February 2012
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what a fantastic word
Mudita (Pāli and Sanskrit: मुदित) in Buddhism is joy. It is especially sympathetic or vicarious joy, the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being rather than begrudging it.[1] The traditional paradigmatic example of this mind-state is the attitude of a parent observing a growing child’s accomplishments and successes, but it is not to be confounded with proudness as the...
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BEWARE of MAGIC: The Gathering →
Pastor David L. Brown, PhD explains why MTG will eat up your soul and poop it straight into hell!
An important read.
I’m gonna go and engage in one of my favourite pastimes:
assembling flat-pack furniture
I love assembling flat-pack furniture
I’m dead serious!
When I was 10 my parents knew that if they wanted to get the best birthday gift the gift to get me was
Z-KNIGHTS
they were actually the best they had like a billion moving parts that you had to clip off from sprues and manually assemble...
viewfromthetardis asked: Hi, I don't mean to sound stupid and uninformed, but....what exactly is Horse_ebooks? I don't understand it. Would you possibly let me in on the joke? Sorry to bother you.
frezned: Oh man someone reblogged my growing up... →
lulusmoogle:
frezned:
Oh man someone reblogged my growing up thing, deleted all of the commentary, and added “why can’t I be a kid again?!”
That is… unbelievably rude? Like, not only are you basically declaring “I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU SAID” to me (as I get a notification), you’ve also now got “reblogged from frezned”…
What if you reblog and delete all comments and not say anything?
Still...
A service like Kickstarter BUT
bradofarrell:
you can pay to ensure things do not get funded
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Oh man someone reblogged my growing up thing, deleted all of the commentary, and added “why can’t I be a kid again?!”
That is… unbelievably rude? Like, not only are you basically declaring “I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU SAID” to me (as I get a notification), you’ve also now got “reblogged from frezned” under an image that I obviously disagree with...
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don't be
northernglow asked: have you seen the tv-series black mirror?
Anonymous asked: Hey, Tom. If you don't mind me asking, what do you use python for? I'm a huge python guy and I'm really interested in using it for web development. I also heard pygame is a good way of getting started in GameDev. Any feedback would be great, Thanks.
Anonymous asked: Hey Tom, We're moving to Australia soon, do you have any house-buying tips, or anything? :)
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leonrw asked: well half of them. I can see this whole labor mess just doing a lot of good for the Greens, for people even more sick of the ALP but anti-abbot. also, yes, Adam Bandt is the greatest.
Anonymous asked: If there are aliens out there, would you want us to find them/them to find us? I personally can't imagine any kind of encounter going overly well. (I'm just following the theme, it appears)