human after y'all
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“Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow.” — Nick Miller (Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?)(via jesseyoung)
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Great mobile penetration numbers from Pew.
As of May 2013:
- 91% of American adults have a cell phone
- 56% of American adults have a smartphone
- 28% of cell owners own an Android; 25% own an iPhone; 4% own a Blackberry
- 34% of American adults own a tablet computer
As of January 2013:
- 26% of American adults own an e-reader
More mobile data: pewrsr.ch/xrBV6U
(via emergentfutures)
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“By 2020 over 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. By 2030, virtually every item of value will become traceable with tiny electronic sensors, known as smart dust, manufactured into them.” -
Learn It, Live It, Love it: iamlittlei: “I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the... “I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You…
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“You can never have too much sky.” — The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (via issa516)(via teachingliteracy)
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Went to my local book swap tree (I know, a freaking amazing idea, right?) looking to improve my knowledge and appreciation of poetry so picked up this wee gem. Left behind my copy of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Apologies to the poor, unsuspecting soul who happened to pick it up- brilliantly written, but by no stretch an easy read. The oppression seeped out of it and filled my room, staying long after I’d finished it. It’s incredible how someone else’s thoughts written on a page can affect us so much. But that’s why I love reading.
(via teachingliteracy)
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I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
- Jeff Bezos
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Storms brewing (at The Village At Southend)
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Dinner Out [stanleycolors]
