August 2009
2 posts
the government can’t do anything right
“This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric...
July 2009
12 posts
Find out what song was #1 the day you were born...... →
lamebot:
carinaavila:
love-and-radiation:validation:tnkcmndr:helicopterparty:robotindisguise:(via sharpytoe)
(Just like) Starting Over - John Lennon. Yikes I’m old.
Barbara goddamn Streisand’s “Woman in Love.” The hell? I didn’t have a chance in hell.
Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns ‘n’ Roses.
fuck yeah? hahaha
I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston.
Mmmmhmmm.
Head to Toe by...
WatchThe first part of the previous video. Shame they aren’t together in one place.
WatchOne of my favorite scenes from (500) Days of Summer.
lamebot:
Straylight Run | Hands in the Sky (Big...
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
How do I...
bored? →
lamebot:
if there is a hell, i’m going to it.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends...”
– Upton Sinclair
Ever looked at the facebook employment benefits? →
lamebot:
Yeah, I wish I knew MYSQL right now. Free food all day, free dry cleaning/laundry service. Unlimited sick days, blah blah blah blah I want.
If you think that’s great take a look at the Microsoft employee benefits: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/benefits/plan.mspx
It might not be free food and laundry but how can you say no to free health care, free beverages,...
WatchJennifer’s Body Trailer
June 2009
7 posts
Kiva →
Have you heard about this? Apparently it’s a micro-lending site where you loan money to people in developing nations or other entrepreneurs around the world and then they pay you back. You get to help them get their idea off the ground and you also get your money back (one would hope). Check it out.
WatchI guess we can use it as a nursery…
I guess WE COULD USE IT AS ANYTHING!!!
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Links from today
10 Units of Measure You Don’t Know
The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate (4 reasons why)
XtraDB: InnoDB on Steroids
10 Collective Nouns You Don’t Know
Tony Awards Dress Rehearsal
A bunch of my friends got tickets to the Tonys Dress Rehearsal on Sunday morning. It was amazing to sit in Radio City and see all the performers live, see (some of) the presenters, watch stand-ins accept (for this rehearsal only) awards, and listen to Neil Patrick Harris be awesome.
For those of you who watched the Tonys last night, the closing number you saw was almost entirely the same as the...
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Links from today
Wolfram|Alpha Easter Eggs
http://slashweb.org/web/13-more-awesome-wolfram-alpha-easter-eggs.html
http://slashweb.org/web/11-awesome-wolframalpha-easter-eggs.html
http://mashable.com/2009/05/30/wolfram-easter-eggs-mashable/
Google Chrome for Mac and Linux
http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/danger-mac-and-linux-builds-available.html
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“The heart wants what the heart wants”
– Woody Allen
May 2009
5 posts
2 years 3 months 20 days ago →
(Time courtesy of Wolfram|Alpha)
Taken on Feb. 8th, 2007
Since I started this blog. I was a sophomore in college. So much has changed since then.
I last blogged 4 months 3…
Puke in My Mouth > Jizz in My Pants →
Ahahaha. I think one of my favorite lines in this is the “drank kombucha and puked in my mouth” cause I’ve been drinking that stuff all week and maaaan it’s hard to keep down. I think it’s the…
Dress shopping. There’s a first time for everything, right?
April 2009
12 posts
I mean, Gawain was at least as famous as @aplusk. All he’d have to do is tweet once and read the replies, right?
In the age of twitter, how hard would it have been for Sir Gawain or the knight from the Wife of Bath’s tale to discover what women want?
Watching the swine flu white house briefing: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Just listed myself in the http://localtweeps.com local Twitter directory in ZIP/Postal Code 07030
Lightsaber battle in Washington Square Park tonight http://bit.ly/TTZVW
Just hit a bunch of strangers with a cardboard tube. Thx newmindspace!
re-installing Windows XP on an older laptop. This machine hasn’t be reformatted in 4 years and I’m looking forward to a speed boost.
The accepted students reception starts at 2pm on Palmer lawn. Come and support SDS and show kids just how much fun we have! (plus free food)
I want to walk across the brooklyn bridge tonight, anyone want to go with me?
At cirque du soleil kooza.this tent is a little more up close and personal than I was expecting.
Just bought my tickets to Star Trek in IMAX for May 8th. Feel free to join me http://bit.ly/vWFkB
Up late on thursday night (friday morning) finishing some coding. I think it’s about time I got back into the microblogging for a bit.
March 2009
30 posts
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist shows me just how much I’m going to miss NYC. I hope Seattle is at least half as cool.
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #tech #web #socialmedia
Why did I reply to myself? I must be broken today.
Making copies is so expensive. Isn’t there a cheaper way?
This is fantastic. The low down on time travel and the multiverse: http://bit.ly/16e3Ng
RT @tsteele999: Funny video, who are these guys? Qwerty vs. dvorack http://tinyurl.com/cwul7x
Tonga underwater volcano [video] http://bit.ly/qfzqj [photos] http://bit.ly/jieZS
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Leaving tomorrow on a cruise. I hope it’s something like this: http://bit.ly/15rUVC
People have started gaming twitter trends. “Sexy Pics” and #swagbucks are both spam. This sucks.
Obama to lift ban on funding for embryonic stem cell research on Monday http://bit.ly/1a9NWK
I want to make Borg business cards: “We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.” Not very useful, but they would be fun.