 2 miles. (@ Amtrak Station Orlando) [pic]: http://t.co/OOdgjQji
10935
Apr 11 2012: Self-portrait, EWR-FLL. http://t.co/WyWpqpYp
10936
Apr 11 2012: I don't distrust God, just the people He hangs out with.
10937
Apr 11 2012: Sex is the most effective anaphrodisiac. Take once a day or as needed to relieve symptoms.
10938
Apr 11 2012: Dear old people: You can't stop the clock, but you can clip your nose and ear hair. Just one little thing that cries "old".
10939
Apr 11 2012: Starting now, six buses, two trains, three planes and some walking, over the course of 2.5 days, just to get to the START of the journey.
10940
Apr 11 2012: @stevepheby Not as many as you'd think. Most of my air travel (thru Sept '11) was free as a laid-off airline employee. No FF miles.
10941
Apr 11 2012: Completed Leg 2 of a complex multimodal journey. Now planning the rest. (@ Amtrak Fort Lauderdale) [pic]: http://t.co/tRck3wEO
10942
Apr 11 2012: Magic orange pills that make everything all right. Perfect cure for annoying fellow travelers. (Amtrak Silver Meteor) http://t.co/OoK3q7Uv
10943
Apr 11 2012: RT @Erekosse: @BadDalaiLama Nor blue nor red. The orange pills! #WiseTraveller
10944
Apr 11 2012: A bit startled to find myself here on a train from Ft. Lauderdale to Orlando. (@ Tampa Union Station) [pic]: http://t.co/OJodFsji
10945
Apr 11 2012: This little lens attachment for the iPhone set me back 60 bucks but may be worth it. (normal, wide, fisheye) http://t.co/LMiSP83S
10946
Apr 12 2012: So where is this Funky Town you want me to take you down to?
10947
Apr 12 2012: You cannot argue with someone's personality. It is entrenched and impervious to external logic.
10948
Apr 12 2012: RT @nofence420 A self absorbed cunt would never need a tampon right?
10949
Apr 12 2012: @RhodiHawk Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, blocking out the scenery breaking my mind. Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
10950
Apr 12 2012: RT @bybeautydamned: For some reason Mensa members aren't smart enough to know how annoying it is to announce that you're smarter than ev ...
10951
Apr 12 2012: RT @ddianapril: It's way better being hated than being ignored.
10952
Apr 12 2012: On the overnight Megabus from Orlando to Atlanta, I get two seats to myself. Tonight I shall sleep. http://t.co/Jc1JIWVF
10953
Apr 12 2012: LOL! 2:20am on the campus of Univ of Florida, Megabus pulled over for speeding in a 20mph zone, moments after leaving bus stop.
10954
Apr 12 2012: Every song must stand on its own, without the songwriter being present to declare what category it should be placed in.
10955
Apr 12 2012: 5 am rest stop, Tifton, Georgia. http://t.co/E62B2y6P
10956
Apr 12 2012: @ZombieFlores Si!
10957
Apr 12 2012: Abusive people never see themselves as abusive but merely as defending their rights.
10958
Apr 12 2012: Teenagers hate you for everything you try to do for them. Get used to it. Don't expect appreciation, only results.
10959
Apr 12 2012: Living with an abusive person, you delude yourself into thinking you can predict and control the abuse cycle through diplomacy. You can't.
10960
Apr 12 2012: Every work of art must stand on its own, without the artist being present to declare how it should be interpreted.
10961
Apr 12 2012: @SteveSeaquist Since when has a talk show booked a songwriter?
10962
Apr 12 2012: @SteveSeaquist Since when has a recording company purchased an ad for a song or album? I've never seen any. Must be stealth advertising.
10963
Apr 12 2012: This check-in is a red herring, intended to deceive and misdirect. [pic]: http://t.co/5hU7Cruk
10964
Apr 12 2012: A song succeeds or fails primarily based on whether it fulfills the intent that it declared in the first few seconds.
10965
Apr 12 2012: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
10966
Apr 12 2012: @xtinewu Saw this and thought of you. http://t.co/Flvqddb9
10967
Apr 12 2012: Wile E. Coyote is just like the rest of us! One Acme device backfires so he tries another and another, never rethinking his deluded mission.
10968
Apr 12 2012: Owning a house is fine — if the main thing you plan to do with you life is fund, maintain and protect it.
10969
Apr 12 2012: Apologies: Although I'd add some footnotes, I agree with this sign in Jimmy John's. http://t.co/NwwNulug
10970
Apr 12 2012: Ha! The only reason I was at the ATL airport was to wait out an 8-hour bus layover in luxury. #tricky #fooledyou http://t.co/gzlnchgo
10971
Apr 12 2012: Full burka in Atlanta. Wearer speaks in a native Georgia accent. That think must be a killer in the summer! http://t.co/bWzG4Afj
10972
Apr 12 2012: Happiness is a nearly empty Megabus. http://t.co/SMzd23fJ
10973
Apr 12 2012: People who have invested their lives in dubious belief systems will always say, "Don't criticize what you don't understand."
10974
Apr 12 2012: Catch-22: People who have made absurd investments won't accept criticism from you unless you have made the same absurd investments.
10975
Apr 12 2012: You can't talk someone out of an absurd belief. They'll get mad at you and cut off the conversation before you get even close.
10976
Apr 12 2012: People believe what they need to believe to protect the emotional investments they have already made.
10977
Apr 12 2012: Anger is a mechanism to protect the ego and insulate fragile belief systems from rational argument.
10978
Apr 12 2012: The more fragile ones ego, the quicker one is to anger.
10979
Apr 12 2012: Apologies do not always make things better. Sometimes they make them worse. Please apologize responsibly.
10980
Apr 12 2012: apolophilia — the love of apologizing, esp. the tendency to apologize for things one is not responsible for. (Just invented this word!)
10981
Apr 12 2012: Weekly Vocabulary Review: anosognosia https://t.co/VfaO80Ee apophenia https://t.co/QWqib5Pq apolophilia https://t.co/mMR9wqv6
10982
Apr 12 2012: @Maicol80 Go ahead, I dare you!
10983
Apr 12 2012: RT @TheViewFromHell: Tattoos reflect the desire to permanently attach the self to meaning.
10984
Apr 12 2012: My private room at the Knoxville airport. An employee directed me here. (Night 2 of a complex international journey.) http://t.co/twEcV1hR
10985
Apr 13 2012: Wine and cheese were the junk food of the Middle Ages. Millennia from now they'll probably treat Doritos with the same reverence.
10986
Apr 13 2012: @halliewallen Passing through, as usual. Early a.m. flight.
10987
Apr 13 2012: Waking up in a glass box in the Knoxville airport. http://t.co/bYPurSu2
10988
Apr 13 2012: RT @AynRandBK: People need to stop having babies just for the cute outfits. A parasite leech-pod in a onesie is STILL a parasite leech-pod.
