December 2008
78 posts
We're Going to Party Like It's 1929 - NYTimes.com →
oliviaisferosch:
Little article on doing a holiday dinner party — meal, wine and decor — on the “cheap” ($25 a head). Some good little tips. I am already thinking of what I am going to do—lights, candles, lanterns, cranberries, maybe some moss balls—it is going to be so pretty in here.
I think I’m still in the college phase (as mentioned in the lede). For my birthday party this coming Sat,...
November 2008
67 posts
“During an awkward moment, this hand gesture is used to mark the situation as...”
– Urban Dictionary: awkward turtle
During dinner, no one believed me when I told them about the Awkward Turtle. Thank god for Urban Dictionary. An alternative definition called the Awkward Turtle “the animal mascot of the awkward moment.” Tru dat.
I could survive for 41 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor
Created by Bunk Beds.net
ah, thanksgiving →
angierae:
26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He Ever Went To High School With On Night Before Thanksgiving
“While the consumption of alcohol will initially make the evening more tolerable, McCabe is ultimately expected to leave the bar after realizing he has just as little in common with all these assholes as he did when he was 15.”
Thanks Alainna!
Ugh. This is one of the pitfalls of having a...
It's nice when people on Twitter actually think... →
A New Wind Is Blowing in Chicago - NYTimes.com →
The quotidian beauty of Law & Order - Slate... →
To the biker douchebag waiting at Palo Alto with...
Dear Douche,
You may not have noticed, being a self-absorbed biker dickwad, that I, too, was waiting for the 6:06 Caltrain. I got to the station about 5:55. And then I realized the 5:55 didn’t show up. Nor did the 6:06. So when the 5:55 showed up about a half hour late, I, like everyone else, tried to get on bike car #1, or bike car #2. Both were full, so I wheeled myself back to the spot...
Mexican grocery store, FTW
Liv, I’m not sure it’s quite the steal the place on Ashland was, but this was my haul:
2 avocado
1 head spinach
1 head boston lettuce
2 head cauliflower
1 green onion bunch
2 lemon
1 orange
———-
Total= $9.50
(for that it’s worth, the two avocado cost $3 on their own)
“Lord knows, it’s time the butt got some respect. Ever since slavery,...”
– An appreciation of Michelle Obama’s beauty — and booty | Salon Life
As much as I think this reeks of the worst of MHL self referential academic drivel (and not really appropriate for the first lady either, methinks), reading it really makes me really miss college.
The conundrum I face with the Internet is that...
nickdouglas:
justine:
vinh:
Do I feign interest or do I tell them they have failed?
My friends have figured out that when talking to me they should preface any internet related conversation with, “I’m sure you have seen it already but…”.
They do this because if they don’t they get a lame response from me, usually along the lines of “oh… yeah… that’s cool…”. My attempts at humouring are quite...
“This is from a paper posted on my cubicle neighbor’s wall:
The Six Stages of...”
– The Brian Shaler Blog / / The Six Stages of Debugging
“The campaign comes after a series in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel titled...”
– Some See Big Problem in Wisconsin Drinking - NYTimes.com
tights are not pants →
“Dylan McAfee, an African-American girl in second grade at Georgetown Day, met...”
– Parents’ Night With the President - NYTimes.com
Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He... →
angierae:
laurao:
I can’t imagine giving up email. Even if it meant being the president.
My goodness! I can’t believe a president’s never had a laptop in the oval office. I mean, I can see the security implications (paticularly with all the government laptops that seem to go missing here - I wonder if Gordon Brown has one…), but I still find it surprising. How, then, does a president check...
Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He... →
I can’t imagine giving up email. Even if it meant being the president.
You win, IKEA, but only for tonight
I put together a bed from West Elm this morning. The directions were easy to follow, everything made sense and when I was finished, I had a lovely low-to-the-ground acorn colored wood bed to sleep on.
I’ve now been fighting with the same IKEA island for my kitchen for two days now. Yesterday’s issue was that even though I had the right size screwdriver, it wasn’t narrow enough...
“There are so many gerunds in places that do not need gerunds. She is insulting...”
– Jim Newell on Sarah Palin. [See also.] (via alexbalk)
Google Maps to the rescue on a Friday afternoon →
I do love me some LARPing… very awesome.
On a scale of one to ten...
… how weird is it to hang up a print, done my ex boyfriend’s mom, which is called “I’m not alone anymore,” which was given to me by her when the boyfriend and I were still together?
My parents crack me up
Despite my very apparent jeweyness (sp?), my parents are religious at all. We’ve never belong to a synagogue, we don’t celebrate the holidays except for Hanukah (as an excuse to give gifts), and my dad makes a mean pork loin. I don’t even want to talk about the Oppenheimer affinity for oysters. And yet, every once in a while, they send me something that reminds that yes, we are...
Valleywag To Become Section of Gawker.com →
There were audible gasps in my office today when this news was announced.
“Dear Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, David Plouffe, John Kerry, Al...”
– Dear Mr. President-elect, please take me off your spam list. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
“It’s the other set of charges, though, that makes Nicholas’s story into...”
– Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
This is much more titilating than a typical day at Ning HQ. We just sit at computer and type a lot.
My sister had a little run in with a homophobic...
Craigslist Pranks →
annicka:
bandwagonpete:
stupidinboston:
ineedtoo:
ellenclare:
inmywardrobe:
clarawalnuts:
This is my new favorite tumblr. He is fucking hilarious.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. How on earth did you find this masterpiece? This is hands-down, the funniest blog I have ever read. I mean, I cannot stop laughing right now and people (as usual) are looking at me funny as they walk by my pod.
...
“The Alaskan voters have spoken and me not being a dictator won’t be...”
– Gov. Sarah Palin, on the possibility of her becoming Alaska’s senator, should Stevens win and then be forced to step down.
First family Secret Service code names. →
annicka:
dkendall:
I know this is horrifically dorky, but I love that the Obama daughters’ code names are “Radiance” and “Rosebud.” We’ve got some softies in the Secret Service.
“In Hebrew, Rahm (רעם) means “thunder” and Barack (ברק) means “lightning.”
– Barack means Lightning, Rahm means Thunder (via rahmblr)
I think I better knock, knock, knock on wood.
(via tylercoates)
In which my decision to leave journalism is...
In my job of patroling Twitter for mentions of Ning, I see a lot of promotion of various new networks that people have created. Today I came across this: Bleeding Ink. The tagline is:
Hi, I’m a newspaper reporter, and I’m feeling screwed.
It’s not so bad being a cog in the social networking wheels of Silicon Valley. Plug I get to have a working salary. All in all, a good...
“Now everyone knows our Governor is a reasonable man, he cannot appoint himself;...”
– Governor ‘not interested’ in appointing self Obama’s replacement | Clout Street - local political coverage
