by Patrick Rhone
Not just the Tag but a full rundown of all of the watches he has been spotted with. As a watch geek, I’m more than a bit fascinated by this.
Also, if anyone from the Secret Service is reading this, I’d love to get my hands on one of those special issue chronographs.
ktxbai
My girls
In a few days, the Season of Stuff will officially begin. During this season, we are actively encouraged to get more stuff, buy more stuff, give stuff to those we “love”, and be thankful for the stuff we have.
This Friday, for instance, sellers of stuff will drop prices to all time lows in order to make it easier for you to give and receive this stuff. Of course, this is in the hopes that the money saved on this stuff will encourage you to buy other non-discounted stuff. You know this, of course, right? You cherry pick the cheap stuff and leave the other stuff for the suckers, right? Of course you do…
All of this stuff will generate a bunch of stuff to be thrown away or recycled. Wrapping, packaging, spent gift cards – they all have to end up somewhere. Not to mention all of the stuff we had to build and machines we run in order to make the stuff we give and receive.Then once the season is over, in fact the very next day, comes the inevitable stuff we have to return (for cash to buy stuff if you have the receipt, exchange for different stuff if not).
Just try to remember that there are plenty of ways to deal with this stuff. You can pledge to get rid of an amount of stuff equal to the amount you receive. You can let those who love you know that you do not want more stuff but want something less tangible instead (breakfast in bed, money for a favorite charity, etc.). Ask for specific stuff you really truly need that will add years of value to your life on a daily basis… and stuff. The point is, control the stuff. Don’t let the stuff control you.
In Say Goodbye To Scheduled TV, my friend Randy talks about one probable future for television, the death of scheduled programming.
In The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised: How to Destory Your TV, killing your TV is the goal at hand.
We “killed our TV” and replaced it with an iMac, running Plex and an EyeTV several months ago and don’t think we will ever go back. Being able to watch what we want, and only what we want, on our schedule and being able to pause and return later is life changing.
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Single Ladies – Beyonce by Pomplamoose Music
So much better than the original.
Beautiful natural light in the National Building Museum.
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir … open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us … guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love … the clarity of hatred … the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.
So Serious: Creating Controversy
But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true.
Another post along a similar theme… Words mean things.
An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse for Your Soul
Our lives are being documented, in ways large and small and trivial and important, and it will all be waiting out there for anybody who has the inclination to find it.
There is truth in beauty. Lessons as well.