June 2009
1 post
April 2009
15 posts
#2: “Besides, I was #2 most fit, and you were #4, so you should listen to my advice.” April 16, 2009 10:34pm.
This blog has been accused of having no purpose and, worse, of responding days late to news already on digg. So, as the first of many possible running features, I will be using Rumblr Stumblr to catalog the many instances Robot calls me fat. These statements will be presented without context or comment, and hopefully will be seen in the least objective light possible. Without further ado:
#1:...
““Well maybe if you followed me on Twitter, we wouldn’t need to have this...”
– White Whine - A New White Person Complaint Daily
Best of D.C. 2009 - Washington City Paper →
We’re going to need to discuss this. Take a few days to familiarize yourself with it.
personality+map+neuroticism.bmp (image) →
I’m doing my best to keep Virginia dark. Much much more here: http://mapscroll.blogspot.com/2009/03/geography-of-personality.html
Mandela →
Nelson Mandela: great man, above-average political leader, would fuck you senseless if you gave him the opportunity.
Taliban hand out 37 lashes to girl seen with... →
“Two men hold her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whips her repeatedly. “Please stop it,” she begs, alternately whimpering or screaming in pain with each blow to the backside. “Either kill me or stop it now.” A crowd of men stands by, watching silently. Off camera a voice issues instructions.
“Hold her legs...
Sweetgreen Opens in Dupont Circle - DCist:... →
Chop’t meets TangySweet? I’m all tingly.
““We are amazed,” Father Fitzgerald wrote to a bishop in 1957, “to find how often...”
– Columns - Savage Love - Dan Savage - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“It’s with great sadness that I announce that in a few weeks, murky coffee...”
– murkycoffee: Letter to our customers
March 2009
23 posts
““David Letterman dropped a bombshell during Monday night’s...”
– David Letterman marries longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko — chicagotribune.com
I've got a red light, I've got a green light.
So many of the people I read, hive-mind like, have all suddenly and simultaneously chosen to link to two random awesome blogs. So here they are, in their random awesomeness:
Scanwiches!
The New Math!
Add them both to your RSS feed, enjoy them at your leisure, and we can all get back to rumbling and stumbling.
WatchNew Punch-Out!! Trailer Brings Familiar Faces | VG Chartz.com - Video Game Sales Charts, News, Reviews, Cheats, Forums - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Wii, PS3, Xbox360, DS, PSP, PC
“I can’t win, Doc!” “Yes you can, Mac!”
“I knew I could count on my fellow teachers at Kentwood Academy to be there for...”
– I Was Going to Succumb To Cancer, But Then I Got This Mylar Balloon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
DFW
Finally finished reading the recent New Yorker piece on David Foster Wallace. Staggering what happens when your genius consumes you. Anyway, I figured I’d use it as an excuse to post his commencement speech from 2005, which I read a couple years ago and think about weekly, if not daily. And since I’m sick of going to marginalia to read it, here it is, in full. (Is that stealing? I...
“The country was in a tailspin, brought on by their party and their ideology,...”
– Balloon Juice
Yawcam →
When Peanut gets her own webcam, perhaps the idea of webcams has grown tired.
Am I allowed to like Rilo Kiley? Are they...
WatchTEDTalks: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage +... →
Watch the second video after the jump and get ready for your mind to be blown all over the keyboard.
Plus Ca Change: Interesting Times: Online Only:... →
From “Only Yesterday,” Frederick Lewis Allen’s classic 1931 history of the nineteen-twenties:
The suburban boom itself did not begin to languish in most localities until 1928 or 1929. By that time many suburbs were plainly overbuilt: as one drove out along the highways, one began to notice houses that must have stood long untenanted, shops with staring vacant windows, districts blighted with...
Things needing a redesign →
Bitching about things no one feels the need to rework. It’s like they’re reading my mind.
Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable... →
“There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.”
Hates Duke. Likes the White Sox. Hates dirty Republicans. Likes the Wire. And now, hates beets. I want to be best friends with the President.
The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone →
Worth reading. ”AIG is what happens when short, bald managers of otherwise boring financial bureaucracies start seeing Brad Pitt in the mirror. This is a company that built a giant fortune across more than a century by betting on safety-conscious policyholders — people who wear seat belts and build houses on high ground — and then blew it all in a year or two by turning their entire balance...
