strangely shaped puppies where are you going
strangely shaped puppies
strangely shaped puppies
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Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general.
Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?
Perhaps no other skill you can learn for free online has as much potential to lead to a lucrative career. Want to build a site for your startup? Want to build the next big app? Want to get hired at a place like BuzzFeed? You should learn to code. There are a lot of places that offer free or cheap online coding tutorials, but I recommend Code Academy for their breadth and innovative program. If you want to try a more traditional route, Harvard offers its excellent Introduction to Computer Science course online for free.
You could use a pre-existing template or blogging service, or you could learn Ruby on Rails and probably change your life forever. Here’s an extremely helpful long list of free Ruby learning tools that includes everything from Rails for Zombies to Learn Ruby The Hard Way. Go! Ruby! Some basic programming experience, like one of the courses above, might be helpful (but not necessarily required if you’re patient with yourself).
If you’re not interested in coding anything other than fun game apps, you could trythis course from the University of Reading. It promises to teach you how to build a game in Java, even if you don’t have programming experience! If you want to make a truly great game, you might want to read/listen up on Game Theory first.
Spreeder is a free online program that will improve your reading skill and comprehension no matter how old you are. With enough practice, you could learn to double, triple, or even quadruple the speed at which you read passages currently, which is basically like adding years to your life.
With Duolingo, you can learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or English (from any of the above or more). There’s a mobile app and a website, and the extensive courses are completely free.
Full disclosure: BuzzFeed and other websites are in a partnership with DuoLingo, but they did not pay or ask for this placement.
Tired of your farmer’s market haul going bad before you use it all? Or do you just love tangy pickled veggies? You too can pickle like a pro thanks to SkillShare and Travis Grillo.
You can take the University of Washington’s Intro to Public Speaking for free online. Once you learn a few tricks of the trade, you’ll be able to go into situations like being asked to present at a company meeting or giving a presentation in class without nearly as much fear and loathing.
UC Berkeley put a stats intro class on iTunes. Once you know how to understand the numbers yourself, you’ll never read a biased “news” article the same way again — 100% of authors of this post agree!
Knowing the basics of psych will bring context to your understanding of yourself, the dynamics of your family and friendships, what’s really going on with your coworkers, and the woes and wonders of society in general. Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures online for free.
Step one: Learn how to play guitar: Justin Guitar is a fine and free place to start learning chords and the basic skills you’ll need to be able to play guitar — from there, it’s up to you, but once you know the basics, just looking up tabs for your favorite songs and learning them on your own is how many young guitar players get their start (plus it’s an excellent party trick).
Step two: A delightful free voice lesson from Berklee College Of Music.
Step three: Have you always thought you had an inner TSwift? Berklee College of Music offers an Introduction to Songwriting course completely for free online. The course is six weeks long, and by the end of the lesson you’ll have at least one completed song.
Step four: Lifehacker’s basics of music production will help you put it all together once you have the skills down! You’ll be recording your own music, ready to share with your valentine or the entire world, in no time!
Let Stanford’s Stan Christensen explain how to negotiate in business and your personal life, managing relationships for your personal gain and not letting yourself be steamrolled. There are a lot of football metaphors and it’s great.
If you struggled with math throughout school and now have trouble applying it in real-world situations when it crops up, try Saylor.org’s Real World Math course. It will reteach you basic math skills as they apply IRL. Very helpful!
All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity. DrawSpace is a great place to start. (I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy.)
BuzzFeed’s own Katie Notopoulos has a great, simple guide to making an animated GIF without Photoshop. This is all you need to be the king or queen of Tumblr or your favorite email chains.
Have you never really “gotten” jazz? If you want to be able to participate in conversations at fancy parties and/or just add some context to your appreciation of all music, try this free online course from UT Austin.
Macalester College’s lecture series is excellent. If you’re more interested in journalism, try Wikiversity’s course selection.
Another invaluable skill that will get you places in your career, learning Photoshop can be as fun as watching the hilarious videos on You Suck At Photoshop or as serious as this extensive Udemy training course (focused on photo retouching).
Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. If you finish that and you’re not sure what to do next, here’s a short course on displaying and sharing your digital photographs.
Instructables has a great course by a woman who is herself an online-taught knitter. You’ll be making baby hats and cute scarves before this winter’s over!
If you are lucky enough to have a regular income, you should start learning about savings and investment now. Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. Invest away!
Unf$#k Your Habitat has a great emergency cleaning guide for when your mother-in-law springs a surprise visit on you. While you’re over there, the entire blog is good for getting organized and clean in the long term, not just in “emergencies.” You’ll be happier for it.
Most cities have free community classes (try just searching Google or inquiring at your local yoga studio), or if you’re more comfortable trying yoga at home, YogaGlohas a great 15-day trial and Yome is a compendium of 100% free yoga videos. If you’re already familiar with basic yoga positions but you need an easy way to practice at home, I recommend YogaTailor’s free trial as well.
It’s simple and just imagine the minutes of your life you’ll save!
i’m having some fuckin Thoughts so let’s have some actual sex worker aus:
There is a difference between “I don’t feel like doing this thing, but for various reasons, I’ve decided that the benefits of doing it outweigh the drawbacks” and “I don’t feel like doing this thing, and I’ve therefore chosen not to do it.” This is surely none too complex a concept.
I keep seeing radfems attacking the notion that sex work is work by saying that, if you don’t feel like doing your job as a barista, the worst you have to face is making coffee when you don’t want to, and that for sex workers, it’s rape.
