This slideshow from The New York Times Styles section showcases how some college students have combined furniture cast-offs with creative thinking to create functional, sometimes beautiful, dwellings. I found it inspiring and quite close to home.
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Someone should’ve packed a snack
This has to be one of the best news leads ever:
“Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.”
Doing what you love
From Paul Graham’s “How to Do What You Love,” one of the most inspiring things I read last week:
Hop that gravy train
Cade’s mom sent me this column a few years ago. It inspired me then and it inspires me now. Excerpt below:
Michelle Obama’s booty
Speaking of Michelle Obama, this Salon.com article also rallies on her side. I second all of it.
We’ll miss you, George
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.”
Oldies but Woody’s
Another gem from The New Yorker. This story by Woody Allen is called “Above The Law, Below The Box Springs”:
Not in my lifetime will I watch Lifetime
Each morning, I read select articles from back issues of The New Yorker that one of my neighbors left behind in the hallway.
