March 2010
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really fucking weird tidbit of the day
…from the wikipedia article on “disgust”:
Huntington’s disease
Many patients suffering from Huntington’s disease, a genetically transmitted progressive neurodegenerative disease, are unable to recognize expressions of disgust in others and also don’t show reactions of disgust to foul odors or tastes.[6] The inability to recognize disgust in others appears in...
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the best medicine
Hot Wawa Cashier(tm): good morning. me, handing over my requisite coffee and gum, plus two donuts, which i only buy because he refuses to charge me for the coffee and i can’t in good conscience take it without handing over a minimum sum money for something: morning. how are you? HWC: good. better than yesterday. and how are you? me: okay. HWC: just okay? me: i think i’m getting a...
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wearing a dress
me: both of the kids have asked me why i look "so fancy" today. what, do i usually look like shit or something?
bill: well, you look a little fancy. you're wearing kind of nice boots and i can see your knees.
me: i've worn these boots plenty of times. and you can see my knees because it's spring. and i wore boots and a dress yesterday and nobody called me fancy.
bill: i didn't see your knees yesterday.
me: you didn't see me at all yesterday.
bill: well i guess that would be why, then.
Annotations: Industrial fan fiction →
For some reason, I love the idea of fan fiction. But I think I want to write a whole series called Industrial Fan Fiction. The first one would be a Raymond Chandler knockoff:
Marlowe came into the room. The lights were off, but the blinds were open. The window, too, and there was no breeze. A…
i’m considering this my el-oh-el for the day.
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the only thing worse than quitting
…is going batshit crazy and stabbing the girl who can’t go three minutes without mentioning Her Research.*
i’ve decided not to continue with my pollination ecology class. for weeks now, i’ve been bemoaning the fact that i’m not learning anything (it’s one of those idiotic courses where Many Thoughtful Questions are asked, and no actual answers are given. ...
February 2010
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i never actually got a job description, so...?
so i volunteer as the music librarian for my orchestra. i also, in an unrelated capacity, authored the member feedback survey that was sent to the musicians earlier today; one of the questions asks people to rate the effectiveness of various volunteers and staff members, including me.
i just took a look at the responses that have come in so far. one of the respondents skipped that...
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the ragbag: women, fire & dangerous things →
dyirbal is an australian aboriginal language currently spoken by about five people. it is famous among linguists chiefly for the peculiar way in which it categorises its nouns. get a hot load of this peculiar scheme:
i - animate objects and men ii - women, dangerous things and exceptional animals iii - everything edible that is not meat iv - things not classified in other categories
class i...
dear britain,
your brother-sister ice dancing team (which apparently lives like 20 minutes from me) needs to start telling people they’re husband and wife, because they are touching each other way too much and it’s creeping me the hell out.
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two things about the olympics that annoy the...
1. every sound that comes out of lindsey vonn’s head.
2. those fucking P&G commercials… proud sponsor of Mom. yay, mom! you gave up your life to do laundry so your kids could become something! fuck that. i mean, really. just stop it already. being a mother is great, it’s fine, and it’s one thing out of an entire human life that you can do. put down the tide...
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one of those DUR things
how many times have i watched priscilla? i dunno, lots. but it wasn’t until just now, reading over here that i realized duh-uh-uhhh, it’s the sydney opera house.
yeah i’m slow so what.
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at least bill and i are interested in the same...
last night bill was saying that he’d been thinking about going to the norman rockwell museum for vacation. “oh!” i said, and slapped his leg - the obvious thing to do when one is excited, right? - “i was too!”
“i even looked up the website,” he said.
“so did i!”
there’s no point to this, other than the obvious one, which is that...
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the ukrainians in electric blue
bill: is it just me, or does that guy look really out of place in this? me: you mean huge and really weird? bill: exactly… he looks like a new york city cop, in a really tight outfit. me: a really unflatteringly tight outfit, too. bill: and the receding hairline… me: it’s awesome. bill: and the woman looks like a hooker. a SPACE hooker. me: that makes you hot,...
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i don't know if that's better or worse.
evie: (whining forlornly from the back seat) can you open the window?
me: why, did you fart again?
evie: ...yes.
me: oh, eva. that's dis-- wait. are you just saying you farted, so we'll open the window?
evie: ...yes.
apolo, oh no.
me, sneering at a clip of apolo ohno while brian williams talked about the risks assumed by winter athletes: god, i hate that beard. i just want to slap it off his face.
bill: i think you should.
i will never understand how men look in the mirror and think, you know what would make me hot? is if i made my chin look like a vagina.
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“okay, fine. be that way. i’ll just make my OWN banana fort.”
– nephew christopher, age 11
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so far i've learned nothing.
i’m trying to eat less meat. less delicious, juicy, delicious meat. thankfully i’m pretty sure that neither big macs nor hotdogs contain any actual meat products whatsoever, so i don’t have to sacrifice everything good.
but anyway: i was looking for “how to be a vegetarian if you hate vegetables” - because i do, oh lord i do - and really, this list probably...
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having babies has occasionally been troublesome... →
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100211/us_time/08599196344700
i admit: i had no idea that there was no women’s olympic ski jumping. and my reaction to reading the headline was a sort of subarticulate whaaaa? indicating my belief that either i was misunderstanding it, or it was just very poorly written. but no, it turns out, there is no women’s ski jumping. highlights of the article...
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FU, FB
so effective 7am yesterday, facebook has driven me past the level of frustration that i can willingly subject myself to, and i’ve decided to exercise my right to abstain until it can get its shit together and provide “most recent” updates that include recency… and updates. my ability-slash-willingness to cope with change is poor, even in the best of circumstances, and this...