10989
Apr 13 2012: Hit the road, Jack. http://t.co/KeOWrCyb
10990
Apr 13 2012: Tiny plane. http://t.co/7b8xxV0M
10991
Apr 13 2012: Alien sighting on this flight. http://t.co/bEjXy9TT
10992
Apr 13 2012: Watching families on a plane, I see parents who laugh and smile with their children and others who don't. Those who don't scare me.
10993
Apr 13 2012: Just say "No" to iceberg lettuce! (I have no idea why, but it makes me feel more discriminating.)
10994
Apr 13 2012: Just a short hop to Tokyo! (compared the 56 hours getting here) (@ Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)) [pic]: http://t.co/HU6yBLbz
10995
Apr 13 2012: Intelligence is the ability to separate emotions from facts.
10996
Apr 13 2012: Narita cancelled! That means Haneda will be overbooked and I won't get an empty sleeping seat beside me. #roughingit http://t.co/ph1ySJpJ
10997
Apr 13 2012: I could be the Mayor of somewhere on Foursquare, but I'm not an administrator. I don't think I could handle the politics.
10998
Apr 13 2012: RT @Neuro_Skeptic: Canadian antidepressant use fell when drug patents expired even though this made pills cheaper http://t.co/9cL7AOTr S ...
10999
Apr 13 2012: It's the people paranoid about germs who are usually the biggest slobs.
11000
Apr 14 2012: Another venerable institution falls by the wayside. http://t.co/WG4zozIB
11001
Apr 14 2012: Boarding my flight. Terra incognita is always exciting! http://t.co/KJQ6Lv0m
11002
Apr 14 2012: The Menu of Service for my flight. After $675 in taxes, the airline is getting $229 to fly me back and forth to Tokyo. http://t.co/nYhlPK9x
11003
Apr 14 2012: Part of the art of writing is anticipating how your words might be misinterpreted and refining them to avoid ambiguity.
11004
Apr 14 2012: First lesson in Tokyo: Don't get cash from a cash machine! Cost me nearly $45 over exchanging US cash. [pic]: http://t.co/Vw8G3I9N
11005
Apr 14 2012: Total confusion. (@ JR å“å·é§… 3-4番ホーム) [pic]: http://t.co/nknVsqMz
11006
Apr 14 2012: The "tourist tax" is the inevitable price you pay for naïveté when you first arrive in a new city.
11007
Apr 14 2012: About 1 in 20 subway passengers in Tokyo are wearing surgical face masks. Silly germophobes!
11008
Apr 14 2012: The nice thing about not knowing a word of Japanese is I don't have to listen to any inane banter. It's all just music to me.
11009
Apr 14 2012: Shinagawa Station concourse, Tokyo - 360° panorama http://t.co/deOxntK8 My first experience changing trains in Japan, early Sunday morning.
11010
Apr 14 2012: My first electronic toilet (at my hostel in Tokyo). Detail of controls: http://t.co/76Tz3eou http://t.co/3J44tL0h
11011
Apr 15 2012: "Identifying Your Own Narcissism on Twitter" - My March 2011 blog entry http://t.co/AnfrKoI9 Thanks to @TheViewFromHell for reminding me.
11012
Apr 15 2012: RT @TheViewFromHell: @BadDalaiLama Also applies to life.
11013
Apr 15 2012: The toast is ready. (@ Khaosan Tokyo Ninja (カオサンæ±äº¬å¿è€…)) [pic]: http://t.co/VUEwAeEC
11014
Apr 15 2012: After an 11-hour recovery, heading out into Tokyo again. To them, it's getting late. To me it's first thing in the morning.
11015
Apr 15 2012: Teenagers are always right and will never concede in an argument. The most you can hope for is behavioral change.
11016
Apr 15 2012: The only risk in visiting Tokyo is massive confusion, not safety.
11017
Apr 15 2012: On My Bucket List: Dress up as my favorite animé character. [See Full Bucket List]
11018
Apr 15 2012: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama they to that out of respect, and to avoid passing it to others...go figure!
11019
Apr 15 2012: Tokyo Video Postcard: Moving Noodles and Running Man http://t.co/PUP7rPEq 28-second iPhone video of no great significance.
11020
Apr 15 2012: Tokyo: photo album from my first day http://t.co/7pj4Jj0O
11021
Apr 15 2012: What's your sexual delusion?
11022
Apr 15 2012: RT @Andreaof9: I hate it when the actual voice doesn't match the one I gave it in my head. @BadDalaiLama But I'll keep following you...
11023
Apr 15 2012: @Andreaof9 If you want something more Christopher Lee or Vincent Price, I can do that.
11024
Apr 15 2012: RT @Kyoks1: "@lonelyplanet: Japanese bath etiquette: how to visit a sento http://t.co/aQCeX26R #lp"☇cc @BadDalaiLama a most if you haven ...
11025
Apr 15 2012: Why bother taking photos you can find on the web? Boring! Take photos only of unique discoveries you are personally implicated in.
11026
Apr 15 2012: Alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine and photos of sexy ladies—cultural universals around the world except where actively prohibited by religion.
11027
Apr 15 2012: Cigarette smokers are a shrinking and marginalized subculture who must cling together for support. Just like us non-caffeine users.
11028
Apr 15 2012: Non-caffeine users must get used to the bafflement and blank stares when people ask how you take your coffee and you say, "None, thank you."
11029
Apr 15 2012: My goal this week is to parse Tokyo, to distill all the confusion into at least geographical understanding.
11030
Apr 15 2012: Now taking suggestions about what to do and where to go in Tokyo (not requiring much money). I have a week here!
11031
Apr 15 2012: (I tend to avoid museums, and gastronomy isn't my thing. I more want to cover a lot of ground and sample the local weirdness.)
11032
Apr 15 2012: RT @SteveSeaquist: @BadDalaiLama Well for weirdness you would want to go to Harajuku. It's past Chiyoda to Shibuya, on the southeast sid ...
11033
Apr 15 2012: English is a prestige language in Japan, sort of like French to Americans. Used in advertising to give Veblen products more cachet.
11034
Apr 15 2012: A Japanese electronic toilet performs various procedures upon your underside. Bizarre and yet strangely exhilarating. http://t.co/gcfidZOl
11035
Apr 15 2012: My haul from an early morning shopping spree in Tokyo. This lot set me back ¥1,217 http://t.co/zXJPD83j
11036
Apr 15 2012: Those who use projection as a defense mechanism have no clue what "projection" is and you can't explain it to them.
11037
Apr 15 2012: RT @MinnieGupta: @BadDalaiLama one of your finest tweets!
11038
Apr 16 2012: @MinnieGupta Thank you, Your Minniness! (Tweeting at you live from Ginza.)
