January 2008
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This Is Not A Bomb. It's Just For The LULz. →
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LOLinator: nytimes.com →
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Unsatisfied.
I can’t stop changing the theme for this thing. I don’t want to use the same one as Hydragenic, but every other theme makes at least one type of post look butt-ugly. Oh well.
Also: can we talk about how deeply displeased I am by the fact that it is going to POUR RAIN all day tomorrow, when I’ve taken the day off to move apartments? That just ain’t cool. At all. It will, of...
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MacThemes / [Growl] iPhonesque →
Really pretty theme for Growl, based on the dialogues from the iPhone OS. Though I guess I’d need to use Growl to enjoy them, huh?
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“‘We hold these truths to be self evident…’ Oh, man. Jesus. Did...”
– Ray Smuckles, Achewood - January 28, 2008
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Good-Bye To Y I: Brian K. Vaughan →
Interview with Brian K. Vaughan on the subject of the end of Y THE LAST MAN. I cheated and read a copy of #60 here at the office a couple of days ahead of its release on Wednesday. It made me cry.
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NYT: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler →
You won’t find a more committed carnivore than myself, but I’m honestly thinking pretty hard lately about how the way I eat shapes the food chain (thanks to THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, in large part). I should probably cut back on the fast-food hamburger.
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TIME FOR SOME STORIES →
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Primary.
NY Times Editorial Board endorses Hillary for the Democratic nomination. For the record, I’m still voting Obama in the primary, simply as a signal that I’d like a complete sea change in the way we talk about politics — and even putting that aside, I think he’s qualified and right for the job. But if the country’s going to insist on doing things the same way for...
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Two or more colas per day can cause kidney stones.... →
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THE WIRE, season 5, episode 4.
How could you, you bastards, how could you. Not him.
This whole season is just gonna be one long victory lap for Marlo, isn’t it? I don’t know if my heart can take that evil motherfucker much longer. But then, we don’t come to THE WIRE to get happy, do we? We come to get angry.
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Symptoms of Society's Sickness, #0001 (I'm... →
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It's nice to be needed.
I love that my official role at the office now is “The guy who can get anything stuck in the vending machine out.” Either through brute force (shaking the machine vigorously) or finesse (a mangled wire coathanger). There’s been no pay bump for my increased responsibilities, but HR can only deny me for so long.
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Last.FM launches free full-track/album streaming →
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“People wanna eat some fuckin’ dinner and have some fuckin’ money!...”
– Ray Smuckles, http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01232008
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Book learning.
Set myself a goal of reading three books a month every month this year: two non-fiction, one fiction. Have already finished for January: Read Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine for non-fiction, and Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World for fiction. Am now trying to read Pierre Bayard’s How To Talk About...
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Let's go.
Never played with Tumblr. Having a weird shitty day where it feels like all my thoughts are poisonous. Perhaps this will distract me. Inauspicious beginning?