tortoises

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by tortoises 12y ago
The author does reference the 10,000 hour rule here... > These findings filtered their way into pop culture. They were the inspiration for what Malcolm Gladwell termed the “10,000 Hour Rule” in his book Outliers, which in turn was the in
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by tortoises 12y ago
The structure of this short story / personal essay is a series of chained vignettes. They are linked together only loosely or suggestively. That is probably deliberate. The story is about searching for an antidote to boredom, and findi
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Iceland Shows the American Girl How to Repel the “Masher”(hemamisfits.files.wordpress.com)
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Amazon Responds to German Authors' Protest(publishersweekly.com)
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by tortoises 12y ago
I like to grab 100s of pieces of unattended plywood & two-by-fours from a junkyard or not-too-dilapidated forest horror cabin or something and drag them back to my house. Then I assemble them using hammer & nails, or I climb up a tr
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by tortoises 12y ago
Here's the developer's blog post on it: http://spikepadley.com/post/45594876182/hexadecimal-time
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Hexadecimal-clock(experiments.spikepadley.com)
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by tortoises 12y ago
Have the start-up write down all the attributes they want their product to have. If you were selling magnificent trained wolves, for instance, you would want the customer to think, upon seeing the wolves: "What proud, mysterious, noble
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by tortoises 12y ago
Not the OP, but I, too, love cold rainy weather. I love to snuggle up in my home with a wool blanket, a roaring fire, a mug of hot cocoa, and my lover. I love to listen to the rain-drops go pitter-patter and plunk all over the roof of my ho