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Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer

I don’t know what this kid’s parents did or are doing… but they are %&#$ing doing it right.

Scorsese on the Daily Show, re: Hugo.

Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative

If they didn’t look so different, you’d never believe they weren’t from the same litter. >_>

Taken with instagram

:) (Taken with instagram)

5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think →

In this experiment involving electrocuting subjects (presumably conducted by Dr. Peter Venkman) scientists found people were willing to pay up to 20 dollars to avoid a 99 percent chance of a painful electric shock. Seems reasonable enough. But the same subjects would also be willing to pay up to seven dollars to avoid a tiny 1 percent chance of the same shock. It turned out that the subjects had only the vaguest concept of what 99 percent or 1 percent even means. All they could think about was the shock.

Kitty yin yang. (Taken with instagram)

Happy Thanksgiving. (no, this pic has nothing innately Thanksgivingy about it.) (Taken with instagram)

Gambit’s grown powerful enough to jump up the height of my desk, and demonstrated this morning… in that matter-of-fact, effortless, feline way. Like he’d been doing it all his life.

Okay, I haven’t written about the Sing-off in a while, but I’ve been watching faithfully. I think I deserve a little kudos for feeling Pentatonix was good from their first performance and now they’re in the final three. Then again, I guess my dislike for Urban Method should cancel that out. XP

I’m unhappy with the elimination of Vocal Point, which came far too early and didn’t make sense in context, etc. Admittedly they’re a little ‘faceless’, whereas Dartmouth has their disgustingly awesome lead vocalist.

Afro-Blue not making the final cut… in the end, I’m not really surprised or as disappointed by this as I would’ve been earlier in the season. I think me and Shawn are of one mind here, that their “American Boy” performance was just out of this world and spoke so much of their potential and versatility. (And it’s still my favorite performance of the season and just felt like it was leagues and leagues above the level of everyone/thing else.) But most of their other performances have been relatively forgettable, frustratingly enough.

(I have to admit, though, that I really thought the judges might pull another “oh we don’t want to decide” like they did last season. XP )

Thought the judges’ picks were really excellent, with the judges picking songs that would complement a group’s strengths, rather than challenge them (which is what they used to do). Really, really loved Pentatonix’s “Dog Days Are Over”, a song I already like a great deal… turned into something really amazing in their hands. I even liked Urban Method’s performance (and I don’t LIKE them) … although I admit that most of the reasoning for that is for their innovative microphone trick which seemed more like a page out of Pentatonix’s book. >_>

Anyway. I’m not sure if I’ve ever voted before, but I sent 10 votes Pentatonix’s way. Not because I want them to win, specifically, but because I’d be really unhappy to see either of the other two groups win, especially with Vocal Point and Afro-Blue not being options. XP Here’s hoping.