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Bell Canada and Telus Corp. will begin selling the iPhone next month….

The fact is that they have bought into a city so unprepared and ill-equipped for the 21st century it could serve as a poster community of how not to build a city […] Mississauga planners and politicians have made every mistake in the book, allowing the construction of one car-dependent subdivision after another, each more isolated and wasteful than the next. Postwar planning, based as it was on cheap oil, single-use zoning and endless highways, is writ large here.

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Who started it? Nobody knew. One moment there was the usual Forest babble; the wind in the trees, the crow of a cock, the cheerful water in the streams. Then came the Rumour: Christopher Robin is back!

In a way we’re saying that the old idea that we evolved from a chimpanzee is totally incorrect. It’s more proper to say that chimpanzees evolved from us.

John Adams was a farmer; Abraham Lincoln was a small town lawyer; Plato, Socrates were teachers; Jesus, was a carpenter.

To equate judgment, and wisdom, with occupation is at best, insulting.

In an unsurprising finding the lead researcher calls, quote, ‘surprising,’ the number one thing men do on Facebook is look at women they don’t know.

Number two? Looking at women they do know.

Number three is letting the site sit idle while they imagine how much better life would be if the women they do know were replaced with the women they don’t know.

Harvard Business School also found that “looking at women” was the number one reason men read Playboy, watch National Geographic Channel, and, open their eyes.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Every practice has a set of rules which governs it. Mastery occurs with the realization of those rules. Innovation occurs at the point of intelligent and creative rebellion against them.

Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect!

If he had only waited one day, a lot of people wouldn’t have even heard he died. They’d be all, ‘Hey Jesus, what up?’ and Jesus would probably be like, ‘What up? I died yesterday!’ And they’d be all, ‘Uhh, you look pretty alive to me, dude.’ And then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and the dude’d be like ‘Uhh okay, whatever you say, bro.’

And he’s not gonna come back on a Saturday. Everybody’s busy, doing chores, workin’ the loom, trimmin’ the beard.

No. He waited the perfect number of days – three. Plus it’s Sunday, so everyone’s in church already, and they’re all in there like ‘Oh no, Jesus is dead!’ And then bam! He bursts in the back door, runnin’ up the aisle, everyone’s totally psyched, and FYI, that’s when he invented the high five.

That’s why we wait three days to call a woman, because that’s how long Jesus wants us to wait.

True story.

Like any good outlier, I simply switched to the full court press.

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Class is character. Class lasts.

Pretenders gibber on Leno.

The young man who found his heart too late, bent over in the prisoner’s box; Ian Rengel, now almost as old as his dead sister, with his head in his hands; Patricia Hung wiping tears: “The still, sad music of humanity,” as William Wordsworth called it.

I’m Mr. Wolf. I solve problems.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

…the passing of the streetcars is a really sexy sound.

Alan Turing

here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
— very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted —
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?