August 2009
13 posts
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“I began to wonder if iPhone ownership wasn’t like marriage in the...”
– Amanda Fortini, “My evil iPhone” in Salon.com.
I laughed so hard, I cried.
Also, one has to wonder: if Ms. Fortini has now owned four separate iPhones, and anonymous Apple Store Dude has owned seven (WTF?), is Apple counting these as **eleven* separate “sales” or...
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“*Study: Average gamer is 35, fat and bummed
CDC study finds playing leads to...”
– MSNBC.com headline, Survey: Average gamer is 35, fat and depressed
Wow, it’s as if they only surveyed me.
Two Poems Considered in Conjunction
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams.
For if dreams go,
Life is a barren field
Covered with snow.
— Langston Hughes
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in...
“There is only death and the language of happiness.”
– John Straley
Watch“Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but “Medea Hypothesis” author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth’s mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.”
An interesting TED talk. While watching it, I had a moment where I got a sense of the immensity of both evolution...
“The America which Europe fears is the America of the Reaganites. The America...”
– Henry Fairlie talking about the 1980 Republican convention (!) as quoted by Andrew Sullivan. Amazing. Amazing that he’s not talking about anything that’s gone on in the last 10 years.
It is time that we pointed out to the neo-conservatives that democracy has never been subverted...
Translation Party! Try to reach equilibrium. →
Translate a phrase from English to Japanese and back again until the results are consistent and you’ve reached “equilibrium.”
The most fun I’ve had all morning. And I managed to break it in about 5 tries with a line from Robert Frost: Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. But some say this translation will never end! Booyah!
“Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary...”
– the Grube. This is one reason why up to this point I’ve said, hey Apple, you can suck my greasy cock/dick/wang/johnson and balls/nuts before I’ll let you fuck/bang/screw me in the ass/cornhole/sphincter/ with your cunt/twat/snatch/pussy-censoring iphone appstore shit/cess/poop-fest. You...
Beverages mentioned in AC/DC's "Have a Drink on...
Whiskey
Gin
Brandy
Sour mash (whiskey fermented with the reused mash from a previous batch)
Cheap wine
Tequila white lightning (a cocktail of vodka & lemonade, substituting tequila) or
Tequila and white lightning (a slang term for moonshine)
Whiskey with ice and water
“Son, they gonna beat on your white ass like it’s a rented mule.”
– The Bunk to Herc in season 4, episode 13 (“Final Grades”) of The Wire. The further I get into this show, the more I laugh. It’s almost troubling, because I began by thinking the show was a tragedy, but now it seems like a farce.
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“You are a bloodthirsty misanthrope. You believe mankind is stupid and fallible...”
– My result for Slate’s Choose Your Own [American] Apocalypse. Fun for the whole family!
I chose “peak oil,” “loose nukes,” “peak water,” “synthesized supervirus,” and “asteroid” as my initial circumstances leading to the end of...