February 2012
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January 2012
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“It seems that the recent social media promotion of DOT is quite unsettling for...”
– Oh well, I might be over-analyzing here, it’s tourism after all; selling and marketing comes with persuading people to consume is the name of the game, even if it means to leaving a potential “copycat” promotional message of such abstract proportions to the netizens that have mixed...
December 2011
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"I'm Comic Sans, asshole" by Mike Lacher →
This is a very hilarious reactionary monologue written in the perspective of the most controversial typeface ever, the Comic Sans.
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography...
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“It would be more accurate to view the Bible, not as pure fiction, but as science...”
– Mitchell Heisman, Suicide Note p. 40
PS: Humanity has always had the will to create “something” greater than himself to serve him, from the day we started to obsessively envision about gods and goddesses to explain phenomena, to the day we created advanced technology that is constantly...
November 2011
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“If you are looking at a person who’s one meter away from you, you are...”
– So does that mean we’re all as “nostalgic” as the present laws of physics permit us to be? Haha.
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October 2011
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“Do you have someone who seems to ambiguously hate you at work, or at your social...”
– Remember that a person’s own actions steer their own disposition towards others, and the bigger the price one pays for his or her decisions, the more he or she values it. It’s self-perception theory at work!
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“I wish more people would take note that the more harm they cause, whether it...”
– Who knows, maybe action per se can drive a human to emotion, or more importantly, empathy, not the other way around; a cognitive dissonance in effect, that in the absence of extrinsic fulfillment, we always have the opportunity to create intrinsic ones.
September 2011
Is art just as much a representation of life as it...
Answers would be gratefully appreciated.
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the...”
– Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American artist, poet and writer
Also mentioned as a spoken sample in Dream Theater’s song Breaking All Illusions, from their latest album A Dramatic Turn of Events
“We don’t have to compare to each other the hardships that we face in life,...”
– There will always be a time when you should’ve been inspired in the moments where you felt envious of others’ successes, and there will always be a time when you should’ve been driven to action in the moments where you felt pleasure in the misfortunes of others. It’s all...
August 2011
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“Everyone has the capacity for choice in this constantly changing life. But...”
– That’s the downside of being a human with an all too linear and limited perception of things.
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“Sometimes your castles in the air and the fantasies you’re seeking, are...”
– Lines in The Sand, by John Petrucci of the progressive metal band “Dream Theater”
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“The dark and often ignored side of globalization is that it’s the process...”
– Examples of such “conditions” are:
Currency Devaluation, to lessen the price of the target country’s raw materials that are being exploited.
Cutting Social Welfare Programs like education and healthcare, this combined with media manipulation to make the target country’s...
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“We, in our respective religions, have always been obsessed with the idea of the...”
– The thing is, because of religion’s power to divert man to destructive courses through its arrogant certitude, the world could actually come to an end.
It’s not just the thought that people could go at war because of their beliefs that inspires this apocalypse, but it’s also the...
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“Most of us would simply refuse to even reflect on the possibility of our deaths....”
– This might seem farfetched, but it seems like we already have this religious “faith” in life and survival, plus the irrational fear of death, as something that dictates our moral values, and most of us have the confidence to say that this is something “rational”, when in...
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“Ever get the feeling that medicine has a circular history?
2000 B.C. – Here,...”
– (via grantrharrison)
Grant is my business partner in our firm, The Future Well. I encouraged him to start a blog using tumblr. It’s awesome, mostly for all that British humour.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
PS (iamnothingami): Well I could clearly see a supposedly postmodernist stance here, haha.
“It really takes a special kind of people to see past the aberrations, fallacies...”
– I guess that’s where enlightened (or unenlightened) self-interest comes into play, haha.
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July 2011
