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Jul
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John Coltrane Interview (1960) (via retrofuturistic)

“There are some set things that I know, some devices that I know, harmonic devices that I know that will take me out of the ordinary path, you see, if I use them. But I haven’t played them enough and I am not familiar with them enough yet to take the one single line through them, so I play all of them you know trying to acclimate my ears so I can hear.”

Jul
19th
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“It’s annoying when people complain about the money,” the Vermont-based counselor, Michele Hernandez, said. “I’m at the top of my field. Do people economize when they have a brain tumor and are looking for a neurosurgeon? If you want to go with someone cheaper, or chance it, don’t hire me.”

Dr. Hernandez, a former Dartmouth admissions officer, says she counsels as many as 25 students in each high school grade each year. She also offers four-day “boot camps” every August in a Boston hotel, charging 40 incoming high school seniors as much as $14,000 each.

— part two! Before College, Costly Advice Just on Getting In - NYTimes.com
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Katie is also ready for any college interview with this fabulous nautical chambrary maribel dress with off-white tipping.
— Free Fashion Advice for College Interviews, From a $15,000 Consultant - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com
Jun
18th
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Julia Sheehan, my wife, argued against it, “Hitler is not a spice. When you put Hitler in the soup. It becomes Hitler-soup.
— More Bamboozling - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
Jun
12th
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I was appalled while in Bologna to see so many Ivy Leaguers treating their year abroad like nothing but an extended party, day and night. One Brown student told me he had not attended a class in a month.
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The Knox Trial, Continued - Timothy Egan Blog - NYTimes.com

really mr. egan, is this such a surprise?

Jun
6th
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Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer (via GoogleDevelopers)

@16:30: if you can just make that mental shift and say “it’s alight, if i’m gonna fail and it’s not a big deal, no fear, that’s fine.” you move on, you learn.

Jun
5th
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It’s just that we prefer to remember the past as human triumph rather than human failure.
— Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 7) - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
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But doesn’t everybody see himself as the hero of his own biography? Don’t we all live in a self-contrived narrative bubble, where we describe ourselves to our best advantage?
— Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 7) - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
Jun
4th
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We live with a glut of information. More information than ever before. And yet, we see so very little. The same human mechanisms that operated thousands of years ago still operate today. If we don’t wish to know something, if we prefer to believe something that’s false is true, there is little that prevents us from doing so. Invariably, we prefer fantasy to the truth.
— Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 5) - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
Jun
2nd
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My wife, Julia Sheehan, a textile historian, points out, “Clothing can seem timeless and classic when you buy it, but then ten years later you look at it, and it seems of a period.” Things that are “timeless and classic,” never are. We and the objects that we produce are hapless prisoners of time.
— Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 3) - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com