11039
Apr 16 2012: There is no bloody end to Tokyo. It goes on and on and on! (@ Apple Store, Ginza w/ 5 others) [pic]: http://t.co/GPJZG29l
11040
Apr 16 2012: @MinnieGupta Is that a dance?
11041
Apr 16 2012: @MinnieGupta I've been in the heart of Ginza for ten minutes now and don't have a clue why I am here or what to do. I'm not a shopper.
11042
Apr 16 2012: I just jaywalked across an empty side street in Ginza. A crowd of shoppers, waiting for the light, audibly "tsked" me. I feel so ashamed.
11043
Apr 16 2012: @pixiedintheark I'm more worried about ichthyosaurs. Should I expect any?
11044
Apr 16 2012: Japanese culture is a lot different than American culture. For example, you see a lot more white iPhones on the street than black ones.
11045
Apr 16 2012: @pixiedintheark I brought ichthyosaur repellent from the States just in case. (I didn't think of yakitori.)
11046
Apr 16 2012: Tour Group 463, Imperial Palace, Tokyo. http://t.co/Te68uzNc
11047
Apr 16 2012: Take all the food you eat in a day, mash it up in a blender and drink it. That's nutrition. Your body doesn't care how the food got there.
11048
Apr 16 2012: 44 hours in Tokyo and I'm pretty much adjusted. Sleep levels okay. Food systems okay. Understand the transit system. Now what?
11049
Apr 16 2012: RT @fujiwiryani: @BadDalaiLama but our appetite care about it, Glenn..
11050
Apr 16 2012: @fujiwiryani The question is, how much are you prepared to spend—in money, time and freedom—for appetite?
11051
Apr 16 2012: @alekanakalea Your tongue can be trained to enjoy a simple, quick meal that gets the job done. You're tongue doesn't need five-star cuisine.
11052
Apr 16 2012: RT @alekanakalea: @BadDalaiLama My tongue will care. My gag reflex will care, too.
11053
Apr 16 2012: RT @fujiwiryani: @BadDalaiLama hey, you're in Tokyo! What are ya doin there? You should visit Osaka too! :)
11054
Apr 16 2012: @fujiwiryani Good idea, but the cost is beyond my budget. Where should I go within an hour or so of Tokyo?
11055
Apr 16 2012: A relationship is an exchange of information only until you know each other. After that, you argue, and you either do it well or poorly.
11056
Apr 16 2012: Tokyo video postcard: Monster Koi at a Shinto shrine http://t.co/p8K5dSXN (iPhone video, 1:14)
11057
Apr 16 2012: Positive: The Japanese are the cleanest people on Earth. Negative: A nation of germophobes.
11058
Apr 17 2012: Unlike Westerners, Japanese wear surgical masks not to protect themselves but to protect others from their flu (says @Kyoks1). Makes sense.
11059
Apr 17 2012: Positive: Little crime in Japan. Negative: A rigid social structure of unwritten rules enforced by shame.
11060
Apr 17 2012: Positive: Legendary Japanese courtesy and deference. Negative: It can be very difficult to deduce what people really think and feel.
11061
Apr 17 2012: A good samurai exercise would be to chop up all ones food in a blender and drink it. It would prove ones discipline over the senses.
11062
Apr 17 2012: RT @BonnieLCoffey: @BadDalaiLama Why use a blender when one has a perfectly good samurai sword?
11063
Apr 17 2012: You don't understand the positive side of something if you can't also see the negative.
11064
Apr 17 2012: "Tour Group 463" <== I really like this photo of mine from yesterday. http://t.co/wvL4IKoO
11065
Apr 17 2012: This tells you about Tokyo: Bicycle is a major form of transport, but most bikes are parked unlocked on the street. Who would steal a bike?
11066
Apr 17 2012: In the spirit of cultural tolerance, I believe we should respect other people's bonehead religions. — Bad Dalai Lama
11067
Apr 17 2012: It's not the size of the camera. It's how you use it.
11068
Apr 17 2012: If you feel you must travel in luxury, then you're not going to travel very much.
11069
Apr 17 2012: Rain. No umbrella. End of tour. (@ SHIBUYA TSUTAYA w/ 5 others) [pic]: http://t.co/fvUCheEl
11070
Apr 17 2012: Rain in Shibuya. I have no umbrella. Stores immediately roll out carts selling umbrellas. 500 yen. Deal!
11071
Apr 17 2012: Imagine a world without alcohol. How would people socialize? How could love possibly happen?
11072
Apr 17 2012: Without alcohol, how would we propagate our species?
11073
Apr 17 2012: In Tokyo there is virtually no trash on the street but also no trash barrels. Where does it all go?
11074
Apr 17 2012: Shopping/people watching in Tokyo: Ginza = boring. Ueno = practical. Shibuya = cookin'!
11075
Apr 17 2012: Japanese women wear the highest heels in the universe. The number of ankle injuries must be huge!
11076
Apr 17 2012: So sad! The Japanese are texting their lives away. Oh, wait, I guess the rest of us are, too!
11077
Apr 17 2012: On My Bucket List: Kill it at karaoke. (@ Fiesta International Karaoke) [pic]: http://t.co/zEN7XJVt [See Full Bucket List]
11078
Apr 17 2012: Should I tell them that it's a rip-off of the Eiffel Tower? (yesterday) http://t.co/zaVzByVi
11079
Apr 17 2012: 渋谷 Shibuya shopping district, Tokyo - 360° panorama http://t.co/ftW8vviT
11080
Apr 17 2012: Self-portrait on the Tokyo Metro at rush hour. http://t.co/MNmYs3xN
11081
Apr 17 2012: My "cabin bed" last night at the Ninja Hostel. Very similar to a capsule hotel. See Google: https://t.co/HkpLIUPK http://t.co/pz7w3WX1
11082
Apr 18 2012: Inside my cabin bed at the Ninja Hostel (last night) - 360 panorama http://t.co/T9q6frN8
11083
Apr 18 2012: My Tokyo photos so far: Day 1 http://t.co/yTHhpMnM Day 2 http://t.co/eD5p7bY6 Day 3 http://t.co/gkW6dHN9 (All albums are incomplete)
11084
Apr 18 2012: Leaving Tokyo for a mystery destination. (@ 御茶ノ水駅 (Ochanomizu Sta.) w/ 4 others) [pic]: http://t.co/FJFrtP1J
11085
Apr 18 2012: Tokyo goes on FOREVER! Godzilla and Ghidorah combined, rampaging for years, could hardly lay waste to a fraction of it.
