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A closer look at dinner, originally uploaded by seoulfully.
Even cut up, it’s trying to escape. The plate and eventually my belly!
What are you eating?, originally uploaded by seoulfully.
He’s after the snacks!
Ants Invade Houston, Eat Computers – Living on The Huffington Post
So some sorts of ants came to the USA, stowed away in the cargo hold of a ship, seeking out a better life for themselves. But they are in HUGE numbers and eat everything, including fire ants (good) and electrical wires (bad). But hey, they came to this country with a dream. They work hard and are enterprising. For example:
And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide.
The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, someone who looks great to look amazing, or someone who looks amazing already—whether by dint of DNA or M·A·C—to look, as is the mode, superhuman. Christy Turlington, for the record, needs the least help.
Emphasis mine. I love Christy Turlington.
link from Kottke.
Awhile back I wrote a post on the challenges of raising kids if you’re wealthy. Well here’s a list of 10 things kids should receive from their parents from the WSJ by Peter White, a rich guy who counsels rich people. This list was presented to rich people on how to raise their kids.
1. Necessaries
2. Affection
3. Affirmation and Support
4. Boundaries
5. Guidance
6. Respect
7. Trust
8. Forgiveness
9. Religion or Spirituality
10. Letting Go
Yeah so it doesn’t so much seem like a list for rich people as it is a list for parents in general.
The list isn’t just for rich parents. But as Peter told me, it’s helpful for wealthy parents to learn that “the first thing to be concerned with is loving children in a way that enables them to take charge of their lives as adults, so they can use wealth to enhance, not diminish, their lives.”
Rich people need to learn these 10 things? I’d be annoyed if I was rich and someone told me these 10 things were necessary to not raise some dilletante, like I didn’t know these basic kinds of parenting principles.
Warren Buffett, as usual, has a pretty good handle on it:
“[The perfect amount of money to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.”
Of course that doesn’t address a rich kid getting spoiled by having all the best things and thinking that he/she somehow is entitled to all of that. But for tips on that the first link (my original post) has stuff about that. Not from me, but from whatever I linked to in that piece. I’m poor, so I wouldn’t know about these things.
It is a pretty nice media center software though. Still beta on Mac. But I’d reckon to say a little better than current iteration of AppleTV.
Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole world!
This is cool.
Not just feel, but love/hate/think/believe/feel/wish.
It searches for keywords in summize and loads them into the site. There’s even a screensaver available.
Follow me on Twitter (if you want).
twistori is based on Jonathan Harris’s We Feel Fine, which is equally, as Michael Bay would say, awesome. Here’s Harris’s talk at TED:
Not exactly. Not like a biography post. I just stumbled on this site: www.ibeatyou.com. I found it because of this online staring contest, that Jessica Alba and Boom Dizzle, Baron Davis himself, participated in.
Regardless of celebrity participation, get me in a contest and I will go to extremes to win. Of course I have to motivate to actually participate, but once I’m in, I’m all in. So I want to join the site and start, but on the other hand I don’t because maybe I’m just a little too competitive with stupid things.
W magazine has some advice for billionaires on Getting Things Done.
Delegate. Name any task — somewhere, a billionaire is outsourcing it. One well-known mogul favors shabby chic cashmere sweaters but doesn’t have the patience to let them get slightly worn at the elbows, so he employs a man to wear them around for him first.
I can’t tell if this list is a joke or not…
Back to me:
Goodness gracious. Rich people are friggin’ crazy! But I wonder if the guy went through the trouble of finding someone with same length humerus/ulna/radius as him so the shabby, worn elbows were in the right place. Otherwise it’s like idiotic pre-distressed jeans with hige (whiskers) and honeycombs that are in the wrong place.