{"id":264,"date":"2007-04-19T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2007-04-19T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T22:33:00","slug":"me-you-cant-buy-time-you-have-to-make-it-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"[me] You can&#8217;t buy time, you have to make it yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/arts\/announcements\/prs\/2007\/0319_EinsteinsDreams.html\">local production<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Einsteins-Dreams-Alan-Lightman\/dp\/140007780X\/\">Einstein&#8217;s Dreams<\/a> is awesome!  The thrill of creative ideas, the surreality of dream, the beautiful language of Alan Lightman: the actors take their project of creating those worlds so spontaneously, creatively, seriously it&#8217;s inspiring.  Read Einstein&#8217;s Dreams right now, and then go watch the play.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t keep the smile off my face.  It&#8217;s an effort not to skip.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours ago I was exhausted, head and heels.  I&#8217;ve bled myself for the last three days to help a friend live on the left coast.  But today, todo list item #66 was &#8220;Be Your Own Lap Dog&#8221;, and now my favorite tea and ice cream are at an arms reach.<\/p>\n<p>Come to Dublin for Bloomsday (June 16)!  Bloomsday is the day <u>Ulysses<\/u> (the greatest book ever) is set (and Dublin is the place).  Oh, yeah, we&#8217;re also poking our collective nose into London and Paris.  So read Ulysses and join us!  Or just come without reading it&#8211; you can mope in the hostel while we attend the biggest lit-geek party in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Briefs: foobar2000 is the best music player.  We need a paradigm shift from &#8220;rules&#8221; to &#8220;definitions&#8221;.  I&#8217;m in debt but got a raise.  Business-making is about designing validation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local production of Einstein&#8217;s Dreams is awesome! The thrill of creative ideas, the surreality of dream, the beautiful language of Alan Lightman: the actors take their project of creating those worlds so spontaneously, creatively, seriously it&#8217;s inspiring. Read Einstein&#8217;s Dreams right now, and then go watch the play. I can&#8217;t keep the smile off &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[me] You can&#8217;t buy time, you have to make it yourself<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}