April 2013
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clientsfromhell:
Me: (via email) Here is a link to your site for final approval before it goes live.
Client: It would be better if I just stopped by your office so I can see it. I’m more of a visual person.
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missrep:
#NotBuyingIt @DisneyStore
henryviiisensuite:
and here we have the differences between women’s and boy’s/men’s tshirts
you have GOT to be kidding me. #disney, shame on you.
A Terrified Child Genius Saves His Own Life With... →
One Comedian Picks On Adele. Then Another Comedian... →
Living retro moment #322
Walking into the kitchen in the morning to see dishes in the sink and thinking, “I should really get these in the dishw…Oh.”
- This living retro moment has been brought to you by the realization that a dishwasher is a pretty handy thing.
And the letter P. For Palmolive.
John Hamm needs to stop dressing... →
March 2013
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Jeanne Ives Phone Threat: Man Charged With Felony... →
From the Huffington Post. Illinois state Rep. Jeanne Ives, a Wheaton Republican, was the subject of a threat over recent remarks she made in opposition to same-sex marriage.
This is 2013, right? Sometimes I feel like we’re still living in the dark ages …
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Hollingsworth v. Perry.
JUSTICE BREYER: Assume that you could distinguish California. Assue that we accept your argument -- or Mr. Scalia's version of your argument. And that distinguishes California. Now, let's look at California: what precisely is the way in which allowing gay couples to marry would interfere with the vision of marriage as the procreation of children, that allowing sterile couples of different sexes to marry would not? I mean, there are lots of people who get married that can't have children. So take a state that does allow adoption and say, there -- what's the justification for saying "no gay marriage"? Certainly not the one you said, is it?
COOPER: Uh, y-y-y-you --
BREYER (interjecting): Am I not clear? Look: you said that the problem is marriage, as an institution that furthers procreation --
COOPER: Yes, Your Honor.
BREYER: And the reason there was adoption. But that doesn't apply to California. So imagine I wall off California, and I'm looking just there, where you say that doesn't apply. Now, what happens to your argument -- about the institution of marriage as a tool towards procreation? Given the fact that in California too, couples that aren't gay but can't have children get married all the time?
COOPER: Yes, Your Honor. The concern is that redefining marriage as a genderless institution will sever its abiding connection to its historic, traditional procreative purposes. And it will re-focus, re-focus the purpose of marriage a-and the definition of marriage away from the, uh, uh, raising of children and to the emotional needs and desires of adults, of adult couples.
(Crosstalk.)
KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, "Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we're not going to give marriage licenses any more to any couple where both people are over the age of 55." Would that be constitutional?
COOPER: No, Your Honor. It would not be constitutional.
KAGAN: Because that's the same State interest, I would think. You know? If you're over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the government's interest in protecting procreation through marriage. So why is that different?
COOPER: You, you, Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both couples -- both parties to the couple -- are infertile.
(Laughter from the gallery.)
KAGAN (interjecting): No really, because the couple -- I can just assure you if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage.
(More laughter.)
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“I am…not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions….But I know...”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1816 (via ardenashley)
That awkward moment when you agree with Thomas Jefferson… (via section9)
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“One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was...”
– Gabourey Sidibe (via thatkindofwoman)
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Advice to OKCupid guys #183, #234, #339, #34, et...
Choosing a username like “lonelyguy,” “marriedmonotony,” “d8ingsux,” or anything that replaces the “ss” in “ass” (azzzzzzzman, a22lover, etc.) will not make you attractive. At all. To anyone. EVER.
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Advice for OKCupid guy #341
Don’t use a photo, that you use in professional profiles, as your photo on OKCupid if you plan on publicly disclosing your drug use.
Not surprised your LinkedIN profile doesn’t list you as a rocket scientist …
Angry Orchard Elderflower.
Because sometimes a limited edition release is limited for a reason. (Not a fan. But I have four more bottles…)
Next up: Banana Beer Bread →
When life hands you beer, make beer bread!
I have approximately 9,642 miles of cable, CAT5, random wire, extension cords, and various media & computer peripheral cables. Why? No idea. And I swear I just got rid of a ton in this last move.
February 2013
30 posts
Supreme Court says FISA spying is 'none of our... →
wilwheaton:
In a 5-4 decision issued Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that individuals and organizations cannot challenge the constitutionality of FISA’s global surveillance regime without proof that they, in fact, are being spied upon, despite the fact that no one can know for sure that he’s being spied upon until after being arrested and shown the...
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25 Things You Don't Have to Justify to Anyone →
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical...”
– Naguib Mahfouz (via whatwhatwhat)
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“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via thatkindofwoman)
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“The first human response to such an unexpected disruption (the 35-minute...”
– The New Yorker, “The Super Bowl’s Blackout Malfunction.”
Students and practitioners of journalism: this is a great read, and perhaps the most sobering analysis of the events of Sunday evening.
While we were all having fun at the expense of the NFL and its embarrassing power outage, an entire TV...
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What a beautiful kindness this young man is giving... →
life-of-a-skinny-boy:
[CAUTION - LINK/IMAGE MAY BE TRIGGERING]
For the past four and a half months, I have had my address out on the internet as an invitation for anyone to send me their blades so they can take a step forward towards getting better.
In those four and a half months, I have received these:
71 blades
4 bobby pins
3 paper clips
2 safety pins
1 needle
1 letter opener
1...
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Need a healthy housekeeping recommendation
radiantmeatball:
Hi, all…
What product(s) do you use to clean and maintain your wood laminate floors? Do you use something like a Shark, in between hands-and-knees cleaning?
Is something like Murphy’s Oil the way to go, or is there something better/healthier/safer?
Found some and am posting here in case others would be interested:
...
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Neil Gaiman: The publisher's description of The... →
neil-gaiman:
The Ocean At The End of the Lane is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us.
It began for our narrator forty years ago when he was seven: the lodger stole the family’s car and committed…
Read ALL the Gaiman.
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via manchannel)
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