February 2010
111 posts
January 2010
42 posts
my kingdom for a snow day
Tomorrow will be hell at first (classes back to back, plus they start WAY EARLEH) but then Jonah will get here and we will basically play house all weekend. It’s going to rule.
Also, this morning I saw one of my (older, very distinguished and gentlemanly) professors do a badass surfer-slide across a long strip of ice in the parking lot when he thought no one was looking, and then smugly...
Salinger was the only thing keeping a terrible,...
bthny:
jasencomstock:
hammerito:
I hope Michael Bay can jazz it up a little.
Michael Bay. I wish. they are handing this project to Rob Reiner and his son to finally be able to tell the Dramedy of Holden Caulfield played by Michael Cera.
I wonder which indie rock bands will be on the soundtrack!
I want to venture some guesses about this but I’m too deflated by just the notion of...
You Dropped Food on the Floor. Do You Eat It? →
Luckily, I am both a Megalosaurus and a puma.
“I am a miserable pig and I do not want to exist. The irony is that, even if I...”
– Rush Limbaugh, I Don’t Even Want To Be Alive Anymore - The Onion
Kangaroos Kickin' Back - Photo Gallery, 9 Pictures... →
LIFE.com won’t let me insert any of the pictures directly, but trust me, it’s worth a look.
A Nepali child's drug awareness drawing (via Boing... →
Heavy!
“I met a Pakistani man who did his impression of Americans for me. This was it,...”
– Chris Kelly, reporting from Dubai (via syntheticpubes)
JSUR | Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected... →
“The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR) is an open-access forum for researchers seeking to further scientific discovery by sharing surprising or unexpected results. These results should provide guidance toward the verification (or negation) of extant hypotheses. JSUR has two branches, one focusing on computational sciences and the other on the life sciences. JSUR...
Teens Susceptible to Reproductive Coercion →
annierachel:
I don’t feel that I am some sort of DV/feminist superhero at all, nor do I feel it’s my responsibility to interrupt the cycle of violence in everyone in the world’s life. I hope that the lady found help if her busted lip was from a partner or whatever, but as far as feeling like it’s my responsibility when I’m out in public shopping? Nah, not really…
Now if she calls my organization...
Dear Howard Zinn
Nothing else that I heard today wrenched my guts with sadness quite like the news that you’d left us. I’ll miss you a lot. Thank you for bringing words and concepts into my vernacular that opened my eyes to the injustice around me like nothing else before or since. One day, I’ll give my earmarked, creased, and copiously underlined copy of A People’s History of the United...
Rainbow Brite Receives a Makeover →
WHAT. THE. HELL.
Hallmark, you fuckers.
Teens Susceptible to Reproductive Coercion →
annierachel:
treehouseboat:
annierachel:
It would also help if every single person that works with people (hairdressers, vets, doctors, IT people, nurses, tattoo artists, piercers, etc ad nauseum) knew about DV and how to talk to people about it without alienating or isolating them or making them feel like they have to leave and they’re a bad person if they don’t.
Crucial! Next time I’m...
Teens Susceptible to Reproductive Coercion →
annierachel:
It would also help if every single person that works with people (hairdressers, vets, doctors, IT people, nurses, tattoo artists, piercers, etc ad nauseum) knew about DV and how to talk to people about it without alienating or isolating them or making them feel like they have to leave and they’re a bad person if they don’t.
Crucial! Next time I’m put in a position of even...
research methods lab
So glad we got the lab with the big windows. From where I’m sitting, the mountains are perfectly framed between the library and the lecture center, and they’re fucking bathed in morning sunlight. Early classes may not be so bad after all.
The horror!
syntheticpubes:
I guess my favorite part of this dictionary scare (some neurotic mother lobbied her child’s school to remove the MW from the library because it contained a definition for oral sex) is that these kids have internet access and mommy dearest just got up to speed on the dictionary.
The children have seen 2 Girls 1 Cup. Bukkake is an idle playground threat. They are apathetic unless...
A Low Impact Woodland Home →
To Do:
Get $6,000
Go to Wales
Buy some land, preferably with a creek and a grassy knoll
BUILD THIS HOUSE and live in it with my lover and our hippie offspring
ROOFTOP GARDEN
I could go on forever
Health care costs vs. life expectancy
I would argue that correlation does not imply causation, right after I smugly noted the fact that not many of these are correlated in the first place.
(This data also makes for a neat little scatterplot.)