11086
Apr 18 2012: At last, at Takao, the city abates and I begin to see hints of mountains. (@ 高尾駅 (Takao Sta.)) [pic]: http://t.co/YT2fMb1p
11087
Apr 18 2012: Changing trains in the mountains, to a little two-car private railroad. (@ 大月駅 (Ōtsuki Sta.) w/ 2 others) [pic]: http://t.co/miBBIG0I
11088
Apr 18 2012: Deluded quests aren't necessarily bad. At least they get you moving.
11089
Apr 18 2012: Oops! Got off at the wrong station. One more station to go! 15 minute wait. (@ 富士山駅) [pic]: http://t.co/TkktAToq
11090
Apr 18 2012: Reached my destination: the base of Mt. Fuji. It's up there. Don't you see it? (@ æ²³å£æ¹–駅 (Kawaguchiko Sta.)) [pic]: http://t.co/p8TBBQdm
11091
Apr 18 2012: Your perception when you first arrive in a new place is unique. You see things that you will never see again.
11092
Apr 18 2012: Checked into my hostel and rented a bike for a couple hours before sundown. (@ K's House Mt Fuji) [pic]: http://t.co/G3PU7gaf
11093
Apr 18 2012: Perfect place for a cryptozoological lake monster to hang out. (@ æ²³å£æ¹– (Lake Kawaguchi)) [pic]: http://t.co/PzOpk2do
11094
Apr 18 2012: @xtinewu OMG, Wu!
11095
Apr 18 2012: Camera gone AWOL. Waiting for reception to open to see if they have it, else NO MORE PRETTY PICTURES.
11096
Apr 18 2012: Base of Mt. Fuji, but nothing to see, just clouds. Biked around Kawaguchiko Lake last night. More biking today. I miss my camera!
11097
Apr 18 2012: RT @anakron: @BadDalaiLama noooo.. We, your loyal followers, need your pictures ;-) all fun aside, hope you get your cam back !
11098
Apr 18 2012: .@anakron I still have my iPhone, which takes pretty good photos, just not active human shots. 2 hours til reception opens.
11099
Apr 18 2012: Lined up my lodging for tonight at my first genuine capsule hotel (i.e. "coffin hotel"). Google pix: https://t.co/dNH5RL51
11100
Apr 18 2012: There are no obese Japanese. Also no "mega-sizes" of anything. Even fast food restaurants have small and medium, never large.
11101
Apr 18 2012: "selection bias" — Harvard grads are more successful, but Harvard chooses only the best applicants, so did Harvard really do anything?
11102
Apr 18 2012: My camera is back! Some good soul returned it to the hostel office. #whew #ilovejapan http://t.co/zshYZA96
11103
Apr 18 2012: Today: all-day bike rental near the (invisible) Mt. Fuji without a clue where to go.
11104
Apr 18 2012: @xtinewu Awesome!
11105
Apr 19 2012: I am naked in a penthouse Japanese bath, full glass walls, where anyone who cares to can gaze upon me. #onlyinjapan http://t.co/G44ccq3p
11106
Apr 19 2012: .@Kyoks1 The private lives of celebrities should remain private because we prefer our heroes to be superhuman and without flaw.
11107
Apr 19 2012: Finally found one! An authentic Dragonball! http://t.co/7oUEsdEe
11108
Apr 19 2012: Shinto seems to be a religion with no specific beliefs except that the old ways are the best.
11109
Apr 19 2012: Mt. Fuji! First glimpse through the clouds. http://t.co/bLKRWoYu
11110
Apr 19 2012: Is it narcissistic to take photos as you travel? (I was here!) Or is it narcissistic to NOT take them and not share what you've experienced?
11111
Apr 19 2012: Recognize the winds and sail with them whenever possible, but do not fail to navigate or your ship will be lost.
11112
Apr 19 2012: I didn't actual climb Mt. Fuji, but I did watch a video presentation on climbing Mt. Fuji. [pic]: http://t.co/ExLWePsa
11113
Apr 19 2012: This is what Mt. Fuji would look like if you could see it. http://t.co/oSj7eFVa
11114
Apr 19 2012: Sarcasm is not satire. Sarcasm is just hidden aggression. Satire is way more subtle and usually has a point to it.
11115
Apr 19 2012: jumpthesharkology — n. the study of how far to push an artform to achieve maximum effect without going too far and jumping the shark.
11116
Apr 19 2012: The main function of boys is to kill spiders for girls, but only after scaring girls with them until they go "Eeeek!" #genderexplained
11117
Apr 19 2012: The greatest danger of Japanese society is getting caught in an infinitely recursive loop of "Oh, but after you!"
11118
Apr 19 2012: Most travelers bring their society with them—in the form of family, friends or tour group—so interaction with local culture is minimal.
11119
Apr 19 2012: RT @Kyoks1: "@BadDalaiLama: You don't understand the positive side of something if you can't also see the negative."☇applied ying yang
11120
Apr 19 2012: Whatever you do, never think you have landed, that you have reached your destination, because that's when entropy begins.
11121
Apr 19 2012: I feel totally at home in any place where I am an alien.
11122
Apr 19 2012: Watching Japanese infomercials in my capsule hotel bed. Heaven or Hell? (@ Capsule Hotel Asakusa Riverside) [pic]: http://t.co/mXOdy7VT
11123
Apr 19 2012: Now playing on Japanese infomercials: a slimming girdle and a kitchen chopper. Amazing products! Call now! http://t.co/aPTyxnSO
11124
Apr 19 2012: A fake theatrical smile is easy to tell from a genuine personal smile, so why does a fake one still work to sell things?
11125
Apr 19 2012: Japanese TV and pop culture is fascinating to watch not so much because it is different from American but because it is virtually identical.
11126
Apr 19 2012: Now watching Japanese music videos. Everyone is young. Songs are bouncy. Big smiles! http://t.co/AqKjTz39
11127
Apr 19 2012: Tiger Woods is still appearing on Japanese commercials, apparently untarnished.
11128
Apr 19 2012: Weather in Tokyo for the remainder of my stay. http://t.co/EnDzqe7b
11129
Apr 19 2012: Checking into my 3rd hostel in Japan. (@ Khaosan Tokyo Annex) [pic]: http://t.co/uGPWzCbv
11130
Apr 20 2012: The main aim of the college student traveling overseas is to visit amazing, exotic places and get drunk there.
11131
Apr 20 2012: Western-style toilet, with advanced electronic toilet seat, compared to the traditional Japanese equivalent. http://t.co/Ymbh5mda
11132
Apr 20 2012: Video postcard: By train to Mt. Fuji. 19 minute unedited iPhone video from the front cab of a narrow gauge rail car. http://t.co/Cxrl33TX
11133
Apr 20 2012: Tokyo cityscape from the roof of my hostel - 360° panorama http://t.co/eVZbuTW7
11134
Apr 20 2012: Japanese advertising uses English for its symbolic value. The words don't actually have to mean anything. http://t.co/IrlZZQL7
11135
Apr 20 2012: Nutrition depends only on what you eat, not how it is served.
