Come. Be the DEATH of the PARTY.
I’m leaving right now to get these babies printed up. More later, word on the street is this party is gonna be rocking. Late-night House party!
Great technique; he keeps the wheels pointing in the right direction and doesn’t ever panic. Other than the 150mph part, this is an awesome example of good driving. I’ve gone into dangerous slides like this before without having ABS and made it, but none quite this insane. Seeing this makes me pine for a nice piece of German engineering again.
My life has sort of hit an oil-slick, and I’m in the midst of pulling out if it. The main problem right now: need a roommate. Any suggestions/applications?
My new favorite website: mint.com. I’ve been a struggling student for too long and I’m carrying a little more credit card debt than I would like. I’ve tried Quicken, but it wasn’t really fun or easy to use. It never liked to talk to all my credit cards at once or my bank account and never made me happy to use it, so I abandoned it a long time ago. Mint however, has worked really well for me. Not only do I get to see all my credit cards in one place, but it makes it fun and slick and satisfying. They don’t support many of the smaller banks, so mine isn’t covered, but even without it talking to my bank account it has helped me keep the goal of defeating credit card debt in the forefront of my mind. Check it out!
This is Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs. I think it’s a marvelous approach to self-improvement. It was a handout in my Literature-based Research class, but I’ve learned that it embodies the humanist school of psychology, which Maslow founded.
- Physiological: the need to satisfy hunger, thirst, and other bodily preoccupations.
- Safety/security: the need to be out of danger.
- Belongingness: the need for affiliation with others, a sense of being loved or accepted.
- Esteem: the need to gain approval and recognition.
- Cognitive: the need to know, to understand, to explore
- Aesthetic: the need for symmetry, order and beauty.
- Self-actualization: the need to experience self fulfillment, to realize one’s full potential. The self actualizing person is one who is:
- Not afraid of the unknown and can tolerate doubt, uncertainty, and tentativeness that accompany the perception of the new and unfamiliar.
- Not ashamed of his/her human nature with its shortcomings, imperfections, frailties, and weaknesses.
- Not hampered by conventions but does not flout conventions merely for the sake of doing so.
- Missioned-oriented on the basis of an uncoerced sense of responsibility, duty, or obligation.
- Respectful of others and tries to understand their perspectives.
- Attuned to the opportunities of solitude and privacy as well as of social interaction.
- Fully conscious of personal responsibility for actions and for growth, not blaming others or charging others with the task motivation.
- In awe of the wonder of the everyday world and of life’s limitless possibilities.
- Possessed of a deep and unconditional empathy for human beings in general.
- Humble in his/her recognition of what he/she knows in comparison to what could be known and acknowledges others as teachers, respecting everyone as a potential contributor to his/her knowledge.
- Highly ethical and at least intuitively aware of Kant’s famous categorical imperative, which charges us to “Act only according to principles which we can will also to be universal laws.”
- Philosophical and possessed of an unhostile sense of humor
- Visionary but not inclined to impose his/her beliefs on others.
- Alive!
- Self-transcendence: the need to connect to something beyond the self and to move toward a meaningful selflessness through that connectedness.
During a segment with John Roberts on CNN this morning, the Bulletin got a little shout out from Pam Stone while discussing voter registration trends in NC.
More unaffiliated and independent voters? De Tocqueville is smiling in his grave.
I saw this movie a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it. He asks a lot of simple questions to people who say they have the answers and watches them fall on their face trying get out of the way of the hypocrisy of their tradition. Especially memorable was the Creationist museum, which depicts humans and dinosaurs living together in an antediluvian harmony, as well as the Holy Land theme park in Orlando, Florida, where an actor playing Jesus gets gruesomely impaled every day, to the tearful applause of the crowd.
“If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.” — Lance Armstrong
Religion is a cultural millstone, hanging around our necks. The sooner we discard it, the better our chances of survival. People professing no religious belief are the most under represented demographic in this country, and like any under represented (and growing) group, they will not persist sotto voce for long. Kudos to Bill Maher.
I worked for the local newspaper when I lived in Tryon, and still moonlight there a couple hours a week. I saw this ad run and got a chuckle out of it, but looks like not everybody had such a benign reaction. I don’t understand why they are complaining about all the free publicity — the controversy will blow over, of course, but this is publicity you couldn’t pay for.