Once again: goddammit, America. Just look at you, rocketing off the chart like that. Why can’t you be more like Canada? At least Canada’s figures begin and end on the goddamn chart....
“[Washington attorney - and total knucklehead - Charles] Cooper defines marriage...”
– slacktivist
I like the slacktivist blog. I like that it gets just as angry about the evil shenanigans of the religious and political right as I do. And I really like that its anger has so much more grace and wit and keen insight than I can muster when I’m so mad about the aforementioned evil...
“Why does a glow-in-the-dark Frisbee glow green? Why does a spark from a light...”
– Science Question from a Toddler: The color of light
Shiny Toy Guns - “Rainy Monday”
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last hurrah
School starts Monday, but that’s okay because this week has been a total blast.
I have three more sweaters in line for deconstruction. I have a coffee date with Alice in a few hours. I have Vermont and Jonah tomorrow (tomorrow!).
Noteworthy:
Threadless has a tee for Haiti; 100% of their proceeds are going to the Red Cross.
The International Olympic Committee can’t get over...
You know you done good insulatin' the house...
…the incense smoke curls straight up to the ceiling, even when you put it next to the windows. Yay!
I’ve been floating on cloud nine since seven this morning when I biked to Hadley and Jade’s house in the falling snow, and played with my favorite ten, nine, eight, six, and two year olds in the world. Rest of the day was spent in a patch of sunlight, writing letters and drawing...
“Without trying to justify any action, we, as the users of this food, have to...”
– Cricket Bread » What happens when your friends become your food
what is really the problem here
annierachel:
abbyjean:
I didn’t grow up in global poverty. I didn’t even grow up in relative poverty, but I certainly never worried about drinkable water, functional sanitation systems, reliable electricity, the existence of police and fire departments, nearby emergency rooms - things that are often considered basic infrastructure but are far from guaranteed.
For me to even observe that...
“I’m starting to get both angry and dispirited by any number of groups who are...”
– Balk
Massachusetts Senate Race: The Fundraising Letter You Won’t See | The Awl
(via peterwknox)
don’t touch Pete, he’s on fire today.
(via notthatkindagay) (via bthny) (via annierachel)
THIS! THIS THIS THIS!
When I did the 90999 text, they said it would take...
There has been an outrageously massive response to the Haiti earthquake crisis from the crafter blogosphere in recent days, and now it’s getting even more epic. Ravelry has expanded their search engine to spotlight designers who pledge to donate a percentage of their profits to the Haiti relief effort. One such designer, Ysolda, originally planned to donate 50% of her sales, but she got such...
What Goes into Making Human Robot Girls, 1941 →
Social engineering pamphlets from early-1940’s Ladies’ Home Journal.
Perhaps it was the Date-Rate pamphlet that caused most of my teeth to fall out—it is sheer and painful, offering virtually nothing to the young women reading it and practicing its morality play but gender obedience and servility.
“Did you give him all your attention?” “Did he run things?” “Did you give him a chance...
Bon Iver & St. Vincent - “Rosyln”
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One of my favorite professors asked me to be her TA for her senior seminar AND ALSO another professor tapped me for inclusion into her graduate-level Cognitive Neuroscience course in the fall!
This is a really big honor and it’ll look hella snazzy on my resume and it makes me feel kind of smart!
Also, I have internet now.
All Things Maritime and Haiti - The Progressive... →
annierachel:
abbyjean:
There is a legitimate National Security Risk Assessment that has yet to be discussed anywhere in the media, at least that I have seen. The annual immigration season from Haiti to Florida by sea usually begins in February every year. If it has historically been easy for Haitians to choose the risks of sea immigration when they have a home and family, how much easier is it...
Get this. I posted my first missed connection on Craigslist, secretly assuming nothing would come of it, because a Craigslist success story never happens in real life. But then it did - the boy I was looking for found the post, and wrote me back. Not sure what’s going to happen next, but I’m excited.
Cat-sitting for my road-tripping friend is making me really want a cat of my own....
At the library trying to research cheap Internet providers because my desktop Mac can’t get a good signal from any of the free WiFi spots around my apartment. Wish I was in Denmark (at least I think it’s Denmark…) where Internet access is a fundamental right and not a privilege you have to pay for.
I got out all three of my cookbooks last night and earmarked all the recipes that...
No internet for the past five days. Going a little nuts.
My Google Reader has 349 unread posts. My sink is full of dishes. My living room is full of empty boxes.
I think I have a problem but I can’t tell what’s a symptom of the problem and what’s the problem itself.