June 2011
“The official release from new MySpace owner Specific Media had an interesting...”
– UPDATE: Justin Timberlake Will Take Stake In MySpace After News Corp Sells Site For $30M-$40M To Specific Media – Deadline.com
He was pissed that Zuckerberg cut him out of the day-to-day operations for partying too much.
“This epidemic of paralysis first made the pages of the New England Journal of...”
– The Ginger Jake poisonings « Mind Hacks
“He’s made his name with a controversial show that catches would-be...”
– To Catch a Predator’s Chris Hansen ‘caught cheating on his wife’ | Mail Online
Epicaricacy is my favorite self-indulgence.
(Why use German when there’s a perfectly good, if almost never used, Greek-based word.)
“Tito Puente’s gonna be dead, and you’re gonna say, Oh, I’ve...”
– John Winger
You know how annoying the ads on Pandora are?
They’re a lot less annoying when you listen to a Lalo Schifrin station. Now I don’t have to hear craptastic Applebee’s ads.1 I think. My Spanish is really weak.
[1]. “Craptastic” modifies both “Applebee’s ads” and “Applebee’s.”
Sex butler
mmemordant:
muffpunch replied to your post: I’m so screwed
I was just thinking the other day how I needed a sex butler and now this. Serendipity! (ps. I don’t know what a sex butler is.)
It’s something an ex of mine used to say whenever I complained about my job: “Don’t worry, when I get famous I’ll pay you to be my sex butler.”
I assume it means “one who buttles, sexually.”
I imagine a...
Oxford Writing and Style Guide no longer... →
catty1:
doublejack:
flavorpill:
harpermd:
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be used — especially where one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’.
YES. I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
RIP Oxford Comma
I’m okay...
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WatchSometimes, I manage to put aside thoughts of the Stepford wife, the Scientology, the inanity, and the insanity.
Times like…
Brad Bird directing; J.J. Abrams writing and producing; Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg co-starring with his Wackness; and even a hint of Lalo Schifrin leaking into the trailer.
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paulosthegreek replied to your post: I’m on my fourth complete refresh of WWF in the last 12 hours… I was getting it constantly on the (paid) iOS version a couple of weeks ago. Lasted three or four days but has been stable since.
...
I'm on my fourth complete refresh of WWF in the...
…I certainly hope the iOS version is more stable and reliable than this piece of shit Android port.
These Zynga guys could give the Tumblr “engineers” a run for their money.
I am Baron von Barren, Lord of the Wastelands.
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(Yes. I have decided to take one joke post and turn it into a series as if from a children’s book. If only I could work in watercolors.)
Christophe the crossing guard craved crêpes....
Florence flung flatbread into the fire. Fast.
Peter the punter had no pita. Pity.
Nana the nun had no naan. None.
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
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Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
Article 1 section 3 would probably say something...
“The Supreme Court decision striking down public matching funds in Arizona’s...”
– NYTimes.com (via azspot)
When eventually (50, maybe a hundred years hence) our nation momentary wakes and slips the bonds of our corporate overlords in a paroxysm of rage and righteousness, I hope there is not much blood.
More than that, however, I hope our inheritors have the wisdom to...
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Zooty Zoot Zoot!
Yeah, Penn and Teller!
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“Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in...”
– The wrong John Wayne - Washington Times
Okay, that’s pretty funny.
(via tiffanyb)
Michele Bachmann is Michele Bachmann’s Waterloo.
Random thought.
love-and-radiation:
Did Ace the Bat-Hound witness the brutal murder of his parent dogs and vow to stop all criminal dogs, or did Batman just go to the pound and randomly pick a dog to condition into a top crime-fighting machine?
Write one leaf in which there is at least one...
writeoneleaf:
pages about + ask + random+ f^ + t^ | sponsors You Are a Dog [kindle]
This leaf contains one error. It is, more precisely, a meta-error.
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painedbrain replied to your photo: They spend eternity snaking Cat-5 through Satan’s… Satan hasn’t upgraded to Cat 6?
We certainly are a twisted pair.
Summer has come to Phoenix, and while I won’t lie and say I wouldn’t prefer it to be cool in the morning as a break, in general the hot isn’t too hot for me.
My big problem is that my office sits between a golf course and a man-made pond. When the heat hits all that muck and moist and fertilizer, something…bad…happens.
It smells like the mess hall in a Ukrainian...
You know what makes a good Pandora station?
Explosions in the Sky.
“Then they complicated matters by introducing decoys. Like Trajan, the decoys...”
– Is there a way to make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex without changing anything about yourself at all? - Barking up the wrong tree
Wingmen take note.
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cwj replied to your post: House stuff Um, you had a couple of paragraphs there with no footnotes.
I’ll try to cobble something together for those later. Something nice and kicky with a lot of soul.
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House stuff
Over Memorial Day weekend, we emptied our master, moving our old mattress to a spare room and putting it on the floor. Clean, clean, clean; take down blinds; spackle and knockdown; throw out old ceiling fan; paint the ceiling; paint the walls; paint the walls again because of picture framing in this dry, hot desert.
TheWife decided we should take out the tile ourselves. It’s cheaper, by a...
