The Upsider
"The self is not something ready made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey
Welcome to my continuous formation.
Want to help (in)form me? glendaluft@gmail.com
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Photo reblogged from
Backstage at Elie Saab Spring Couture
2012
So pretty and glittery! I imagine this is what the twelve dancing princesses wear.
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If H&R block sends you a random text to call a number, it’s a fake! Luckily, the FTC disconnected the number, and I only reached a recorded message that educated me about phishing. Wow, I don’t say this very often, but thanks government! Nice to see my tax dollars at work.
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Fantastic trailer for Wes Anderson’s newest film, Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Francis McDermond, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman and more. Looks awesome. I heart Wes.
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After completing a bunch of the codecademy courses, it just seems silly that middle schools and high schools don’t teach javascript simultaneously with algebra classes.
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Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They’re extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature.
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If you’re free tonight, come by General Assembly for Startup Grind NYC’s first meet up, featuring a “fireside chat” with Hilary Mason! Pizza/Beer/Wine/Networking included.
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Vuzix Smart Glasses, via Mashable
Vuzix smart glasses will let you see an HD image in one eye while you observe the world with the other.
This unique concept will be especially handy for augmented reality applications, where its lens is able to “squeeze the light down the waveguide and then two-dimensionally expand the image back into the users eye, creating an image that is then mixed into the real world.” The company says the glasses will be available this summer.
Funny looking accessories = the future is finally here! Redemption for all those 80s movies.
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Is just no fun at all. Even with football on in the background. Especially when you’re trying to take a doc full of garbled jargon and translate it into something simple and understandable.
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netted says, “Everyone’s Mixtape takes us back to the glory days. Virtual mixes are restricted to 60, 90, or 120 minutes (fantastically old school), though you can add any song from YouTube, SoundCloud, and Vimeo with a simple drag and drop (decidedly new school).
Add songs to a tape until the site tells you it’s full, rearrange the play order for optimal impact (track #3 is most important, obviously), and then share it with the world via Facebook and Twitter, or with a single person via email.”
—-Have fun, friends.
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At the moment, the only thing potentially more valuable than a relationship with a great developer is a relationship with a survivalist who is good with things like guns, bunkers and cabins in woods (that’s in case the apocalypse does come about in 2012, with bullets for currency). Which you think is the better bet depends on exactly how gloomy and bearish you are. I am pretty gloomy, but not yet gloomy enough to turn to survivalist capital investments.
The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes
You have just got to read this crazy article. It’s long, but awesome. And eye opening.
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Jimmy Fallon as “Tebowie.” It’s a must-watch. Fallon is getting ridiculously good at these.
