Blog Title: Magic Spell Casting · Become a social magician.

The Self…

Recently I seem to have become somewhat obsessed with the idea of “self”. What is it? How is it created? Etc. I’ve turned to one of the many books that I own as I look for some information that might make the self more understandable to me. The main book that I have been reading is read more..

MSC-001–Emotional Wi-Fi

On today’s show I talk about a few ideas that are not my own. I first heard about this set of ideas via a TED talk by Danial Goleman. He talks about mirror neurons, and social neuroscience both of which are really fassinating ideas. If you want to see the original talk you can read more..

Power Points (that don’t suck)

I just saw this amazing little power point presentation about how to make really good power point presentations over at academhack. | View | Upload your own Everyone should go check out academhack by the way. Now. -N

Quotes: Dennis Genpo Merzel “The Path of the Human Being”

I was reading a book called The Path of the Human Being by Dennis Genpo Merzel. the book is about Zen Buddhism, and I’ve really enjoyed reading it. One of the things in this book that really struck me was in chapter six when Merzel is talking about how he was feeling burned out on read more..

Quote: Faye– “Questionable Content” #418 & 420

“God, your’re to humor what Hellen Keller would be to competitive paintball.” Having wits is a social skill that can score you many a point. I believe that the above quote is a wonderful example of wits in action. To see the original comic that this quote appeared in click here. And because it is just so damn read more..

Quote: Paulo Coelho- “The Way of the Bow” pg 151

What is a master? I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.” This book can be downloaded in a a PDF format . It can also be torrented if you read more..

effective social behavior to avoid assassination

Today when I got to work I opened up my web browser and checked reddit to see what was interesting in the world. I saw this article about how a dude named Frank Pringle (no wikipedia article on him yet… but I’m sure one will pop up soon) has built a recycling machine that can read more..

Quote: Pema Chodron — “When Things Fall Apart” pg7

I use to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructable be found in us.”  Somehow, even before I heard the Buddhist teachings, I knew that this was the spirt of true awakening.  It was all about read more..

MSC-000 the “first” podcast.

This is a test to see if I can publish a Podcast via the Podpress plugin. If it works than there will be a slick looking little player thing under these words that will allow you all to listen to the show here on the web. If it REALLY worked than this RSS feed will read more..

Why I Don’t Carry

I don’t carry business cards. There are lots of people (in fact most the people who I know) who do carry business cards with them all the damn time, everywhere they go. Some of the business cards are really creative, well thought out, visually appealing little bits of paper or plastic. Nonetheless, even though I recognize that read more..