Blogs:Sigal:Sky:Errata
Wissen/Kennen
“In German, there are two words for knowing: “wissen”, which is associated with wisdom and learning, and “kennen”, which is like being acquainted.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/i-loved-my-grandmother-but-she-was-a-nazi.html
Optimist/Pessimist
An optimist is someone satisfied being rarely correct.
A pessimist is content being eventually correct.
Character / Reputation
"Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are."
80/8
As Terry Pratchett said, “inside every 80 year old man there's a bewildered 8 year old boy wondering what the hell just happened to him.”
Src: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/10/ever-young.html|
$500/minute
Professor Galloway spoke about the soaring costs of a college education: “I teach 120 kids on Tuesday nights in my Brand Strategy course. That’s $720,000, or $60,000 per class, in tuition payments, a lot of it financed with debt. I’m good at what I do, but walking in each night, I remind myself we (NYU) are charging kids $500/minute for me and a projector. This. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous.”
http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2017/10/10/the-price-of-progress/
You were born a Billionaire
You already were given 3,153,6000 million heartbeats for every year you were going to live.
On average, 2.5 billion heartbeats in a lifetime.
How will you spend them?
Will you spend them living your own life – up to your own potential – or spend them dreaming of living someone else's life?
You first
“None of the books available to me claims that the rascasse is venomous, but my rascasse du nord has a groove on the front face of each spine in the dorsal fin, and I refuse to step on it until someone else does."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/27/the-soul-of-bouillabaisse-town
You'd be surprised.
"There's a lot of morons out there, don't get me wrong, but it seems a step too far even for a fool."
I see proof everyday…
Src: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11980339
You Are Not Normal
Quetelet applied the same [Astronomical] thinking to his interpretation of human averages: He declared that the individual person was synonymous with error, while the average person represented the true human being.
“Et voila.”
Or more precisely: “C'est pas normal.”
your anscestors may have been pets
“Otherwise unrelated domesticated animal species display a range of anatomical and behavioral phenotypes that set them apart from their wild counterparts: depigmentation; floppy, reduced ears; shorter muzzles; curly tails; smaller teeth; smaller cranial capacities; neotenous (juvenile) behavior; reduction of sexual dimorphism; docility; and more frequent estrous cycles. Biologists sometimes call this “domestication syndrome”. Comparing us to Neanderthals, with their larger teeth and brains, and more robust skeletons, it is hard to escape the conclusion that we are the domesticated rather than the wild variant of mankind. Recent genetic studies lend further evidence to this conclusion.”
Src: https://palladiummag.com/2021/05/17/why-civilization-is-older-than-we-thought/
Wutbuerger
Good term!
Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, isn’t only concerned about income inequality in Germany; he also worries about systemic barriers to social mobility. “I don’t have a problem with the top 10 percent,” Fratzscher told Die Zeit. “I have a problem that the bottom 40 percent are being left behind.”
Src: [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/04-Apr-2016/germany-can-take-that-smug-look-off-its-face|Daily Times]
Wreckquirements
That's what we should do.
wpf
“WPF is horrible architecture. It's most important purpose is a to serve as case study in how not to design software.”
Oh so true.
wor[ry]ship
“Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.”
Src: https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
Worry Minutes
Cheerful thought for the day: one on only gets so many worry minutes, and then you die.
Workers who go to school
That’s in part because while affluent young people often think of themselves as students who might work on the side, low-income students tend to see themselves differently: “They see themselves as workers who are going to school,” Carnevale said, so going to school is about getting a better job.
~~DISCUSSION~~
Word of the Day
I heard the following be uttered in a meeting:
Ruplicate
…as in “Ruplicate the AD forest”. Didn't raise an eyebrow.
~~DISCUSSION~~
Word du Jour: Feart
Feart: Lack of courage, or fearful/heart.
Src: Edinburgh