Thoughts I Am

2011-12-01T12:58:00.001-08:00

"Well it's not all that bad a way to spend a life," I thought to myself, "constantly falling in love."

2011-12-01T12:56:00.000-08:00

Eventually we reach an age where telling our life story to a new acquaintance can no longer adequately be done in thirty seconds.

2011-11-16T08:37:00.000-08:00

It's harder to watch them leave than to leave them.

2011-11-11T07:31:00.000-08:00

Stupid plus greedy is always a bad combination.

2011-11-01T22:09:00.001-07:00

It doesn't matter what you look like. It only matters what you feel.

2011-10-31T22:08:00.001-07:00

Everyone is weird, but some are weird in more uncommon ways than others.

2011-10-31T22:07:00.001-07:00

The lottery... and the bottled water left in your hotel room... are a tax on the stupid.

2011-10-27T09:50:00.000-07:00

We're so insecure that we value confidence above all else. So we all walk around in our pajamas claiming not to care.

2011-10-18T14:45:00.002-07:00

Do our living spaces reflect the lives we live, or do our lives reflect our living spaces?

2011-10-18T14:45:00.000-07:00

Tuning a piano is exactly as much fun as it sounds like it would be.

2011-07-01T18:23:00.001-07:00

It's a good thing, right? All the things we accomplished because of desire?

2011-06-26T03:42:00.000-07:00

It's not that I can't commit to anything, I just suffer from a wide variety of motivations.

2011-06-25T02:21:00.001-07:00

When the 20 year-olds think you're 40, and the 40 year-olds think you're 20, you're 30.

2011-06-22T14:37:00.001-07:00

I don't agree with you, but I love the way you express yourself.

2011-06-18T00:42:00.001-07:00

Everyone liked him, primarily because he was popular.

2011-05-30T11:57:00.001-07:00

Nothing brings happiness like lowered expectations.

2011-05-27T14:57:00.001-07:00

Broke down on the side of the highway of life: doing nothing is better than going nowhere.

2011-05-24T09:40:00.000-07:00

In a world of lazy people, the motivated person is king. In a world of motivated people, no one is king for long.

2011-05-19T19:27:00.000-07:00

Alone in a crowd is far lonelier than all by yourself.

2011-05-09T13:44:00.001-07:00

In spite of any other opinions, she was still an important part of my life.

2011-05-09T13:43:00.000-07:00

Paradigm shifts are sometimes painful, but usually for the better.

2011-05-02T12:31:00.001-07:00

If you're procrastinating giving an answer, the answer is probably "not yet".

2011-04-30T22:46:00.001-07:00

Me_
"When we go home tomorrow, this will all feel like a dream..."

Her_
"This isn't a dream, it's real. That other world is the dream..."

2011-03-21T22:46:00.000-07:00

Talent is just being good at something that most others aren't, but wish they were. When the masses start learning it, you are just normal again.

2011-03-16T21:44:00.001-07:00

I met someone who was a lot like me. I couldn't stand them.

2011-03-15T20:52:00.000-07:00

You're older now than your mentors were when you first admired them.

2011-03-13T21:59:00.000-07:00

Reverse Vacation: Spend a week or two someplace much worse than where you live, so that the pleasant part is returning with a new appreciation for what you have.

2011-03-09T21:12:00.000-08:00

I'm not afraid of failing to achieve my goals, nor of changing my direction and leaving them behind. I'm only afraid of patience, waiting for them to come to me.

2011-02-27T18:13:00.000-08:00

Seriously, there are NO good books about writers block!

2011-02-26T20:52:00.000-08:00

"and I'll almost love this town when I'm by your side"

2011-02-26T20:36:00.000-08:00

A half-broken heart is even harder to repair...

2011-02-20T23:00:00.004-08:00

Skills are only temporary, but learning experiences are yours to keep.

2011-02-20T23:00:00.003-08:00

North Face, iPhone, Starbucks. I arrived at Mary Mac's feeling more LA than ever.

2011-02-20T23:00:00.001-08:00

Now that I think about it, I'm slightly offended that she never took my picture.

2011-02-20T22:59:00.003-08:00

She suffered from perhaps the most common affliction: she was convinced there was something wrong with her.

2011-02-20T22:59:00.001-08:00

Being productive involves a lot of wasted time.

2011-02-20T22:58:00.001-08:00

I'd like to take a moment to thank our boys in the military.

And their families.

And the taxpayers.

And the government contractors.

And the brave congressmen, without whom none of this would have been possible.

2011-02-20T22:53:00.002-08:00

Memoirs of a cop... from someone who sees all the awful shit in the world, knowing they can't solve it.

