Hunter S. Thompson Essay. “Open Letter To The Youth Of Our Nation” 1955 | Hunter S. Thompson Books Hunter wrote this essay in 1955 for The Athenaeum Literary Association’s bound yearbook, it won third prize in The Nettleroth contest. Great writing for a 18 year old, and makes for a funny read too. Young people of America, awake from your slumber of indolence and hark-en the call of the future! I say there is no excuse for a feeling of insecurity on your part;there is no excuse for juvenile delinquency; there is no excuse for your attitude except that you are rotten and lazy! I warn you, if you don’t start now it will be too late, and the blame for the end of the world will be laid at your feet. Fearfully and disgustedly yours, John J. Like this: Like Loading...
5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. If you want to learn anything chances are there is somebody creating content about the subject and sharing it with the world at no cost. Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. 2. Want to learn how to get in shape? 3. 4. 5. Education as we know it is changing rapidly.
Become the Creeper About a year ago I met this pretty great girl. We were coworkers and we hung out all the time at work. It was one of those situations when we were at lunch other people would ask where the other was, since they were so used to seeing us together. This girl, lets call her Ashley, was so much fun to be with. I could completely geek out on her about whatever new game was coming out and what TV series we were plowing threw on Netflix. Avatar was coming out and she was so excited to see it, talked about it everyday and yeah the movie looked really cool. It was about a week before the movie and it was time to ask her, do or die. Finally the familiar sound, the chime of a new message, I can’t look so I quickly cover the message and sit there to ponder what she wrote, I think positive, she wants me .
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Corante: technology, business, media, law, and culture news from the blogosphere The Anagram Dictionary t h e a n a g r a m d i c t i o n a r y Online Dictionary - Orchy G'day all... A long time ago I decided to make use of an electronic scrabble dictionary by using it to build an anagram dictionary. Anything with that many words is going to show up on a huge number of web spider searches. No Title Hi! With this little message, the file is not only coming up eventually in a fair proportion of all searches, but it also had a summary that aroused people's curiosity. I had no intention of experimenting with the web or trying to lure web users into my den. It's interesting the number of anagrams that are fitting: Eternity and entirety, backward and drawback, discern and rescind, demand and madden, comedian and demoniac, American and cinerama, aspirate and parasite, oldies and soiled, lust and slut, to name a few of many hundreds. abbe babe abed bead bade abel elba bale able bela abet beat beta bate abhorred harbored abhorrer harborer abides biased able abel elba bale bela abler baler blear blare aces case
The Recently Deflowered Girl – Edward Gorey | Bitten Nails Design & Illustration Click this for the related blog post. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: First Drafts of the Parables of Jesus. Jesus said, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” One of the disciples asked, “What of the man who builds his house inside the house built on the rock? Surely his house will be even less damaged by water and wind. And Jesus said, “No, don’t do that.” At that time a man said unto Jesus, “Jesus! Jesus said, “The Father’s kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. “Wait, what?” And the man became a pillar of salt. “It doesn’t matter,” said Jesus. “But what do you think about this?” “The first!”
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