God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
– R.Niebuhr

// thanks meliss

Will Smith:

I feel very, very confident that the keys to life for me are reading and running. The idea that there are millions and billions of people who have lived before us, and they had problems and they solved them and they wrote it in a book somewhere - there is no new problem that we can have that we have to figure out by ourselves. There’s no relationship issue, there is no issue with your parents or your brother or your government, there is no issue we can have that somebody didn’t already write a thousand years ago in a book. So, for me, that concept of reading is bittersweet because you know it’s in a book somewhere but you’ve got to find the right one that is going to give you the proper information.

I said reading and running and the running aspect is how can you connect with your weakness. When you get on the treadmill you deprive yourself of oxygen. What kind of person you are will come out very, very quickly. You’re either the type of person who will say you’re going to run three miles or you stop the treadmill at 2.94 and you hit it and you call 2.94 3 miles, or you get off after a mile, or you’re the type of person that runs hard through the finish line and when you get to 3.0 you realize, ‘God, I could really do 5,’ and you go ahead and do two more. And that little person talks to you and says, ‘Man, do you feel our knee? We should stop. I feel we should stop ourselves right now. This is not healthy anymore.’

When you learn to get command over that person on that treadmill, you learn to get command over that person in your life. That’s the same person that tells you, ‘Man, that girl’s got some big breasts. Listen, we don’t have to do nothing, let’s just go the hotel room together.’ That’s the same person. Getting command of that person has been really important.”

I’ve definitely noticed that little person in my head when I run. He used to bitch about everything. “Oh, your calves hurt! Oh, your back hurts! Oh, it’s hard to breathe.”

For me, I’ve learned to drown him out with music. I’d set checkpoints on distances that I have to complete without slowing down, and over time I’d get to those checkpoints thinking, “Hey, I think I can go a little bit longer.”

It’s funny cuz since I’ve started running, I’ve noticed the word “marathon” thrown around a lot more. I mean, I’m only running 1.2 miles at a time and a marathon is a freakin’ 26+ mile run. But there’s a lot of people that do marathons…and they all must’ve started out at a modest number like that at some point, right?

Ryan: so who were those zexy ladies you were giving the eye-fuck to today?

Mel: hahaa

Mel: you saw that?

Mel: when i was outside?

Mel: i dunno but they were hot

Ryan: im talking about the ones you were meeting with, dumb-dumb

Mel: ohh

Mel: for the spanish site we’re working on

Mel: ****** or something

Ryan: iiiiiiiiinteresting

Ryan: they didnt look mexican to me

Mel: the company is ruled by white people

Ryan: hhahaha

Ryan: niice

Ryan: first we take mexifornia from them.. now we’re gonna run their spanish websites

Mel: hahah

Ryan: but they are working to subvert us

Ryan: by taking jobs in fast food and burrito joints

Ryan: and at a critical point they strike and say “give us what we want, or NO BURRITO FOR YOU!”

Ryan: anarchy will ensue

Mel: hahahahahahaa

In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience.– Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

Kid Rock’s reaction to Atlantic Records’ request to denounce file sharing:

Wait a second, you’ve been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?

Kid Rock on downloading music illegally:

I don’t steal things. I’m rich. [As for everyone else] download it illegally, I don’t care. I want you to hear my music so I can play live.

Read on: Kid Rock Boycotts iTunes, Champions P2P