The rats had created, through running, a brain that seemed biochemically, molecularly, calm.
— Exercise Prepares Our Bodies for Stressful Situations, Study Indicates
reassurances that “Twinkle and Turq” — code names for the Bush daughters — were safe and accounted for
Zakka has also been described as ‘the art of seeing the savvy in the ordinary and mundane… Cute, corny and kitschy is not enough. To qualify as a zakka, a product must be attractive, sensitive, and laden with subtext.’
— Zakka
If you save the child, you save the community.
— Mountain View Voice : In hard times, local kids lean on CHAC
We have a family that looks for the weirdest tree they can find. Year after year, they search for the strangest tree, like one with a big bushy base and nothing at the top, so we kind of fulfill all those special needs.
— Family buys a 50-year-old tree farm in Santa Cruz Mountains and makes it their own
What makes being middle class hungry so horrible besides the experience itself, is having to hide and deny it, because others think you are doing ok, and the fear of the others who are ok trying to rope you into donating or even making food for the school or parties when you don’t have enough for your own family- so you find yourself avoiding people.
— Food Bank News: Unexpected Hunger: The Sinking Middle Class
while building software is hard, building telepathic software is even harder, and supporting enterprise customers of your telepathic software is the hardest thing of all
— Former Facebookers Get $9M for Workforce Telepathy (Asana)
a freakishly intense storm almost cost us our lives even as it gave me the data I needed to complete my dissertation
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
— Dante
