April 2009
29 posts
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This.
SWINE FLU: New Jersey Identifies 5 Probable Cases →
Boo, I thought I was safe over here.
WatchSeeing the live TAL tonight, cannot WAIT.
In which I yell over the cube wall, "Do I have to...
Co-Worker: would u be available to leave by 1130 for our team lunch.
Me: Yea no problem. Where at?
Co-Worker: tiger's tale
Me: Sure, what's that?
Co-Worker: coz he doesn't want to park far from JH.
Co-Worker: there's a shareholder's meeting.
Me: Yeah it's no problem with me. Is Tiger's Tale sushi?
Co-Worker: nope, the one in the corner of 206 and 518
Me: Chinese?
Me: Thai?
Co-Worker: nope
The Numbers Runner →
I started reading this article about Garmin training watches (yeah, I started running again…and I covet these, but won’t by myself one until I complete a half marathon…) I get halfway down and see the note that my NPR crush Peter Sagal wrote it. Swoon!! I always forget he’s an avid runner.
Romantic Conversations, Part 348
Tim: yeah i'm deff the coder between [redacted] and I
Tim: this is his validation for email on the registration page
Tim: // check for valid email address
if (strlen($_POST['email']) < 5)
Me: haha
Me: jjdjjf
Me: Valid email address FTW!
Tim: haha yeah
Tim: oh well
WatchWith questions like, How many martini glasses could you fill with all the runners’ sweat from the Boston Marathon?
On Social Networking.
kristenisfornerd:
A few years ago I was very embarrassed to say “I know ____ from online.”
Now? I’m over it and declare it to my real life friends. My friends know that the Internets and I are in love.
My name is Kristen, and I have internet friends!
Hello my name is Laura, and I have internet friends. And Kristen is one of them! (Soon to be real life!?)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars I wasn’t sure if I would like this book, because I’m not a SciFi fan when it comes to literature. But I was pleasantly surprised! Along with the typical SciFi themes, there was plenty of moral philosophy and political science layered in as well. I would have liked for some of those ideas to be expanded more,...
NPR Predicts Indian Farmer Mass Suicide
The other day NPR did a piece, part of a series, on India’s farming revolution. In that piece, the director of the Punjab State Farmers Commission was quoted as saying, “Farmers are committing a kind of suicide. It’s like a suicide, en masse,” when referring to the Green Revolution in India. This revolution brought high-yield crops to the region, allowing farmers to...
Texas governor says secession possible →
Kaaaay byyyyye
This American Life has updated their favoriates page. Oh man.
I kind of love when people use [sic] to show something has been reproduced verbatim, but it’s really saying [you fucking idiot].
This story on Jezebel made me think about it:
Mere hours after we posted Jenny McCarthy’s comments about her Shape cover (she called it “a crap load of airbrushing)”, we got an email from the PR Director of the magazine:
Hi Dodai-
In...
I’m messing around with photo feeds. Again. If a whole bunch of old photos get posted, I apologize. There should really be a “only import NEW items” in the feed settings on Tumblr.
WatchThis is pretty brilliant. Good way to handle the scandal, Lindsay.
Your NPR Name
doree:
spiegelman:
liana:
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. ...
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Is this an April Fools’ Day thing?