March 2011
64 posts
“Nerds are allowed to LOVE stuff. Like...”
– John Green (via thesequoteshave)
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jwisser:
sailorbaby:
dr. messer yelled at me for improper computer use and told me that “we have a relationship” and he was hurt that i would email during class.
senior. unperturbed.
Man, during my senior year I played Flash games in class just to stay awake.
During my senior year there was no Internet in the classrooms. Most of the profs didn’t allow laptops in the classroom...
“Phone calls are rude. Intrusive. Awkward. “Thank you for noticing something that...”
– Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com
germs at the office
Me: "Mind if I use your hand sanitizer?"
Boss's boss: "That's why I got it out. I'm going to wipe down the handle to my office door, too."
Me: "I opened it with my elbow."
Boss's boss: "You're so considerate."
“The person that is struggling to the best of his abilities, who has no desire to...”
– Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain Pithless Thoughts: An Orthodox View of Salvation
jlittle1:
Sailor, Baby: An Email from T. Scott Gordon, Director of Student Activities at Grove City College, just received.
sailorbaby:
Greetings –
I read your current article about Candice Watters’ recent chapel. It expresses your view well – one point I wanted to bring to light was your statement “Don’t women here already face overwhelming pressure ….. antiquated jingles and OB skits?...
“But the real Rebecca Black story, for me, is what she decided to do about it....”
– Ridiculed YouTube Singer Rebecca Black Grabs A Mountain Of Bull By The Horns : Monkey See : NPR
“The truth is, the conventional wisdom about why we get fat is simply wrong....”
– Why existing efforts to combat childhood obesity are bound to fail. By Gary Taubes - Time to Trim - Slate Hive
And yet if we accepted the actual science of fat accumulation, we wouldn’t get to think of fat as a moral failing, and THEN who would be the socially-acceptable group to feel...
Roseanne | Regretsy →
Just… read the story.
aliceisms:
Cuz I don’t really see my faith that way. Somehow I feel like studies of truth should be relevant in all moments of life, not just in certain pockets, even if I can’t comprehend it yet. But I still want to ask, even in the taboo moments. I’m just so tired of sunday school faith.
Silly Tumblr won’t let me reply directly because you reblogged me, so…
So,...
“The story of the black gentrifier, at least from this black gentrifier’s...”
– Confessions of a Black D.C. Gentrifier - Washington City Paper
City Paper. Killing it like they do.
(via tbridge)
Have only read the first page of this, but cannot WAIT to read the whole thing. It also has been enthusiastically recommended by an acquaintance in Ward 8 whose opinion I respect on...
“There are more of us than ever who not only accept doubt, but see it as...”
– Jon M. Sweeney: Doubt is the Faith That Binds Us Together
St. Patrick's "Breastplate" Prayer (The Prayer... →
For St. Patrick’s Day. No, he didn’t write it, but he didn’t drive any snakes out of Ireland, either.
Abstruse Goose » The Frontier →
tbridge:
For those of us who began dialing into university networks, this is a strong remembrance.
*sniffle* ah, my totally-not-misspent youth.
“This, for outsiders, is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where...”
– SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian
“While she was occupied, I turned to a little arts-and-crafts project. Somehow it...”
– The invasive lionfish: a delicious creature that deserves to die. - By Nathan Thornburgh - Slate Magazine
Rainbows in the cafeteria??
ohmachiolee:
This just in…
Girlfriend has informed me that for St. Patty’s day the cafeteria staff has been working on (for the past 2 days!) a giant rainbow made of sugar.
There is going to be gay pride right in the middle of the damn campus. They chose a rainbow because well…25% of the people that work for the cafeteria are gay and another 74.9% is supportive. They are also well aware of...
“The purpose, philosophically speaking, is to find my purpose. Be helpful to...”
– Raising Kvell | Blog | Mayim Bialik On Being Jewish, And Why She Digs It
“The project has produced one of the most remarkable documents in the center’s...”
– Secret Fears of the Super-Rich - Magazine - The Atlantic
Proving, with research, that money doesn’t buy happiness. The article is long, so I’ve only read the first page, but that much of it was intriguing and the rest of it is waiting for me in Instapaper.
“Aggregation” can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one...”
– All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate - NYTimes.com
Recut 'Ferris Bueller' Trailer Accidentally Nails... →
2002
Oh good, a meme for a Saturday night.
In late January 2002, my college boyfriend (he was still in college, I was a year and a half out) and I broke up. And by “broke up,” I mean we realized that we could choose to STOP making each other miserable. Choices!
In early February 2002, I decided I needed a change of scene, preferably involving a few hours of highway time with the CD player...
Victim-blaming at NYT (AlterNet) →
Including a quote about how the (technically “alleged,” but shown on video in the act) rapists are “going to have to live with this the rest of their lives” and then going on for a paragraph about the 11-year-old victim dresses is pretty freaking egregious. What year is this again?
true story
Since yesterday was Chow Yun Fat Tuesday, Tom and I invited our friends Stephanie and Hal over for Chinese delivery and a kung fu movie. My kung fu movie collection is nascent and Hal is the far more experienced connoisseur, so we asked him to select the evening’s entertainment. He brought some choices, and we settled on “Master of the Flying Guillotine.” All you need to know...
too much
A colleague I work pretty closely with stopped by my desk this morning to talk about one of our shared projects. She is always impeccably dressed, but on this particular occasion, she was wearing this fantastic red jacket with red silk flowers placed where the buttons would be, and also around the cuffs.
I complimented her on it, and she told me the story of how she found it in a consignment shop...
experimental tart is the name of my next band
Okay, I asked for a tart pan with a removable bottom for Christmas. Tom found me one. I haven’t used it yet, and I think it’s a dirty shame. But none of the tart recipes I was looking at online appealed, or called for one ingredient I didn’t have, or something like that. So here’s what I’m thinking:
Shortbread crust. And then the filling is either a jar of homemade...
