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disclaimed: if you know where I work, you also know that this doesn’t represent them. it represents me. and that may or may not say much at all.</description><title>san francisco in los angeles.</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @diannedeguzman)</generator><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>nickdouglas:



Best. Costume.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcuojtj04B1qi8e9vo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://toomuchnick.com/post/34944287024" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;nickdouglas&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcxwfbJPbc1qz4vji.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Best. Costume.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/34959765645</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/34959765645</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:37:30 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>thedailywhat:

Breaking Bad/Simpsons Mashup of the Day: Walter...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc9gbgBKL1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedailywhat.tumblr.com/post/32831092688/breaking-bad-simpsons-mashup-of-the-day-walter" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;thedailywhat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Breaking Bad/Simpsons Mashup of the Day:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://akadoom.deviantart.com/gallery/" target="_blank"&gt;Walter White + Ned Flanders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; = Glorious.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;a href="http://akadoom.deviantart.com/gallery/" target="_blank"&gt;akadoom&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/32861510665</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/32861510665</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:28:38 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>paulscheer:

OCT 11th Season 4 Starts
theleaguefx:

You know...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maz4amqzWt1qbql2io1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://paulscheer.tumblr.com/post/32359175314/oct-11th-season-4-starts-theleaguefx-you-know" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;paulscheer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;OCT 11th Season 4 Starts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theleaguefx.tumblr.com/post/32345401599/you-know-whats-awesome-about-leaking-our-season-4" target="_blank"&gt;theleaguefx&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You know what’s awesome about leaking our Season 4 poster before the network’s shown it to anyone? Everything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/32510385133</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/32510385133</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:39:31 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>12 tough truths that help you grow</title><description>&lt;a href="http://justinnieful.tumblr.com/post/28258863488/12-tough-truths-that-help-you-grow"&gt;12 tough truths that help you grow&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://instantvintage.tumblr.com/post/29538596981/12-tough-truths-that-help-you-grow" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;instantvintage&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Everything is as it should be. You always end up where you’re meant to be - even the most tragic and stressful situations eventually teach you important lessons you never dreamed you were going to learn. Remember, oftentimes when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Not until you are lost in this world can you begin to find your true self. Realizing you are lost is the first step to living the life you want. The second step is leaving the life you don’t want. Vision without action is a daydream, and action without vision is a nightmare. Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It’s usually the deepest pain which empowers you to grow to your full potential. Without pain, there would be no change. But remember that pain, just like everything else in life, is meant to be learned from and then released.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One of the hardest decisions you will ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or take another step forward. If you catch yourself in a cycle of trying to change someone, or defending yourself against someone who is trying to change you, walk away. But if you are pursuing a dream, take another step. It’s okay if the plan changes, or if you even have to create a new one.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You have to take care of yourself first. Before befriending others, you have to be your own friend. Before correcting others, you have to correct yourself. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It’s not called selfishness, it’s called personal development. Once you balance yourself, you can balance the world around you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval outside yourself, can you own yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You may need to be single for a while before you realize that the issues that came up in the relationship were half your fault as well. For how can you stand confidently alone, or see the same issues arising in your newest relationship, and not realize which broken pieces belong to you? &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The only thing you can absolutely control is how you react to things out of your control. The more you can adapt to the situations in life, the more powerful your highs will be, and the more quickly you’ll be able to bounce back from the lows in your life.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Some people will lie to you. Remember, an honest enemy is better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth, which will help you measure the true quality of your relationship in the long-term.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough. If you are thankful for what you do have, you will end up having even more. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul. Abundance is not about how much you have, it’s how you feel about what you have. When you take things for granted, your happiness gets taken away.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yes, you have failed in the past. But don’t judge yourself by your past, you don’t live there anymore. Just because you’re not where you want to be today doesn’t mean you won’t be there someday. You can turn it all around in the blink of an eye by making a simple choice to stand back up - to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Everything is going to be alright; maybe not today, but eventually. There will be times when it seems like everything that could possible go wrong is going wrong. And you might feel like you will be stuck in this rut forever, but you won’t. Sometimes it’s just a matter of us staying as positive as possible in order to make it to see the sunshine break through the clouds again.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://wethinkwedream.tumblr.com/post/28137628467/12-tough-truths-that-help-you-grow" target="_blank"&gt;wethinkwedream&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/29539316910</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/29539316910</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:58:11 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>sparklesandpretending:

