August 2009
36 posts
WatchAhhh Arrested Development… The Seaward!
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Karen: What brand of White Zinfandel would you recommend?
Me: None.
Karen: Not for me, it's a gift for someone.
Me: Still none.
Obama Wears Backwards Hat! - A Presidential...
“As we all know, only no good, gosh-darn, hoodlums wear their hats backwards, so the photographic evidence of Obama’s secret thug-life has rightfully spread across the internet like wild-fire. He might as well have thrown up gang signs blasting Public Enemy from the Presidential limo. How could we be so foolish as to set aside our prejudices during the election? It’s only a...
“We cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. So I will...”
– Ted Kennedy. In 1980. (via adamisacson)
Mike Enzi, Gang Of Six Republican, Admits He's... →
How is it that we’re still trying to “compromise” with these a-holes?
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
– Anatole France
“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”
– Aesop
Minnie Mouse groping: Man guilty of groping Disney... →
While skimming through my RSS reader, I initially thought this was a story in The Onion. I had to scroll back up for the double-take to realize it’s in my local newspaper!!!
British Royal Family Concerned After Queen... →
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are...”
– Bertrand Russell
“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.”
– Jef Mallett
Help fight against pandemic! →
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Bill O'Reilly's brilliant 10-second defense of... →
(via nickdouglas)
Mystery of Sun's Outer Atmosphere Solved →
Glad that’s been resolved!
“According to Public Policy Polling (PPP), a North Carolina polling firm, only...”
– (Source.)
Actually, I have trouble believing North Carolina is part of the United States. And I’m neither old nor Republican.
(via adamisacson)
Working Off the Clock, How Much Is Too Much? →
A federal suit highlights the legal issues sparked by the proliferation of personal technology as well as the blurring of work and free time.
“I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.”
– Craig Newmark
How Old-Technology Companies Can Extend Their... →
By 1902, with the building of the Thomas W. Lawson, the largest sailing ship ever, with seven masts and 25 sails, sailing technology had reached a point of diminishing returns, and the competition with steamships had already been lost.
NASA's New Telescope Finds Exoplanet Atmosphere →
Now the new telescope has detected the atmosphere on a planet we knew was already there (and we knew had a rather significant atmosphere)!
NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth →
“During the Earth observations, the spacecraft’s spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth’s water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation.”
“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”
– Orson Welles
“Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.”
– H. H. Williams
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Six Wines You've Never Heard Of - Wine of the Week →
“Vynecrest Chambourcin 2007: Chambourcin, a hybrid grown in the Loire Valley of France, is planted widely in eastern United States, specifically in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The Vynecrest has a bouquet of dusty cherries, with more cherries in the mouth, good acidity and a nice savory undertone. I’d put this in a blind tasting against reds from around the world without...
175. Never leave a job without securing your next...
rulesformyunbornson:
But when it’s time to go, don’t hesitate.
Here’s to four years with, one year away from JPMorgan.