May 2010
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“In a mechanistic view of the world, we see all things, even if only for...”
– Alexander, Christopher. The Nature of Order, an Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Two: The Process of Creating Life. 1980. Berkeley, California: The Center for Environmental Structure, 2002. (via carvalhais)
Okay brah, okay.
“But first, is Wisconsin officially home to the world’s tallest horse?”
– the news
Mom’s complaint of the day: foster parents. Apparently, there are some farmers who take in teen-age foster children and are compensated—by someone, Mom alleges—for taking in these children. But these farmers use these kids as farmhands. This is okay, I think—that’s what I did as teenage and I made a shit-load of money as a farmhand, developed a work-ethic,...
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Since you asked
monkeytypist:
My favourite phoneme is the alveolar lateral affricate. It’s so much fun. I could say it all day.
tɬ tɬ tɬ tɬ tɬ tɬ tɬ tɬ tɬ!
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aceterrier:
The only good thing I can say about Arizona’s new immigration law is that Arpaio won’t have Brewer’s killing it as a talking point to run against her with in the fall. Brewer may be a Republican, but she’s not a fucking demagogue, and nothing scares me more — not Al Qaeda with nukes, not war with Iran, not even the South attempting to secede again — than the idea of Arpaio in the...
Community, S01E21
Jeff: Pierce, stop trying to coin the phrase "streets ahead."
Pierce: Trying? Haha. Coined and minted. Been there, coined that! "Streets ahead" is verbal wildfire.
Annie: Does it just mean "cool" or is it supposed to be, like, "miles ahead"?
Pierce: If you have to ask, you're streets behind.
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my mom's got our back
i kinda love email memes.
> FWD: VIRUS COMING ! > > I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing > up for this virus! > > I checked Snopes, and it is for real. Get this E-mail > message sent around to your contacts ASAP. > > PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND > CONTACTS! > > You should be alert during the next few days. Do...
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bmichael asked: Not that you've necessarily heard it, but what do you think of the new Crystal Castles album?
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EY-ya-fyat-la-yuh-cuttle
monkeytypist:
Close enough.
i don’t care how you say it. just give us back our erik.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Crystal Castles (19)
of Montreal (8)
The Fall (7)
Lady GaGa (7)
NPR (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Write one leaf about floppy discs.
(prompt via writeoneleaf)
If you walk in right now, you’d see my seated silhouette, the edges of my body fuzzy and out of focus, before the glow of my computer monitor. I am watching the Progress bar slowly crawl across the screen. Sometimes the animated bar pauses for a second too long and I worry that the Upload failed, but the bar makes a startling leap and Progress resumes. I am listening to...
“Mythbusters are notoriously bad at reproducing unlikely events that require a...”
– This is a WAY better physics demonstration than rubbing a plastic rod with a piece of wool : science, via jsomers
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Crystal Castles - Seed
Off the new EP, some real...
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planettampon:
Crystal Castles - Doe Deer
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verbs for yr ipad
touch
tap
drum (one’s fingers)
swipe
stroke
thump
thumb
paw
fiddle
grope
tickle
fondle
finger
Bow Wow Wow, “Jungle Boy”
“This guy’s walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so...”
– Leo McGarry to Josh Lyman, The West Wing (via alaskamiller) (via youmightfindyourself) (via yourmandevine) (via bwall05)
“you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you”
– David Foster Wallace on Life and Work - WSJ.com
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