March 2010
35 posts
Union debuts, scoreless in Seattle →
So their first game out, they get a guy sent off in 40 minutes (for two yellow cards!) and their manager calls out the opposing team’s European legend for being a cheating diver. Good to see they’re already living up to Philadelphia’s exacting standards.
Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn... →
Too bad there wasn’t anything in the health care bill about not paying farmers to grow corn anymore. Then again, if there’s anyone whose pocket I can guarantee you Barack Obama is in, it’s ADM and Monsanto. Midwest!
illinois
So the Illini are in the NIT, which I mean, if they hadn’t lost six of their last eight, maybe they could have avoided that. Whatever, they’re only losing Keller from this year’s team and their 2010 recruiting class rules. They’ll be awesome next year.
Anyway, last night the Big Ten Network was showing the 2005 regional final against Arizona. When it happened I saw it...
I’m at the doughnut shop
I’m at the Chinese place
I’m at the combination doughnut shop and Chinese place
I heard somewhere (probably on NPR?) about this one random tribe in the Western Cape in South Africa someplace that an anthropologist was studying, and he noticed one of them had a strange bump on his throat. He thought maybe it was serious, but after a while he noticed that most of the community had the same thing. It turned out that there was one particular click consonant that only existed in...
spring break
State College is a weird place when the students are gone. On the one hand, thank god, because they’re awful and I hate them, but on the other hand, every other business shuts down for the entire week because half their customers are at the shore or wherever. My sandwich place isn’t open, the coffee shop in the library isn’t open, etc. etc. Things like this are why I would...
three frames is doing 'danger: diabolik' right now
and i keep thinking it’s not right because mike and the bots aren’t at the bottom of the .gifs
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good to see publishers realizing how important... →
The more of them that do, the less time library catalogers will spend cleaning up their records, and the more idle time library catalogers have for me to convince them that MARC sucks and they should all learn RDF instead.
ME: So, brown paste on a red cracker! Reminds me of the tri-color peanut butter...
– Ray Smuckles in one of the Achewood premium updates. It’s important that Ray Smuckles exists.
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playlist while i work on this awful project
saint etienne, spring (air france remix)
john talabot, sunshine
delorean, seasun
i don’t call it glo-fi, i call it awesome
WHY HASN'T MY KEYBOARD SHIPPED YET
I WANT IT
Casting call out for South Side reality show a la... →
I liked Gapers Block a lot better before they started posting things that made me want to kill myself.