Nike soccer

Justin was right - this is awesome.  However, this is the longer version (twss):

Warren Buffett on Life

I thought this was an interesting quote by Warren Buffett to a class of Emory students:

What if you could buy 10% of one of your classmates and their future earnings? You wouldn’t buy the ones with the highest IQ, the best grades, etc, [...]

When it’s over…

I read a great passage by Mary Oliver:
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if i have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t wan t to find myself [...]

Afoot and Light-hearted for the New Year

The poet Billy Collins once observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother’s heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. This it too bad. With that in mind, i thought i’d post one [...]

Hollywood story

I’m reposting this from Marc Andressen’s blog. It is a story from Paul Zollo’s book Hollywood Remembered, an oral history of the movie industry. A great story about drive and commitment.

A 2001 interview with A. C. Lyles, a producer at Paramount who was born in 1918 in Jacksonville, Florida and worked at Paramount [...]

Dean Kamen’s Robotic Arm

Many of you know about my Kamen man-crush.  He just gave a speech about an arm he built for the Department of Defense.  It’s an awesome thing and brings the Luke Skywalker’s fake hand fantasy closer to reality
It bothers me that there have been over 7 million Michael Vick jersey’s sold and nobody knows who [...]

No One Deserves a Tragedy

Said much better than i could….

Take Your Body for a Ride like Dean K.

There’s a good article in this month’s Wired Magazine about Dean Karnazes who is the most hard-core runner i have ever read about. He wasn’t a serious running until his 30th birthday when, after taking down a few too many tequila shots, he stripped down to his underwear and like Forest Gump - just [...]

Amazing Story of American Playing in England’s Premiership

This is a great and inspiring story of an American who saved his cash and went to England to try to play soccer. After a few years of earning next to nothing, he’s now, through an amazing series of events, playing for Watford in the Premier League. Here’s the story in Sports Illustrated magazine:
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Beauty in Errors

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is [...]