You can tell how well off someone is by their answer to this question: “where does your clothes go when you’re not wearing it?”
The Super Rich: “I have no idea. My butler takes care of that.”
The Rich: “In the gold-plated oak wardrobe, of course.”
The Middle-Class: “In the dresser/bureau.”
The Poor: “In the Ritz crackers crate.”
The Super-Poor: …
Happiness is not static. And it is not related to where you are in life, what you have, or who you know. You can call that something else. ‘Success’ maybe.
Happiness is directional, and trends. People tend to be happier when they perceive things to be going in the right direction in their life, and unhappy …
I’ve never done a top 10 list of songs for a whole decade, but here’s the first one. I look forward to doing another in 10 years’ time, and to seeing how these tunes hold up. They are picked from the top-3 singles for each year since 2000.
10. The Ting Tings -That’s Not My Name …
Here they are! Songs of the year:
5. K’Naan - I Come Prepared
4. Tegan & Sara - Hell
3. Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Relator
2. Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked
1. Metric - Help I’m Alive
December 13, 2009 – 1:03 am
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Last.fm keeps track of my most-listened-to artists, but when a musician plays or sings with multiple acts, that data isn’t tracked. Here is what I put together based on my last.fm data:
Top 15 Musicians (since March 2006) including number of plays
Tegan & Sara - 1180
Corin Tucker (Sleater Kinney, Cadallaca) - 1012
Pete Yorn (Scarlett Johansson) - …
Last time around I wrote about my newest hobby - learning Russian. Russian is a phonetic language, well structured, and in spite of the unusual Cyrillic alphabet, it feels more like a designed language than English, the latter of which is much like a linguistic stew with dumplings. In spite of these things, oddities do …