11136
Apr 20 2012: Never question someone's religion (or religiously held beliefs). They cannot tolerate doubt and will act to eliminate you if you persist.
11137
Apr 20 2012: Alcohol is the refuge of those who have run out of ideas.
11138
Apr 20 2012: @TaraDeliberto Now Tara, you're heading to an eating disorders conference and stopping at Starbucks along the way...
11139
Apr 20 2012: If you're an athlete in top form, you focus on what's important and eliminate any superfluous shit that gets in the way.
11140
Apr 20 2012: People perform best when they have clear goals set in front of them. They fall apart mainly when they have to decide their goals themselves.
11141
Apr 20 2012: Does playing team sports build character? Or does it just make it difficult for people to function outside a team?
11142
Apr 20 2012: From where I sit. Japanese toilet details. http://t.co/dfqNN3i4
11143
Apr 20 2012: Outside Akihabara Station at night, Tokyo - 360 panorama http://t.co/gHJCGsmA (April 19)
11144
Apr 20 2012: Glass-walled rooftop bathhouse in my capsule hotel (yesterday). Don't mind my nakedness. (No one else in Tokyo does.) http://t.co/yQ2os4nE
11145
Apr 20 2012: Peace out, Man! (at a convenience store yesterday) http://t.co/WGpQLQYV
11146
Apr 20 2012: Tokyo capsule hotel - new photo album http://t.co/PsR5Av43 (yesterday, 22 photos)
11147
Apr 20 2012: @Kyoks1 Cooking changes the chemical composition of food and kills bacteria. How the food is served after cooking does not change nutrition.
11148
Apr 20 2012: Best bargain in Tokyo: 24 hour bicycle rental for ¥200 ($2.50)! http://t.co/R9i0wvYw
11149
Apr 21 2012: It all depends on how deep you've dug yourself into your own hole.
11150
Apr 21 2012: No idea what it is, but it's cheap and edible. http://t.co/zLpO9XfE
11151
Apr 21 2012: There cannot be meaningful praise without occasional criticism.
11152
Apr 21 2012: Wedding photos at Hama-rikyu Gardens, Tokyo (photo sequence shot today) http://t.co/5lgQZ2Og
11153
Apr 21 2012: @xtinewu Ur cute, but show us Brasil!
11154
Apr 21 2012: I am very forgiving of the jerk I once was. I hope I won't have to forgive the current me.
11155
Apr 21 2012: Close-up of the bride. (yesterday) ...and a wider view http://t.co/qF2AKSPM http://t.co/BvYWHHiP
11156
Apr 21 2012: Running, running, but not getting anywhere. (30-second iPhone video) http://t.co/EsgKRfUh
11157
Apr 21 2012: Tsukiji Outer Market, Tokyo - wandering through the marketplace (9-minute iPhone video from yesterday) http://t.co/JfPwOGVr
11158
Apr 21 2012: A walk down Electric Avenue (Akihabara, Tokyo) - 6-minute iPhone video http://t.co/CTvgaC4q
11159
Apr 21 2012: I got ¥1000 burning a hole in my pocket. Should I invest ¥800 in some premium Hokkaido french fries? [pic]: http://t.co/BHtOlC8Y
11160
Apr 22 2012: I could SO use a solar powered Sumo bobblehead, but it's beyond my budget. http://t.co/KVZSexrl
11161
Apr 22 2012: What I blew my last yen on: chocolate, cheese crackers and giant comic books! http://t.co/uaycljgb
11162
Apr 22 2012: Just paid another Â¥200 for 8 more hours of cycling before I fly out. (@ å¾å¦»æ©‹ (Azuma-Bashi Bridge)) [pic]: http://t.co/rfdMkf0z
11163
Apr 22 2012: My self-prepared lunch, assembled from ingredients from the 100-yen store. Who says I'm not a gastronome? http://t.co/6TRHChZB
11164
Apr 22 2012: You aren't getting the authentic animé experience unless you're watching it in Tokyo in Japanese. http://t.co/rzgXJFLY
11165
Apr 22 2012: A man on the street in Toyko just introduced me to Happy Science and the teachings of Master Ryuho Okawa http://t.co/EUfGSqDY
11166
Apr 22 2012: Toyko fatigue setting in. Time for repatriation. #wannagohome http://t.co/6nMMAsv7
11167
Apr 22 2012: I understand the electronic toilet seat but not the toilet slippers. There's nowhere to go! #clueless http://t.co/Evgmigcu
11168
Apr 22 2012: RT @Dabigt: @BadDalaiLama it's probably a way of insulating your arse from probably electric shock
11169
Apr 22 2012: Hour Two of vegging in front of stupid Japanese television BECAUSE IT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO. #noexcuses http://t.co/DtRnhq5X
11170
Apr 22 2012: Conclusions from my first visit to Tokyo, now ending...
11171
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 1: Tokyo is affordable! Airfare aside, about the same costs as any American or European city.
11172
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 2: Tokyo is the safest and cleanest big city on Earth. Nothing bad will happen to you here unless you do it to yourself.
11173
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 2: Tokyo is big but not chaotic. Everyone obeys the rules.
11174
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 4: No one will cheat or hustle you in Tokyo. If you lose something, the person who finds it will try to get it back to you.
11175
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 4: Any English speaker with good analytical skills can get along fine in Tokyo.
11176
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 6: Tokyo is a bicycling paradise. Cheap to rent, safe to use and the best way to see the city. (Don't expect a helmet, though.)
11177
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 7: 100-yen shops are the equivalent of U.S. dollar stores except they stock mainly groceries. Great for cheap food shopping.
11178
Apr 22 2012: Travel is the transformation of the unknown and exotic into the known and commonplace.
11179
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 8: If you have a cold, wear a facemask. It's only common courtesy.
11180
Apr 22 2012: 8-day Tokyo vacation: $900 airfare from LAX plus $470 total ground costs = $1370.
11181
Apr 22 2012: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama it's to avoid getting Ur feet wet/dirty. They're supposed to be left outside the WC but tourist Rnot used 2&le ...
11182
Apr 22 2012: TokyoFact 9: The Japanese have the world's most elaborate toilet etiquette. You can't just shit or pee. There's a way these things are done.
11183
Apr 22 2012: Walmartania, my country! (@ Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) w/ 129 others) http://t.co/HpvRogrj
11184
Apr 23 2012: Projection is accusing others of things that you suspect in yourself but can't openly acknowledge.
11185
Apr 23 2012: RT @cottonmouth1: @LetsGo2TheBeach ...what r the chances we can just leech Ourselves to @BadDalaiLama and just go wherever he goes? We'd ...
11186
Apr 23 2012: RT @Kyoks1: Viajar es la transformacion de lo desconocido y exotico a conocido y comun. via @BadDalaiLama
11187
Apr 23 2012: Projection is usually expressed by angry accusations with little factual support.