Now, leaving aside the fact that rape is a very real risk in basically every not-solo job environment, your comparison is still full of shit. Rape is not the same as doing something I don’t feel like doing (kind of inherent in the definition there). Nobody comes in and physically drags a hooky-playing barista into work, and nobody forces me to do sex acts that I don’t choose to do, for whatever reasons I deem are acceptable. And if they do, that’s the equivalent of a customer at a coffee house raping me, not me making them a coffee when I’d rather be home playing with my cat.
Although, now that you mention it, if I choose not to go to work on a particular day (or if I can’t because of say, a chronic illness flare up or he need to take care of a kid), the absolute worst thing that happens is that I lose that particular client, that particular opportunity to make money. I don’t risk losing my profession altogether, I don’t risk having bad references and having trouble getting my next client. All of which is true for baristas who have the temerity to want to control the time and manner of their labor as much as a sex worker can. So maybe you’re right that sex workers and baristas don’t face the same amount of coercion – it’s entirely possible that sex workers have it better, by and large.
Oh so very sincerely,
Leigh Alanna
A friendly fox in Pripyat, Chernobyl exclusion zone
*happy cheerful music as fox plays in deserted nuclear radiation land*
This is the aesthetic
Fun facts about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone:
1) Most of it is pretty safe, even for long periods of time. In fact about 200 native people still live there, but no new settlement is allowed, so that number has declined from about 1200 after the zone was created in 1986.
2)The zone has become an unintentional animal reserve. Its ~1000 square miles of uninhabited forest. Poaching happens, but not to the degree one might expect due to the fear of radiation. Also as a consequence there are lots of human friendly animals like this fox. Most of the humans they do see are tourists that regularly feed them.
3) Its one big science experiment on post human occupation, environmental contamination, and radioactive degradation. Weve actually learned a hell of a lot about what would happen to a city after everyone leaves and how nature takes back over thanks to the city of Pripyat. And how the environment adapts to sudden changes and evolves. A fungus was desvovered in and around the Chernobyl Disaster Site that creates chemical energy out gamma radiation emitted from the melted down core. Something biologists had only theorized as even possible a few years ago, and heres this fungus feeding on it. Its crazy man!
^^ i was literally thinking about if nature and wild life had taken back over the area
Adorable fox + interesting science, 10/10
i almost forgot this blessed video exists
Wait there’s another one of these
If memory serves, what happened was that someone took a video of a Ukrainian military band playing some other song and dubbed a realistic-sounding version of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis over it. This proceeded to be everywhere on the internet, enough so that the band that put on the original performance caught wind of it, and decided to capitalize on its popularity by actually performing the song. This video is the latter version.
“Have the discipline to work hard even when no one is watching. It’s in those little moments that the successful rise above.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
Anonymous asked:
lol-jackles answered:
As usual Jared brought his natural interview charisma for the audience, not just for Kelly or Ryan. He’s good at telling stories, he can tell the same story over and over again and still make it sound fresh and interesting. I appreciate that Jared looked at the audience and not just at Kelly or Ryan, it’s a huge pet peeve of mine whenever newbies or dgaf celebrities only look at the host, like dude I know it’s awkward as duck to not look at the host while answering his question but you’re not in his living room so look at the damn audience! Shoot me but Ryan was actually funny and didn’t hijack to make it about himself. Bonus they covered quite a bit of ground: the beanie’s back story, SPN day, Jared getting the mayor on the phone like Batman, the show’s longevity, and the non-negociable kid. Jared’s segment was longer than the usual five minutes, I think it was 8 minutes long, not counting the scene clip from Mint Condition.
OK GUYS LISTEN UP
I BARELY EVER ASK Y’ALL FOR ANYTHING BUT JUST THIS ONCE
PLEASE COULD YOU WATCH THE HELL OUT OF THIS VIDEO
IT’S A CUTE TORTOISE BUT THAT’S NOT ALL
EVERY PENNY OF VIEWING REVENUE WILL GO TO CHARITIES SUPPORTING SYRIAN REFUGEES IN EUROPE
IT WAS MY FRIEND’S IDEA AND SHE GOT ALAN RICKMAN (no I’m not kidding) TO DO THE VOICEOVER
SO PLEASE
WATCH IT
SHARE IT
LITERALLY REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE
Rose body scrub
I would reccomend this if you enjoy the smell of roses. The scrub not only smells great but it’s super cute. I love using this scrub before a day out in the sun or even a night out. The baby oil makes your skin so soft and there is a light fragrance of roses. I prefer using brown sugar instead of white simply because the brown sugar serves as a better scrubbing agent. White will do just fine, it will simply be less coarse against the skin. Dig en and enjoy!
• Rose petals from 2-3 roses
• 1 cup of sugar (Brown or White)
• 15ml baby oil or coconut oil
• A blender or food processor
•A jar to place the scrub in
Pour all the ingredients into the food processor and blend. Continue doing so until the ingredients are mixed well. Spoon the scrub into a jar and enjoy a rosy heaven.
**A little edit to this. These roses came from my garden not a florist so they weren’t sprayed with any pesticides or treated with anything that could be harmful to my skin ❤🌸
I saw a dress like this on a 90′s inspo insta page and then thought that the Get Famous mesh would be perfect for a skirt version. Ugh its so cute and makes you feel a certain way when paired with some choice platforms! 💜 I hope you guys like it 💜