Is it the job of the police to just protect the "idea" of a safe world? A bubble for the fortunate to isolate them from what's out there? Are we just protecting our consciences from the tremendous guilt of not being able to help everyone?

2011-02-20T22:53:00.001-08:00

School only teaches you how to imitate success.

2011-02-20T22:21:00.000-08:00

To live a life of pride is shameful. To not desire a life worth being proud of is worse.

2011-02-16T23:33:00.001-08:00

It's a good thing no one else I know is happy either, otherwise I'd feel pretty bad.

2011-02-10T09:07:00.000-08:00

Probably can't fix it... can't bear to get rid of it... guess it will remain here with me, broken.

2011-01-06T02:11:00.000-08:00

Hey mister father-of-twelve-kids, quit complaining about the traffic!

2011-01-05T02:00:00.000-08:00

Kindness is what you do for others because you want them to be happy. Politeness is what you do for others because you want to avoid conflict.

2010-12-11T00:56:00.000-08:00

When you are short on time, every stranger is a potential friend. Enemies take too long to make.

2010-12-11T00:54:00.000-08:00

There's something romantic about waiting... holding on to something or someone that is gone or not here yet.

There's something useless about romance.

2010-12-06T18:30:00.001-08:00

It can be truly amazing, what others don't know.

2010-12-03T18:28:00.001-08:00

It's only art if someone wants to look at it. It's only life if it's worth telling someone about.

2010-11-29T21:31:00.001-08:00

I choose not to express myself in a witty and unique way.

Tweeted from my iPad.

2010-11-27T22:43:00.001-08:00

There are things I've learned. And there are things I should know. And they aren't necessarily the same.

2010-11-27T22:02:00.001-08:00

It's really hard to run up a spiral staircase.

2010-11-25T18:52:00.001-08:00

There's a difference between prejudice and stereotype. I don't have to dislike someone to stereotype them.

2010-11-20T19:57:00.000-08:00

Nothing says "I went to Hawaii" like a shirt that says "I went to Hawaii!"

2010-11-04T15:00:00.001-07:00

How to get rich: capitalize on other people's desires.
How to get very rich: capitalize on their needs.
How to get filthy rich: capitalize on their misfortunes.
How to get filthy stinking rich: capitalize on their fears.

2010-10-16T17:54:00.000-07:00

Walking down the street and find twenty dollars on the ground:

1. and no one is around - Keep It.

2. and you saw the person right in front of you drop it - Give It Back.

3. and you saw the person 100 steps in front of you drop it - Keep It.

4. and you saw the person 100 steps in front drop it and no one else is around - Give It Back.

5. and you saw the person in front of you drop it and then they turn and go into a building - Keep It.

6. and the person who dropped it had just insulted you - Grin, then Keep It.

7. and the person who dropped it owes you twenty dollars - Keep It, then wait and see if they ever try to pay you back. If they do, say, "oh, that little twenty dollars you owed me? oh, don't worry about that! What are friends for?"

2010-10-11T23:11:00.001-07:00

Hanging out with all these elitists makes me want nicer stuff...

2010-10-11T23:09:00.000-07:00

Appreciating things is a very unproductive way to spend your time.

2010-07-23T07:49:00.001-07:00

Fixing a light sucks when you're in the dark, fixing a computer sucks without the internet, and fixing music players and speakers sucks to do in silence.

2010-07-20T20:26:00.000-07:00

The most frightening thing we have to live with today is the idea that everyone has the potential to become whatever they desire.

2010-06-25T08:01:00.000-07:00

Learn about learning, teach teachers, search for a mystery, fly pilots, heat a microwave, distract a clown, read about books, invent an inventor, sue a lawyer, define a dictionary, listen to a microphone, take pictures of cameras, dream of waking up, kill murderers, fight violence, believe in faith, and be the only one who is not unique.

You can't be stuck in this loop, because the loop doesn't exist, because you can't be stuck in it...

2010-06-23T23:13:00.001-07:00

Do you want to weaken yourself?

No. I want to strengthen myself by experiencing weakness.

2010-06-23T22:56:00.000-07:00

Why do we think happiness is the ultimate goal of humanity? Happiness is simply a feeling. In fact, happiness is a very unproductive, selfish, and inexpressive feeling. Happy people are content, and content people are satisfied. If you have satisfaction, you contribute nothing.

Perhaps we should value something other than happiness. Perhaps we should value desire. Perhaps we should value creativity. Perhaps we should value acceptance, and openness, and the ability to realize one's own mistakes of fighting that which is weak.

Perhaps we, I, should value something that we, I, do not possess.

2010-06-23T22:12:00.001-07:00

The first chord blurted itself out only about half wrong, but things declined from there...

