November 2011
1 post
I hate Google right now
Google Reader is gone and I’m so mad I could spit. Some idiot at the advertising giant looked at the lovely Google Reader and said “people like this but they don’t like Google+. You know what would be a smart thing to do? If we forced the users of our popular service to move to our unpopular one.” So that’s bad enough. Then they decided that removing the social part...
April 2011
1 post
Disappointment Juice
Today, I was saddened to learn that Minute Maid orange juice got its name from a marketing firm, thanks to a fast dehydration method first engineered for the Army. It is NOT named after a tiny cleaning lady who squeezes the oranges. For that reason, it’s pronounced “minit maid” and not “my-noot maid.”
Late early thirties
sarahb:
iPod on shuffle offered up the one-two punch of Innocence Mission’s “Into Brooklyn, Early in the Morning,” and then “Aaron and Maria,” by American Analog Set. I won’t get into my initial reaction since it’s all I ever fucking talk about, but my second thought was when did I get so pussy?
God damn, I love that Am Am Set song. Beware the ravages of age!
March 2010
2 posts
7 tags
Wha?
Just now, on Rachel Maddow’s show, Tracy Weitz said “abortion is fundamentally a service that women need and one in three women in this country will need at some point before the end of their reproductive years.”
Uh, what? One of every three American women has an abortion? Is that true or was she just speaking ungracefully about women using reproductive planning services like...
December 2009
1 post
No more W train? MTA: Fuck You →
sarahb:
awpeeps:
(via osmium)
See also: cutting service on the G train. Is it possible to cut service on the G train? It only runs like twice a day as is.
November 2009
2 posts
October 2009
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September 2009
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July 2009
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June 2009
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May 2009
10 posts
“Portions of the Apollo 11 mission are dramatized in the HBO mini-series From the...”
– Wikipedia
BookMooch →
kayfabe:
BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you’ve read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else, as you wish.
Yeah, or you could just come to my house and steal food right out of...
Overheard on the sidewalk
Maintenance man: They live by the water, right?
Long Island lady: Some of them live in trees.
Maintenance man: I didn't know that.
Long Island lady: Yes, so they get to know the birds and the birds get to know them.
Me: (WTF ???)
April 2009
10 posts
sarahb:
Lucksmiths, “Guess How Much I Love You”
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“It’s such a perverted movie. It’s all about Ecstasy. I swear! Look...”
– Miley Cyrus on Alice in Wonderland
What's your NPR name? →
sarahb:
Mine is Sareah Holdenville.
Mine is Jayq D’Lo (pronounced Jake Deelo). Awesome.
People Who Sit In The Disability Seats When I’m... →
March 2009
10 posts
Letter to the Editor from the Clarksdale Press...
prosaictemplar:
No way. But apparently, there is a Rickey Braxton on the Honor Roll: http://www.cmsd.k12.ms.us/honorlists.htm
Will Oldham played the father of the little girl who fell down the well in The Jessica McClure Story. (via ResonanceFM)
February 2009
5 posts
Rock, Paper, Scissors (aka roshambo) rules
The official roshambo rules of the Ultimate Players Association add “fire” and “water” as potential trumps. Fire will beat any of the standard weapons (rock, paper, scissors), but a player may only throw it once in his entire lifetime. Water may be played as many times as one wishes, but loses to any throw except fire. (Those who adopt this trump depend on good...