11188
Apr 23 2012: Emotional intelligence mainly involves recognizing your own emotions and where they come from.
11189
Apr 23 2012: .@TrekkieGirls You should never deny your own emotions, but just because you feel it doesn't mean you should express it.
11190
Apr 23 2012: RT @LetsGo2TheBeach: Amazing world traveler who shares photos/videos! Follow @BadDalaiLama http://t.co/IH0BebzL See his latest video . ...
11191
Apr 23 2012: .@TrekkieGirls Vulcans don't lack emotions. All sentient beings are emotional. They are just more disciplined in the expression of them.
11192
Apr 23 2012: Reconnecting with my native culture after a long overseas journey. (@ Walmart Supercenter w/ 2 others) [pic]: http://t.co/UJFa2UPL
11193
Apr 23 2012: New photo album: Akihabara Electric City (Day 1 of Tokyo visit, 10 days ago) http://t.co/2Nb7dGnx
11194
Apr 24 2012: Hama-rikyu Gardens, Tokyo - new photo album http://t.co/5lgQZ2Og (Saturday)
11195
Apr 24 2012: It's fruckin' freaky to come back from a left-driving country to a right-driving one and FORGET WHICH SIDE OF THE ROAD TO DRIVE ON.
11196
Apr 24 2012: Prosperity can ruin you. It takes you away from what's important.
11197
Apr 24 2012: End of another long, hard #ManateeMonday. Time to break open a cold one! http://t.co/EfvM5Dbi
11198
Apr 24 2012: @Kyoks1 The most confusing is the Caribbean, where they often have American cars (steering on left) while driving on the left.
11199
Apr 24 2012: RT @latimes: Viral video: Dutch girl ages 12 years in 2 minutes, 45 seconds http://t.co/m8sE9Fp8 via @latimestech
11200
Apr 24 2012: There's always an excuse to not leave home. If you need one, you'll find it.
11201
Apr 24 2012: @xtinewu Welcome to Seoul... or wherever your destination may be! Ur the balls, Wu!
11202
Apr 24 2012: ToykoFact 12: The Japanese have the cleanest bottoms on Earth, thanks to their fancy electronic toilet seats. Try it, you'll like it!
11203
Apr 25 2012: The Sacred Archive of Ancient Wisdom (our searchable database of past tweets) has been updated at http://t.co/YmDofCfv
11204
Apr 25 2012: Most of our tweets from Tokyo: http://t.co/mm3ssbln
11205
Apr 25 2012: Most people say they want the Red Pill, but when the risk to their investments becomes apparent they quickly go back to the Blue Pill.
11206
Apr 25 2012: Sure, I may be wasting my life on a delusion, a mere video game, but I've got Credits. I've achieved the Tenth Level. I can't leave now!
11207
Apr 25 2012: RT @latimes: Mind-numbing! Professor digs through 500,000 teen texts a month http://t.co/ApADrwXU
11208
Apr 25 2012: @takuhirano @xtinewu Long-haul flights usually have an extra pilot. Hopefully, the captain is socializing only because he's not on duty.
11209
Apr 25 2012: @xtinewu @takuhirano Thanks for the recommendation, Wu! I'm certainly going to choose my next flight to the Far East based on bibimbaps. :P
11210
Apr 25 2012: @xtinewu Darn! My imagination was doing cartwheels! #couldhavebeenfun #redherring
11211
Apr 25 2012: The Tokyo transit system is easy to figure out. Anyone can do it. (10 days ago) http://t.co/E5V61pAS
11212
Apr 25 2012: First step to global responsibility: Don't do frivolous things with your time or money.
11213
Apr 25 2012: Bravado is a sign of weakness. It implies a scared little child inside.
11214
Apr 25 2012: RT @noahWG: College students look the same to me now as 9th graders looked to me when I was in college. What happened?
11215
Apr 25 2012: RT @bybeautydamned: Had I listened to all the advice that's been given me in good faith, I would be so fucked right now.
11216
Apr 25 2012: RT @bybeautydamned: Don't force anything. You're most likely to end up breaking it.
11217
Apr 25 2012: On My Bucket List: Learn the Argentine Tango. (video http://t.co/0pHbAGcp from @MinnieGupta) [See Full Bucket List]
11218
Apr 25 2012: @nilayasabnis @xtinewu Oh, wow! This is really good! ==> Thelonious Monk's list of advice for musicians: http://t.co/a9omsf73
11219
Apr 25 2012: In any art form, there are technical skills that can be taught and balance skills that can only be learned from within.
11220
Apr 25 2012: ToykoFact 10: Two-prong US plugs work in Japanese outlets but not three-prong ones.
11221
Apr 25 2012: TokyoFact 11: One yen is easy to translate. It's roughly one euro cent or an expensive US penny.
11222
Apr 25 2012: Watched The Matrix on the flight from Tokyo. One of the great existential films. Would you take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?
11223
Apr 25 2012: RT @afoolswisdom: Intelligence is the art of getting unstuck.
11224
Apr 25 2012: For a random tweet of our past wisdom, click on this magic link: http://t.co/W2bHpYQn (Reload as many times as needed to get what you need.)
11225
Apr 25 2012: Follow @BadLamaWisdom for random retweets of our past cerebral aphorisms. (max. 4 per day)
11226
Apr 25 2012: RT @ZoroastrianFunk: @BadDalaiLama I like @badlamawisdom because it makes you seem less tangible.
11227
Apr 25 2012: .@ZoroastrianFunk I want to be less tangible but my body keeps getting in the way.
11228
Apr 25 2012: Overheard in South Carolina: "I done told her..."
11229
Apr 25 2012: RT @DalyaElMaghraby: Hold on forever to the people who aren't afraid to tell you that you look like shit when you do.
11230
Apr 25 2012: RT @Schmoodles: Some people are so desperate to be loved that they're willing to be hated just for the attention.
11231
Apr 25 2012: RT @Kyoks1: Nice article on multicultural communication "Same Words, Different Meanings in Japan, Mexico and the U.S." http://t.co/EiLEo ...
11232
Apr 25 2012: @Kyoks1 This is why I would probably not last long in Japan. I feel the need to verbalized what I know.
11233
Apr 25 2012: RT @Kyoks1: "The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away." David Viscott (1938-1996)Psyc ...
11234
Apr 25 2012: RT @jimmychanclas: @BadDalaiLama what if we take both?
11235
Apr 26 2012: .@jimmychanclas So you want the Red Pill when you're not at risk but the Blue Pill when Red is inconvenient? You want selective truth?
11236
Apr 26 2012: You want a happy little Blue Pill suburban existence where everything makes sense and all unhappiness is kept out of town by demographics.
