hehe

að ögra sjálfri sér

Fór í gær á ráðstefnurnar á vegum Nýsköpunarsjóðs sem var haldin í tilefni af tíu ára afmæli Brautargengis, námskeiðs fyrir konur sem vilja hrinda viðskiptahugmynd í framkvæmd og reka fyrirtæki. Þau erindi sem ég hlustaði á voru mjög fín:

• Ávarp - Berglind Hallgrímsdóttir framkvæmdastjóri Impru
• Fjármögnun fyrirtækja - Hafdís Jónsdóttir, Word Class
• Að nema lönd - Sigríður Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, Landnámssetur Íslands
• Sveltur sitjandi kráka en fljúgandi fær - Ásdís Guðmundsdóttir, Vinnumálastofnun
• Ný og ögrandi kona - Bjargey Aðalsteinsdóttir, íþróttafræðingur
• Heilsuefling kvenna - Bára Sigurjónsdóttir, Lýðheilsustöð

Sérstaklega fannst mér flott það sem hún Bjargey íþróttafræðingur hafði fram að færa en hún lét alla standa upp og boxa og gera æfingar, og talaði um að ögra sjálfum sér a.m.k. 2 í viku; gera eitthvað nýtt og spennandi til að halda sér lifandi og ferskum. 

Douchebag ársins

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Róla á strætóstoppistöð í London

- Bruno Taylor's series "Playful Spaces".

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Bangkok norðursins

Ímyndarherferðin er að skila sér. Systir mín var stoppuð á Laugaveginum í dag í hádeginu af útivistarklæddum útlendingi sem vildi bjóða henni uppá hótel með sér. Smart

árið 1972

  ég í árbókinni

yearbookyourself.com 

Kurt Vonnegut

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. 

 

Löngu tímabært, fólk þarf líka að vera ábyrgari með dýrin sín

láta gelda þau og annað. Ég er skráð í þetta félag dyrahjalp.org og ætla að leggja mitt af mörkum.

Hjálpa heimilislausum dýrum

Tilfinningalegur þjónustuhundur

Í vélinni í Ameríku sat við hliðina á mér kona með hund í tösku. Þetta var emotional therapy dog sem var með henni til að hjálpa henni í fluginu því hún er svo flughrædd. Hef bara heyrt um blindrahunda og heimsóknarhunda, þetta var nýtt. Hún var með uppáskrifað frá geðlækni að hún þyrfti þennan hundastuðning í flugi.

Tattooo

Síðasta daginn í Ameríku fékk ég mér tattoo. Mitt fyrsta. Er mjög pent og lítið. Er rún - J - sem á að tákna gæfu og gengi...

 The results of earlier efforts are realized. A time of peace and happiness, fruitful season. It can break through stagnancy. Hopes and expectations of peace and prosperity. The promise of success earned. Life cycle, cyclical pattern of the universe. Everything changes, in its own time.

Var ekkert vont og tók um 30 sek. En ég lét vinkonu samt halda í heindina á mér.

 

 

Sidasti vinnu/skoladagur a morgun

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.  And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
You'll look up and down streets. Look ‘em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.
It's opener there
in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen,
don't worry.  Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll  start happening too.
OH!
THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.
You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't
Because, sometimes, you won't.
I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
and hang-ups
can happen to you.
You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You'll be left in a Lurch.
You'll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then,
that you'll be in a Slump.
And when you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted.  But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out?  Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...
...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a  train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
NO!
That's not for you!
Somehow you'll escape
all that waiting and staying.
You'll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.
With banner flip-flapping,
once more you'll ride high!
Ready for anything under the sky.
Ready because you're that kind of a guy!
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame!  You'll be famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't.
Because, sometimes, they won't.
I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.
All  Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot.
And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.
But on you will go
though the weather be foul
On you will go
though your enemies prowl
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.
On and on you will hike
and I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.
You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!

Dr. Seuss

aha

"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after." - Slovenian proverb

Þegar hugurinn fer sínar eigin leiðir

• Déjà vu - the feeling of having seen an unfamiliar thing previously
• Déjà vécu - the feeling of having experienced an unfamiliar situation previously
• Déjà visité - unaccountable knowledge of an unfamiliar place
• Déjà senti - a sense of "recollection" of an unfamiliar idea
• Jamais vu - a sense of unfamiliarity with a familiar situation
• Presque vu - inability to summon a familiar word

Væri slæmt að upplifa þetta allt reglulega Ég held ég hafi bara upplifað 1,2 og 6.

- af futility closet

Trúarruglið

heimildarmynd Bill Maher um trúarbrögð

 

Maher hjá Larry King:

Sammála honum að the magic word 'faith´ er ekki ásættanlegt til að réttlæta hvað sem er.

katolikkar vita s.s. um hvað þeir eru ad tala

allavega meikar þetta sense ad minnu mat, las þetta i vetur i Psychology Today: a pillunni dragast konur ad monnum sem lykta einsog feður þeirra eda bræður, uppa oryggid, en þegar pillunni sleppir þa verða þær þeim afhuga...

The Divorce Pill?

Women generally prefer the smell of men whose MHC gene complements are different from theirs, setting the stage for the best biological match. But Wedekind's T-shirt study revealed one notable exception to this rule: women on the birth-control pill. When the pill users among his subjects sniffed the array of pre-worn T-shirts, they preferred the scent of men whose MHC profiles were similar to theirs-the opposite of their pill-free counterparts.

This dramatic reversal of smell preferences may reflect the pill's mechanism of action: It prevents the ovaries from releasing an egg, fooling the body into thinking it's pregnant. And since pregnancy is such a vulnerable state, it seems to activate a preference for kin, who are genetically similar to us and likely to serve as protectors. "When pregnant rodent females are exposed to strange males, they can spontaneously abort," Herz says. "The same may be true for human females."  

 

Hr. Rangur valinn vegna pillunnar

Flott framtak

way to go Bjarney!

NAVIA hleypt af stokkunum

Best doughnuts in the US

smakkadi eina bestu kleinuhringi i Ameriku i dag(eru reyndar no.2 yfir bestu kleinuhringi landsins). Their eru svaka godir, heitir, med sykurhud, og their fast her i Wilmington af ollum stodum. Britt's doughnuts hafa verid starfræktir fra 1939 og eru nidur vid Carolina beach. Thetta er frekar oalitleg sjoppa sem selur bara kleinuhringi og kaffi, en their eru ædi, eg er buin ad borda 3 i dag...

islendingar

Prestur sem eg vinn med segir mer fra þvi thegar hann var ungur prestur i Nordur Dakota fyrir c.20-30 arum ad hann muni serstaklega eftir "islendingunum" þar sem aldrei beygdu af sama a hverju gekk. Folkid var mjog stoiskt.

Eg held ad þad se akvedinn lenska i okkur ad halda ro okkar, a.m.k. midad vid amerikana kannski, sem eru almennt opnari med tilfinningar. Eg a.m.k. graet ekki i tima og otima, midad vid suma herna.

Ingibjörg Sólrún heimsækir Mountain

Myrtle waves

Forum í gær nokkur saman í vatns-skemmtigarð á Myrtle Beach í Suður Karolinu. Þad var fjör, en ég held ég hafi verid sú eina sem fór i sturtu á undan sundinu... hér er ekki mikið lagt uppúr þesskonar pjátri...

Landafrædi

Thad er mikid gert grin ad landafrædi(fa)kunnattu amerikana en her er eg nær undantekningarlaust spurd ad þvi hvort þad se ekki rett ad Island se grænt en Grænland hvitt... Virdist hafa setid vel i folki sidan i landafræditimum.