Halfway Nowhere

April 25

John Cleese on Creativity:

“	It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent - like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

March 6

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Time to start the chant: refund … Refund … REfund … REFUND … REFUND!

February 12

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kottke.org: Four Million Followers

jkottke:

A short piece of fiction by Pierce Gleeson about the people behind corporate Twitter accounts.

‘We are not building anything here,’ stated one morose-sounding detergent brand. ‘All those marketing guys pushing Twitter think you can build something on it. Awareness or brand or something. But…

January 18

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The final steps of assembling a Panerai watch.

The Panerai YouTube channel has videos with the other steps as well.

I want to go to there.

Tags:#panerai#watch#timepiece

January 14

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rejectedjokes:

Here is Golden Globe award winner Don Cheadle arriving for our table read this morning.

Thanks to everyone who watched the House of Lies premiere last night. New episodes will air every Sunday at 10pm on Showtime. Can’t wait for you to see what happens next.

I started watching “House of Lies” about a week ago on Showtime On Demand. I finished the 12-episode season in about two days. It’s that good.

January 9

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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - “Album Covers” Autograph Giveaway

The LNJF blog team successfully snagged the signed, original artwork from Fred Armisen and Jimmy Fallon’s Album Covers segment on Late Night. Instead of using them to decorate our apartments, we’ve decided to give them away to our Tumblr fans!

All you have to do to enter:

Follow the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Tumblr

Reblog this post.

Four random winners will be picked at 12pm EST on Friday, January 11th.

Good luck!

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Legal residents of the US who are 18 or older. Ends January 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM ET. For Official Rules, including odds and prize details, visit [Official Rules]. Void where prohibited.

I’m hoping for The Baby Sparrows.

December 24

Stephen Colbert citing St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument:

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The fool says in his heart, “There is no God,” but by God, he means that thing than which no greater thing can be conceived. But by conceiving of that thing, he automatically defines God as whatever he can greatest imagine. Therefore, God does exist because he has imagined that thing which must be greater in reality than in his imagination.

December 6

That doesn’t look healthy.

September 6

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jhnmyr:

PSY

August 7

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cheatsheet:

Santa Clara University ranked #2 is our list of Top 25 Most Beautiful Colleges. Did your school make the list?

Photo Courtesy of Santa Clara University

Go Broncos!

Hazard. Kevin Hazard.