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1. Your Twitter name has your birthday in it.
2. Your car has a “My child is an honor student” bumper sticker on it… and you don’t even have kids.
3. You bought an iPhone for the camera.
4. You’re a Roman Catholic because “that’s where the power is.”
5. You bleach your jeans to make them look old.
6. You registered faaaceboook.com and you think it has value (it’s available… 3 a’s and 3 o’s).
7. Your computer’s desktop background is a picture of Barack Obama.
8. You buy Girl Scout cookies.
9. You have a tattoo where nobody can see it.
10. Your car’s rear-view mirror has teddy bears hanging from it.
11. You’re a straight gay-rights activist.
12. You believe the capital of Montana is Hannah.
13. You registered your first MySpace account in 2010.
14. You wear a fake diamond ring… and keep the real one in a safe.
15. You have a Mac because all artists have Macs, right?
16. You are a Unitarian Universalist.
17. You say age is “just a number.”
18. You believe Al Gore invented the Internet.
19. You started a blog on Viagra to make money.
20. You put your career before your family.
21. You go to the gym. (There are so many better ways to exercise… like mowing …
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1. Bloggers share their FEELINGS with the world. Who does this? Women and men pretending to be women (gays). MEN do not share their feelings because they do not want to appear gay. Women are already gay, so it doesn’t matter for them.
2. Blogs can be commented on because bloggers love feedback and discussion of their sad lives. REAL publishers don’t get a f*ck what anyone thinks of them (besides maybe the New York Times). They don’t need feedback because feedback is for wimps.
3. Bloggers are self-involved and like to talk about themselves. They derive their identities from their blogs, just like gays derive their identities from gay sex.
4. Bloggers install plugins because they enjoy have widgets inserted into their blogs… Just like gays enjoy having carrots inserted into their holes. Bloggers and gays both want to be penetrated.
5. A blog is a public diary. Bloggers, therefore, enjoy sharing intimacy with loads of strangers, without commitment. JUST LIKE FAGS. Normal people are private and open themselves up to only a few other people. Normal people guard themselves against rape. Bloggers and gays invite rape and dream about being raped because they all have rape fantasies and Daddy issues.
6. All blogs …
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2009-12-20 Update: I revoke this article because it is negative and condescending. Read it anyway if you want.
Dumb people ignore the rules.
Smart people follow the rules.
Smarter people make the rules.
Dumb people live below their potential.
Smart people live up to their potential.
Smarter people live beyond their potential.
Dumb people can’t focus.
Smart people multi-task.
Smarter people obsess.
Dumb people eat meat.
Smart people never eat meat.
Smarter people eat meat when they’re starving to death.
Dumb people don’t go to college.
Smart people go to college.
Smarter people think college is a joke.
Dumb people become lazy and fat.
Smart people stay fit by going to the gym.
Smarter people don’t pay others to lift weights.
Dumb people can’t keep to a budget.
Smart people set a budget and stick to it.
Smarter people don’t need budgets.
Dumb people don’t know.
Smart people know.
Smarter people don’t care.
Dumb people follow trends.
Smart people set trends.
Smarter people transcend trends.
Dumb people fail IQ tests.
Smart people ace IQ tests.
Smarter people don’t take IQ tests.
Dumb people are angry.
Smart people are tolerant.
Smarter people take action.
Dumb people buy cheap stuff.
Smart people buy good stuff.
Smarter people buy stuff for free.
Dumb people are emotional.
Smart people are analytical.
Smarter people are intelligent.
Dumb people read magazines.
Smart people read books.
Smarter people read books, magazines, blogs, and more.
Dumb people rent.
Smart people buy.
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This is my first post as a 17 year old. The pivotal birthday was 2008 August 17, a Sunday. My youth is just slipping away. 
I’ve written this list of seventeen things I’ve learned over the years.
1. Passion is fleeting.
I used to be fascinated with the color blue. Then when I was 6 I switched to red. Around 14 I switched back to blue again. Now I’m starting to like green (notice my website’s colors?).
Don’t count on being dedicated to writing, piano, blogging, or photography all your life. Don’t root yourself in material mediums, because it doesn’t matter what you do. What matters is how you do it, or more clearly, what purpose it is for. My purpose is to courageously inspire and facilitate the worthy endeavors of others. I’m going to have to polish that up into a mission statement someday, but it’s a good place to start. I can look at anything I do and ask “is this doing that?” If it’s not, I drop it.
2. Be humble, not because it’s safe, but because it’s courageous.
It takes courage to admit ignorance, and you will never know everything, so you should always have humility. Even if you …
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• Make sure everyone is smiling and pretending to be happy before taking the picture. Candid photography? Never heard of it.
