Time for something different! Here is a cool animation of Dan Pink’s work, based on material from his book Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us that I ran across on Tobias Buckell’s site. Motivation isn’t what people and economics tend to think! People aren’t simple! But here, watch for yourself:
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No, not me, silly! This movie:
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead is a documentary made by and about Joe Cross, an Aussie who was terribly overweight and very sick with an auto-immune disease that I can’t spell or pronounce. Realizing he is on his way to an early, painful [...]
As you may know, we watched all the Harry Potter movies over the holidays. Then we watched them again when I was sick a week later. Which led, of course, to the books, or, to be precise, the audiobooks. And I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that audible.com does not have the [...]
Sophie got these awesome shoes for Christmas this year:
Aren’t they funny?!?
Toe shoes! As far as I can see, these shoes are pretty much the perfect kid shoe. They have a totally flexible, foot-conforming, rubbery sole, a stretchy mesh top, and these adorable slots for toes that a kiddo can [...]
You might recall that Sophie and I went batshit crazy over apple pie last fall. We baked gobs of delicious apple pies, trying different recipes, attempting to make the perfect crust and consuming butter by the pound. Literally. A pound of butter per pie. This, um, wasn’t so good for us. I mean, our [...]
Last week at the library, we checked the first Harry Potter movie on a lark. I had read the first book to the kids last year (I read all the books when they were coming out, adored them) and Luc has the Lego Harry Potter game on the ipad, so they were familiar with the [...]
I just finished REAMDE by Neal Stephenson—REAMDE being an on-purpose typo-reversal of README…and it took multiple readings of the word for me to even notice the reversal, that’s how distracted I am in my life—a 1000 page (1000 pages!!!) techno-thriller for geeks that I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, was actually [...]
Being the Avengers fans that we are, of course we watched Thor when it hit DVD. Well, I mean, when I noticed that it had hit DVD. We loved it, of course, because why not? It’s full of spectacle and fun and we simply Can. Not. Wait. for the Avengers movie next summer.
But you [...]
Short version: Leverage is simply awesome if you like well-written, character centered, heist dramedy, and if you aren’t watching it, you should be. Start at the beginning because the best thing about it is the character arcs.
Short version with squee: OMG, wasn’t last night’s ep terrific!??? It was a perfect Leverage episode. So many [...]
We’ve been All Avengers All the Time this summer, and I’m diggin’ it, sure. But after ad nauseum repetitions of the cartoons we’ve started casting around for other sources, landing inevitably on the live-action movies, which add a depth and realism to the Avenger stories that sometimes I’m not sure they can really bear. Meaning, [...]
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today's yoga practice
- sunday
February 6, 2012 | 10:06 amFull Primary with Sharath’s CD.
- friday
February 3, 2012 | 7:17 pmIntermediate to Tittibasana, Swensized versions of most of it. Felt wonderful. I think I might start doing this more often.
- thursday
February 3, 2012 | 7:15 pmFull Primary.
- wednesday
February 1, 2012 | 11:58 amFull Primary.
- tuesday
February 1, 2012 | 11:57 amSKIP!
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- recycling other people's junk
- unexpected benefit of living in a round house #27
- welcome to mayaland's virtual macabre crawfish feast of death!
- the solstice from inside a sundial
- the TOOL shed
- how to build a yurt (1 of 10)
- butterfly house
- the way of the bento
- writing without pencil sharpening
- yurts: the downside
- lucille ball moment
- flying kids
- go, go, godzilla!
- happy birthday, sophie!
- crafts for karma
- diggers watch tv, too
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