August 2011
24 posts
Why My Co-Workers Suspect I Live in the House from...
-My room doesn’t have a heater
-It only has one outlet
-There are no screens on my windows
-This problem just got compounded by the existence of a wasp nest outside
-The wasps are supposedly as large as cockroaches
-No air conditioning
-I mentioned that my floorboards squeak as if they’re about to break
-I said my roommates always walk around in their underwear, causing them to ask if they’re just...
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me, IRL
recently i’ve exposed my critical side via The Tangential, so sometimes i wonder how people who know me from the internet perceive me. here’s what some people said about me, re: am i too negative:
“I briefly wondered why you were so quiet at the party, but after reading your posts, I realize it was probably because you were silently judging everyone. Which I’ve found quite...
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Tangential Activity Book
i made this the other night because it seemed like fun. Here’s an excerpt:
Download it here.
i found the government's website for "girls'...
omg a quiz! i can’t wait! will it be zany? i wanna go take it NOW!
ew government, don’t talk about periods with prepubescent girls. also, kayla, alex and amber aren’t real. i can tell.
best bones forever! forever and ever, even when we’re too dead to get our social security! (hehe it doesn’t exist)
yeah! i was totally just like, jeez, i soooooo...
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Why you should know who Clotaire Rapaille is
In America the cheese is dead, which means it’s pasteurized, which means legally dead and scientifically dead, and we don’t want any cheese that is alive, then I have to put that up front. I have to say this cheese is safe, is pasteurized, is wrapped up in plastic. I know that plastic is a body bag. You can put it in the fridge. I know the fridge is the morgue; that’s where you...
Why the NYT paywall is working - via Wired
The fact is that no one subscribes to the WSJ or the FT because of their exclusivity. As a result, the smart thing for both papers to do is to maximize their paying readership by maximizing their overall readership. Instead, both have taken a scared and defensive approach to digital subscriptions, fearing that if their readers can get their content for free, then they won’t pay.
Read-y read-y
S.A. Shopping List - A Collaborative Piece by...
I asked people on Twitter what to buy and here’s what they said:
-“nachos w/ wayyy too many jalapeños.”
-baby donuts
-hot dogs
-Corn Nuts
-tiny Altoids
- Big Gulp
-Hot Tamales
-Gummi worms, sour gummi worms,
-Twizzlers
-Reeses peanut butter eggs, regular Reeses, ice cream Reeses
-Jumbo Slim Jim
My real shopping list: marb menthol lights, Coke Zero, and WILD CARD....
I see the antagonist in Tyra Banks' "Modelland"...
Tookie wheeled around. The hairy hag was Abigail Goode, sideburns in full glory, faint mustache above her upper lip, unshaven leg hair coating her calves, underarm hair swaying in the wind, and a DOWN WITH RAZORS! picket sign still in her hands. The girl she was fighting with tried out a karate move on her, but Abigail expertly evaded her blow.
1. I love that her name is “Abigail...
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Bye Zediva
In my inbox:
Dear Zediva Member,
You may have heard by now that we’re having to lay off our DVD-changing monkeys… :-)
A couple of years ago we came up with an idea for the next generation of DVD rentals. It seemed to us logical and evolutionary that if a customer was able to rent and play a DVD in his home, there should be no reason why he or she could not do that from the Internet...