maybeacontra
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40041udUo1qaa1gso1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sparklesandpretending.tumblr.com/post/23562887193/maybeacontra" target="_blank"&gt;sparklesandpretending&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://maybeacontra.tumblr.com/post/23025919038/literally-the-best-thing-ever-thanks-izel" target="_blank"&gt;maybeacontra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/24064447746</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/24064447746</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 08:08:03 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>
Some dudes with a camera asked Bill Murray for an autograph,...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20089652" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some dudes with a camera asked Bill Murray for an autograph, and instead of giving them one he offered to shoot a Wes Anderson-style slow motion walk with them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/23837882430</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/23837882430</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 19:53:40 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Foo Fighters drummer — other than Taylor.</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OHYSZ70nu7w?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Best Foo Fighters drummer — other than Taylor.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/22992238465</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/22992238465</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 13:36:06 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>certifiedfresh:

THE GRAND ROYAL MIXTAPE • Mick Boogie Presents...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3iyxcA45Z1qzu84ro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://certifiedfresh.tumblr.com/post/22423513999/mick-boogie-presents-beastie-boys-the-grand-royal-mixtap" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;certifiedfresh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://mickboogie.com/2012/04/beastie-boys-grand-royal/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;THE GRAND ROYAL MIXTAPE&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;• &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mick Boogie Presents BEASTIE BOYS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In honor of the Beastie Boys being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week… I thought it’s finally the right time to do a Beasties mixtape. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time… something people have asked me to do for a long time, actually… but I wanted it to mean something. Now, it’s finally the right time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I present to you &lt;em&gt;Grand Royal.&lt;/em&gt; 80 minutes of my favorite Beastie Boys rarities, remixes, demos, live versions, out-takes, and more. If you’re a Beasties fan, I guarantee you find something new and exciting on this mix!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Download it &lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4554iooj1zndqd1" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dn0i27oikf13e72" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href="http://mickboogie.com/grandroyal/GrandRoyal.zip" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Being that this mix is so important to me, I wanted to make it extra special. Something beyond just an audio experience. I called my friend &lt;a href="http://www.jonathanmannion.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Jonathan Mannion&lt;/a&gt;, the legendary photographer (8 Jay-Z albums, 3 Eminem albums, Lil Wayne, Nas, Aaliyah, the list goes on and on), and we decided to re-shoot the iconic cover from the Beastie’s 1989 classic &lt;em&gt;Paul’s Boutique&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In fact, the mix download is filled with all sorts of extra photos and bonus content provided by Jonathan Mannion (aka Jonathan Hörnblowér) and his design partner, &lt;a href="http://www.goodthingyourehere.com/" target="_blank"&gt;GoodThingYoureHere.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also collaborated with my friends at Homage to do a limited-edition tee for the release… with portions of the proceeds going to Adam Yauch’s favorite cancer charities. Support the tee &lt;a href="http://www.homage.com/store/tees-tops/t-shirts/history/guaranteed-every-time" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRACKLIST:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;01. Beastie Boys – Mick Boogie &amp; nVMe Intro (0:56)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;02. Beastie Boys – The Skills To Pay The Bills (Original Version) (2:20)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;03. Beastie Boys – The Vibes (2:52)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;04. Beastie Boys – Time To Get Ill (Live Remix Version) (1:55)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;05. Beastie Boys – Sure Shot (Nardone/Large Professor Remixes) (2:37)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;06. Beastie Boys – Jimmy James (Original Version) (2:10)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;07. Beastie Boys – Four Fly Guys (Feat. Hurricane) (3:14)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;08. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic (Original 94 Version) (1:39)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;09. Beastie Boys – Root Down (Free Zone Mix) (3:02)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;10. Beastie Boys – Get It Together (Buck-Wild Remix) (3:44)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;11. Beastie Boys – In A World Gone Mad (Original Mix) (2:55)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;12. Beastie Boys – Negotiation Limerick File (Handsome Boy Modeling &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4"&gt;School&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; Mix) (2:41)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;13. Beastie Boys – Alive (2:47)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;14. Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies (Paul Nice Remix) (3:18)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;15. Beastie Boys – Dope Little Song (1:46)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;16. Beastie Boys – Shake Your Rump (Madlib Remix) (2:11)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;17. Beastie Boys – Stand Together (Live At French’s Tavern, Sydney, Australia) (2:18)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;18. Beastie Boys – The Maestro (Live Version) (3:07)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;19. Beastie Boys – The Sounds Of Science (1:32)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;20. Beastie Boys – Gratitude (Live @ Budokan) (3:13)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;21. Beastie Boys – Pass The Mic Part 2 (3:48)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;22. Beastie Boys – Stop That Train (3-Way Mix) (2:08)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;23. Beastie Boys – Spam (Feat. Milk Dee) (3:22)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;24. Beastie Boys – So What ‘Cha Want (Butt Naked / Soul Assassin Remixes) (3:45)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;25. Beastie Boys – Sabotage (Live Version) (2:48)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;26. Beastie Boys – Beastie Revolution (3:31)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;27. Beastie Boys – Honky Rink (Previously Unreleased) (2:00)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;28. Beastie Boys – Benny And The Jets (Live Feat. Biz Markie) (3:57)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;29. Beastie Boys – Netty’s Girl (3:18)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mickboogie.com/grandroyal/GrandRoyal.zip" target="_blank"&gt;DOWNLOAD HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblklaat.tumblr.com/post/22415398126/mick-boogie-presents-beastie-boys-the-grand-royal-mixtap" target="_blank"&gt;tumblklaat&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/22447338662</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/22447338662</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 07:54:10 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Ahhhhhhh!!!!!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Ahhhhhhh!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/21964108351</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/21964108351</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:15:22 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>makedubnotwar:


