April 2011
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If Space Shuttle launches got as much...
Endeavour’s final launch scheduled for 3:47 PM EST today.
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BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump takes credit for...
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I'm proof that even _________ can hate the Royal...
Fill in the blank with whatever is appropriate for you.
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ficklechick asked: If you had to change your first name, what would you change it to?
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Goodbye XM...
My new car came with a trial (2 or 3 months?) of XM radio. I’ve had satellite radio in rental cars before, so I was past the novelty of it, but enjoyed having it in the car. However, my enjoyment of it is not in proportion to the monthly cost of it, so I let the trial lapse (or rather, I ranted and raved into the phone numerous times to get myself off their pester-call-list after getting...
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unbindingme-deactivated20120821 asked: Hi Ross.. The very first question for you will be: Have you named your laptop yet?
It's nice to have you on board. From the little I've read so far, you seem like a good person to follow.
It's nice to have you on board. From the little I've read so far, you seem like a good person to follow.
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Watchmakeherblueagain:
bookworm91691:
ready-set-rock:
ohmyrikerlynch:
acciovoldy:
zcatz:
isnotevenbritish:
dontmakepeopleintoheroes:
crayolasaurus:
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madgirlwithabox:
betterabrokenheart:
what the fuck am I doing
Oh my God. THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.
THE LACK OF AIR IS ASTOUNDING
LOL WTF
CALLING WHOVIANS! LOLOLOL!
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Date Night tonight.
The real thing, not the Tina Fey flick.
Got any good ideas for what we should do?
Leading the list so far is dinner & billiards.
I think my sister-in-law and her husband are joining us, so (clean) foursome activity suggestions only, please?
It’s graduation day! The Bean moves from a crib to the CP’s toddler bed, and the CP gets a new twin. And I move everything around. Whew!
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I don't FEEL like I drank this whole bottle of...
…but nevertheless, it’s gone, and now I have nothing to pair with my goldfish snack crackers.
I’m turning into Fun Bobby.
Just told my 6 year old that eating carrots will help her see better. She acted like I was trying to put one over on her. Cynical at 6!
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In Which I Over-Analyze And Pretend It Will Help...
Click through to read one of the most thorough, interesting, and well-thought out pieces of humor analysis I’ve ever read.
dustandair:
jonaspolsky:
I can finally admit that.
I wrote this, and everyone hated it.
“Fertility drugs have become so advanced parents could feasibly give birth to infinituplets.”
It bombed, so I reworked it and posted this;
“M.C. Escher’s wife is still giving...
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What's in a name?
michelle-said posted a hilariously tragic story about how she got her laptop, Chardonnay Lionheart, addicted to cheap eBay power cords. Yes, Michelle is an enabler. But enough about her; the most important part of her story is not the sad spiral of decay that her poor Macbook Pro has fallen into, but rather its name.
Chardonnay Lionheart.
That is one truly fucking awesome name for a laptop.
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Knitting or Crocheting or Something Else?
Way back when (read: about 10 years ago) my soon-to-be mother-in-law taught me how to crochet. I wasn’t ever really good at it - I think I got 3/4 of the way through a couple of scarves before I misplaced the hooks or lost the yarn or whatnot and gave it up.
I didn’t let my lack of skill detract from the pleasure of the activity, though. I did enjoy keeping my hands busy while my...
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If you scramble to find the "close" button on your...
That’s why I just leave it blatantly up on my monitor, so people don’t have to guess whether I actually am or not.
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Braving the HOA
When our Home Owners Association (HOA) formed a few years back, nobody stood up and announced their intent to be on the board. My next-door neighbor, who had been involved in a couple HOAs in the past, took on the onus of being HOA president and managed to guide us through a couple of years of getting a brand new neighborhood organized. I volunteered to create and run the HOA website, since she...
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GREEN BUDS AND HASH (A Pot Poem for 4/20) →
Happy 4/20 to all who partake of the herb.
fuckyeahdrseuss:
GREEN BUDS AND HASH
A pot poem by Dana Larsen
Would you like green buds and hash? - No I would not, Mister Stash! Would you like them in a bong? Would you like them all day long? - No I would not in a bong! - No I would not all day long! - I do not like green buds and hash. - I do not want them Mister Stash! Would you like them...
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Yep, they mind.
Mr. IT caught up with me in the hall after my run and said he got a ping that my machine was involved in some filesharing/p2p activity and the network monitoring software recommended a scan of my machine to verify no viruses are present that are causing it. I explained it was user-initiated but promised to run a scan and more importantly, stop doing the downloads on this machine.
Oh well, I...
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So do you think my IT department will care that I...
It only took about 30 mins to download.
At these speeds, I’m considering downloading the other 20+ GB from previous years’ SXSW torrents.
I’m expecting a visit this afternoon by the head of IT asking what I’m doing and why I’m hogging all the bandwidth.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
Muse (17)
Kelley McRae (3)
The Fratellis (2)
Rammstein (1)
Frente! (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Truthful Tuesday
I haven’t kept Passover since I met my wife. Which is to say, since college. Which is to say, since 10 years ago.
As an example of my failure to be a good Jew, today I had a turkey sandwich on a cinnamon-raisin bagel, a side of sourdough pretzels, and just stuffed my face with a couple of bowls of Ronzoni “Smart Taste” Rotini pasta for dinner.
Oh yeah, and half a can of...
The CP is doing her first big school project - a Reduce, Reuse, Recycle poster. Let the fun times begin.
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The Capitalist in the Hat - Robert P. Murphy -... →
Interesting look at the entrepreneurial nature of Dr. Charles Cohen, who “discovered” the old Dr. Seuss stories in magazines from the ’50s, bought issues at $2-$5 on eBay and sold them at $200-$400 to collectors. (It wasn’t until a publisher at Random House discovered what he was selling that they commissioned the reprinting of the original Seuss stories.)
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The Duluth airport is tiny. They have a total of 4 gates, and they only use 2 of them.
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“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life,...”
– Hubert Humphrey
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This morning, I was really excited to see what...
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unpunkmonk replied to your post: alohabetty replied to your post: Locked in my…
They should switch you immediately, since your happiness and social success should be their goal….
They offered, I declined. Here’s why -
An odd little thing about me - about 5 minutes after I enter a hotel room, my suitcase explodes. I’m talking full-scale shrapnel:
My clothes end up sprawled on...
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alohabetty replied to your post: Locked in my hotel room. Ok, technically, I can…
Why wouldn’t you be able to get back in?
The keyreader ain’t working. We tried 5 different cards, and even the desk clerk’s master keycard was hit-or-miss (worked 1 time in 6 or so). I’m pretty sure the unit’s on its last legs, so I’m just going to hole up in here tonight, and...
Locked in my hotel room. Ok, technically, I can get out, but I won’t be able to get back in tonight. So, I repeat: Locked in my hotel room.
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itsathought replied to your photo: Never quite learned exactly how “Jews for Jesus”…
Why are the embarrassed?
Hah, I forgot how odd that name sounds to someone who hasn’t spent 1.5+ years here. Embarrass, MN is named after the Embarrass River. French fur traders and explorers named the river “Embarras” (French for “to hinder or obstruct”) because while...
