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Gustav Moorhouse

Gustav Moorhouse

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Smiling, I looked out over a Paris glowing golden—caught in a long summer twilight—and enjoyed the day for what it was: a beautiful walk, existing only in my mind, to be forgotten, unrecorded and fleeting, just as it’s always been.
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Tracking your life with data, seems like a cool thing. GPS tracking, step counting, growth, calorie intake, emails receives, tweets tweeted, why not record it all?

    October 17, 2012
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Atmospheric scientists try for years to piece together what happened, but no explanation is forthcoming. Eventually, they give up, and the unexplained meteorological phenomenon is simply dubbed a “Skrillex Storm”—because, in the words of one researcher, “It had one hell of a drop.”
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse These scientifically accurate fictional what-if answers are amazing. XKCD ♥

    September 18, 2012 | 1
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Meine Harry-Potter-Lieblingsszene ist jene, in der Harry, Hermione (so heißt Hermine im Original) und Ron sich durch irgendeinen Zaubertrick in die Lage bringen, ihr eigenes Treiben von vor einer Stunde beobachten zu können (Wenn ich mich recht entsinne, kommt die Szene in Teil 3). Hermione sagt hier den schönen Satz: „Is that really what my hair looks like from the back?". Ich hatte neulich auch so einen Is-that-really-what-my-hair-looks-like-from-the-back-Moment. Ich muss ein wenig ausholen ...
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Kleine Eric Pfeil Story. Immer wieder nett.

    September 16, 2012
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“That’s the problem with a lot of people”, he continued, “they don’t try to do stuff that’s never been done before, so they never do anything, but if they try to do it, they find out there’s lots of things they can do that have never been done before.”
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Just Russel Kirsch, in a coffee shop, talking to some blogger.

    September 12, 2012
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Sorry, Pärchenmädchen. Es ist nunmal so, dass irgendwann alles Alltag wird. Ob ihr es glaubt oder nicht. Vielleicht fällt es euch im Alltagstrott nicht auf, vielleicht will es euch nicht auffallen. Vielleicht ist es euch aber auch schlichtweg egal wenn ihr täglich die gleiche Routine habt. Aufstehen, mit Schatz frühstücken, gemeinsam das Haus verlassen, arbeiten, in der Mittagspause Bio-Brot auf dem Wochenmarkt kaufen, Feierabend, kochen, mit Schatz noch etwas fernsehen, schlafen und das alles wieder von vorn.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Gerade gelernt, dass es noch gute, normale (Herz-)Menschen gibt. ♥

    September 12, 2012
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When I graduated from college I had little notion of how I'd ever be able to put together all the interests that I had. It took a good deal of time, and my parents probably wondered if I'd ever be able to make anything of all I'd been given; but after a lot of help from a lot of people, I'll never forget the sense of wholeness I felt when I finally realized what, in fact, I really was: not just a song writer or a language buff or a student of human development or a telecommunicator, but I was someone who could use every single talent that had ever been given to me in the service of children (a[…]
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Fred Rogers' commencement speech. Mentions God 4 times too much, but nice speech.

    September 9, 2012
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Ich bin wirklich gerne hier, ich fühle mich besser, freier, glücklicher als Zuhause, weil einen die Menschen mit ihrer offenen Art und guten Laune einfach mitreißen, und auch die ganzen Entbehrungen wie Rund um die Uhr Strom oder fließendes Wasser zu haben sind kein Problem sondern eher befreiend. Wenn der ganze Überfluss erstmal weg ist, wird man nicht mehr geblendet; es kommt mir vor als würde ich das erste Mal richtig sehen.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse My friend Lou is spending the year in Tansania.

    September 1, 2012
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Zune was blown away. By 2009, iPod maintained an astonishing 71 percent of the market, the kind of numbers rarely seen anywhere outside of a North Korean election.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse LOL

    July 26, 2012
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Good enough is the byproduct of doing the best you can do based only on the resources and knowledge currently available to you.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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A shoddy connection is much worse than no connection, in my opinion. For one, shoddy internet holds the potential of improvement, stringing you along, while broken internet speaks plainly, letting you know you don't have a chance.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Paul Miller for The Verge on slow internet connections in coffee shops. Excellent.

    July 20, 2012
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If you had to go back to the beginning. If you were forced to start all over. If you lost everything you’ve already grown into. What would remain?
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    Gustav Moorhouse Great post! Nathan once again tells a nice story. Everybody should subscribe to his blog.

    July 3, 2012
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Es gibt nur Menschen, die sich nicht dazugehörig fühlen, und die anderen, die sich die Frage, warum sie wo nicht aufgenommen werden, nie stellen.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Sibylle Berg mal wieder.

    June 11, 2012
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The bullets arc forward. Marine marksmanship is the finest this world has ever seen, and Bassus and his men, trotting forward six abreast, make a fine target. They all drop. Horses and men shriek. McCandless orders men forward to take prisoners and dispatch the horses humanely.
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Prufrock451's comment on a Reddit question that turned into a high-budget Hollywood flick.
    "Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or MEU?"

    May 24, 2012
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    Gustav Moorhouse I guess I posted this half a year too late.

    May 24, 2012
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The beta wasn't over yet. Fuck. It was no less scary this time around. I was wrong again. Experience provides confidence, but it won't wipe away the fear. That's a skill you have to earn. Fighting all the alarm bells, I took one solid step with my right foot and pushed off the arch in one clean motion. This one felt perfect.
Estimated reading time: 13 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Ben Huh (Cheezburger Network) jumped the Corona Arch, pretty cool.

    May 23, 2012
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Forty years ago, Laszlo Polgar, a Hungarian psychologist, conducted an epistolary courtship with a Ukrainian foreign language teacher named Klara. His letters to her weren't filled with reflections on her cherubic beauty or vows of eternal love. Instead, they detailed a pedagogical experiment he was bent on carrying out with his future progeny.
Estimated reading time: 20 min
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    Gustav Moorhouse Laszlo Polgar wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He then got married and raised three chess Grandmasters, one of his daughters even beat the chess world champion, Gary Kasporov.

    April 30, 2012
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