(Holly, a student from L.A.) Welcome the blog I brought with me to college. holly_hunt@brown.edu
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Basically done?
Sorry, I haven’t forgotten you, Tumblr world. I’ve been reading, just had no time to contribute.
I think I’m done with work for the semester (less the writing portfolio I need to shape up next week).
Happy birthday to me.
If only I would have checked myself
guy who wrecked himself (via superpussy)
(Source: chrisweedboygenius)
“Talk to your kids about art school” — A series of humorous PSA-inspired ads for the College for Creative Studies
(via)
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God Bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
— Elizabeth Warren, candidate for US Senate, as quoted by The New Republic
(Source: canisfamiliaris)
“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching search-lights.”
— Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
no idea what this amuses me so
I’ll take it.
(Source: world-shaker)
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Reppin.
Check out the rest of my album on my G+.
Hi Tumblr, I have failed at keeping up here! While I read my feed every day, I do more and more of my random-thought-spewing on G+. But I have to say that I don’t follow quite the same entertaining mix of anime/cartoon enthusiasts and extremely active politicos on G+. It’s just not as fun.
I am alive. Today I went to a meetup in a new neighborhood for me, and listened to a few business folk present before chatting with a few locals about living in Hong Kong. A surprisingly large percentage of people I talked to work in private equity. This city seems to be all finance, even in tech circles.
Then I got MacDonald’s as it is kind of late here and try finding protein-heavy “food” faster/cheaper than that on a Monday night. HK$27 (US$3.47) for a “big n tasty” or whatever — including fries and a drink? Yeah, not going to beat that.
I do miss home a lot though, not like my house per se but football and people from more than just two ethnicities and chocolate soy milk (the only kind of soy milk they don’t have here) and loaves of bread — here you can only buy 8 or so slices at a time.
But I’m getting on, as they (Brits) say, and I’m getting continually more used to it. I have reached my 3/8 point today. I.e., I’ll be leaving 5 weeks from today. My hope is that I will use my time successfully, and not wasted it. How often do you get paid to camp out in a foreign metropolis for a few months? Not often.