Recent headline of the San Francisco Chronicle....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz1ebjQBaC1qjem5ro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://makedubnotwar.tumblr.com/post/17218338939/recent-headline-of-the-san-francisco-chronicle" target="_blank"&gt;makedubnotwar&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Recent headline of the San Francisco Chronicle. Female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spiderweb of crab traps and line weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, tail, torso and a line tugging in her mouth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours and eventually freed her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Absolutely amazing..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/17239088948</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/17239088948</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:14:49 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>davidcho:

sophomorenyc:

The real Coachella line up via...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnmrm0YPE1qbs81ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.money-cash-hos.com/post/15687920458/sophomorenyc-the-real-coachella-line-up-via" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;davidcho&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sophomorenyc.tumblr.com/post/15687566273/the-real-coachella-line-up-via-someoddrubiesny" target="_blank"&gt;sophomorenyc&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The real Coachella line up via @someoddrubiesny (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank"&gt;instagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!11&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/15708350732</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/15708350732</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:12:26 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>soupsoup:

applecocaine:

Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcq0u4wnX1qanreso6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/13485779366/applecocaine-spanish-artist-juan-francisco" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;soupsoup&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://applecocaine.tumblr.com/post/13457594125/spanish-artist-juan-francisco-casas-uses-a-single" target="_blank"&gt;applecocaine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas uses a single biro pen to sketch these amazing pieces of art.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.juanfranciscocasas.com" target="_blank"&gt;His website is here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/13486893058</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/13486893058</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:09:57 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. You go there as a..."</title><description>“Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. You go there as a snarky New Yorker thinking it’s politically correct, it’s crunchy granola, it’s vegetarian, and it surprises you every time. It’s a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it’s dirty and nasty and wonderful.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anthony Bourdain in a Q&amp;A published over the weekend in the NYT about his new show “The Layover,” calling S.F. his favorite food city in the U.S. The show premieres tonight, but the S.F. episode, which&lt;a href="http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2011/08/more_bourdain-spotting_on_polk.html" target="_blank"&gt; he shot here in August&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://sanfrancisco.neighborhoodr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;neighborhoodr-sanfrancisco&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/13229835402</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/13229835402</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:55:45 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>thedailywhat:

Note Of Note of the Day: From the Associated...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2tsyXb8c1qgoisto1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2tsyXb8c1qgoisto2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/13168333471/note-of-note-of-the-day-from-the-associated" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;thedailywhat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note Of Note of the Day:&lt;/strong&gt; From the Associated Press’ Washington-based Assistant Chief of Bureau for photos, &lt;a href="http://paid2see.tumblr.com/post/13166029288/a-protester-handed-president-barack-obama-a-note" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;J. David &lt;span&gt;Ake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A protester handed President Barack Obama a note while shaking hands along a rope line in New Hampshire today.  Photographer Charlie &lt;span&gt;Dharapak&lt;/span&gt; smartly zoomed in &lt;/span&gt;so you can read the note for yourself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Transcript follows for those who can’t:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters / have been arrested / While &lt;span&gt;banksters&lt;/span&gt; continue / to destroy the American economy (with impunity) / You must stop the assault / on our 1st ammendment rights [&lt;em&gt;sic&lt;/em&gt;]. / Your silence sends a message / that police brutality is ac(ceptable) / Banks got bailed out. / We got sold out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://paid2see.tumblr.com/post/13166029288/a-protester-handed-president-barack-obama-a-note" target="_blank"&gt;paid2see&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is important.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/13186596642</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/13186596642</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:41:50 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>cognitivedissonance:

In this photo from The New York Observer,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luu7ymHROD1qcfoo3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com/post/12955226394/in-this-photo-from-the-new-york-observer-former" target="_blank"&gt;cognitivedissonance&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this photo from &lt;em&gt;The New York Observer&lt;/em&gt;, Former Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis, sits in zip cuffs after being arrested today in conjunction with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Another photo of Lewis protesting can be found &lt;a href="http://cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com/post/12846470830/captain-ray-lewis-ret-of" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Drew Grant of &lt;em&gt;The Observer&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/" target="_blank"&gt;writes&lt;/a&gt;: “There is simply nothing more bizarre than looking at images of a man in police uniform arrested and handcuffed by people wearing lower-ranking NYPD garb.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lewis’ arrest was caputured on video:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Yw5l0F-pe78" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lewis knew his arrest was a possibility. In a rousing speech last night, Lewis criticized the NYPD and its use of force, along with New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. An &lt;a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-joins-with-occupy-wall-street-protesters-video/" target="_blank"&gt;excerpt&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured. If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation – continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that. This bullrush–what happened last night is totally uncalled for when they did not use negotiation long enough.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;“They complained about the park being dirty. Here they are worrying about dirty parks when people are starving to death, where people are freezing, where people are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting.  &lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;[The NYPD], they’re trying to get me arrested and I may disappear OK? But as soon as I’m let out of jail, I’ll be right back here and they’ll have to arrest me again. All the cops are, they’re just workers for the one percent and they don’t even realize they’re being exploited.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Capt. Lewis truly understands what it means to protect and serve the people, and for that sir, I thank you. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/12970199245</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/12970199245</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:12:10 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>nedhepburn:

Oh no. Ohhhhhh no.  


Lol^1000000</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltydhivXJP1qz7wfjo1_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nedhepburn.tumblr.com/post/12176613176/oh-no-ohhhhhh-no" target="_blank"&gt;nedhepburn&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh no. Ohhhhhh no.  &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Lol^1000000&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/12183548501</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/12183548501</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:21:16 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>slackmistress:

wellthatsadorable:

thedailywhat:

