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Everyone Is Going Through Something
This is written by Kevin Love, NBA player of the Cleveland Cavaliers. He talks about his recent panic attack and how that led to discovering more about himself and his mental health. I think there is a great message in this post. And the headline is just perfect. Stop clicking on other bloggers’ clickbait headlines please, fight Dangerous Bullshit!
I want to make it clear that I don’t have things figured out about all of this. I’m just starting to do the hard work of getting to know myself. For 29 years, I avoided that. Now, I’m trying to be truthful with myself. I’m trying to be good to the people in my life. I’m trying to face the uncomfortable stuff in life while also enjoying, and being grateful for, the good stuff. I’m trying to embrace it all, the good, bad and ugly
Everyone is going through something that we can’t see.
Mental health isn’t just an athlete thing. What you do for a living doesn’t have to define who you are. This is an everyone thing. No matter what our circumstances, we’re all carrying around things that hurt — and they can hurt us if we keep them buried inside. Not talking about our inner lives robs us of really getting to know ourselves and robs us of the chance to reach out to others in need. So if you’re reading this and you’re having a hard time, no matter how big or small it seems to you, I want to remind you that you’re not weird or different for sharing what you’re going through.
Just the opposite. It could be the most important thing you do. It was for me.
Well, I was not a Kevin Love fan. But I have now gained respect for the guy.
The Billionaire Philanthropist
This is a deeper look into Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. And not a very flattering one. I do not agree with many points the author makes but that has never stopped me from reading anything before and not about to start now! I remember also being wrong on this company when it first started posting its huge losses but I was proved wrong I guess. Having son interview for an internship with this company also contributed to my take on Amazon too. For the record, my son was rejected and he told me “this company is weird, it was just a phucked up unorganized process”. But I do like the company’s focus on the long term, we can use a lot of that in everything, including politics! We’ll see how this guy develops…
This generalized sense of crisis, it seems, has yet to provoke the political consciousness of the ultra-rich. Instead, Bezos and company offer only fantasies of space travel, along with rote tales of the greed and ruthlessness that follow their achievements.
12 Otherworldly Landscapes From the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
These are all great, it is a must click!
Cryptocurrencies with John Oliver
This is an EPIC takedown of all things crypto by the comedian John Oliver. It is not only entertaining but educational as well. If you want to laugh and learn click it. Much better than a “shocking” video of some passenger aboard a plane who did something, smh. Then again this blog does not make money from pageviews from moron masses, sad!
A History of the World in 100 objects
This is an awesome history lesson, brought to you by the British Museum. Enjoy!
A 100 part series by Neil MacGregor, made during his time as Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present.
And I leave you with this…
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Sunday treat!
I am trying to avoid treats…Watching my eating because I let it go a little bit. I need to get back into my sexy physique for my (imaginary) blog groupies 🙂
Slow news day. Almost got a bottle of Krug for 12k something skydracmas, but 830 is a touch early.
If I had a dollar for every time I read about someone in the (now vanishing, sad!) hobby mention Krug. And flat bed. And upgrade. And compensation. And…you know, I could go on and on lol.
Bronze! Good stuff here today!
My intern is keeping track of the medals
#notreally
I hope Facebook will be crushed by regulatory networks around the world (will first happen in the EU) “50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach”. These companies aren’t blessing the world. It’s never been easier to sustain a totalitarian regime. The Chinese love this stuff. Tencent will be bigger than Facebook.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
I think I read some guru say something like…
Years for now we will look back and scream out loud what the hell were we all thinking not to regulate the FANGs!
I have now slept through both UMBC upset of #1 seed and U of Michigan’s buzzer beater, sad!
Looks like the phucking moron is off his meds again early Sunday morning. What an embarrassment this mental case is, wow!
In other news, Michigan State is up at 2.40 pm EST today.
State of blogs is just full of shit:
View From The Wing – VIDEO: Flight Attendant Scolds Couple Caught Having Sex in the Lavatory
Waiting to see which ass kisser links to it…
I need to detox away from this shit…
Trying to stay above the shit so I don’t drown in it…while conversions escape me. Maybe, just maybe, there is a correlation.
I guarantee you Ingy will come out of his basement after tomorrow’s blog post!
“I do not agree with many points the author makes but that has never stopped me from reading anything before and not about to start now!”
Very well said, Buzz.
Thank you Anonymous 🙂
Here’s my trip report.
I spent 3 days for work in Riyadh (blah). I spent 1 day for work and 3ish days for leisure in Iraqi Kurdistan.
I hope there comes a time when the world isn’t as f’ed up as it is now. I’d love to rave about KRG areas to friends but none of them would ever go there with the way the world is now. Though some of them will ask about the EY Apartment (thanks work!) when they should be more interested in Erbil (IMHO).
On a side note, the redirect malware on FlyerTalk on mobile devices is out of hand. I won’t even go to the site to see if it’s fixed.
EY as in that Big Four? 😉
Would love to see Erbil.
Oh yeah, I have not accessed FT on my phone in years…Sometimes I wonder WTF they are doing over there. I visit less and less. I mainly go there to pick on Ingy in his own board to make him feel important 🙂
The MSU game against Syracuse was just…painful. WTF!
Erbil is a nice city… was there for work a few years back and lucky enough to get into the old city and see the UNESCO site before the whole ISIS scare. Is EBL open again? Work colleagues we bemoaning having to fly through Baghdad to get up north.
EBL is semi-open. They announced the day I got there they were reopening for international flights. I think the first flights aren’t scheduled until next week. I had to go through BGW. It was my first experience there and I’d be bemoaning having to fly through there with any regularity too. Pretty much any other Middle Eastern airport would be better. Amman, Doha, Dubai, even…. dare I say it…. Cairo.
George, come on, I’m no accountant, I’m an oil man….
That was my second choice lol.
Very interesting interview at 60 Minutes with the 32 year old dude now running things in Saudi Arabia, you should watch it.
I’ve got it DVRed, trust me. I assume we’ll all be talking about it at work tomorrow.
The big boys are “blogging” about it asap, go for it TBB readers:
http://milenomics.com/2018/03/bountiful-lufthansa-business-class-award-space-europe-summer-jfk-bos-ord-iad/