January 2009
39 posts
[1.29.09] Song of the Day
Bear vs Shark -...
7 year-old writes complaint, gets park fixed →
I love everything about this.
Go write a letter today. Make something happen.
Intellectual Property & Internet Etiquette
Not to start any uneccessary drama, but I have to say this. I’ve been thinking it for a long time.
There’s nothing that makes me grind my teeth harder than this scenario:
I’m clicking through a maze of blogs/tumblrs and I stumble onto one that is just page after page of photos of other people’s artwork. I get excited for a half second until I realize that not a single...
Amoeba Friends
Loren: so, PC FINALLY got my poop in the mail. and guess what.
me: no swimmies
Loren: nothing.
me: shit... literally
Loren: but i know i have it
me: you gonna do some voodoo medicine or something?
(Since she left for Peace Corps most of our conversations involve poop or farm animals... just in case you were ever thinking of visiting a Filipino slum.)
Where I was...
Memory Marker:
I spent the hour of the 44th Presidental Inauguration at the Arena Sports Bar in Ann Arbor with my coworkers. Every one of their 15 or so TV’s were already on CNN. We got there at about 11:20 and within ten minutes the entire dining area was full. By noon they had run out of glasses. They allowed people who didn’t show up early (and found that no tables were...
Women are nonviolent
claytoncubitt:
“Here’s the difference, to me, between boys and girls: Boys fuck things up; Girls are fucked up. That’s the difference. Boys just do damage to your house that you can measure in dollars, like a hurricane. Girls, like, leave scars in your psyche that you find later, like a genocide or an atrocity… That’s the difference between boys and girls. And it becomes the difference between men...
[1.12.09] Song of the Day
The Gandharavas - The...
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil...”
– Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate in Physics
It sullied, on some level, how we think of... →
“You took something out of a box that has vast repercussions, and gave people a chance and a reason to defend a practice that brings out rather horrific things about human beings for very little, for no gain.” -Karen Greenberg, the executive director of New York University’s Center on Law and Security, speaking about the effects of our recent foray into government-approved...
Someone sent me an email yesterday requesting a...
vinh:
On one hand, it’s for charity, but they used a Yahoo email account. Conundrum…
It’s always safer to donate directly to the charity (through their website or whatever) or at least drop the charity org an e-mail and see if this Yahoo e-mail is legit. You don’t want to get burned and end up feeling bitter about donating money to charity in the future.
I've been neglectful
Two people in my apartment are reenacting the birth of Jesus Christ featuring my roommates new dog playing the role of baby Jesus.
What I’m saying is that I’m sorry the output has been sparse lately. It’s been a hectic few weeks.
"We wanted to get married and so we just thought:... →
capucha:
(via sinconfesarlo)
“German lovers – aged six and five – try to elope to Africa.”
I hope someone writes a movie about this.
“Do we have the… uh… motivation to…. create a… creation?”
– Yesterday I was tired and couldn’t make my words come out right. This was my way of asking Rob if he was in the mood to actually make dinner or if we should just order in. Apparently when I’m tired I turn into Dr. Seuss.
the joys of making your first website
saraliz: gotta get a favicon too
hm
i'm thinkin a little penis
JK!
chaely: do it
tell people it's a root vegetable
saraliz: HAHA
chaely: they'll never know!!