Cutest Call...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltcd80mX451qzpwi0o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slackmistress.tumblr.com/post/11685296648/penguinsweaters" target="_blank"&gt;slackmistress&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://wellthatsadorable.com/post/11683144654/penguinsweaters" target="_blank"&gt;wellthatsadorable&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/11678188189" target="_blank"&gt;thedailywhat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cutest Call To Action Ever of the Day:&lt;/strong&gt; On October 5, the container ship MV &lt;em&gt;Rena&lt;/em&gt; ran aground on Astrolabe Reef, resulting in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tauranga_oil_spill" target="_blank"&gt;an oil spill&lt;/a&gt; that is already being regarded as the worst environmental disaster in New Zealand’s history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Clean up efforts &lt;a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10760345" target="_blank"&gt;are underway&lt;/a&gt;, but the danger to local wildlife remains high. A raft of Little Blue Penguins has already been negatively impacted by the spill.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Kiwi yarn store &lt;a href="http://www.skeinz.com" target="_blank"&gt;Skeinz&lt;/a&gt; has put out a call for penguin sweaters — an adorable-sounding but &lt;a href="http://www.factmonster.com/spot/penguinsweater.html" target="_blank"&gt;very necessary accessory&lt;/a&gt; that helps keep the birds from preening their feathers and ingesting the oil.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skeinz &lt;a href="http://www.skeinz.com/Newsletters/spring2011.html" target="_blank"&gt;has posted knitting instructions&lt;/a&gt; for anyone willing to lend a hand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.skeinz.com/Newsletters/spring2011.html" target="_blank"&gt;skeinz&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.grist.org/list/2011-10-18-you-know-you-want-to-knit-a-sweater-for-a-penguin" target="_blank"&gt;grist&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EVERYONE PUT DOWN WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND GET STARTED ON THESE GODDAMN ADORABLE AND USEFUL PENGUIN SWEATERS OH MY GOD THE WORLD NEEDS IT I NEED IT WE NEEEEEEED ITTTTTT!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YES PENGUIN SWEATERS.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;If I could knit, I’d so do this.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/11736851289</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/11736851289</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:15:19 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Thinking about you.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Thinking about you.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/10484771615</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/10484771615</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:24:37 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>thedailywhat:

Reality Check of the Day: Based on recent polls,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrhl1yDfP81qzpwi0o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/10183257450" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;thedailywhat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reality Check of the Day:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/perry-surges-in-polls-testing-romneys-strategy/" target="_blank"&gt;Based on recent polls&lt;/a&gt;, Republican frontrunner Gov. Rick Perry currently holds a double-digit lead over GOP understudy Mitt Romney. Rep. Michele Bachmann, who trails them both, is in desperate need of a quick fix to boost her flagging numbers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enter: HPV.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection, &lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm" target="_blank"&gt;according to the CDC&lt;/a&gt; — is responsible for almost every new case of cervical cancer diagnosed in the US. Luckily, hard-working scientists &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine" target="_blank"&gt;have developed a vaccine&lt;/a&gt; that prevents the types of HPV most commonly associated with cervical cancer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Backstory: In February of 2007, Gov. Rick Perry approved &lt;a href="http://governor.state.tx.us/news/executive-order/3455/" target="_blank"&gt;an executive order&lt;/a&gt; that required young girls to be vaccinated against HPV before they enter the sixth grade.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The order was easy enough to opt out of — parents were given the option of signing a form objecting to the vaccination — but social conservatives saw it as controversial nonetheless. Their main argument: Vaccinating against a sexually transmitted disease would encourage sexual promiscuity. Perry offered his critics a highly rational retort: “If the medical community developed a vaccine for lung cancer, would the same critics oppose it, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020501146.html" target="_blank"&gt;claiming it would encourage smoking?