August 2010
1 post
Google makes it possible to simultaneously log... →
July 2010
7 posts
2 tags
In a fight between your laptop screen and your...
1 tag
Earthquakes...
The one thing I absolutely hate about California. This one (3.6) had me shaking for about ten minutes after…and I’m still a bit jumpy.
I'm going to Vegas in a few weeks!
(for a conference…but still…it’s Vegas!)
Schwarzenegger has ordered minimum wage for all... →
June 2010
15 posts
Mommy, What's Gay Marriage? →
urbanredneck:
My youngest son is seven years old and works a skateboard better than most teens. He also enjoys hunting and guns, playing baseball… and reading.
He went this entire season of baseball without striking out and has just finished an autobiography by a World War II vet. We don’t know which is more pronounced: his athletic side or his brainy side, but we enjoy them...
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Why is it whenever I see the word "authetication"...
“It’s so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we’re afraid. It’s so stupid.”
– Sarah Dessen (via stadiumlove)(via wearevagabonds-) (via align)
*sigh* There’s a reason you don’t usually find *used* course CDs and such in campus bookstores: the activation codes required to use said CDs can usually only be used one time. The idea here is any subsequent owners have a fairly useless product in their possession and the publishers make more money. My campus bookstore, however, just sold me a used LabSim (for an online computer...
US Open traffic was horrible. It took almost an hour to make what’s usually a 20 minute drive. And that included taking some backroads…
“I’m not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I’m...”
– Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward during his opening statement at the House hearing on the oil spill this morning. You stay classy GOP! (via cajunboy) (via soupsoup)
Fun Quiz! Guess which member of the House has received more donations from the oil and gas...
What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke... →
mzchief:
internerd:
iamcup:
hammerito/jmek
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar...
Crisis (and, sadly, the possibility of me getting a shiny new iPhone 4) averted. Mom’s phone lost, found, and returned by a good Samaritan all within about an hour.
“Newlywed Jarretta Hamilton, an elementary school teacher in her late 30s at...”
– Teacher Fired for Having Premarital Sex | Women’s Rights | Change.org
Don’t you just love how forgiving conservative Christians can be? (via shorterexcerpts)
May 2010
2 posts
No class and a geeky evening means tomorrow will be a most excellent day.
My little ol’ late-2006 MacBook pro is now running the following:
Snow leopard & Ubuntu (dual boot)
Windows 7 (vm — I figure I shouldn’t have to reboot whenever I need it just for one program)
Another Linux version on cd (not quite ready to fully install it yet…)
If I had a bigger HD, I’d give each OS its own partition, but 120gb doesn’t go very...
April 2010
7 posts
Geek love
A friend of mine just totally made my day:
while (!endoftime())
{
me.love(you);
}
iPhone OS 4 details -- multitasking (finally) and... →
“Scare the world: Be exactly who you say you are and tell the truth.”
– via: i wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via applegamble)
March 2010
2 posts
“May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a...”
– ~ Irish Toast (via sflan)
Waking up to no power right after the time change (read: still mostly dark on my side of the house) is no fun…
February 2010
13 posts
Someone is blowing up gopher holes...
No joke.
For the past 10 minutes or so, we’d been hearing these explosions of varying sizes…they started out kinda quiet––like a car backfiring or something––and got progressively louder. The 3rd and 4th ones sounded more like a canon going off than a car backfiring, so we called the non-emergency number to report it/find out what’s going on…
As soon as we mentioned what...
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Call me a spoiled Californian, but I’m loving this weather right now. It’s 65 degrees right now (give or take a few). Just last week we were lucky to get up to 55 or so.
Just got back from my first ever wine tasting tour. I joined my mother’s sports car club for the River Road Wine Road Valentine’s day event and, though I was the youngest of the group by at least 20 years, I had a great time. Lots of tasty wines and ports were had — along with some less impressive ones.
“Instead of words like “right,” “left,” “forward,” and “back,” which, as commonly...”
– How does our language shape the way we think? (via Savage Minds, months later) (via calibea) (via bringmethathorizon) (via ericmortensen)
There are hundreds of frogs right outside my bedroom window and they will not be quiet. Double-paned windows would be mighty nice about now…
lickystickypickyme:
sistermarymartha:
Also. Seriously. I officially hate driving on the highway. I love city driving, I don’t mind traffic in the city, because I love maneuvering around and whipping in and out. But highway driving? The speed gives me too much anxiety. There is just no fucking reason to drive that fast. BEING DEAD WILL GET YOU NOWHERE, YOU DUMB FUCKS. JESUS.
this is my life....
Somehow I doubt a police officer would believe me if I said “a mouse ate my registration” but in this case, it’s the truth. I opened my glove box today and found my registration half-eaten.
January 2010
8 posts
“Now, where’s my cell phone?”
– A relative (while talking on her cell phone) before her morning coffee
“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known...”
– Alcibiades (submitted by bluerthanyou) (via quote-book) (via applegamble)