September 2009
August 2009
“Police say Davis walked into the terminal and said she was planning to shoot...”
– Armed Missouri woman forces plane to abort landing - STLtoday.com
I understand getting mad, but doesn’t that seem a bit, I don’t know, EXTREME, what with the inevitable death of dozens of people if you actually shot down a plane?
(via jamiek)
What I wonder is how, precisely, she thought she was...
WHO WANTS PANCAKES?
(via delgrosso)
I *always* want pancakes.
Which might explain why I’m fat.
“Police say Davis walked into the terminal and said she was planning to shoot...”
– Armed Missouri woman forces plane to abort landing - STLtoday.com
I understand getting mad, but doesn’t that seem a bit, I don’t know, EXTREME, what with the inevitable death of dozens of people if you actually shot down a plane?
WatchVideos from the perspective of Animals.
Caution: You may die from the cute.
Found via boing-boing
WatchMy little stray kitten friend, after being fed some more tuna. We’re both allergic to cats, so we can’t adopt her, but I think I’m going to take her to the no-kill shelter nearby this week.
My apologies for the Dramamine cam. It’s hard to follow a rambunctious kitten with an iPhone.
Hank Williams Jr. covering Johnny Cash’s Big...
The serving size is one? ONE? Oh, well, I guess...
(via shoesonwrong)
Yes. So many different kinds of yes.
Head CT was clear!
This most excellent news, meaning it’s not a brain tumor or anything similiarly life-threatening.
It doesn’t help figure out what’s wrong, but that’s fine for now.
I'm going for a CT scan today
“Just as a precaution” they tell me. Which does nothing to alleviate my (already pegged at 11) anxiety.
You can live without a head, right?
“You do hear anecdotal reports,” Siete says.”
– Phoenix - Valley Fever - Vodka-Soaked Tampons and Anal Beer Bongs “Latest Trends” Among Teens? Really?
Of course you hear anecdotal reports. But the plural of antecdote is not data.
I lost a good friend when I was city editor because I told him we wouldn’t run a story about the...
I've had this headache for six days now
It’s gone from unbearable to much less so. I have no more hydrocodone (which didn’t do much good anyway).
I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow at 11 to figure this out.
I’m thinking it’s either
a tumor
an alien that laid its eggs in my brain
Any options I’m missing?
“This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time,...”
– Stephen King (via cleversimon)
Love this.
There is already Halloween candy at my grocery...
deathofapig:
Seriously, who has the will power to buy a bag of Whoppers now and SAVE IT FOR 65 DAYS?!
Well, I’m going to try. BRB.
…
I failed. NOM NOM NOM
They also have Autumn mix out. I’m not sure who could resist candy corn and mellowcreme pumpkins for that long.
“The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time public...”
– The Longest Poem in the World (via slantback)
An interesting exercise that mostly confirms how banal most people’s tweets really are…
Doctor gave my hydrocodone for my migrane. I don’t see what the fuss is all about. I wasn’t any better at solving complex problems. In fact, I could barely stand up.
Also?
Cats v. sharks? Really? Who came up with that match-up?
Guh.
delgrosso:
Sharks vs. cats?
Really?
I mean, seriously?
My new postulate: “Every social networking platform attempts to expand until it equals Facebook in banality.”
(with apologies to Jamie Zawinski for appropriating his Law of Software Envelopment)
True. The first person to send me a drink on Tumblr gets murdered.
I've had a headache for three days; I'm actually...
Every time I have a headache, I think of a morning in 1996, when my brother and I were serving as cantors at St. Bernadette.
I had a nasty headache, and was asking people for Tylenol, Advil, anything. The reader gave me a small vial. It was water from Lourdes, and she told me I should apply it to my temples with faith, and it would cure my headache.
I, of course, did no such thing. I was...
entropyas:
About half of you seem really *old*. And the rest of you seem really *young*.
So maybe that puts 1979 somewhere around the median?
I hope so, because I like being solidly mid-pack.
Uh-Oh
Guys, it seems the marketers have come to Tumblr now. So what’s the next big thing we can enjoy till they come along and mess things up?
“In other words, drunk people ignore reality and think they can do just about...”
– An Emptied Flask Makes for Empty Promises | Wired Science | Wired.com
I really need to figure out how to get in on these studies…
People are posting their fave tumblr posts
I won’t be. My posts are like my (non-existent) children: I hate them all equally.
Eyeglasses, and the pushing up thereof →
mayjah:
everythinginthesky:
Which method do you use to push up your glasses on your face? I’m a Method Number 3 guy myself.
I’m a Method 2 - modified. I lift them up away from my nose before replacing at a more comfortable position instead of sliding.
I do the same, actually, but I used Number 3 for many tragic years.
“The relative struggles of the rich may elicit little sympathy from less well-off...”
– After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall - NYTimes.com
It doesn’t elicit little sympathy from me, it elicits none whatsoever. If MacAfee can’t live on $4 million, he can get another job. Or, imagine this, he could change his lifestyle (and to be fair, he seems to be doing...
“While a user of a mobile device is using telephony services, the user may want...”
– Apple Patents In-Call Messaging and File Transfer - In-call file transfer - Gizmodo
It doesn’t matter if they do include it, AT&T won’t support it. They haven’t even gotten MMS working yet.
“Older Indian guy: So how was your Christmas?
Younger security guard: Good! It...”
– Overheard in New York | You Gotta Be Pope for the Big Guy to Visit
When I was young, an Indian family moved in down the street and invited us over for a little get together on Thanksgiving. In a rare display of multiculturalism, my parents accepted, and we went and ate some Indian food.
And then...
“Prehistoric employee: So your email address… is the com with one or two...”
– Four? You Must Be Important! (Overheard at the Office)
Our e-mail addresses are all @gazcomm.com
Try explaining THAT to an old person…
Natural Born Worriers Tend to Die Young →
lindsayneedscoffee:
Well shit, guys. I only have about 10 years left. I would say that the time I spent locked in my room crying hysterically when I was 12 due to the Hale-Bopp comet making an appearance did me in. Or the multiple times I thought I had AIDS between the ages of 9 and 11. “Research shows that higher levels of neuroticism can lead to earlier mortality, and we wanted to know why,”...
“Wetteland, who has not had a valid license in six years, was driving with a...”
– Drunken dozen keeps boozer behind bars - BostonHerald.com
Good riddance, but you have to appreciate his committment to driving drunk.
