February 2012
11 posts
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– H. Jackson Browne (via kari-shma)
The response to "Don't Tell Me, I Don't Want to...
“There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know Box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, the novelist.
“It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.
TMI, or, “too much information”
Quote of the day
Oh my God. So many stairs. I’d like to find whoever invented the stairs, and push him down these stairs just to show him how stupid stairs are. Then his legs will be broken. And he will no longer be able to climb the stairs anymore. It’ll be ironic. And then his wife will leave him and go be with the man who invented the elevator. Because everyone knows that elevators are much ...
January 2012
1 post
iPhone-savvy cop saves the day →
The above link is to a news article about a police officer who tracked down someone’s stolen iPhone in 1/2 an hour, using his own iPhone. The last part is fantastic.
Had [the iPhone thief] been an Apple aficionado, he might have known how to disable the iCloud setting, which could have stopped the trace.
November 2011
1 post
"Bred to suffer in cuteness" is the best phrase...
From the Magazine
Pity the Bulldog, Bred to Suffer in Cuteness
October 2011
1 post
Anne Frank, a Mormon →
The writer also wonders about the Mormon practice of amassing archives of the dead and “praying them in” as a way to “retrospectively ‘baptize’ everybody as a convert.”
Hitchens noted that they “got hold of a list of those put to death by the Nazis’ Final Solution” and “began making these massacred Jews into honorary LDS members as well.” ….
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank.
It took...
January 2011
3 posts
“Que tu viennes du ciel ou de l’enfer, qu’importe, Ô Beauté!
...”
–
Charles Baudelaire
October 2010
1 post
July 2010
2 posts
Sarah Palin on her daughter Bristol's engagement...
“Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”
Rahm "Israel" Emmanuel and Barack "hussein" Obama
During an interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”
June 2010
3 posts
“I liked to sit close enough that I could smell him. He smelled of sea and salt...”
– Echo by Francesca Lia Block
(via sealust)
May 2010
1 post
“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
April 2010
15 posts
South Park Facebook episode: Stan, poke your...
Randy: Stan, Grandma said she poked you and you haven’t sent a poke back. Stan: Dad, I didn’t even want to do thi— Randy: Stan, poke your grandma!
Randy leaves.
Stan: No. No! Screw this. You know what?
clip
Application
Dropbox is the best application in the world. That’s an understatement. I am so close to being organized now.
Does every rose have its thorn? →
“I want him to genuinely like me, even when I’m old.”
– Liz Lemon
Anonymous asked: Why is the witching hour called the witching hour if it's an instant in time— 12 o'clock— rather than a full hour?
Why We Can't Do 3 Things at Once →
infoneer-pulse:
For those who find it tough to juggle more than a couple things at once, don’t despair. The brain is set up to manage two tasks, but not more, a new study suggests.
That’s because, when faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the medial prefrontal cortex (MFC) divides so that half of the region focuses on one task and the other half on the other task. This division...
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
– William Shakespeare (via kari-shma)
RIP Roanak
Happy Easter
Dialogue
The Doctor: You know when grown ups tell you that everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?
Amelia: Yeah.
The Doctor: Everything's going to be fine.
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
9 posts
Twitter On
dearoldlove:
Promise me you’ll keep Twittering into your eighties, so I’ll always be able to keep track of you.
Omegle.com
I tried Omegle.com, a site like chatroulette.com, only with text rather than a video webcam.
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: <According to law 864:32.8 omegle.com is required to tell you that the IP address of the person you are now talking to is registered to a sex offender. This person cannot see this message.>
Stranger: asl?
You: Eek
Stranger: ?
...
Anonymous asked: Does life outside the tunnel really exist or is the light an illusion?
Have fun.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this site for $200. Why should I go with you?”
Me: “Has he done any work for you in the past?”
Client: Yeah! He did [Other Site] for me.
[I load the other site]
Me: “The entire site’s done in Flash.”
Client: “Huh?”
Me: “It’s a site for iPhone users.”
Client: “I know. Cool, huh?”
Me: “It’s a site for iPhone users… none of...
Vancouver 2010 Olympics: skating
Sunday, 7:30 PM ET
Pairs Short Program
Monday, 8 PM ET
Pairs Free Skating
Tuesday, 7:15 PM ET
Men’s Short Program
Thursday, 8 PM ET
Men’s Free Skating
Friday, 7:45 PM ET
Ice Dance - Compulsory Dance
Monday, 7:45 PM ET
Ice Dance - Free...
Interviewing tips about what not to do. →
“Maybe it’s because you’re one of those people that believes that sometimes, the...”
– via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma)
I disagree, mostly.
Kung fu penguin.
1 tag
“The 82nd Academy Awards nominees:
It’s Oscars season, and the Academy...”
– The nominations list for 2010.