Public speaking is tough.
Be it at a conference, or during a company meeting, or in your car trying to persuade the cop not to ticket you for going three times the speed limit while streaming an episode of The Maury Povich Show on your iPad, talking in front of other people can be an intimidating experience.
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Whatever happened to Villanova basketball star Shelly Pennefather? ‘So I made this deal with God.’
That Saturday morning in 1991, Pennefather drove her Mazda 323 to the Monastery of the Poor Clares in Alexandria, Virginia. She loved to drive. Fifteen cloistered nuns waited for her in two lines, their smiles radiant.
She turned to her family.
"I love you all," she said.
The door closed, and Shelly Pennefather was gone.
My pinboard bookmarks for September 5th through September 18th
These are my links for September 5th through September 18th:
- Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre – The Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, founded in 1938, is the UK-based research and promotion centre of the Malaysian Rubber Board, whose mission is to enhance the competitiveness and viability of the Malaysian rubber industries in the global environment through focused R&D, effective transfer of technology and quality support services
tags: malaysia research rubber - PocketMags | Digital Magazines for iPad, iPhone, Android, PC and Mac –
tags: reading DigitalMagazines Magazine Magazines - Computer leads to Humans failing Turing Test | Robinince’s Blog – The instant availability of information, as well as instant access to individuals, does come with some minor costs. When information is printed in a book, one imagines that there has been rigorous work done to ensure that it is true or that at least there is enough evidence to argue its truth, though this may not always be the case. To publish on the internet, as my blog clearly demonstrates, sometimes only haste and intent is required.
tags: TuringTest humanity internet socialmedia interesting empathy - Memories Look At Me | Love | 56th BFI London Film Festival – A young woman (played by director Song Fang) visits her ageing parents in Nanjing and reflects for the first time on what it means to grow old.
tags: BFI LFF LondonFilmFestival - Teddy Bear | Love | 56th BFI London Film Festival – A painfully shy bodybuilder looks for love far from his mother’s watchful eye.
tags: BFI LFF LondonFilmFestival
My pinboard bookmarks for June 3rd through June 7th
These are my links for June 3rd through June 7th:
- observe, tiny fish, How Do You Save Someone Who Doesn’t Want To Be… –
tags: thor loki fanmix - observe, tiny fish, how close am i to losing you? (X) thor/loki fanmix… –
tags: thor loki fanmix - Using Real Psychology in Your Writing –
tags: psychology reference research useful writing - I have so many feels –
tags: feels richardarmitage gifs - Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned | Film | The Guardian –
tags: comics superheroes interesting tomhiddleston mythology
My pinboard bookmarks for April 9th through April 17th
These are my links for April 9th through April 17th:
- Andreas Capellanus, De amore: Excerpts; (Latin, tr. into Modern English) A Treatise on Courtly Love. –
tags: courtlylove 12thcentury robinhood - Word Count Meter – for NaNoWriMo participants and writers! –
tags: tools useful writing - Online Timer –
tags: writing timer clock countdown - Mennonite World Conference — GAMEO – Ron Sider's complete presentation on 28 July 1984 at Mennonite World Conference in Strasbourg, France. The title was "God's People Reconciling," based on 1 Peter 3:8-12. This is a large (15 Manitoba, Canada) mp3 file containing the full 35 minute presentation. Click on the title to download in MP3. CAUTION: This may take a long time if you do not have good broadband connections.
tags: RonSider mennonite shalom reconciliation - Xfm Buzz – A Radio Hack | Blog – Gareth53.co.uk – At Global Towers we developers have 10% time to go away and hack at something that might, ultimately, bring value to the business. So that means Friday afternoons is hack time. One of my personal hack projects has come to an end and I wanted to record it for posterity before it disappears – how it behaves, what it does, the thought process behind it and why I thought it was a valuable exercise.
tags: xfm interactivity interactive twitter statistics music interesting radio