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11 Things to Know at 25(ish) When you’re 25-ish, you’re old enough to know what kind of music you love, regardless of what your last boyfriend or roommate always used to play.

11 Things to Know at 25(ish)

You know how to walk in heels, how to tie a necktie, how to give a good toast at a wedding and how to make something for dinner. You don’t have to think much about skin care, home ownership or your retirement plan. Your life can look a lot of different ways when you’re 25: single, dating, engaged, married. You are working in dream jobs, pay-the-bills jobs and downright horrible jobs. You are young enough to believe that anything is possible, and you are old enough to make that belief a reality. Now is the time to figure out what kind of work you love to do. When I was 25, I was in my third job in as many years—all in the same area at a church, but the responsibilities were different each time.

How To Grow Marijuana. LSD & Cannabis - The Magical Mystery Tour - 13448. Citation: Hooloovoo.

LSD & Cannabis - The Magical Mystery Tour - 13448

"The Magical Mystery Tour: An Experience with LSD & Cannabis (ID 13448)". Erowid.org. Mar 4, 2005. erowid.org/exp/13448 I decided to give acid another shot - to say goodbye. Maybe for good. The first thing I did was to get my music ready. I got some of that popping candy, that you put in your mouth and it explodes.

I already had 3 big and powerful blotters of acid, with an estimated 350 micrograms each (from previous experiences with these blotters). 00:00 - I just took the acid. Photoshop Mastery: 25 Techniques Every Designer Must Know. One of the best things about Photoshop is that you never stop learning.

Photoshop Mastery: 25 Techniques Every Designer Must Know

I’ve been working with the software for about 12 years, and I always stumble across something I didn’t know, whether it be a new feature, or just a new, better way of doing something. There are countless tips and tricks to help boost your productivity and work flow some are obvious and easy to find while some you have to dig a little to seek them out.

In this post I’m going to reveal 25 of the best advanced techniques to help you design faster and better within Adobe Photoshop. Keyboard Shortcuts for Layer Manipulation Note: These shortcuts refer to the “Cmd” key on a Mac keyboard. Create a new layer As your working in PS adding layers to your canvas is essential. New layer with dialog box: [ Cmd + Shift + N ] New layer without dialog box: [ Cmd + Shift + Alt + N ] Zoom in and out zooming in and out is a necessity when designing a piece with lots of detail, or working on a large print piece. The 15 Books You Must Read in 2010 - Education - GOOD - StumbleUpon. 12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free - StumbleUpon. Dreaming of Electric Sheep. A direct link to the above video is at "Life is but a dream" - English Nursery Rhyme, Row, Row, Row Your Boat Ever hear of electricsheep.org?

Dreaming of Electric Sheep

Let me quote from the website: Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. Here's a YouTube video by Scott Draves called "165 Star Oasis" which uses Electric Sheep images. With this blog entry and the next one, we're going to talk about trying to visualize moving around within the place where, as quantum physicists like Zeilinger and Lloyd tell us, "Information Equals Reality": this is the place we were just trying to think about in "The Big Bang and the Big Pie". In my recent entry "Why Stop at Ten Dimensions? " How can what looks like randomness generate something as wonderful and complex as the universe we see around us?

Grouping and symmetry. Enjoy the journey, Rob Bryanton Next: Imagining the Omniverse. Nothingness Theory. It’s a brisk fall morning in New York City.

Nothingness Theory

Wind blows dust and leaves around in little tornado shaped circles outside the windows of my 7th grade science class. As I watch the hypnotic swirling motion our teacher, Mr. Lobel, leans against the granite lab-table and poses this question: “Let’s say you put a piece of cork and a metal spoon in the refrigerator over night, which one will be colder the next day?” It seems like a trick question. “you're going to have to figure it out, we’ll talk about it tomorrow”. I open the refrigerator at home and feel the milk carton – that’s pretty cold. Most of us think it's the spoon. One: there is no such thing as “cold”; there is only more or less heat.

Two: heat will try to even itself out. Three: Heat is energy and energy is motion. This changed my perception of everything. I had unwittingly asked myself a question, the answer to which reveals a connection between the primary forces governing the behavior of the universe. Equilibrium Detectability.