Hello, I am Ryan. This is where i describe happenings in my life. I worry i will someday forget thoughts I have, so this will keep them accessible. For any questions or comments send me an e-mial at ryanchedger@gmail.com. I enjoy comments and questions.
November 20, 2009
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Tom Waits Interview.
This is a great interview. Here are a few of my favourite bits :
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Q: Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?
A: A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it’s at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but one of the experts was willing to give it a try. Of course, where in the world would you find twenty million ping-pong balls but in Tokyo? It turned out to be the perfect solution. The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface, the engineer was elated. Moral solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds.
Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.
Q: Tom, you love words and their origins. For $2,000…what is the origin of the word bedlam?
A: It’s a contraction of the word Bethlehem. It comes from the hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem outside London. The hospital began admitting mental patients in the late fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century it became a lunatic asylum. The word bedlam came to be used for any madhouse- and by extension, for any scene of noisy confusion.
Q: What is a gentleman?A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
Brilliant.
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happy Baby Elk Frolics in Pond. I wish I had a sweet puddle to play with.
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Dancing Elf Flash Mob Invades NYC
Probably my favorite flash mob thus far. Elves, Bollywood, Beyonce, and a Segway.
November 16, 2009
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(via palahniukandchocolate)
I will print this out and paste it to the back of my front door.
November 11, 2009
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This would solve everything!
November 9, 2009
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apdoran:think4yourself:notentirely:dustindeckard:fuckyeahlgbt:fuckyeahbisexuals:inothernews:Tony Auth
this made me smile because i want to believe it’s true
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Ryan body slammed me and nearly broke my neck.
Domestic violence affects one in every four women.
Domestic Violence hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE
haha
Tonight? Round two. You’re asking for it.
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(via godiminbadshaperightnow)
I get accused of being a hipster A LOT. Hopefully this chart (and the fact that I don’t wear a fedora) can set the record straight. HA
Epic chart reblog.
November 6, 2009
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Beautiful Perspective of the Day: Infographic on drug-related deaths vs. proportion of users vs. media coverage in the UK, prepared by David McCandless of Information Is Beautiful for a Guardian blog article on the subject.
Note on cannabis-related deaths:
The cannabis deaths figure is a bit dubious in my opinion. Firstly, how can you die from cannabis? It’s extremely non-toxic. There has never been a single documented case of fatal cannabis overdose. Also, the government’s own figures don’t tally. While drug figures from the Office Of National Statistics register 19 cannabis related deaths, the mortality stats from the same office log only 1 death.
You can view the raw data used to compile this inforgraphic here.[via.]](http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksp5nyT2qQ1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Beautiful Perspective of the Day: Infographic on drug-related deaths vs. proportion of users vs. media coverage in the UK, prepared by David McCandless of Information Is Beautiful for a Guardian blog article on the subject.
Note on cannabis-related deaths:
The cannabis deaths figure is a bit dubious in my opinion. Firstly, how can you die from cannabis? It’s extremely non-toxic. There has never been a single documented case of fatal cannabis overdose. Also, the government’s own figures don’t tally. While drug figures from the Office Of National Statistics register 19 cannabis related deaths, the mortality stats from the same office log only 1 death.
You can view the raw data used to compile this inforgraphic here.[via.]