2010-06-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

The bigger your world, the smaller you.

2010-06-17T08:08:00.000-07:00

So proud of our tools, yet we use them as toys.

2010-06-09T18:31:00.000-07:00

I learned the hard way that learning something the easy way isn't as easy as I thought.

2010-06-09T18:29:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, the only time he got the urge to ride his unicycle was when he was drinking...

2010-06-05T11:44:00.000-07:00

Turns out it's a lot harder to write a book than it is to read one...

2010-05-30T13:22:00.001-07:00

Caring about someone's happiness is not the same as trying not to piss them off.

2010-05-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

Fame among strangers can bring pride, but it is a higher honor to know that the most important people in your life consider you to be one of the most important people in theirs.

2010-05-19T22:49:00.000-07:00

I spent my life in pursuit of my dreams. After I caught them, I found they weren't all mine.

2010-05-08T11:34:00.001-07:00

Lost in a city, south of soul.

2010-04-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

I don't know what's wrong with those people. Don't they realize how awesome I am?

2010-04-26T05:58:00.003-07:00

Feeling nostalgic for the future. And it feels good.

2010-04-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

The grass-roots campaign against the big businesses that exploited consumers by selling them cheap crap was bewildered by the resistance of the grass-roots campaign against the big businesses that exploit consumers by selling them over-priced quality.

2010-04-22T18:53:00.001-07:00

I suspect I'll never really know what it's like to have an argument with myself until I'm the parent of a teenager.

2010-04-22T18:51:00.000-07:00

The guy standing at the freeway off-ramp selling flowers was talking on a Blackberry. A FREAKING BLACKBERRY!

2010-04-22T11:37:00.000-07:00

It's become a career. I could have done this job for a single summer; it would have meant as much to me.

2010-04-06T08:53:00.001-07:00

And then, for 60 seconds, I had all six lanes to myself.

2010-04-04T00:25:00.002-07:00

Strangely, the internet can be a much friendlier place than the real world.

2010-04-04T00:25:00.001-07:00

It's a lot easier to find someone different than to be someone different.

2010-04-02T10:58:00.001-07:00

They called her original. But really she was just covering up one fashion mistake with another.

2010-03-15T08:36:00.000-07:00

"... it's a mythical place; like Neverland, or Narnia, or the good parts of Jersey..."

2010-03-13T15:14:00.000-08:00

Sure, doing it socially with friends on an occasional night out is one thing, but if you're also doing it alone you might have a problem. Movies: always watch responsibly.

2010-03-13T14:27:00.001-08:00

Tools are only worth what they actually create. Unused tools are worthless...

2010-03-13T11:47:00.001-08:00

My goal is to be debt free by the time the world ends; and it looks like it's going to be close...

2010-03-10T14:44:00.000-08:00

The difference between a time capsule and garbage is basically remembering to dig it up someday.

2010-03-10T14:14:00.000-08:00

There were times when I had a phone line in my home, times when I needed to send a fax, and times when I owned a fax machine. Unfortunately none of them ever happened at the same time.

2010-03-05T01:47:00.000-08:00

And so we set out to create a new economy... one where people earned large amounts of money for work that created no value, and where worthless items and experiences cost more than ever...

2010-02-27T23:27:00.001-08:00

The Past Was Better vs. The Future Will Be Better. Strangely though The Past always has good arguments, The Future always seems to have the last word.

2010-02-21T19:00:00.000-08:00

She said, "I don't want to be equal... I want to be allowed to achieve something." It was the first opinion on the argument that made any sense.

2010-02-21T16:19:00.000-08:00

The auto-suggest items were so strange that I forgot what I'd actually wanted to finish typing into the search field!

2010-02-21T09:32:00.001-08:00

There's something about seeing one Prius cut off another Prius in traffic that goes against the projected altruism of the owners...

2010-02-17T20:19:00.001-08:00

Don't worry. In 30 years we'll all be either a hell of a lot richer, or dead.

2010-02-12T18:08:00.000-08:00

I've got a problem with static utopia.

2010-02-12T17:34:00.000-08:00

A lonely world of independence in a sea of selfish priorities, and yet surrounded by more friends than one could fully appreciate in a single lifetime.

2010-02-08T23:04:00.001-08:00

If we all just walked around with flashlights we'd save a lot more energy...

2010-02-08T22:55:00.001-08:00

I used to drink myself blind every day, and only work enough to just survive. But now with house and family, dog, and boat, my sober job takes every hour alive.

2010-02-02T19:09:00.001-08:00

That's why admire you, bro. Things others do in moderation, you take to the extreme.

2010-01-22T17:13:00.000-08:00

The majority of people don't like what's popular.