Saw Dave from Dave’s Killer bread at Safeway’s Corporate Headquarters today. Great guy…
T-Rex Hates Push-Ups
Oldest Fears
If your dreams don’t scare you, they probably aren’t big enough.
Arguments
Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
I don’t know how I stumbled on this poem but I loved it. Not necessarily because it relates to me, it doesn’t. Not at all. I think I can’t stop reading and listening to it because I love honesty. I love brutal, real, raw honesty. For that reason this poem is simply amazing to me.
“There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too tough for him. I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there.
There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too tough for him. I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? You want to screw up the works? You want to blow my book sales in Europe?
There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too clever. I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody’s asleep. I say, I know that you’re there, so don’t be sad. Then I put him back, but he’s singing a little in there. I haven’t quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it’s nice enough to make a man weep.
But I don’t weep. Do you?”
– Charles Bukowski
Born to Learn
Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn!
Moonrise Kingdom
Interesting Facts
1. The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. The Wright brother’s invented the airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word “set” has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world’s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
Source: http://www.citehr.com/
SJ Children’s Discovery Museum
2012 Resolutions
About this time each year like everyone else I start getting goal oriented and love to reflect on where I am in life. I like to think about where I’ve been, and where I hope to go.
Past resolutions:
I’ve even written a few letters to some of my more challenging years (very therapeutic, by the way):
We should also revisit my 2011 resolutions to see how I did.
2011 Resolutions:
- Resolution #1: Be happy. How do I measure being happy to know if I achieved it? I won’t, I’ll just be happy.
- Yeah, I killed this one, knocked it out of the park, owned it.
- Resolution #2: Have a healthier balance of giving and sharing of information. Read more, get information if it isn’t given. OK I won’t, I love sharing, but it is worth a try.
- Shared more than ever and didn’t take too much time to really improve myself, so I think I failed on this one.
- Continue my 2010 and 2009 resolutions but let’s get specific and more reasonable
- Resolution #3: 50 consecutive push-ups
- Result: Fail, when Jeremy + happy = weak Jeremy. Jeremy + sad or upset = farmer strength Jeremy.
- Resolution#4: Run at least a mile once a week
- Result: Run? What is that? FAIL, epic, epic fail.
- Resolution #5: Create one new website
- Result: Yeah, I did well on this one, actually created several, but nothing I’m too proud of or anything that is getting much traction yet.
- Resolution #6: Add more self created videos on jeremyperson.com, I’m really enjoying doing that
- Result: Fail, don’t think I did any this year.
- Resolution #7: Make my bed at least twice a week
- Result: Fail, hate making the bed. Never do, sue me.
- Resolution #8: Do the dishes 4 times a week
- Result: Yeah, I think so.
- Resolution #9: Work on one book
- Result: No, didn’t really get to this one.
- Resolution #10: Christina and Jeremy date nights (like actually taking my Christina out) at least every other week
- Result: No but this did come up in conversation last night. I recognize we need to “hit the town” more often.
- Resolution #11: Mr. Tyler man, don’t think I forgot about you. This year we are going to work on some computer skills, language, and continue your (OK my) love of baseball. Oh, and we are going to play, play, play.
- Result: Lots and lots of playing with T-Bone, T-Dog, Tyler…
- Resolution #3: 50 consecutive push-ups
And drum roll please…
My 2012 resolutions are…
Let’s start with the “fuzzy resolution” stuff…the stuff you really can’t measure very well:
- Resolution #1: Share less, do more.
- I find I spend so much time-sharing things with others that I’m actually not as productive as I could be. Same problem as years past but I’m slowly learning to cut back on giving and in 2012 I’m going to get all knowledge greedy on you all. OK, I’m always a big talker, but we’ll see how I do.
- Resolution #2: Music
- I’ve been using Spotify for about 6 months now, and I absolutely love it. Ironically I’m listening to Pandora because I need some new recommendations for my Spotify playlists. Listen to more music, I absolutely love music.
- Resolution #3: Open source
- Keep my thoughts and actions open.
- Resolution #4: PHP
- Keep up on learning all I can, and doing all I can with PHP.
Alright, and now for the stuff that we can measure:
- Resolution #5: Read a book a month
- Books. I have a large queue, but I’m not taking the team to read them.
- Resolution #6: Drink more water
- Drink more of that H20 stuff. You know the stuff were 60% made of. It is probably a good sign I’m drinking water as I write this.
- Resolution #7: Write a book
- I’ve had a few book ideas, and I’ve even started on them, but I’d love to get one completely drafted.
- Resolution #8: Push-ups
- I’m happy, really happy. As previously mentioned, being happy isn’t the best for my physical health.
- Quarter 1 of 2012: 15 consecutive push-ups
- Quarter 2 of 2012: 30 consecutive push-ups
- Quarter 3 of 2012: 45 consecutive push-ups
- Quarter 4 of 2012: 60 consecutive push-ups
- I’m happy, really happy. As previously mentioned, being happy isn’t the best for my physical health.
- Resolution #9: Schedule a quarterly update on how I’m doing with the above resolutions.
Keep on keeping on…and…remember this is going to happen to us throughout 2012…
BUT…
Happy 2012 everyone! Let’s rock this year…