• Being appreciated.
• Looking outside.
• Hot showers.
• Stocks rising
• Hitting a series of freshly-switched green lights.
• Acoustic jam sessions on warm summer nights.
• Drum circles on the beach.
• Home cooking.
• Dogs elated to see you.
• Seeing the UPS/FedEx guy pull up to your door.
• Start car and watch gas gauge needle rise past full.
• Smile from a beautiful stranger.
• Car indicator lights syncing up at traffic lights.
• Car brake lights that look like funny faces.
• Strangers making jokes to, or helping, other strangers.
• When cats come to sit on my lap.
• Seeing babies smile and laugh.
• Bike riding on a nice day.
• Cuite, friendly squirrels.
• Fresh slices of key lime pie.
• Air conditioning.
• Filet mignon.
• Thunderstorms.
• Rooftop gardens.
• Open mic night.
• The first cup of coffee in the morning.
• Eating delicious food.
• Beautiful hardcover notebooks.
• Taking pictures in photobooths.
• Finding new keyboard shortcuts.
• A well-made latte.
• Thai iced tea/coffee.
• Lightning storms and rain.
• Good wine with a delicious meal.
• Laying on a field.
• Wind chill and fog.
• Solitary train journey.
• Drop something important but quickly snatch it out of the air.
• The feeling after a good workout.
• Popping bubble wrap.
• Dipping freezing hands into warm water.
• Cuddling with warm laundry.
• good back scratchers.
• Making it to the top of a big hill.

BY FRANÇOIS VINCENT

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1. loog a his lirow nose

2. there is some shit I will not eat

3. LISN bud LISN

4. this i bad sorry to saY

5. leave her alone
she’s not your gal

6. She is Lucifierian !

7. THuNdeRB
loSSo!M iN

8. aThe):l

9. stunned. i. am. stunned. every question speaks to us

10. What is nothing?

YouTube comment: 1, 4, 6, 9, 10
e. e. cummings: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

4 minutes later:

The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:

A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes:

The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour:

He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

The questions raised:

*In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

*Do we stop to appreciate it?

*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made.

How many other things are we missing?

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Video: Media Player Classic
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Burning Program: ImgBurn
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CD burning: EAC/Feurio!/Burrrn/ImgBurn
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3D (Animation): Blender
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IRC client: Chatzilla (FF add on) or (mIRC if you don’t mind nagging)
IM Client: Pidgin or Google Talk

And God wept, I believe, was the next line.

• I’d remotely connect to her client.
• I’d forward and brute force her ports.
• I’d take it slow,  start by sniffing her packets.
• Would you maximize her bandwidth?
• I’d upgrade her to FiOS, by golly.
• I’d throttle her bandwidth.
• I’d unload my seedbox all over her.
• I would uncap her bandwidth.
• I’d allow her connection through my firewall.
• I’d upgrade my ram so she has more power to play with.
• I’d input my signal into her limiter.
• I’d steal her wifi.
• I’d overload her buffer
• I’d request a reseed.
• Im not braggin’ but she dragged her unused shortcuts into my desktop folder.
• I was checking out her registry.
• I’d activate her c2 pointers
• I could look at her GUI all day…
• I’d right-click on her shortcut… and explore.
• I’d keep it strictly textual.
• I’d rip her CD.  (In secure mode)
• She isn`t DRM free but I still bypassed her protection.
• I’d bump her thread.
• I’d fill her request and look at her snatch(es).
• I partitioned her harddrive, and now she can dual-boot windows and linux.
• I’d sniff out her back door and brute force in.
• I’d DDoS her server.
• I plan to tunnel her ports.
• I’d rub her start button.
• Id let her install her firmware on my 3.5″ floppy…
• I’d ping her IP.
• I’d check her logs.
• I’d… unzip her.
• I’d give her a trojan horse to slip in her back door…
• I’d insert my 3.5″ floppy into her disk drive
• I’d overclock THAT motherboard.
• I’d definitely call freeleech on that snatch
• I’d bounty up her request.
• I’d hit her front side bus at double data rate.
• I’d enter my password in her wrong field
• I’d defrag her hard drive.
• I’d integrate her function.
• I’d split her atom.
• I’d XSS exploit her input fields.
• I’d reticulate her splines
• I’d attach my file to her email.
• I’d refresh her inbox.
• I’d find the area under her curves.
• I’d plug in her variables.
• I’d be her tangent.
• Once I finish this snatch, I’m gonna whore out my seedbox
• I’d render her environment.
• I’d administrate her account.
• I’d add my printer to her control panel.
• I’d make a direct FTP connection with her (haha, get it? Unprotected…)
• I’d let her RAID my HARD DRIVES

• I’d shovel her driveway.
• I’d clean her gutters.
• I’d retile her bathroom.
• I’d untangle her christmas lights.

• I’d analyze her spectrals.
• I’d give her my stimulus package.
• I’d hack her Googles.
• I’d troll her forums.
• I’d mod her case.
• I’d rockbox her pod.
• I’d plug and play her.
• I’d install 8GB of Fully Buffered DIMM into her motherboard
• I’d find her molar mass and experiment with her formula

Peter Pan Peanut Butter

Pole Position

Cartoon Network Shaggy and Droopy

Orson Welles Drunk

Old Windows with Steve Ballmer

ATT You Will

Nicholas Cage Japanese Commercial

Flinstones Cigarette Commercial

Vegetarian Nightmare Chicken

Sexy Provocative Icecream

Computerman

1984 Apple Mac Commercial

Arnold Schwarzenegger Japanese Commercial

Girl’s Costume Warehouse

Wilkins Coffee 1

Wilkins Coffee 2

You bet your sweet aspercreme

Sylvester Stallone’s Ham

Magic Bullet

Head on

Banned Condom Commercials

Mom Said I could – Condoms

First Subaru Ads

Zippo Ad

Power Thirst!

Drop Bear

Banned XBOX Commercial

Nike Banned Commercial

Learn English Banned Commercial

Miller Light Twist Dance

Chia Obama TV Commercial

Bear and Salmon Fight

Early Green Giant

Don’t put it in your mouth

Black Herbal Toothpaste

Mr. W

War Amps PSA

Dos Equis on Rollerblading

Cigarettes are good for you!

Masterly Ham: Honest Ham: 1

Masterly Ham: Honest Ham: 2

Masterly Ham: Honest Ham: 3

Baby Pee Dol