June 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
Chrome (8)
Fighter X (8)
eurocheque (8)
They Might Be Giants (8)
Crystal Castles (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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today in minor crises
Last week I had to mow god knows how many acres of lawn for my parents while my little brother, the usual groundsboy, was in California eating at In-N-Out and harassing scientologists (and yet he purchased a copy of Dianetics “for lulz”). With my brother gone, I could mow in an efficient continuous spiral instead of my brother’s inefficient but aesthetically pleasing technique of...
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speaking of mike judge
I was watching Office Space on TV last night, and there’s that scene where Peter is trying to duck out of work early. He peeks over his cubicle and sees his boss, and it’s this pretty suspenseful moment where he has to sneak out of his office unseen. It reminded me of a similar sequence in The Matrix (another 1999 movie) where Neo is trying to sneak out of an office area from one of...
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Australian 'angel' saves lives at suicide spot →
via givemesomethingtoread:
In those bleak moments when the lost souls stood atop the cliff, wondering whether to jump, the sound of the wind and the waves was broken by a soft voice. “Why don’t you come and have a cup of tea?” the stranger would ask.
“[W]hat else could make your quagmire look more like Vietnam than saying that...”
– Rolling Stone gathers army boss [Monocle] (via southpol)
reblogging not because of the quote but the title of the article, reprinted for emphasis:
“Rolling Stone gathers army boss”
the fuck is wrong with people?
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nothing but crumpled pornos and ayn rand
Bender: You guys realize you live in a sewer, right?
Dwayne: Perhaps, but perhaps your civilization is merely the sewer of an even greater society above you!
Leela: No. We're on the top.
Fry: Daylight and everything.
Vyolet: It must be wonderful.
Bender: Meh.
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“I like you Seymour. You’re not constantly judging me like all the other...”
– Fry of Futurama talking to a dog named Seymour Asses in ”Jurassic Bark”.
Edit: OH MY GOD this episode is the saddest thing ever
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Get Creative: 7 research-based techniques to... →
creativity = problem-solving (via psychotherapy)
Eurocheque - “CIA”
I guess when you...
Death by fire in the gulf - Los Angeles Times →
BP is torching sea turtles caught in booms alive.
i was hoping to read some literature tonight
but uhhh i just got an email from popcap games about a new game and i want to play the demo.
the game looks kinda out-of-my-wheelhouse though, so maybe i will read something today.
edit: i hate this game, but i don’t want to stop playing
Cory Doctorow's "For the Win" →
via azspot:
First things first: Have you read sci-fi-novelist/cyber-rights-polemicist Cory Doctorow’s latest, For the Win? And if not, why on earth are you reading this blog instead? Seriously: Most of what you could learn from seven years’ worth of Terra Novan scribblings on the meanings of virtual economies, the seductions of MMOs, and the emergence of digital play as a global socioeconomic...
“The line between the world of Starship Troopers and Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed...”
– Starship Troopers | Film | The New Cult Canon | The A.V. Club (via iamdanw)
dailymeh:
Continued experiments in taking folk beliefs literally: consider the idiom or belief that dead people “live on in the memories of those who knew them.” It’s a saying that manages both to be comforting and not to invoke supernaturalism. Metaphorically, it makes perfect sense. But picture this: a foreign organism, a parasite, somehow having distributed itself, hive-mind like, over...
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If it's not love, then it's
postfacklr:
the bomb
the bomb
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the bomb
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that will keep us together
Lots of present participles
alexwhines:
In the downtime between rounds of bingo last night, Ben suggested that the bingo cards contained encoded messages. These messages, the theory goes, were left there by an imprisoned bingo factory worker. I objected, not because I don’t think Big Bingo uses slave labor, but because they would be stuck with only five different letters in their messages.
Here is a smattering of what...
shoe story
I had been trying to do some running for the past couple weeks, but my right shoe had been driving me crazy. It just didn’t feel or fit right, and I always found myself tying and retying it and adjusting the tongue or tweaking the insole—all to no avail. For a couple sessions, I tried wearing two socks on my right foot but it barely helped and my shoe kept on killing me.
Last night, I...
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inflectional viri
little sister: We have to make some orange juliuses.
tristan: *ahem* It's "orange julii".
little sister: Haha you'd be the one who'd know that.
tristan: I just made that up actually.
little sister: Wait, so what is it?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
They Might Be Giants (13)
Crystal Castles (9)
CAC (Cyklon Anticyklon) (7)
Karen Cooper Complex (6)
Eric Grimson, John Guttag (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …
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5-Second Films | Gentleman Caller →
douglaswolk:
It’s really eight seconds long including the credits. But definitely worth it.
