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Google Translate Beatboxing
From this thread on Reddit, some of the best of Google Translate Beatboxing:
Starting an engine. (probably my favorite)
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Reddit user “YouJustLostTheGame” on being labeled a “smart kid.”
When people are given a good label, they make an effort to keep it.
If you’re called smart, how do you keep the label? By not trying.
If you try your very best, and fail, then it means you weren’t smart enough, or maybe that you’re not smart anymore at all. So, you try only a little bit, so you can blame your failure on the attribute that no one seems to care about: lack of motivation. The smarter you are, the less you try, because a supergenius should be able to succeed with almost no effort, right?
Plus, the smartness is really outside of your control. You can’t do much to increase your intelligence. Feeling better than others about it would be like feeling better than others because you were born with good looks. So even if eveyone else gives you credit for being smart, if feels weird to give yourself any credit for it. Ironically, it’s precisely because you’re smart that you come to this realization early on.
Now, what if they didn’t praise you for smartness, but praised you for working hard, trying hard, being a go-getter, doing your best always, being motivated, etc.?
Work ethic is something you can control. Your self esteem is no longer tied to some fixed attribute, but to an attribute you can maintain through will. It gives you power over your label.
The only way to keep the label in this case is to actually try your best at things. In fact, it doesn’t really matter if you fail, now. If you tried your best, you can still feel proud of yourself no matter what the outcome is. The outcome mattered in the smartness case, but here the process matters.
Lastly, it’s an attribute you can genuinely give yourself credit for, because you’re the one willing yourself to try your best, so it’s not something that you just happened to have at birth.
If you had been praised for being motivated, early 20s (most of reddit) is when you become the most powerful. You’re a young adult, and you can finally get things done, and have an influence on the world. Moreover, early 20s is all about taking your life under your control. Those who were praised for being go-getters now shine bright.
But what if you were praised for being smart? When you’re in your early 20s, you’ve lost the amazing superlearning child brain that you used to have. You introspect on your mind, and feel dull. You begin to worry that your time is over, that you can no longer match the learning ability of your younger days, and that your worth has gone down. Now, more than ever, you shy away from trying very hard, to deny this reality and maintain the label.
Is it all the fault of the praisers? No, of course not. They didn’t live your life for you. However, they helped define your backwards value system that set you up for poor assessments of yourself. But, you’re old enough to redefine those values, and there’s no better time than now. After all, in the end, hard work and motivation is a far more praiseworthy thing than smartness. So stop caring if you fail and (this is the hard part) stop caring whether you remain smart in the eyes of others. In their minds, your main attribute should be that you are motivated and always trying and always going above and beyond what effort is asked of you.
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
Did anyone else see this happen on WABC-TV (Channel 7, NYC) just now?
Heh.
~News~
(via keithschofield)
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Fun with Google Scribe Autocomplete
Last night, in a bout of procrastination, I discovered Google Scribe Autocomplete, which will attempt to complete sentences for you.
So, I let it teach me—I input a few starter words, then let it do its thing (by pressing enter continuously). It was amazing what Google taught me about these topics.
Corn dogs are not allowed to alter any portion of the link code or change the layout or targeting for any reason.
The apocalypse is coming for the first time in the future and the future of the world.
A fitting sponsorship:
Flava Flav is a registered trademark of the Ford Motor Company and is not intended to be used in the present.
Feel like I saw this one coming:
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince DVDRip XviD NeDiVx ExtraTorrent.
Four score and seven years ago and I have been a number of different ways to get the best deal for this Single Family House in the Big Apple.
Christians in the world of the living room and dining room with a view.
we’re no strangers to love You more than likely be a dedicated forum there for posting such a bad thing
I shot the sheriff and the county seat of the car.
I obviously then started degrading into middle school level thinking:
I wanna lick you up and running in no time at all to the good stuff
baby do me a favor and get a free download of the latest patent information
“Personal data” reference surprisingly accurate:
Contraception Mistakes to Avoid When Moving to a new level of protection for personal data.
Ah, the repetitive beauty of spam:
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The where-now?
syphilis and gonorrhea in the United States and Canada and the United States and Canada
I like it when you are ready to be customized with your pictures and text into personalized works of art
penetrate me with a copy of the original print version of the Macromedia Flash Player
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Hey everybody, I’m doing a print giveaway of the two prints above. They’re around 13”x17” in size, printed by Wall Blank. To win, all you have to do is reblog this post and/or copy & paste this Twitter message and post it.
Win a free print from @jayschaul. Please RT. More details here: http://bit.ly/ctgIeP
If you care enough to do that, then awesome! Also if you do both you’ll have a greater chance of winning but if you do them more than once it won’t help and it’ll probably annoy your followers. Anyways this ends May 2nd, from there I’ll collect all the names from Tumblr and Twitter and draw two names. The first name drawn gets to pick which of the two prints he/she wants, then the second person wins the other one and I’ll get ‘em in the mail shortly there after. (No one person can win both prints)
Any questions/concerns?? Contact me or ask.
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Single-side seared, peppered, rare Bigeye Tuna with avocado served over mesclun greens and homemade vinagrette
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