Down in Dixie Land

feeling the santa fe urge again. since the kappa delta foundation is partnered with the o’keeffe museum, i am constantly and happily reminded of my time in santa fe. 

i am going to need a plane ticket and a rented bike pronto.  

todaysdocument:

World Turtle Day is celebrated every May 23 to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world.

CHILDREN EXAMINE A BOX TURTLE AT STILLWATER, NEW YORK, NEAR ADIRONDACK FOREST PRESERVE, 07/1973

Anne LaBastille, photographer.  From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series 

newest from edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros

“Careers are dead. Aim for a lifestyle and choose paid activities that support it.”

good:

If you’re graduating from college this year, we apologize: Before being pushed off into the shaky job market, you’ll likely be forced to sit through a commencement speech filled with platitudes and vague advice, usually delivered by someone too old and famous to remember what it’s like to be young and broke. So we asked comedian Baratunde Thurston, porn actor James Deen, tech reporter Jenna Wortham, novelist Emma Straub, and Das Racist’s Victor Vazquez to tell us what 2012 graduates really need to know.

Read their real-talk advice for new graduates here.

allcreatures:

Picture: EPA/JOCHEN LUEBKE (via Animal pictures of the week: 18 May 2012 - Telegraph)

fun fact: Bono, who made a significant investment in the company will make more money today than his entire career in music.

theatlantic:

Facebook’s Value: What’s the Price of a Billion People Watching Each Other?

Is Facebook’s IPO the next chapter in the greatest company of our time, or are Friday’s buyers total suckers?

The only intelligent, honest, and true thing to say about this inevitable question is that nobody has any clue. In 1992, a company called America Online had a $70 million valuation after its IPO. A decade later, it was worth $150 billion. A decade after that peak, it is now worth only $1 billion. Online fortunes are built on hyper-active tectonic plates. Mountains of wealth accumulate from flat nothingness, rumble, push up toward the sky, and with alarming frequency, blow themselves up. The Internet is a super-seismic place. […]

It is freakin’ crazy. If Facebook were merely the widest social network by number of users,dayenu. If it were the deepest social network by the quality of engagement and the quantity of personal detail, dayenu. But it’s the widest and the deepest! That sort of thing has to be worth $100 billion, right?

Right?

Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

i am such a puppy mom. i left the house this morning and i won’t return until monday afternoon…it nearly broke my heart. riga’s my travel companion most of the time!

bound for MA! smith college & jane lynch, here i come! 

Here’s this gem:

The Dave Matthews Band
Next-door neighbors who brew their own beer and reminisce an awful lot about how great their college years were.

yeah…not too far off. brewing my own beer seems complicated, but i understand the sentiment. (go tribe!) 

nprmusic:

flavorpill:

Stereotyping You by Your Favorite ’90s Band

Well, I’m not a “carbuncular adolescent” and can barely play the guitar (Smashing Pumpkins), but I could see myself wishing to a “Japanese manga character” (Bis).

one day i WILL work for the smithsonian. 

whenever i receive a job posting through the WM DC listerv concerning any arm of the smithsonian, i picture myself there. maybe it’s a stubborn sense of incompleteness…seven museums turned me down junior year. yes, seven. it was heartbreaking. 

but i know they were wrong. and i belong there…someday.