February 2010
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President Obama bowed to the mayor of Tampa this past Thursday. Um — why? I’ve been to Tampa. I can assure you that bowing is not one of that city’s colorful native customs. Now if he’d gone to Ybor City and chugged down a couple of keggers and then mooned a group of passing tourists and then ran down the street wearing nothing but a Buccaneers hat and some plastic beads,...
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People still care about the Grammys? What the hell for?
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Thanks, Catholicism!
librarianpirate:
littleorphanammo:
yogisarah:
You know how I feel when I get what I want?
Guilty!
The bigger the victory, the greater the guilt.
Amen sister, but you forgot ‘afraid’!
Guilty and afraid.
Because you didn’t deserve it in the first place and it’s eventually going to be wrenched from your panicked, undeserving hands, you lie awake at night, eyes wide, heart beating fast...
January 2010
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Fanfiction: Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral →
whoniverse:
A space scientist is today announcing a major cosmic discovery by telling it as a Doctor Who story. Astronomer Dr Megan Argo was working at Jodrell Bank with an international team that detected a powerful jet of energy from a star exploding in a distant galaxy as a catastrophic supernova.
The breakthrough is being officially announced in heavily technical language to the world of...
“Old people don’t need new shit in their lives like this. If you are so intent on...”
– The Belfry
I don’t agree, but I don’t disagree. Nuance is hard, let’s go shopping. My grandmother died last year, at 95. She got her first computer in her 70s, and was an active participant on the family listserve for many years before giving up on the computer in her early 90s. Not because she...
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“Why are computers so hard to use? Readers ask me some version of this question...”
– Okay, here’s my problem with this why-can’t-computers-be-more-like-(insert simple appliance people have been using for decades that only does one thing) article that no one ever seems to address and that has always bothered me: why is this guy teaching his 82-year-old mother to use a...
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“I’ve been wondering for a while how much of the angst over iPhone OS’s lack of...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Adobe Flash Evangelist Lee Brimelow Plays the Porno Card (via tbridge)
Since the whole thing about IThis and iThat seems to be about how you can use the devices when you’re out and about in public instead of having to rush home to get online, why would anyone want...
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Another person I thought was already dead now... →
J.D. Salinger has kicked the bucket. I’d have made that some sort of colorful phrase from his famous book, Catcher In The Rye, only I’ve never read it. David Copperfield is more my kind of thing.
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How to Build Your Dream →
azspot:
In the age of democratized industry, every garage is a potential micro-factory, every citizen a potential micro-entrepreneur. Here’s how to transform a great idea into a great product.
1) INVENT Stop whining about the dearth of cool products in the world — dream up your own. Pro tip: Check the US Patent and Trademark Office Web site to ensure no one else had the idea first.
2) DESIGN...
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Cthulhu In Love perfume →
Drives the ladies insane! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
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You liked this
I can’t stop!
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I think they want me to leave
They’ve been playing Tom Waits for a while now.
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I need to...
Stop clicking the stupid heart thing on every single post with a picture of David Tennant or Matt Smith.
(Posted from the coffee shop on the corner because they are doing electrical work at the old house I live in and the power is cut to the dsl modem. *cries*
Update: on the other hand, at least now I know my wireless thingie still works in the laptop. And the wireless connection is faster than...
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I am going to sick Hell Hounds on all of you if...
allonsy-alonso:
(via clarkkentsalterego)
http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/72874.html
pick a link any link.
YOU BETTER START FROM SEASON ONE THOUGH.
and don’t forget to watch the christmas specials (found at the bottom of the page) in between each season. they are chronological. (it’ll tell you the title to watch next at the end of the season finale.)
HAVE FUN :D
Actually you need to...
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Hey! Look at how fucking doomed we are! →
inthefade:
(via daveholmes)
The books, which cost $24 each were, according to the Press Enterprise, bought to allow advanced readers to “look up words that they didn’t know.” However, spokesperson for the school district, Betti Cadmus, added that a committee would be looking into the issue and that it would ”determine the extent to which the challenged material supports curriculum, the...
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Downcycle.
tbridge:
thetwistedspinster:
tbridge:
Stupid troll wrecked my mojo today.
WHERE WHERE WHERE?
Have you punched a troll today?
Posted it earlier. Not much to do about it, unfortunately. Just frustrating.
(Reads it.)
AAARRGGGHHH WTF WTF WTF
You can’t love a place unless you live there. I *totally* understand… WTF no I don’t I love England but you see I don’t...
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Downcycle.
tbridge:
Stupid troll wrecked my mojo today.
WHERE WHERE WHERE?
Have you punched a troll today?
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OMG NOES
I think I am getting a cold. My nose won’t stop itching and running. OMG NOES I DO NOT WANT A COLD.
I will have tea and cookies. That will cure it.
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Tricksey
Am I the only person who wants to find whoever made that “1 trick of a tiny belly — cut down a bit of your belly every day by using this 1 weird old tip” ad that’s all over the internet and beat them to death with a Virginia ham?
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While we're on the subject of pies...
wordishness:
…if you want a really great pie cookbook, check out Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies, by my friend Mollie Bryan (@molliebryan on Twitter). It’s full of terrific recipes, as well as a history of Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant in Staunton, Virginia, founded in 1947 and still worth a visit.
Disclosure: that’s an Amazon Affiliates link above.
I drive by this restaurant every week...
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Eugene Tooms liked art too →
So, wanna go to Ohio to get raped in an art museum?
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Doctor Who Audio stories →
To continue what I was talking about previously… there are tons of these things. Jeez.
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Fruit doesn't really belong in pie.
inthefade:
inmi:
Unless it’s lemon meringue and I have a very hard time considering that to be fruit.
Chocolate mousse pie. Brownie pie. Snickers pie. Peanut butter pie.
See a pattern? Yeah.
WHAT.
THE ONLY REAL KIND OF PIE HAS FRUIT IN IT. ALL OTHER PIES ARE NOTHING MORE THAN FANCY DESSERTS, INCLUDING THAT PEANUT BUTTER PIE I POSTED.
I AM YELLING BECAUSE I AM FLABBERGASTED THAT YOU THINK...
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my god my god my god the pain the pain oh the pain...
theoncomingstorm:
RETAINERS OMFG @______________@
MOTHER FUCKER
MOTHER FUCKER
MOTHER OH MOTHER FUCKER
HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING SHIT AAAAAARGGGHAHRAHRAHGHG
I CAN’T BUT NO SERIOUSLY I CAN’T EVEN CONCENTRATE IT HURTS SO MUCH SRSLYYYY OH GOD I DON’T WANT TO WEAR THEM EVER OH GOD I HATE MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEE
no but seriously i haven’t worn them in like 4-5 weeks and i’m supposed to wear them 2...
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I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS WITH THIS...
theoncomingstorm:
BECAUSE IT’S QUALITY, DAMMIT!
WORD TO YOUR MOTHER. YES.