Socially Awkward Penguin

Came across these funny memes from www.quickmeme.com and was instantly intrigued because I the memes are not only funny, but are sometimes very close to what I experience on a daily basis. So, here are some classic ‘Socially Awkward’ memes – and I mean we all have some degree of social awkwardness – some more than others.

First Date Compass

First Dates can always be nerve racking – and usually the hardest part is figuring out how one should act in order to ’round the bases’ – if you know what I’m saying.

The Haterism Compass

The Haterism Compass

When you need to figure out the direction of your hater actions (spoiler alert: its usually in a direction that will be counterproductive to happiness)

Morality Compass – Outline

The Morality Compass – for all seasons, behaviors, and attitudes

Oppositional Disorder

oppositional disorder is one of those created theories to describe the tendency of people to just oppose anything – any argument, no matter how logical and plausible the argument is, they will still oppose

Ben Greenman’s Charts about Graphs and Graphs about Charts

Charts about Graphs, Graphs about Charts

Came across this article after roaming the Internet and thought that the idea was a bit too ingenious not to mention and give credit: especially nowadays where every day a shitload of articles…

Push Back and Management

the management of independent artists is a whole different beast I imagine; as the artist(s) are also co-managers, and necessarily do not have to take heed to your comments and recommendations. As most artists already have a ‘beautiful roadmap’ as to how they will make it in the game.

Opportunity Cost & Tech Analyst/Blog Buffonery

Image Source: zzoux on Flickr

Opportunity Everything

Why companies do what they do in releasing products, and why Tech Analysts are ridiculous

According to Wikipedia, ‘Opportunity Cost’ is defined as “the cost of any activity measured in terms of…

2011: Tergiversate & the Protester

The year of 2011 was essentially the year of the Protester – the one rising up against a system as they raise their heads, eyes, and voices towards the sky for change. So fittingly, the audio excerpt is from Pharrell’s song ‘You Can do it too’ (The Yessirs edition), and the pictures are from the tumultuous year of 2011 as ‘Time’ magazine called it the year of the Protester, and Dictionary.com defined the word of the year as ‘Tergiversate’:

Social DNA

According to the folks at Energy Diamond, these are the keys, well in terms of balancing them, to achieve positive/optimal social DNA. I think they may be onto something because having your social network full of one set of people does not really do much in giving you a balance viewpoint on things. I know many people that only want to surround their world with similar thinking people – I think this is an attempt to lessen arguments & protect their sense of self (the overly religious do this a lot).

The Samples used by Kanye

Interesting video of popular Kanye West produced songs that he has sampled from. Now, sampling is a part of hip-hop, and I’ve always known that he has sampled songs from the past, but this montage of his samples show how necessary it is to have money & good lawyers to be able to get the clearances – because some of his samples come from artists such as Elton John, Luther Vandross, Bette Midler, and many others.