
This will be mine!!! All Mine! PROMISE!!!
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Pep Talk: Changes that are positive can also be stressful. Go ahead, freak the fuck out. Feel your nerves, scream a bit, let your hands shake, but also try to recognize the total joy at the core of these reactions. This is crazy good. This is what you want.
Today remind yourself: I’m flipping out for a good reason.
It’s very tempting to take the easy way out, to do what you’re wanted and expected to. You can choose the sure thing, no judgment here, and the result will be predictable. Unless you’re Cal Ripken, the choice to toe the line probably won’t make history. However, not choosing the sure thing can change the world. Even if the only alternative is to wait for another option to be revealed, it’s a monumental decision.
Quick story. Yesterday, my friend Lauren was devoting some serious face-in-dirt effort to pulling weeds. She noticed something smelled nice and thought it must be the weeds because they were everywhere. So she picked one up and smelled it. It wasn’t the weed- It was the rosebush she hadn’t noticed she was beside. Metaphor Alert! A person can be too swamped to recognize that there are great things right under their nose. Good stuff deserves your attention too. And you deserve the good stuff.
Today remind yourself: Smell the flowers, not the weeds.
Finally, when the Orlando Magic locker room had been cleared of all but the final stragglers, Dwight Howard rose slowly from his chair, walked over to a large mirror covering almost an entire wall, and looked into it. Silently.
Back to his locker he went to retrieve his light yellow dress shirt before he doubled back to the mirror, walked to within inches of it, and stared himself in the face.
Whatever he was thinking, whatever he was saying to himself, he kept to himself.
"Gonna be able to come back from that?" he was asked ever so gingerly when he returned to his stall.
"Why not?" Howard said.
Well, that was a pretty tough loss, came the obvious answer.
"So what?" Howard replied. "Life is tough."
Yes it is, and if anyone ever needs to reference one of the toughest losses a team has ever absorbed in an NBA Finals, they can go back and have a look-see at this one -- the loss that seems almost destined to go down in the annals of the Orlando Magic's history as the night they blew their chance at winning the franchise's first championship.
You know those 14-year-old nightmares starring Nick Anderson in Game 1 of the 1995 Finals that everyone around here references? They'll pale now in comparison to this, a night that will go down as a multilayered collapse of epic proportions, a night when missed free throws by Howard, a mistaken strategy by Stan Van Gundy and a mistimed emotional blowup by Mickael Pietrus were only a few of the major and minor things that combined to all but shatter the Magic's hopes of defeating the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2009 NBA title.
"That one will haunt me forever," Van Gundy said of his decision not to instruct the Magic to intentionally foul the Lakers when they inbounded with 11 seconds left, trailing by three, and got one of two super-clutch 3-pointers from Derek Fisher in a 99-91 overtime victory Thursday night that dropped the Magic into a 3-1 hole.
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iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide
Speed
• Faster than the previous generation: Launching messages is 2.1 faster, load the NY Times in Safari: 2.9 times faster.Camera
• New camera, with auto focus, auto exposure, and auto white balance.
• You can also tap to focus, changing white balance in the process. That is neat.
• Special macro and low light modes.
• It supports video, 30 frames per second VGA with auto focus, auto white balance, and auto exposure.
• Can trim video with a tap of the finger, and share it with MMS, email, MobileMe and YouTube.Connectivity
• It supports the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA standard.Graphics
• Includes hardware to support the OpenGL|ES standard, for faster and more complicated 3D games.Design
• Same design as before.
• Greener materials: Arsenic-free glass, BDF-free, Mercury-free LCD.Special features
• It has a compass application, which works with the included magnetometer. It’s integrated into the new maps, showing orientation, alongside longitude and latitude.
• Voice control. You can now talk with your iPhone, Enterprise-style. You can instruct it to play similar songs to the one you are playing, or call people.
• Nike + support built in.
• Supports accessibility features, like zooming on text, inverting video, and voice over when you touch whatever text is on screen.Battery life
• Increased battery life.
Price and availability
• $199 for 16GB version.
• $299 for 32GB version.
• Available on June 19th.
(via:gizmodo)
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Pep Talk: Good thing too because what would interest you if you knew everything? There are subjects out there that you don’t even know exist. There’s so much yet for you to see and learn. We’re so damn lucky.
Today remind yourself: What I don’t know could fill a book.
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