&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The order was overturned by the legislature a few months later.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since then, RP65 has come up a few times when Perry was in the hot seat, but at last night’s GOP debate, Michele Bachmann put Perry in her sights and launched an all-out anti-vaccination campaign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“I’m a mom. And I’m a mom of three children,” &lt;a href="http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/12/se.06.html" target="_blank"&gt;Bachmann said&lt;/a&gt;, “And to have innocent little twelve-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat out wrong. That should never be done. It’s a violation of a liberty interest.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She then went on to claim that the HPV vaccine was a “potentially dangerous drug” and claimed Perry was merely kowtowing to the demands of drug company donors. Later, Bachmann told Fox News she had met an audience member whose daughter allegedly became “retarded” after received the vaccine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above, Perry’s executive order had an explicit opt-out for parents. More importantly, any claim that receipt of the vaccine led to mental disability is entirely anecdotal. In its &lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/hpv_faqs.html#8" target="_blank"&gt;HPV Vaccine Safety FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, the CDC lists “pain at the injection site, headache, nausea, and fever” as the most serious side effects directly linked to the vaccine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After Bachmann claimed &lt;a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/13/7743549-bachmann-continues-to-seize-on-hpv" target="_blank"&gt;on this morning’s &lt;em&gt;Today&lt;/em&gt; show&lt;/a&gt; that “mental retardation” as a result of HPV vaccination was a “very real concern,” the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a highly unusual move, felt it necessary &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/13/140445104/pediatricians-fact-check-bachmanns-bashing-of-hpv-vaccine" target="_blank"&gt;to issue a press release on the matter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“The American Academy of Pediatrics would like to correct false statements made in the Republican presidential campaign that HPV vaccine is dangerous and can cause mental retardation,” said AAP president Dr. O. Marion Burton. “There is absolutely no scientific validity to this statement.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The release goes on to stress the importance of administering the HPV vaccine “around age 11 or 12” when it is likely to produce “the best immune response in the body.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“In the U.S., about 6 million people, including teens, become infected with HPV each year,” the statement concludes, “and 4,000 women die from cervical cancer. This is a life-saving vaccine that can protect girls from cervical cancer.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To put into perspective just how far to the right Bachmann’s dangerous, conspiratorial, anti-science scaremongering is, on his show today &lt;a href="http://gop12.thehill.com/2011/09/rush-hits-bachmann-over-vaccinations.html" target="_blank"&gt;Rush Limbaugh said &lt;/a&gt;“[t]here’s no evidence that the vaccine causes mental retardation,” and lamented the fact that Bachmann “might have jumped the shark.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/09/hpv-perry-and-bachmann.html" target="_blank"&gt;newyorker&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov" target="_blank"&gt;cdc&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020501146.html" target="_blank"&gt;wapo&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/12/se.06.html" target="_blank"&gt;cnn&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/13/7743549-bachmann-continues-to-seize-on-hpv" target="_blank"&gt;msnbc&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/13/140445104/pediatricians-fact-check-bachmanns-bashing-of-hpv-vaccine" target="_blank"&gt;npr&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://gop12.thehill.com/2011/09/rush-hits-bachmann-over-vaccinations.html" target="_blank"&gt;thehill&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Whoa. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The phrase “People never cease to amaze” is an understatement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s people like this that sometimes makes the idea of living in a foreign country for a few years seem more and more appealing.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/10195551051</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/10195551051</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:33:19 -0700</pubDate><category>Reality Check</category></item><item><title>alaskamiller:

Steve Jobs.Around fall of 2006 the Marine Corps...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgtb8f6YM1qz7rt0o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://alaskamiller.tumblr.com/post/9362998271" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank"&gt;alaskamiller&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve Jobs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Around fall of 2006 the Marine Corps handed me papers to go home. Having done my time in the Carolina swamps freshly minted at 22 as a combat engineer that wasn’t sure if I could pair detonator to dynamite they told me go home after denying my first—of many—attempts to go to war. Slot’s full, they said, wait for the next cycle. Don’t worry, war will always be there they chuckled. Glad that became true.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So I took the ticket out and slunk back to whence I came up, the quiet burbs of Cupertino. Back to my old room with the bunk bed, my stoner buddies, back to my old life, drifting around. I had cachet though, I recalled. I’m a United States Marine. That meant something anywhere but where I was.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The overachievers roundly finished college and found exciting jobs being cube drones. Back then, before Y Combinator validated, before the tipping of nerd being chic, before startupping was trend du jour, before all of that society told us being desk drones was the best outcome. It didn’t even matter what you did as long as there’s a desk, a chair, internet, and a paycheck. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Despite knowing that’s not what I wanted, that was why I dropped out of college, I somehow ended up doing the same thing. Living at home, in front of a desk, sitting on a chair all day, hooked on the internet, making no money, and dreaming about war. My mum nagged me all day to get a job so I did. I went down the street and picked a drabbly death star looking office building and walked in.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;——&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Apple chose an medium-grade industrial walk-up back in 1976 in Cupertino because it was convenient. It was orange orchards everywhere back then, fertile land for planting dreams. There was a windmill that locals took their grains to for grinding down the block. It’s now a Chinese bank building.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Back then only nerds walked in and out asking for jobs. That’s just what a garage startup in Silicon Valley was like. If they were smart they got to keep coming back and help out. Apple was a small fry fighting to convince the world worked through mail and telephones that the average joe blow deserved a $666.66 computing machine on their desk. Woz had no problem designing the computer but Steve had a tough time belying he’s capable of turning his cadre of misfit super nerds into a corporation.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I didn’t know any of this as I tailgated the random guy past the security doors. I just knew Apple was finally in exciting times again. Every empty commercial space in town has been snatched up. Every empty factory now have motor pools everywhere. Badgers walked wandered to every Yelp reviewed spot within walking distance during lunch. Times are a-changing, Macs are hot, and a new generation of users won’t have to live in shame like I did, spending my school time recess on the yard arguing over which was better: PC or Macs. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The building I chose happened to house the support arm of the company. Across the street was finance and legal. Engineers and the higher ups had the reserved luxury of working in the mothership. It didn’t matter, I was okay with anything. So I asked people I saw and met about work. They looked at me like I was crazy. Then I figured out what was wrong, they were too young. I readjusted fire.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The nice lady looked trendy and amazing for the silvering she’s been up to. A framed letter thanking her for the 25 years she’s put in and signed by Steve Jobs was on her desk. She was a lifer. She smiled, perhaps reminded of the garage days, when I told her what I wanted and handed me a laptop she pulled from the Steelcase cube drawer. Fix all the HTML in these files so she can prepare them to be uploaded to a CMS. I nodded and sat in the cube of the guy on vacation.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At the end of the day I emailed her the files. She told me to come back in the morning. Then the next. Then next. I managed to cheat my way into becoming a cube drone at the soon to be most influential company in the world.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;——&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I loved exploring Apple’s campus at night with my badge. For every red horrendous beeps there was a green light openings doors somewhere. I was like a rat sniffing around every inch, I waltzed around different departments and studied cube decorations, took in the complexity of ideas and thoughts left over on whiteboards. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Some desks had red PCB motherboards strewn about, some desks had vintage Apple posters, some desks were cluttered with broken iPhones collected for support engineering testing. To a kid that grew up in Silicon Valley, to a nerd that obsess about computer, to someone that marveled at how radically technology changes lives, this was where the magic happened. And it was all just so normal work place, where people integrated systems, designed products, wrote software, and made business deals—a corporation.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;One late night while working on QA-ing help content for new iLife products I stepped out of the sterile lab I was in and took another walk. You hear the thud of the doors every now and then as late night bachelor badgers finally it quits and go back home but no one ever bothers you.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I was on the fifth floor of IL1, the atrium that you walk past the main entrance, overlooking the massive product ads when he walked by.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I’ve heard that happens. I’ve seen it happen before, during lunch once. He wore the same mock turtleneck and jeans, tapping on his iPhone, followed by three little girls eating cookies from the cafeteria. People open up the sidewalk and just let him on through, like a Mose parting the pedestrian seas.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He nodded and I nodded, unsure of what to say. Or if I should even say anything. Scuttlebutt was that the top floor of IL1 is forever Steve’s universe. He has a show room built so he can practice his presentation, have demos, and get things done. I imagine it to be much like what John Lasseter does at Pixar, endless hours of tweaking great things to greater things.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Great things, though, are done by irrepressible people. So I was shocked at the rusty and cramped words that came out of my mouth, “how, how do I get all this?”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He paused in walking away from me, turned around, and inspected. “What,” he must be wondering if it’s worth talking to me—and he sure took awhile before deciding. “You chase. Every day. And sometimes you’re lucky to do the right things.” Chasing I’ve heard of but it’s the sometimes that scared me straight.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You see I believe Steve lives in a different world from you and I. He chased his entire life to make his world controllable through good design, good products, and good technology. If I know anything about luck it’s that it’s not something that just happens, you chase it, and when you’re a great master of the universe you make it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As a business hacker Steve made his luck, he made his chips to leverage, he made deals happen like Gaza depends on it. It was a fault many thought flawed, that the obsession tarnished what he made but great things are done by irrepressible people.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Every moment a constant struggle between two mentalities in my mind, thinking that either life is controllable or not. Some days I’m overwhelmed by what little I have control of but when I’m empowered by amazing technology my life is filled with watch cat videos, find cheap eats, look up how to get lost, record every aspect of every major moment of my life, and channel otis redding soul through two Chinese handmade earbuds at any moment then I’m powerful. And still thankful, as much as I take it all for granted now. By god, you remember when you were stuck with a StarTAC for a burner? Eww.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Namaste, bro, you’re pretty rad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/9364944330</link><guid>http://diannedeguzman.tumblr.com/post/9364944330</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:50:17 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
