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If someone does you a favor, you owe them your hardest work. They have committed to your well-being. Don’t let their investment be in vain.

Zach knew the LeCoultre name and knew the watch was made by Jaeger-LeCoultre and probably was worth far more than the $5.99 price, but he didn't realize it was a vintage LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm from circa 1959 worth over $35,000.

Fascinating story of a vintage watch collector finding this rare timepiece at a New York Goodwill. I could be jealous of his wealth. I could be snooty that he didn't give the proceeds to charity. I could be depressed because I'm not so lucky. But I'm not. Good things happen to ordinary people all the time; this story is proof.

With three chances to travel one half of a yard to victory, and the game's #1 touchdown running machine in his pocket, he chose to pass. Calling it inexplicable would be kind. Calling it the worst decision in Super Bowl history would about fit. Pass when you have Marshawn Lynch and three chances to go less than a yard? And, even worse, passing into the middle of the field, the best opportunity for the kind of mayhem that did result? It's hard to imagine any run of the mill high school coach making that decision and certainly not one destined for the Hall of Fame.

Neil Young wants us to believe that higher-res audio files played through his banana-colored Toblerone will improve our music-loving lives. I'm here to say that he and his team are kinda full of crap—but that doesn't negate the amount of quality I found in this little, weird-looking thing.

When people talk about Apple and Samsung, the lazy narrative is to say that Apple makes the most money, but Samsung makes the most devices.

That said, with a display this big, the XPS 13 feels like the best of both worlds. Especially for frequent travelers like me. Take my recent cross-country flight to Seattle. The laptop took up less space in my backpack than my MacBook Air would have.

I usually park far away from the building when I work out. The long walk to my desk lets me think. These shoes have no arch support. Bright afternoons like today cast crisp shadows. "Look both ways before crossing the street, Jesse." Boom - I'm safe on the sidewalk. Just a three hundred more feet to the door. Wow it's bright. I'm looking down. I see a twiggy squiggle on the pavement - I think it's a Mercedes front badge - but it's just a shadow and it looks silly.

I feel strong after my workout. Then I see my shadow. Thin. Silly. 

I begin developing an idea, a metaphor about shadows. I consider how even expensive, valuable items look stupid and insignificant when you only see their shadows. 

Suddenly, the counterpoint hits me. Small things cast large shadows if held close to the light. They seem enormous.

What if all we see is a shadow? The big things seem like silly, twiggy, squiggles on the pavement. And the stupid things seem big and imposing. But it's all a farce. We haven't seen anything yet.

When you grow up in Kansas City and move away, you get used to people making Wizard of Oz jokes and assuming you drove a tractor to school pretty quickly.

Don't get wigged out about stress! There are easy ways to dial it down.

If we're honest, there isn't enough money in monochrome erotica and Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs to sustain a billion-dollar website.That's why Tumblr is doing its very best to become more of a publishing platform that can attract the sort of writing (and attention) you'd normally find on Wordpress and Medium.

For most people, college is a time of simple living — stacked four-deep in a tiny apartment, keeping odd hours, and scraping by on mac-and-cheese. And even though college life may seem like a struggle when you’re in the midst of it, ask any 30-something with a mortgage, car payment, and two mouths to feed if they miss those easy days of college, and they’ll likely say yes.

Make like Elsa and let it go ("let it goooo!").