October 2009
15 posts
Dear Office Vending Machine....
fetherston:
falconieri:
$0.85 for 4 Milano cookies? WTF
Count your blessings, they’re $1 here.
Hey, at least you guys HAVE a vending machine.
Good luck, Balloon Boy!
If he makes it out alive, his friends are going to be SOOOOO jealous.
sponsored link fail
Just saw this in the sponsored link bar of GMail: “Mike’s Education Record - www.mikebloomberg.com - Politics aside, schools are better. Test sores and graduation are up.” Spot the error?
Student Refuses to Say Pledge →
azspot:
Their son told them last weekend he had decided to no longer stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at school because he didn’t believe there is liberty and justice for all, especially when it comes to gay rights.
Kids can be much more prescient than adults. At 10, he understands that these words actually mean something; a fact that many seem to have forgotten.
Tired is...
biting your cheek (twice!) while eating a soft chocolate cookie.
But damn was that cookie worth it.
“A new policy at Tufts University prohibits students in dorms from having sex...”
– CNN.com
September 2009
14 posts
words wholly related
ragbag:
precocious & apricot
both derive from the latin word, præcox (early-ripe). a precocious child is said to be more mature than other children. an apricot is a fruit that ripens before other fruits.
worthy of note: is the path that the apricot took in getting to english through the circuitous waypoints of portugese (albricoque), arabic (al-burqūq) and greek (πραικόκιον).
even more...
I change shapes just to hide in this place but...
(via joehoe)
Ahh! I’ve been singing this in my head all morning. I saw Miike Snow in Hoboken Saturday night. They were so so good.
hiatus
Spending a week in Italy (starting tomorrow) means that I’ll be Internet-free for seven whole days. I hope I can handle not posting iPhone pics of the Colosseum to my tumblr.
Arrivederci!
Overheard in the Newsroom #1686:
Home-school kid on tour of newsroom to copy editors/paginators: “So basically… your job is a bunch of clicking.”
A sad but true description of my job.
“…who, like Rebelo, pleaded quilty…”
– the typo that made my day
August 2009
18 posts
indierawk:
Kings of Leon - The Bucket.
“All...
“I seriously want to barf from excitement.”
– Lauren
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new computers
A new computer is great…
Three weeks after receiving it, when you get the preferences marginally near what you had to begin with.
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autumnfirefly:
flowersandart:
hello-therelove:hautelikecouture:bowlingalleylawyer:billda:whatthehale:
I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
Nothing sucks more...
July 2009
21 posts
“Today the average American spends a mere 27 minutes a day on food preparation...”
– Michael Pollan (via azspot)
This is sad to read. I love cooking, and I wish I had more time to do it. Some nights I just get home too late to do anything worthwhile, which sucks. Food is pretty much the only necessary pleasure we’ve got. We should make the most of that.