January 2012
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tumblr really weirds me out sometimes
the best coffee in state college: an ordered list
1. Clarke’s
2. [this slot intentionally left blank to symbolize how far ahead of everyone else Clarke’s is]
3. Saint’s
4. Those iced caramel mochas you can get at Sheetz, I mean, if you have to drive somewhere for some reason
5. Irving’s [ed.— I changed my mind about Irving’s]
6. Starbucks I guess
kevin and austin present: real talk, v. 1
Kevin: also that saint etienne track is amazing
Austin: yeah!
Austin: i'm excited!
Kevin: that showing up on the internet was a pleasant surprise today
Austin: right?
Austin: this sounds like a lost track from "fever"
Austin: WHICH IS A OK BY ME
Austin: or maybe natalie imbruglia produced by cut copy
Austin: which also sounds awesome
Austin: we have some calls to make to australia
Kevin: man i'd take that collaboration over five new avalanches records
Austin: seriously
songs
today I woke up with the Counting Crows in my head
yesterday it was that Korn/Skrillex joint from off the Madden 12 soundtrack
I don’t know what I did to deserve this but I’m really sorry and it won’t happen again
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go on internet to look up chords for a song we're...
accidentally spend thirty minutes listening to kylie minogue singles on spotify
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oh, *that's* why people are suddenly talking about...
without Getting Into It that much, I just hope this isn’t a sign that Grantland has decided to become Thought Catalog for olds, because that’s how that piece reads to me
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twins
There was some other willowy, red-haired hipster kid with glasses and a cardigan waiting for the bus at the library when I got here this morning! I almost asked him if he was listening to the New Pornographers; if he had been I think I’d have had to fight him or something. There can be only one.
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“Also Monday, police said they answered a disorderly-conduct call early Sunday at...”
– Adventures in the State College police blotter: a series
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pulp in new york on a wednesday night
guess i’m not going
oh my god someone get a first down
i don't get what the big deal is
i just heard “blue jeans” in this coffee shop, it’s really not that bad of a song
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things not to do when announcing a library...
fail to communicate throughout the process with your staff
have your first communication about it be a website that prominently tells you how to update your resume
announce three different town hall meetings in a day in which you can’t actually answer half the questions people ask
say that layoffs are “imminent,” and indicate that some librarians will have to re-apply for...
Whoa, guys, they just shut down Megaupload and... →
gyzym:
shortformblog:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved against a group of suspected online pirates Thursday, targeting the popular file-sharing website megaupload.com a day after Washington lawmakers were besieged by complaints about legislation designed to crack down on the online sharing of pirated copies of music, movies and other material, people familiar with the matter said.
...
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Non-harassing protest of SOPA at ALA Midwinter →
I won’t be in Dallas this weekend, but if I was, I’d consider this a thing worth doing.
some days i really miss living in minnesota
other days the morning wind chill in the twin cities is forecast to be -27
it's pretty amazing
how soon after i published that post that it became my top search result when i throw “japandroids” into google
thanks, google plus! you’re a little creepy though
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I won't be posting on the internet anywhere...
attheageofdecay:
This is my current cover on Facebook as well. Feel free to steal it if you like.
The chief designer of The Rail Party is not down with internet censorship.
arab strap, “the first big weekend”
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of course the actual reason(s) state college sucks
is that this state has such a stupid relationship with alcohol that none of the bars can or will wristband 19- and 20-year-olds like every other Big Ten college town does, so there’s little to no overlap between what the undergrads do culture-wise and what everyone else is doing, so kids figure there’s no reason to stay around and build a scene after they graduate because all their...
Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther... →
oldtobegin:
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace...
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this town sucks for dancing
gonna try and fix that in 2012, and take it back to how it used to be when I first moved here and we had huge dance parties every week during that one summer when it didn’t suck
this is part of my general campaign to make State College more like a city I don’t actually mind living in all that much, I mean if I’m going to be here at least until I get tenure or not it might as...
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did the bears play today
the aislers set, “the way to market...
first e-mail about tenure arrived today
looking forward to a year of skull-splitting anxiety about that
“chickfactor will celebrate its 20-year anniversary with five blissful nights of...”
– So this is happening and there isn’t a single one of these days I don’t want to go to. I can’t wait to be seventeen again for a week, you guys.
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don't have last.fm logging turned on in spotify
don’t want the internet to know how many times i listen to “detroit has a skyline” in a day
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Tonight on the way home I stopped at the bottle shop first so I went up through West Halls, and someone in there or in one of the frats across the street was getting so high that you could smell it pretty clearly out on Burrowes Street. Whoever that was, I’m glad they’re treating syllabus week with the respect it deserves.
i am excited about precisely one thing viz. the...
and that is that pulp might play some east coast dates
just started doing codeyear
I like that it’s all JavaScript because I never actually got around to learning it, so it’ll be nice to have a weapon in the old arsenal that isn’t Perl or XSLT. I also like that they bring the whip about commenting your code. Hopefully that will rub off on me a little bit because I’m terrible at it, and I don’t want whomever Penn State’s next metadata librarian...
that said
the quality of a guardian MBM is usually in inverse proportion to the quality of the match it’s about, so
anyway football sucks, i’m listening to allo darlin’ records all morning
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“52 min “I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand the surprise at...”
– good morning, I should have slept in
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signs it is 5pm friday and/or that you have...
have gmail tab open in chrome; open new tab to launch gmail again