THE XX - Intro [Minnesota Remix]
Rachel showed me this. Too good.
Source: djsquints
If Europe doesn’t fall apart before November, this man has it in the bag.
via Sully
Source: fuckyeahmovieposters
Actual manifestations of Soviet policy in this respect will be restricted to arid channels of closely shepherded official visits and functions, with superabundance of vodka and speeches and dearth of permanent effects.
“4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting”
best coffeehouse in Olympia, so far (Taken with Instagram at Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters)
Just registered for the RainMan Sprint Triathlon in April. Time to get crack’n! (Taken with instagram)
Solar Parity
Seattle is at 2027. Pretty startling that the cost of solar energy decreases on average by 7% each year. Via Sully.
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.
DANIEL BURNHAM, CHICAGO ARCHITECT. (1846-1912)
And daughters and granddaughters.
A reminder for the coming year(s). Get. ready. set. go.
MMXII
By the end of December I hope to see the following to fruition:
- Senior standing
- Fluency in Ruby on Rails
- Basic workable model of CrisisCommand built
- A triathlon trained for and completed
- More immediate responses to communication from friends
- Intensive French completed over the summer
- 150,000 yards of swimming, or 3000 a week
Mostly impossible, but a man can dream. Regardless, it’s going to be a beautiful year.
Fatou Bensouda informally chosen as second ICC prosecutor
Edith Lederer, reporting for TIME:
The ICC has faced criticism in Africa because all its cases so far are in African countries. Several U.N. diplomats said that because of this, there was a strong desire to have an African as the next chief prosecutor.The Prosecutor Search Committee shortlisted four of the 42 candidates: Bensouda [of Gambia], Andrew Cayley of Britain, Mohamed Chande Othman of Tanzania, and Robert Petit of Canada. It then narrowed the list to the two Africans — Bensouda and Othman — and at Wednesday’s informal consultations the 119 states parties to the Rome statute, which created the ICC, reached consensus on Bensouda.
Existing Deputy Prosecutor for the ICC, former Senior Legal Advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and notable legal scholar. Also, obviously a smart move politically for the Court in efforts to extend its credibility.
The lock for the gate to exit the gun range was frozen over - ice filled the entire keyhole. Our cars were stuck in the snow in Ravensdale in the dark. We scraped at the hole with our keys and tried our cigarette lighters to no avail.
So Michael improvised, as he always does. Sometimes he has good ideas, even great, other times his ideas explode in a cloud of concerning doubt. Fortunately, some time back, we did not follow his proposed improvisation of a warmer drysuit by sealing the openings with duck tape. I will not have a scuba accident report read to future beginner PADI classes involving my name and the words “duct tape.” No sir.
But this improvisation was a decent one, and the road flare combusted, burning a blinding red against the backdrop of 5 o’clock in the dead of winter. Michael blowtorched that lock.
My tires roared as my truck turned perpendicular to the road. It was a good day. A day of reckless driving, firing rifles in the woods and road flares fizzling out in the snow.
Architecture, Business (Entrepreneurship), Construction Management, Law, Societies and Justice, Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, International Studies, Emergency Medicine, Drawing and Painting, Computer Science, Marine Biology
I’m going to major in being a Renaissance Man.
