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one moment you're contemplating total world domination,
the next moment you're happy you remembered to button your fly!

wisdom of sorts from John Landerholm

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Sep
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Wireless electricity. While this rates high on the wow factor, I wonder if it is safe as well as energy efficient? Oh what the heck, screw it, I WANT THIS NOW!!

Aug
31st
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If it moves - tax it!
If it still moves - regulate it!
If it stops moving - subsidize it!
— Ronald Reagan (deceased US president)
Aug
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A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications. A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.
— Seth Godin in “Tribes”
Jul
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It is increasingly obvious that the dismal science of economics is not as firmly grounded in rational behavior as was once supposed. In “Predictably Irrational,” author and behavioral economist, Dan Ariely tells us why.

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When people say to you: “that’s impossible”, you say back to them: “when you say that’s impossible, you’re confused with ‘I don’t know how to do it´”.
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita -number cruncher and analyst to the CIA and Department of Defense (see his TED presentation)
Jul
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how many?

  • question: how many designers does it take to change a light bulb?
  • answer: why a light bulb?
Jun
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The Baloney Detection Kit (Bullshit alarm 101): How to be skeptical. Presented by the editor of Skeptic Magazine Michael Shermer, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

Jun
17th
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Congrats Hunter

Congratulations Hunter H. Landerholm, Harvard class of ‘09.

As my/our graduation present for you, we’ve registered your very own dot com domain, HunterLanderholm.com.

So far it’s just an address. If you want to stake your claim on the internet, just send an email to john@L2.dk and I will more than happy to help you make hunterlanderholm.com a great place to visit.

Maybe even remarkable, just like yourself.

Love and best wishes,

uncle John, Lone, Magnus and Axel

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When in doubt, go all out!
— Aaron Curry (linebacker chosen number 4 in the 2009 NFL draft by the  Seattle Seahawks)
May
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Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.
— Scott Adams
Apr
21st
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I don’t care who you are, I care what you do. How to hold people accountable for their actions and words.

Apr
1st
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Software engineering. Why it is hard.  

Software engineering. Why it is hard.  

Mar
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Mar
21st
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Ever thought that Extreme could be predicated to, well anything? OK.

Extreme SHEEP HERDING!!!! Seriously i kid you not. Have a peek.

Mar
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