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Irish Salsa: Counting to a Trillion
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Counting to a Trillion. How about a billion? I don't think you'd live long enough to count to a trillion. But seriously. We have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour: 3,600 seconds an hour. 24 hours a day: 86,400 seconds a day. 365 and 1/3 days a year: 31,564,512 seconds a year. WE ONLY LIVE 2 BILLION SECONDS! For the rest of my life? Now that's just counting to a trillion. As of 10:37 and 8 seconds Central Standard Time, ...
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Irish Salsa: Social Reversion
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. We've experienced the evolution of social networking, from Friendster to MySpace ( my. Own personal space) to Facebook with " friends. And Twitter with " followers. Is it possible to be any more self-aggrandizing? We have now equated ourselves to MLK Jr. and Gandhi and Jesus Christ; we have followers. For what? To hear us spout about sports or politics or random musings of our day? Me, just text me. We're averse to intimacy. Taking no...
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Irish Salsa: July 2010
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Counting to a Trillion. How about a billion? I don't think you'd live long enough to count to a trillion. But seriously. We have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour: 3,600 seconds an hour. 24 hours a day: 86,400 seconds a day. 365 and 1/3 days a year: 31,564,512 seconds a year. WE ONLY LIVE 2 BILLION SECONDS! For the rest of my life? Now that's just counting to a trillion. As of 10:37 and 8 seconds Central Standard Time, ...
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Irish Salsa: Introverted Jesus.
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. I was thinking about how Jesus retreated to gardens and hillsides and mountaintops and boat hulls and deserts. Some think it was just his "quiet time," that we have biblical proof that a daily Quiet Time is a spiritual requirement. Some view these retreats as rare occurrences, that Jesus didn't really need that much time to recharge- he was God, after all. In a world that creates technology to find newer, more effective ways to self-a...
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Irish Salsa: Beauty is Fleeting
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Our looks are fleeting. We are getting older. We are getting slower and fatter and grayer. Our popularity wanes with each new place we land. We want to be famous and liked, but to most people we're only remembered until the next person's flashy Instagram photo pops up in our feed. What if we decided to make choices that helped people? That were more influential? That made a difference and were remembered because they mattered? Florida...
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Irish Salsa: Dwight and I
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. I think I'm the next Dwight Howard. And although our basketball skills are fairly even these days, surprisingly, I'm actually comparing myself to Dwight in a non-athletic way. I can't make a decision. And I feel bad for us, sometimes. We're as indecisive as can be, Dwight and I. It drives my friends nuts who want to hang out with me, if they're lucky enough to be the ones I decided to hang out with. What do you want to do? We can't de...
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Irish Salsa: June 2010
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Choose Your Own Adventure (the Gordon Ramsay Edition). The following is loosely based off a true story. Well it was my dream last night. Up until the ending. That's where you come in. Choose your own adventure. Are you Tarantino, the Coen Brothers, Bruckheimer, Shamylan, Apatow, Speilberg, Abrams? Then I woke up. Apologize for kicking me off Hell's Kitchen. Labels: Choose Your Own Adventure (the Gordon Ramsay Edition).
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Irish Salsa: March 2010
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Once You Go Black. I have a feeling there's nothing in the world that's at once as disgusting and fulfilling as using biore strips. I suppose that's why someone thought this. Was a good idea:. I think one of the most humbling things in life is picking up your dog's feces. Even with a bag between you and it. You still feel texture, shape, weight, and warmth. All while you're bent over with your face in it. Oh, the things we do for love.
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Irish Salsa: Unknown
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Remember when we used to play Hide and Seek? Inherent in the game is an element of the Unknown. Someone hides and we eventually take off after them, having added some mystery with our counting to 100 by tens. We have to hunt in order to discover. Half the fun is in the quest to find each other. In. John Green writes about “the Great Perhaps,”—a reference to what. Because who decided the Unknown. To be an evil place, even if it is dark?
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Irish Salsa: May 2011
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The One-Stop Tonic for Shortened Attention Spans and Bouts of Boredom. Vehicular Little Man Slaughter. A dwarf. A little person. Whatever the proper noun is these days, I almost back over a human being whom I did not see in my rearview mirror because he wasn't tall enough. I almost commit vehicular little man-slaughter. I'm sorry, I didn't see you. There" Is there a more. Humiliating way to address his near-death experience? I suppose nearly running over a man lends itself to introspection and gratitude&...