This is from when Queen Victoria's diaries were digitized and put online. so of course I immediately searched Babbage, who was, by the way, very obsessed with what other people thought about him. He used to keep a scrapbook with all of his news clippings in it.
people in this room sometime will happen. Because sometimes you get an idea, you become so obsessed with it that whoever you talk to, what do they say? "Don't give up! Carry on, carry on until you go broke." And, literally, for me the smartest idea was actually knowing when to quit. Because that morning when I got up I thought, "You know what? I can't do this. I've tried everything.
Anyway, so there's lots of stories told about sea silk, also known as byssus. But I'm so obsessed with argonauts when I was writing this chapter.
I was really obsessed with my dog at the time. Kind of still very obsessed with all my dogs. I started Instagram-- the first I ever shared was a picture of my dog.
I mean, you are growing at 10+% in those years. Why are you so obsessed with Tibet? And he said, why are you so obsessed with Tibet?
Some of this was made possible by a law, the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which took the lid off how many news outlets one company could own. And we're so obsessed with ourselves that honestly the rest of the world kind of disappeared during these conversations I had.
you thought about when we asked you to identify two leaders. But in reality there's a bell curve between this and most of us don't sit at these polar extremes. There's a few people aren't so obsessed with having to prove that they're the smartest person; that they just are able to see other people around them.
media transmission today which is something like Susan Bole the sort of quick hit story that everybody becomes very very obsessed about and it becomes uh you know the subject of of all this analyzing and all this deconstructing and and you know backlashes and and and satires and and and everything spins around it but then it it just sucks all
the phenomena that that you see during an election cycle for example is that uh people become very very obsessed with um tiny little gaffs or um uh you know controversies that might come out of a candidate's past you know it's a sort of thing that's called the politics of personal destruction um and obviously
The moment I got to the BBC, I realized that was total bollocks. I mean they're so obsessed with ratings that I got terrified. But on top of that, when you work for the BBC, things change.
But as I started to research, I began to learn things about American history. Because as I first became obsessed , of course, with the ice cream-- this woman knows everything about it, where it came from, the history of it. And as I learned more about what ice cream production was like in 20th century America, I saw that it was intimately tied to the biggest events that
Not really about women and what they wanted, but women being afraid of losing things at all times. And also they were very obsessed with physical appearance, and dieting, and so on and so forth. And it's just so snooze worthy, and it was offensive.
Why did you stop?" She said, "Oh, I stopped to get a sandwich, tuna sandwich to eat on the way to work." So, I mean, one of the things I talk about in the book is this whole idea of surveillance as entertainment and just how obsessed we get once we start doing these things. So again, you kind of break the seal. And again, you know, we like to think that this is making us safer in some way, but in many ways, it might not be, it may just be making us more obsessive and this is something that--oh, that must've hurt. He laughs. You
designed to elevate the pelvis during lovemaking whether that's effective or not i as a graphic designer i'm very obsessed with signage and i always go to a new place and look at the signs we're pretty
And ended up there. Given that why do you think people are just so obsessed and interested in kids like Tom-- sorry,
And they will come out with the little LEGO toys. First, we get too obsessed .
He writes about how some people were so obsessed with getting their mail that they-- when they saw the ships coming from Egypt with the mail-- they would rush down to the harbor.
And Houston sitting there became-- I was surprised with how obsessed you got with the old computers, Houston.
So I have been recently, relatively obsessed about gender bias in Hollywood, in particular looking at women directors.
Why are you so obsessed with Tibet? And he said, why are you so obsessed with Tibet? And we had-- --you know, this big back and forth.
I was the chest hair freak with the brok-- I'm so obsessed with that.
Polaroid, because they were so obsessed with patenting, kept everything.
between six and 10 people every day for six months I became very obsessed with the trip and only one person said they
Washington and Lincoln had left a deeper mark on American history FDR was so obsessed he had kind of a man crush on
Aside from silly comics, if you look at the book, you will notice there's quite a lot of words in it for a comic. This is because as I was doing the blog, I became very obsessed with reading all the wonderful primary documents that were turning up online.
So I wish I had a better answer for you other than that they just seemed very obsessed with controlling everything and do everything on their own terms.
And yeah. Like I said before, I'm pretty obsessed with news.
with the sea serpent, but after today you will be aware how obsessed Americans were with this creature and then something that you probably know a good bit more about. That
to get now. But the fifth graders became so obsessed with getting--fifth gradersó with getting a black hole badge that some subset of them went into our code, so itís an OpenSource
To the finance guy, "What will it cost me? How does my cost go up? Do I need more people?" "No." "Do I need more infrastructure?" "No." So it's just the cost of the magazine. And they don't have the work/life, because they are just so obsessed with where they're going.
When I was a kid, I don't remember taking water to ball games, or we've kind of become very obsessed with having water on us at all times.
And I was one of those people that became very, very-- that groundswell came under my feet, and I became very obsessed with Bitcoin,
However, yes, I still think learning kids to code-- but I'm not so obsessed that-- I have a 10-year-old daughter.
If you look very closely inside yourself at that moment, there's a moment when you're not thinking when you're interacting with a dog, unless you're so obsessed with your
To the finance guy, "What will it cost me? How does my cost go up? Do I need more people?" "No." "Do I need more infrastructure?" "No." So it's just the cost of the magazine. And So I thought actually I need to go back and maybe I suppose it was curiosity. What did I miss out. Why do all of these people become so obsessed with their degrees? And because
Dave: "No, breasts." Michelle: "Why are, ha ha, why are men so obsessed with breasts?" Dave: "In many species, males and females use visual cues to attract each other for
"Yes, she is treating the male as a sex object but this does not bother him. He does not think, 'Why is she so obsessed with my tail? It's just feathers for God's sake. She can't
she said my um, my husband because he says I won't stop talking about you and I've been so obsessed with you and so angry that he just felt like I needed to finally confront
And, of course, it was exhausting. I became quite obsessed with the campaign and decided that I needed to really think about my direction of what I was doing with