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davidkendall: caro: I’ve decided that when Rana and I finally...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:36:01 -0600

caro:

I’ve decided that when Rana and I finally manage to be in the same city at the same time again (harder than it sounds), we are going to make red velvet ice cream sandwiches (though I’d use this ice cream recipe instead since cream cheese ice cream would taste better than cheesecake ice cream). She can handle the cake. I’ll do the ice cream.

Oh. My. God.

Waaaaannnt..!

davidkendall: thetaleofanuclearpakistaniheart: My uncle who...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:28:59 -0600

davidkendall:

thetaleofanuclearpakistaniheart:

My uncle who works at Bumble and Bumble in Union Square is going to buy me an early 18th birthday present: Ferragamo’s :) I am looking at something like this. Tell me if you guys like it :)

Well, coming from a guy who wears cowboy boots instead of wing-tips with his suit every day, I’d say I’m the wrong one to ask. But, as brown shoes go, those are definitely brown. And shoes. (And they look fine.)

They look like grampa slippers and I can’t imagine ever wearing them, but maybe you have the wardrobe to pull it off.

The Solar System to Scale

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:06:39 -0600

The Solar System to Scale:

fuckyeahspace:

Our solar system to scale. You’ll see the Sun when the page loads, and 2 million pixels to the right you’ll come upon Pluto. Conclusion: our solar system is exhaustingly huge.

I love depictions that give us a hint of how mind-blowing the universe is — or even out little corner of it.

themattsmith: indieandyy: If you play “Sex On Fire” I will...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:55:11 -0600

themattsmith:

indieandyy:

If you play “Sex On Fire” I will skip it. - mgmt

(via wired)

begging for a sign next to it that reads

If you play “Electric Feel” I will skip it. - kings of leon

Bwaaahahaha…

"MKE has got a lot of what NYC has, except just one of each instead of a thousand. But that way, you..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:59:43 -0600

“MKE has got a lot of what NYC has, except just one of each instead of a thousand. But that way, you know everything in Milwaukee, and you’ve seen everything a hundred times, and you totally know you’ve left a piece of yourself everywhere there and it makes the city yours.”

- a friend’s brother (via lumieresvives) (via fuckyeahmilwaukee)

Rules for copy editors: historical note

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:56:33 -0600

onemoretimewithfeeling:

poisonville:

The literally/figuratively rule is a variation of this old gem from the slot:

1. Replace very in the copy with goddamn.

2. Cut goddamn—this is a family newspaper.

Mittens and Flip-Flops

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:14:24 -0600

Mittens and Flip-Flops:

Lindsay might not post as often these days, but I love when she does…

Husband: Family, I had no idea when I boarded the plane on that cold November day that I was about to meet the woman of my dreams.
Adorable daughter #1: Was she wearing a beautiful dress, Papa?
Husband: She was wearing a Cal State Fullerton hoodie and she had mittens on her feet.

Read her whole HIMYM episode.

Photo

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:59:05 -0600

thedailywhat: Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0600

thedailywhat:

Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Some crafty 3ds MAX magician has put together this mind-intercoursing video illustrating what Earth might look like if it had rings similar to those currently being taken for granted by our noxious sibling Saturn.

I sincerely hope your place of employment doesn’t have a no-crying-at-desk policy, because you’re about to do some serious bawling.

[via.]

Ok, so how do we go about creating these rings? Someone get NASA on the horn.

Skinny dipping in the heated hotel pool...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:07:31 -0600

amyyy:

yay or nay?

You are wasting valuable skinnydipping time on Tumblr. GO!

La Crosse police using social media and impersonation to alienate typical college students

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:00:13 -0600

La Crosse police using social media and impersonation to alienate typical college students

magicmolly: Sasha Grey was part of a cast reading Neuromancer...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:00 -0600

magicmolly:

Sasha Grey was part of a cast reading Neuromancer at the New Museum. It was not good. They made a great book bloodless.

Still something of an interesting development. I’d call it a total non-sequitur if not for recalling Molly’s earlier introduction to Sasha Grey.

hunsonisgroovy: Comics -...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:34:06 -0600

hunsonisgroovy:

Comics - Explosm.net

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

onemoretimewithfeeling: Petrol prices: Oil tankers loitering...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:59 -0600

onemoretimewithfeeling:

Petrol prices: Oil tankers loitering off British coast as they lie in wait for price hikes | Mail Online

"Sarah Palin is on an endless crusade against assholes. It’s all she thinks about. She doesn’t really..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:02:16 -0600

“Sarah Palin is on an endless crusade against assholes. It’s all she thinks about. She doesn’t really have any political ideas, in the classic sense of the word — in fact the only thing resembling real political convictions in Going Rogue revolve around the Trans-Alaska pipeline and how awesome she thinks it is. Most of the rest of the book just catalogs her Gump-esque rise to national stardom (not having enough self-awareness to detect the monstrous narcissistic ambition that in reality was impelling her forward all along, she labors in the book to describe her various career leaps as lucky accidents or mystical acts of Providence) and the seemingly endless parade of meanies bent on tripping her up along the way. The book is really about her battles with these people, how much they did and do suck, and how difficult and inherently unfair life is for a decent hardworking American gal who just wants to live life, serve God, and try to be president without being bothered all the time.”

- Matt Taibbi (via thesmarttart) (via azspot)

Wealthy old men hold talks on keeping damn kids off lawn

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:58:00 -0600

Wealthy old men hold talks on keeping damn kids off lawn

Epic fail = Epic win

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:14 -0600

jayparkinsonmd:

Imagine how happy you must feel if you’re an insurance executive watching premiums rise for decades at three times the rate of everything else knowing that in less than a decade your product will only be affordable to the wealthy and, now, the government has mandated that all citizens purchase your product.

Epic win.

…Some of it’s just trancendental… Nataly Dawn...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:28:00 -0600

…Some of it’s just trancendental…

Nataly Dawn does a delicate acoustic solo cover of Book of Love by The Magnetic Fields.

Solo in the sense that the two guitar parts and the layered harmonies are all Nataly.

Swoon.

"Do you know what we could have done with that 9 trillion dollars? We could have given every one of..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:00 -0600

“Do you know what we could have done with that 9 trillion dollars? We could have given every one of the unemployed people $60,000/year jobs - half of the group blowing up balloons, and the other half popping them. That would have gotten us out of a recession faster.”

- My Econ professor, re: the stimulus package (via onemoretimewithfeeling)

Ten Things Your Zodiac Sign Hates

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:40 -0600

Ten Things Your Zodiac Sign Hates:

hunsonisgroovy:

nickandthecandlestick:

Virgo

People who are messy or disorganized
People who do not return calls
People who don’t wear watches
People who don’t do their taxes
People who don’t return memos
Wasting time on Facebook
People who use bad grammar
People who swear too much
Emotional confrontations or scenes
Stand up comedians

OMG. So many of these are true!

“Ten Things Your Zodiac Sign Hates” could also be titled “120 Things Lots of People Hate, Randomly Grouped by Ten”