11237
Apr 26 2012: Dysfunction persists in your life when you refuse to take responsibility for it.
11238
Apr 26 2012: Denial is the elephant in the room that you claim isn't there because it's damned inconvenient if it is.
11239
Apr 26 2012: RT @philoquotes: To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. ~ William James
11240
Apr 26 2012: Choose your battles wisely. You have time and energy for only a few.
11241
Apr 26 2012: The fact that an injustice exists and you become aware of it does not mean it is your battle to fight.
11242
Apr 26 2012: The nature of the world is that needs will always far exceed the resources to address them.
11243
Apr 26 2012: Every act of charity is based on a theory which will be proven true or false by an eventual outcome.
11244
Apr 26 2012: It is okay to help dysfunctional people so long as there is a firewall between you and them so they don't corrupt your world.
11245
Apr 26 2012: RT @Andreaof9: Emotional Vampires will suck your life away slowly without you knowing it.
11246
Apr 26 2012: RT @bprabawabr: @BadDalaiLama compassion, if practiced without wisdom, can burn both parties involved. Enabling dysfunction & burning th ...
11247
Apr 26 2012: Now playing in my head: "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley. Awesome beat, perfect social commentary. A song with purpose!
11248
Apr 26 2012: What you think at first is dangerous may not be, but what is actually dangerous should scare the shit out of you.
11249
Apr 26 2012: People obsess over minor risks while the big ones walk in the front door.
11250
Apr 26 2012: Never visit a place where the underclass will kill you if you wander into the wrong neighborhood.
11251
Apr 26 2012: I don't do drugs or alcohol for the same reason I wouldn't let a stranger borrow my car. This is my brain and I won't give up control of it.
11252
Apr 26 2012: Every time you use alcohol you are reducing your own faculties and opening yourself to risks you wouldn't have when sober.
11253
Apr 26 2012: Jokes made about your own addiction are sad and don't change the fact that you're wasting your resources.
11254
Apr 26 2012: If your future self contacted you to tell you what you are doing wrong, would you listen?
11255
Apr 26 2012: Criticism is precious. Even if it is wrong, processing it strengthens your position.
11256
Apr 26 2012: Criticism offends us mainly when it is accurate.
11257
Apr 26 2012: RT @murosinvisibles: Si tu futuro te contactara para decirte que estas haciendo mal, ¿Que te dirÃa? (vÃa @BadDalaiLama ) #auch que confr ...
11258
Apr 26 2012: RT @Kyoks1: Las criticas son muy valiosas. Aun equivocadas, al considerarlas, fortalecen nuestra posicion. via @BadDalaiLama
11259
Apr 26 2012: If you need an alarm clock to wake, you're not getting enough sleep.
11260
Apr 26 2012: Not getting enough sleep is cheating on the scheduled maintenance of the vital equipment you are using.
11261
Apr 26 2012: Frosting is the best part of the cake, but you can't live on frosting. Eat a whole bowl of it and you'll find out.
11262
Apr 26 2012: Outward success (fame and money) isn't the same as inner success (doing what you know is important). Rarely do they coincide.
11263
Apr 26 2012: RT @afoolswisdom: @BadDalaiLama We have a tendency to redefine (either) such that they coincide. Take e.g. how often our abilities and i ...
11264
Apr 26 2012: .@afoolswisdom What brings us material success is usually redefined as meaningful by the suppression of evidence that says otherwise.
11265
Apr 26 2012: RT @jbeen: @BadDalaiLama Hi Glenn. Finally, you and His Holiness adjoining in my timeline. Love your wisdom & travel logs, sir. :) http: ...
11266
Apr 26 2012: The most important skill in any artistic medium is being able to see your own work from afar, as though it was someone else's.
11267
Apr 26 2012: @LadyFriday @brianmossphoto Bakersfield rocks!
11268
Apr 26 2012: @xtinewu Anka Airways.
11269
Apr 26 2012: @RhodiHawk Could be an alien pod. If it explodes in your face it's only a matter of time before a lizard bursts out of your chest. #watchout
11270
Apr 26 2012: This GPS voice is so pleasant and human that I take little detours just so she'll talk to me. I think she likes me!
11271
Apr 27 2012: A great song isn't just about the music but about the words and what they mean. This is where most musicians are clueless.
11272
Apr 27 2012: Ones choice of food is 50% cultural, 40% emotional and 10% nutritional.
11273
Apr 27 2012: Personal growth slows in adulthood not for any biological reason but because adults become entrapped on their own emotional investments.
11274
Apr 27 2012: Human intelligence has little to do with computational capacity. It is more how one manages ones emotions.
11275
Apr 27 2012: The dumbest people are the most emotionally driven, unable to separate feeling from fact.
11276
Apr 27 2012: You know that Beatles song about the serial killer? Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Appalling. There should be more songs like that.
11277
Apr 27 2012: @LadyFriday @brianmossphoto Don't forget tomatoes! Firm, shippable, any-time-of-year tomatoes, gassed to perfection. Bakersfield!
11278
Apr 27 2012: @jbeen Dueling Lamas! Thanks!
11279
Apr 27 2012: @bybeautydamned Technically, I think she was just a nemesis. An arch nemesis is one you can't live without.
11280
Apr 27 2012: Tokyo always makes perfect sense. (10 days ago) http://t.co/XGHFrZOj
11281
Apr 27 2012: Defensiveness is attacking the messenger that brings you bad news about yourself.
11282
Apr 27 2012: The best evidence of your guilt is how you respond to the charges.
11283
Apr 27 2012: Absolute certainty on the surface hides great uncertainty within.
11284
Apr 27 2012: RT @Jowtok: Everything you need to know about life is in his feed. I humbly dedicate my first #FF ever to @BadDalaiLama
11285
Apr 27 2012: @xtinewu @B_SDoll Indeed! Japanese society is fundamentally intertwined with the Hello Kitty concept.
11286
Apr 27 2012: @Jowtok Thank you, my son! Live Long and Prosper! \\//
11287
Apr 27 2012: @TrekkieGirls Look at what I just invented! \\//, Live Long and Prosper!
11288
Apr 27 2012: People die pretty much as they lived. They're not usually filled with insight at the last minute.
11289
Apr 27 2012: RT @MinnieGupta: hate it when I tell someone they're projecting & then they tell me I'm projecting that they're projecting (they're ...
11290
Apr 27 2012: RT @lexxieviolin: "Bring Your Child to Work" day serves as my yearly reminder to keep my legs closed. Or condoms and stuff.
11291
Apr 27 2012: RT @RowdyPrimate: In America, we've made a religion out of diet and exercise. We talk about it incessantly and generally ignore the most ...
11292
Apr 27 2012: Do you want to actually solve your depression/addiction/PTSD... or be part of clinical study that may or may not help? http://t.co/Tge78SmS
11293
Apr 27 2012: Become part of a clinical study of people who respond to ads for clinical studies.
