January 2012
December 2011
Hey everyone, when Tumblr finally throws its last...
LiveJournal?
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cwj replied to your quote: This effect, reflecting the difference in ease of… Does a large bibliographic citation in the middle of a paragraph count as a disfluency? Maybe not, because now I don’t remember what it said.
Academic writing is littered with large bibliographic citations, often reducing clarity and comprehensibility [Bartles & Jaymes (1983). Methods of abstraction and...
“This effect, reflecting the difference in ease of integrating words into their...”
– Does, um, talking, um, well, like this have, err, any effects? - Barking up the wrong tree
So if you ever wonder if I’m er…hoping you’ll remember something, you’ll know.
Just got back from watching M:I 4. It was exactly...
But they missed one good opportunity. How on earth do you not have Simon Pegg say “haboob” at least once?
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youveescaped replied to your post: I just started reading this interview with Marie Calloway (the “Adrien Brody” chick) and… oh god, am i in this writing demographic?
No.
The fundamental difference between you and these alt-lit writers is that you can write.
I read Eeeee Eee Eeee a couple of years ago and…well, Lin’s the best of the group in the same way I...
I just started reading this interview with Marie...
…I could have stopped after the first internet douchebag (Emily Gould) was name-dropped and really should have stopped after the second internet douchebag (Tao Lin) was name-dropped but I kept going a bit further.
What saved me?
“Calloway: I was a social recluse for most of my life…”
You’re 21 fucking years old! You don’t have a “most” to your...
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Dear Intarwebs:
polar-bear:
The phrase you are looking for is “lo and behold” - it’s not “low”.
The lo is a shortening of the Middle English word “loke”, which means look. This allows the expression to actually make sense, as in “look and see”, not some kind of gibberish nonsense like “below the general level and observe”.
Just thought you might want to know.
KTHNXBAI
I think ‘low and behold’...
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“Do unto others as skiddily bop a shoobop!”
– Jazz God (via seltzerlizard)
Did you know that thunder is just the sound of Jazz God playing spoons?
I just want to bang on my drum all day.
And I don’t even have a drum.
I'm trying to work out a ginger-molasses cookie...
(which is tough when you consider I try not to eat much processed sugar at all anymore.)
I made decent headway last night with an eggless dough with a TON of ginger in it. I think this weekend I can improve it a lot. But last night’s was good. Here’s my tiny-batch recipe:
35 grams butter
15 grams sugar
20 grams molasses
40 grams ap flour
pinch (1/2 tsp, maybe?) of baking...
Mistletoe Gets the Kiss-Off →
nybg:
Looking for that obligatory holiday kiss? You might be fresh out of luck. Thanks to droughts and an overall lack of consumer interest, The New York Times claims mistletoe is on its way out.
Good riddance.
We had a nargle infestation that took months to clear out last year.
“Damn has the syntax of an attributive adjective but the semantics of a scowl.”
– Language Log » A wee conventional implicature
Maybe the greatest sentence ever written on a linguistics topic. “Semantics of a scowl” alone is one of the finer turns of phrase I’ve read in any context in months.
Dear NASA,
Please rename your Orion program, because every time I see a headline about it I momentarily think it’s referring to the older, aborted Orion program from back when NASA had balls, boldness, and budget.
It’s as if Yugo started selling cars again but named them all Testarossa and Modena.
N.B. Jack, this has nothing to do with your awesome son. In fact, he deserves better. He...
I like it so much it should be called EGG SNOG.
“It is not clear whether Matilda approves. But the Algonquin’s general manager,...”
– The Algonquin Curtails Its Famous Cat - NYTimes.com
Mrs. Parker would not approve. The only buzz she ever approved of came from distilled spirits.
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Self-healing electronics could work longer and... →
And I bet poor Rusty Cartwright won’t get the tiniest bit of credit for it.
Under water for the foreseeable future;...
My world isn’t coming apart at the seams, my loved ones are okay, and everything will be fine, but I won’t have the time or the inclination to do more than make cameos around here for a while.
Men: if you’re like me and yo-yo a lot in weight, make sure you still have a black suit that fits.
Three Words
Arrogant, angry, clever.
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mmemordant replied to your post: Oy. BATTLESHIP. What?! Landry is in Battleship? Now I have to see it. Shit.
RESIST!!!
Find that inner reserve of steel and resist.
Oy. BATTLESHIP.
I’m not going to pollute your dash with the new trailer, but I do want to make two comments:
I think Peter Berg’s finally met a project he couldn’t do well.
Although it was funny to see Landry pop up to deliver one line to Riggins.
Threw together a quick pot of soup the other night...
Nothing remarkable about it at all, really. But…oooh that stock.
I brought the last of it to work today in a plastic container and when it was cold it was set up like a beautiful gelatin with the veggies and turkey in it. I mean, dense.
So. Much. Umami.
Theresa Couchman: Mary Sue, what are you? or why... →
adventuresofcomicbookgirl:
Looks like this essay was needed, so I went ahead and did it. Not sure I said everything I wanted to say, but I tried.
So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in…
Maybe the etymology is sexist, I’m not sure (neither am I qualified to say), but only the most craven...
Okay...I lied. I have to respond to this one...
deadpresidents:
bobbysplayhouse:
Dead Presidents: I promise this is my last post about this, otherwise I’m going to take hostages
bobbysplayhouse:
Dead Presidents: This whole argument about Jefferson and Slavery
deadpresidents:
First of all, I can’t believe there is a firestorm over this. A lot of things are up for debate, including what Jefferson’s racial views were, but there is no way...
We can step up our auditing and enforcement of...
Shame we can’t seem to stop bailed out bankers and hedge fund managers from buying cars and boats and granting themselves exorbitant bonuses with those other hard-won tax dollars. That must cost us trillions.
Good to see our priorities are as clear as ever.
WWF insane run
In three consecutive moves (three separate games; one move each) I played a 55-pointer with my full rack (I’m still going to lose that game) a 120-pointer and a 57-pointer.
Now, it’s back to playing ‘EFT’ and hoping for the best.
“How To Survive in a Science Fiction Universe”... →
I have no idea how this could possibly be translated to the screen.
Poorly, I imagine.
TT: Identity Theft Edition
DOB: 7 July, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
City of birth: Intercourse, PA
First pet’s name: Penry Pooch
Mother’s Maiden Name: Mud
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