Speci?cally, if you discover, in frustration, that you’re pathologically incapable of doing one thing at a time, consider the possibility that you’ve been unknowingly trying to “focus” on two, twenty, or twenty thousand disparate things that you don’t really care that much about. Just consider it.

Because, in the absence of caring, nobody can focus on anything, apart from their abject lack of focus

via First, care. | 43 Folders.

You could tell that this was one of those performances where the crowd, the artist and the music all just synched up perfectly – that rare burst of wonder and magic when you see a truly inspired performance. A really amazing performance like that isn’t just “entertaining,” it can change our expectations of human potential and lets us all know that unseen heights of connection are possible. It lets us know there are things in life that are really fucking cool and that these things that people create can actually make life more enjoyable.

via The Joe Rogan Blog » Conduit to the Gaian Mind » Pink changed my life.

‘the world will carry on without you when you’re gone so you might as well love as much as you can, right now. ‘Might as well’ are the wrong words. It is imperative that you love who you can as much as you can right now. Make a list of all the things that make you smile and tick them off one at a time’

via http://her0in-chic.xanga.com/721008313/item/.

I’m betting that even the people who feel crushed by the volume of all the xx remixes out there are going to like this one Matthew Dear came up with for “VCR.” Now, all you have to do is hit play and/or the download button below and you have another good one for your Ipod.

melophobe | Matthew Dear Remix of The xx’s VCR mp3.

Just a question. Is the modern electronic pop production that Ellie Goulding is being given right for her voice, or would she be better suited to simple less populist folk arrangements that we first heard on her Myspace a year ago and can be seen by clicking here ?

via Breaking More Waves: Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed.

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PULdPep_xfs&feature=player_embedded#

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasph5zaDT4

Were can I buy a Giraffe? – Yahoo! Answers.

(Mistake not mine!)

Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion

Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city and town. Using the same advanced projective mathematics used in the study cited by Publishers Weekly, Go To Hellman has computed that publishers could be losing sales opportunities totaling over $100 Billion per year, losses which extend back to at least the year 2000.

via Go To Hellman: Offline Book “Lending” Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion.

Things have changed now that I’ve got a more permanent teaching position. My time is more precious, there are more things to do. Plus this week I’m having to get my head around all the planning and assessment and working out a time table and getting to know ‘my’ class.

It means I have less time to exercise – which in some respects is a good thing. Laura and I have taken to running to BMF, it’s a 5.5 mile round trip in addition to all the running we do at the class. We took it easy coming back today as the class was tough tough tough. The instructor was pretty relentless and had us doing more press ups then we could do. It’s funny how quickly your arms say no. Coupled with him saying ‘follow me’ before sprinting off after those exercises.

Still it was good, I feel good for it. Though the 90 second static ski squat was just painful. Then we ran back from the class.

Up Snowdon soon! :D

Today children we are doing shapes.

Funny thing. Taken to waking from about 3 hours out, checking my clock, feeling a subdued elation and putting my head on the pillow again.

Except today, I woke again at 6:13 (alarm at 6:15) and missed the lying in bed debating whether I would let my alarm go off. (I didn’t and don’t, I can’t do it. My alarm is there just-in-case and is almost always turned off before I get out of bed.)