11294
Apr 27 2012: Acting is the ultimate exercise in empty glory. Someone hands you a script and you get all the credit.
11295
Apr 27 2012: Being the figurehead of a ship that made a great voyage isn't the same as charting the course.
11296
Apr 27 2012: If you're colorblind or autistic, it's impossible to see what you're not seeing. You only have the vague sense you're missing something.
11297
Apr 27 2012: In my hometown, even trees get their own public hearings. (Hearing was Jan. so maybe the tree won!) http://t.co/9Q82905B
11298
Apr 27 2012: I spent my whole childhood in this town, thought I knew every inch, but now I stumble on a pond I had no clue of. http://t.co/e7Gvc4Uv
11299
Apr 27 2012: (In my defense, it was probably fenced off as the town water supply during my youth. Now a public park.)
11300
Apr 27 2012: Real life is a dance with depression, anxiety, addiction and post traumatic stress. Live with it!
11301
Apr 27 2012: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama the tree pleaded insanity
11302
Apr 27 2012: @RhodiHawk Repeat after me: "It's only a pumpkin...." http://t.co/lgaFEvF2
11303
Apr 27 2012: Statistically, what is the best way to turn a young person into a substance abuser? Make him a child star.
11304
Apr 27 2012: This tiny wide-angle lens for the iPhone was well worth the $60 price. Tokyo tested! #ottoclip http://t.co/6aiDNPkI
11305
Apr 28 2012: Fellow passenger. http://t.co/5DRtsbXV
11306
Apr 28 2012: To see what people believe, observe how they live.
11307
Apr 28 2012: @xtinewu It's like Popular Mechanics... for girls!
11308
Apr 28 2012: Dogs that like to fetch. (Bedford, MA, 2 days ago.) Series of 7 photos starting here: http://t.co/int9jawJ
11309
Apr 29 2012: Gazing upon her ancestors. (National Museum of Science, Tokyo, 6 days ago). Album: http://t.co/Wb4jXlbw - http://t.co/L2d2TYSF
11310
Apr 29 2012: My hotel room for the night—inside security. (@ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) w/ 91 others) [pic]: http://t.co/f4hAxwYK
11311
Apr 29 2012: A little light exercise. http://t.co/xY66i7LC - http://t.co/vW14vw5n
11312
Apr 29 2012: I'm completely alone in the terminal at 1am, but no one has kicked me out. Another four hours before BART starts up. http://t.co/c4YwSYys
11313
Apr 29 2012: Difference between a bachelorette party, a baby shower and a funeral? Duh! Male strippers.
11314
Apr 29 2012: Just spent the night inside security at SFO (Terminal 1) after a late flight. No issues. Slept well! http://t.co/VMP8mENA
11315
Apr 29 2012: Nutmeg. (4 days ago) http://t.co/Gm3JHMPf
11316
Apr 29 2012: In trying to please everyone, you please no one.
11317
Apr 29 2012: RT @LadyFriday: Gimme dem ol' time pin-up pix at Vintage Sleaze http://t.co/KKOaUjmL via @Victorminx
11318
Apr 29 2012: Rubik's Cube. Very rapidly. BART near Berkeley. Right now. http://t.co/mzeZDtU0
11319
Apr 29 2012: Peace, love and panhandling. (@ University of California, Berkeley) [pic]: http://t.co/n49i7nlP
11320
Apr 29 2012: Panhandler in downtown Berkeley: "Can you spare a dollar to go toward some allergy medicine?" (I expected "medicinal marijuana.)
11321
Apr 29 2012: I see a lot of serious studying going on at Berkeley. (@ Doe Library) [pic]: http://t.co/otuGLRlB
11322
Apr 29 2012: University of California, Berkeley - 360° panorama http://t.co/PKIyy3b6
11323
Apr 29 2012: Sitation prevention device, Berkeley. http://t.co/isjlnlJB
11324
Apr 29 2012: "Splitting" is when you see a person or thing as all good or all bad depending on your mood at the moment.
11325
Apr 29 2012: Boston: 17 new photos added to album (shot yesterday): http://t.co/IPyuqefL (end of album)
11326
Apr 30 2012: Five dollar Swedish dinner. (And it could be free if I spend $100 in the store.) (@ IKEA) [pic]: http://t.co/Qq95VM2s
11327
Apr 30 2012: On My Bucket List: Buy something at Ikea other than food. [See Full Bucket List]
11328
Apr 30 2012: Ikea dessert. Allow me my indulgence. Doesn't happen often. http://t.co/xiSUCjr5
11329
Apr 30 2012: Sorry, couldn't finish it. Didn't excite me. Not sure if it was the cake or me. http://t.co/5JaXvuDb
11330
Apr 30 2012: Does anyone have the time? http://t.co/f3CePaF5
11331
Apr 30 2012: Has there ever been a Cosmo issue without the words "sex", "orgasm" and "burn fat" on the cover? http://t.co/bKUqJvZ3
11332
Apr 30 2012: If the fat burning secrets in women's magazines really worked, why would they need NEW fat burning secrets in the next month's issue?
11333
Apr 30 2012: Intelligence isn't handed to you at birth. You earn it by making hard choices to discipline your emotions.
11334
Apr 30 2012: You didn't pull the trigger of the gun that shot you, but you put yourself in a position to be shot.
11335
Apr 30 2012: When people suffer bad all their lives and stumble into something good, they often turn it into bad because good causes too much anxiety.
11336
Apr 30 2012: It's hard to find a lottery winner or instant star who, ten years later, is better off than they were before.
11337
Apr 30 2012: Downtown Berkeley (yesterday) http://t.co/3tjhPE3b
11338
Apr 30 2012: Discussing your next new car. (Fairfield, CA, yesterday) http://t.co/CrH0MR5g
11339
Apr 30 2012: People talk about out-of-body experiences like they're something unusual, but I have yet to have an in-body experience.
11340
Apr 30 2012: Reno mechanic, Romanian accent, charged me $436 for a $100 repair. I haggled him down to $250 cash. That's a $150 "experience fee".
11341
Apr 30 2012: The longer you live the more wisdom you gain until you end up very wise and very dead.
11342
Apr 30 2012: The mission of the remainder of my life is to spew out the wisdom I have learned along the way until death turns off the spigot.
11343
Apr 30 2012: The trouble with wisdom is that so much of it is a judgmental thing that can't be described in words.
11344
Apr 30 2012: Wisdom is not a matter of accumulating facts but being able to sort the facts into what is important and what isn't.
11345
Apr 30 2012: You can collect many facts about a country from afar, but to know what facts are most important, you have to go there. That's wisdom.
11346
Apr 30 2012: Motels are great when you have time to check in and check out, but sleeping in a car is often way easier.
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