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Trying to get into bed after drinking Volcano's at the Bamboo Hut

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:05:47 -0700

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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:33:09 -0700

"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire..."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:01:38 -0700

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

- Simon Sinek from swissmiss via entrepreneurdesigners

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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:21:58 -0700

sirlnmork!

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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:38:54 -0700

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:21:00 -0800

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

- Pablo Neruda, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines”

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:47:06 -0800

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

- The Talmud

superamit: Many of you have asked, so here’s what’s going on...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:57:37 -0800

superamit:

Many of you have asked, so here’s what’s going on with me.

WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE

8/1979: Born. Grew up in CT, built a killer eraser collection, fell in love with computers.

Left college to start a company. Fell hard. Fled to India for 3 months.

Started 2nd company. Learned to be an adult. Fell in love with NYC.

Moved to SF, discovered burritos & some of my fave people on Earth.

9/2011: Got diagnosed with Leukemia!

Cried. Went through 3 cycles of chemo. Hurt. Thought hard about what I want out of life. Grew up a second time.

TODAY

… After over 100 drives organized by friends, family, and strangers, celebrity call-outs, a bazillion reblogs (7000+!), tweets, and Facebook posts, press, fundraising and international drives organized by tireless friends, and a couple painful false starts, I’ve got a 10/10 matched donor!

You all literally helped save my life. (And the lives of many others.)

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Tomorrow, I’ll be admitted to Dana Farber in Boston for 4-5 weeks.

First I’ll get a second Hickman line to allow direct access to my heart (for meds and for nutrients if I’m not able to eat). Over the next week, the docs blast my body with a stiff chemo cocktail to try and eradicate all traces of cancer cells. In the process, the immune system I was born with, and my body’s ability to make blood, are destroyed.

Next Friday, I get my donor’s stem cells by IV. I start on immunosuppressants to prevent my body from rejecting them (I’ll be on them for 12-18 months). For these weeks I’ve no immune system, so I’m severely vulnerable to viruses and bacteria. My hospital room and hallway become my world.

Meanwhile, the stem cells make their way to my bone marrow and, with some luck, start producing platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. At this point, my blood type changes to the blood type of my donor. And my blood will now have my donor’s DNA, not my own.

This is science fiction stuff. I can hardly believe it’s even possible, and there’s lots of chances for things to go wrong. It’s frightening.

AFTER THE TRANSPLANT

Recovery to a new state of “normal” takes about a year, but there’s a few storm clouds hovering:

My immune system is new, like a baby’s. I’m prone to getting sick.

Just as with any organ transplant, there’s a chance of rejection. Except in this case, it’s my blood that’s the foreign body, and it touches every organ. They call it graft-vs-host-disease and it can cause health issues and organ complications for the rest of my life.

Successful transplant or not, Leukemia can relapse. Stubborn mofo.

Overall, 75% of AML transplant patients survive year one, 50% make it through year five. My odds are a little better since I’m young.

THE GREAT NEWS

I’ve got a long road ahead. But I’ve got a donor & amazing family & friends. A few months ago I didn’t have many options. Today I have a plan.

I am alive. I start tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Thank you.

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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:09:05 -0800

clipartcovers: Autobahn by Kraftwerk. Requested by...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:12:01 -0800

clipartcovers:

Autobahn by Kraftwerk.

Requested by nipples-the-enchilada.

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest..."

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:20 -0800

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

"Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble - très bien ensemble."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:54:27 -0800

“Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble - très bien ensemble.”

hamburglr: First, go grab some headphones. The best ones you’ve...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:09:06 -0800

hamburglr:

First, go grab some headphones. The best ones you’ve got. If the best ones you’ve got are these suckers (or something similar), you should really go buy new ones, but use the best you’ve got for right now.

Take a break from whatever you’re doing for 2 minutes and listen, but just listen to the whole thing, even if you have to multi-task.

Headphones on? Ok. Good.

Now, press play.

“Upular (3D Audio Version)” - Pogo

siliconvalleyryangosling: Hey girl. We exceeded all projections...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:56:05 -0800

siliconvalleyryangosling:

Hey girl. We exceeded all projections for Q4. But you’re the only year-end bonus I need. Happy Holidays.

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:18:53 -0800

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

- Paulo Coehlo

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,..."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:35:10 -0800

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

- Robert Heinlein

"Hidden from all I will speak to you without words. No one but you will hear my story even if I tell..."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:15:48 -0800

“Hidden from all
I will speak to you without words.
No one but you will hear my story
even if I tell it in the middle of a crowd.”

- Rumi

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect and it’s these..."

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:41:00 -0800

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect and it’s these things I’d believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be.

I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:29:54 -0800

Life cycle of a leaf, neat.

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:55:41 -0800

Life cycle of a leaf, neat.