February 2010
I want to do an Atlanta Tumblr meetup!
juliedaniel:
meth:
thomaswheatley:
prettysmart:
If you live in Atlanta, reblog this so I can see how much interest there would be for this and I’ll TOTALLY organize it! LET’S DO IT Y’ALL!
I would be there if it is after August 22nd! In Japan til then.
Does Beyonce covering "You oughta know" mean she...
Watch out Hov, Uncle Joey’s still on your lady’s mind!
January 2010
When safety first goes wrong
My only complaint about my hotel: the placement / design of the safety bar in the bath / shower. It was a vertical bar placed right in my showering blind spot and both arms and my left shoulder are sporting bruises.
But if anyone asks back home I’ll claim Jeter got mad when Minka was making eyes at me.
So my work PC
which is several years old, rocking only 2 GBs of RAM and a single-core AMD processor, has never crashed due to a Flash website—on either Chrome or Firefox. In fact it’s been at least five years since I’ve had a Flash-related crash. Sounds like Steve Jobs should hire some new programmers to me.
Idea for a non-profit:
Focus On What A Creepy, Colossal Douchebucket James Dobson Is
Because I hope at least some folks would like Focus on the Family less if the knew what an intolerant, “shower with your young child to establish dominance”, fuckstick the founder is.
Not sure if it's always like this...
In Philadelphia (one hour into a three-hour layover) and while there is some snow and ice outside, it’s quite sunny.
Karaoke in New York?
Surprisingly heavy on the late 90s. b Heard multiple songs by the Gin Blossoms, plus some Spin Doctors and The Sundays. In an hour’s time.
I think I may be deriving too much pleasure from...
I hope it’s not possible to overdose on schadenfreude.
Literary White Whine:
While I adore free beer, why is Bud Lite the only option at the James Orin Incandenza film clip showcase.
I’ve seen what you charge for tuition Columbia. You could afford better.
Hey folks posting complaints from 2001 about the...
Why aren’t you posting any since-proved groundless complaints about Apple TV?
That may have been Karma...
Lost data service for the Nexus earlier this morning.
Perhaps I’ll make less fun of iPhone users losing service now.
(Well at least for today.)
Given that it's barely out of the 20s
I may do far less wandering around New York on foot than originally.
I suppose this finally kills the...
“Usually, when I want the opinion of a multiply-concussed, bible-thumping, former...”
– A comment on metafilter re Tebow’s anti-abortion superbowl ad
(h/t BConger)
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LGA flight delays an average of one hour
Damn. That means lunch at Charlotte International instead of at Grand Central. Stupid snow.
Amusing sight seen at Concourse D
A man with at least a 15.6-inch laptop typing with only his index fingers.
How does someone get to the “must have computer at all times” state without learning how to type?
This plan may get me on the plane faster...
On the way to good old Hartsfield Airport with a metaphorical ace up my sleeve. Or should I say jeans.
Yep. Flying commando for this flight.
I’ll let y’all know if it helps.
Leaving to catch MARTA train to the airport at 6am...
Alarm’s set for 5:20am. I’m mostly (95%—only missing the toothbrush and phone and iPod).
I’m going to try to go to bed in 3 minutes so I can grab 5 hours of sleep.
But tomorrow will really see if I can sleep on a plane. I’m considering it a dry run for a New Zealand or Australia trip.
“Howard Zinn, you’ll be missed. Thanks for teaching us that you can’t be neutral...”
– Donald Miller (via azspot)
No Warrant Necessary to Seize Your Laptop →
azspot:
The U.S. Customs may search your laptop and copy your hard drive when you cross the border, according to their policy. They may do this even if they have no particularized suspicion of wrongdoing on your part. They claim that the Fourth Amendment protection against warrantless search and seizure does not apply. The Customs justifies this policy on the grounds that “examinations of...
Watchboutofcontext:
Encore.
i get that its probably part of the republican...
sparkleneelysparkle:
but do the people they chose to do their responses always have to sound so fucking HOKEY?
Not hokey. It’s “folksy®” and they trademarked it after Reagan’s election to a second term.
oh, i don't vote. choosing is a sin, so I always...
lekdek:
morninggloria:
“Oh that’s Republican; we count those.”
Ugh. Headache.
lekdek:
So we stopped torture, except that now we’re holding hundreds of captives that we can’t prosecute yet alone CHARGE because we either don’t have enough evidence against them or because we TORTURED them for their admittance of guilt.
TALK ABOUT THAT, YO.
Yeah, the WSJ Editorial board fact-checkers will skip this one, but Glenn Greenwald won’t.
Full text of the State of the Union Address →
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“I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.”
– Chris Mathews
What the fuck?
looking brighter?
jamielynnlife:
themightyfoz:
ok… giving more money to small businesses, 30 billion to be exact. tax breaks to small businesses that hire more people, expand workforces and increase wages. taking away tax breaks for the companies that ship jobs overseas. increase education funding and getting rid of the failing no child left behind Bush bullshit… taking money back from the banks that we bailed...
under the proposal
themightyfoz:
students paying off loans will only be required to pay 10% of their salary and it will go away after 20 years. 10 years if they choose a career in public service.
neat!
but… who will be giving out loans if they KNOW they will be defaulted on?
Here’s hoping those increased Pell Grants are directed towards the Humanities students etc.
Pre-vacation Priorities
My overall goal: fit everything I need in my smallest wheeled bag. This would be far easier if US Airways wasn’t charging $20 to check my bags (and if I was confident I could get said bag and make my connecting flight in 35 minutes.)
But, in order of importance, here are my final packing priorities:
Figuring out what book to take with me and read on the flight. (No hardcovers, and no...
“Here’s a thing about mansplaining and why I care a lot about it: it is annoying,...”
– fillyjonk (via amandaw)
OH MY GOD THERE IS A TERM FOR THAT?
You have helped me profoundly.
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I think sometimes “gaslighting” applies to the collective barrage of “be happy with the job you hate now…in this economy you should be lucky to have...
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