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David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
“It just depends what you what to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”

Penny Alcohol Stove Features
“The low-pressure Penny Stove is so simple that you can build a rough one on the trail with a full service knife (no insulation, epoxy, needles, or tape.) If you’ve built a stove before, this one will be a snap.”

The hardest part about making this stove is emptying 3 Heineken cans. Via [Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools](http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000880.php).

I’m going out to trim the hedges and the edges of the lawn. I wanted the world to know.

Toast is a lovely food blog by a 57-ish woman with two cats, more than 400 cookbooks, good taste, and an engaging prose style with which she regularly publishes good recipes and photos of the results.

Review: AcoustiPack Noise Damping Kit :: SilentPCReview.com I want to make E’s PC quieter. This info might help.