• Don’t take photos of people; they don’t want you to take their photos anyway. Just stick to rocks and plants.
• Make your rocks blurry and your flowers over-exposed. Then claim it’s art.
• Pump up the saturation and contrast on that rose, so it’s just (255,0,0) all over. Then everyone will appreciate the beauty.
• Print your photos, then scan the prints at 600 pixels per inch. Now you have 48 megapixels!
• Never switch from auto mode. Only scary people use aperture priority. Manual mode is for the fully insane.
• Or, switch to manual mode, and refuse to use auto-focus. The camera doesn’t know how to focus. It’s just blocking your artistic vision.
• Always talk about your artistic vision, and the wonderful community of photographers your a part of. Maybe people will start believing it.
• Say a 12 megapixel camera is 20% better than a 10 megapixel camera.
• Buy a $2000 DSLR, then stick a cheap lens on it.
• Set your new $2000 camera down to go to the bathroom. Follow the advice in 10 Ways to Get Your Camera …
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2009-12-20 Update: This article is #1 in Google for “photography sucks,” so I see why it gets so many comments. Don’t take me too seriously. Photography is really an art form and I am playing devil’s advocate here. 
“I wish photography could be an art form. I love it so much, but it’s just too easy. If only there were some way to mentally cripple the majority of the population from being able to take beautiful photos, or if I could make the craft so needlessly difficult to only be accessible to a tiny few. Maybe then I can trick others into thinking I have talent where there is none. Oh photography, why must you be so simple and uncomplicated!”
We’ve been tricked—all of us—into believing that photography is an art form requiring skill, talent, patience, and “the eye,” when outside of fairy land, it requires no more skill or talent than driving a car, or pushing buttons on an elevator. What kind of art form would have these ten traits?
1. Anyone can do it. While we’ve not proven the infinite monkey theorem for reproducing Shakespeare’s Hamlet, surely a monkey …
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A cornerstone of library work is the reference interview (or interrogation if you’d prefer), as it is the principle persona for the library knowledge-base, and is increasingly the domain of library assistants and para-professionals. These are the ideas I’ve picked up from working in the public library sector.
1. Use the encyclopedias. Many students come in wanting books on obscure subjects. Especially in smaller libraries, there are no books to be found, but an encyclopedia article will do in a pinch, and is an authoratative source.
2. Ask questions. If he asks where the nonfiction section is, don’t just point at it; ask if there is anything in particular he’s looking for. Often there is, but you need to break the ice. If you’re asked for “history books,” don’t ask interrogative questions like “why do you need history books?,” but cooperative ones like “what kind are you looking for?”
3. Quality over quantity. Don’t give the patron a good book on crocheting and then eight unrelated books on knitting; start with one, and then follow up if the resource proves …
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I was reading 5 Reasons to Take Your Camera Everywhere in 2008 over at the Digital Photography School Blog, and it really resonated. You need a camera with you to take any sort of photos—this is a point that is not stressed enough in photography guides and classes. I’ve produced my best work on outings not intended for photography: Sky of Fire, Two of Us Against the World, and Sky’s Camouflage, for example. The article is good, but I want to add eight tips so that once you have your camera with you, you’re ready to use it:
1. Leave the SLR at home. Get a small point-and-shoot (P&S) camera so you aren’t loaded down. Make sure shutter lag is slim to nil; the venerable Canon PowerShot A620 (photos) has been in my pocket since 2006, though it’s harder to come by as its gone out of production.
2. Keep one, versatile lens. While this contradicts the above tip, there are some situations where you’ll …
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I’ve broken my promise about focusing on adding photography, as I spent the last few days solving technical issues and making improvements around here.
Category URIs don’t have “category/” in them anymore, so you can get to the shop at richardxthripp.thripp.com/shop, which is what I’ve wanted for a while. I got this working with Top Level Cats.
The comment section for each entry has been totally redesigned. You can subscribe to comments (Subscribe to Comments plugin), preview comments without a page reload (AJAX Comment Preview plugin), and subscribe to an RSS feed for the comments on each entry. I moved stuff around and renamed stuff so it makes more sense; the “reply to” (for comment threading) is now at the top so that when you click a “Reply to this” link, you don’t have to scroll up to see the comment box. I use Yet Another Threaded Comments Plugin (YATCP) version 0.6.1, in which I accomplished this by moving <?php yatcp_show_comment_parents($post_ID); ?> up above the contact boxes in yatcp_comments.php, and delinking the reply box from the comment form (comment_form) by changing add_action('comment_form','yatcp_show_comment_parents'); to add_action('','yatcp_show_comment_parents'); in template_functions.php.
I added notifiers for disabled JavaScript, because the “Reply to …
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