j/k ally don’ worry. whoever gets me plz just knit a longcat sampler and i will be very happy.
1) procure a cat
2) procure a large-ish box, one that has an actual lid and not just a fold-em-up type close (ie the types of boxes that you get from file storage companies)
3) procure wrapping paper and ribbon
4) wrap bottom portion of box and top portion of box separately (hint: fold the paper into the box/lid and tape down securely.)
5) poke very small holes into the lid of box
6) insert cat and maybe a blanket and some food so it doesn’t lose its shit totally
7) tie up box with ribbon
8) profit!
this also works with a puppy, and probably a hamster.
what about some unholy combination of the three?
you should NOT leave the box under the tree for like 2 days or anything like that though, just FYI, you should like do this all pretty last minute, like “OH! *head slap* I forgot to give you this one last gift!” and then run and insert cat into pre-prepared box and rush back out, otherwise shit gets wiley.
xpost ok ok if you get someone who you think wants a cd really, really badly then you can get a cd but seriously none of you need more cds.
also try to avoid letting anyone in on this because that will help you avoid the massive crowds of people all awwwwwing at the adorable little black and white puppy and then your sister being all like “hey you guys, what’s going on in there?” and you having to make up some shit cos your mom told you like 73 times, leave the damn puppy be.
that dog died, 14 or 15 years later ;_;
;_1
was this the yellow one?
no, this was many years later.
like, he died not that long ago, I wasn’t painting dogs when I was a teenager yo.
BEST OF
GRINDCORE AND DESTRUCTION
awesome.
We hid our Christmas Puppies at a neighbor’s house across the street.
^^^ 1st gis for christmas puppy
New board should be entirely financed with zap the mosquito adverts.
and twisty cats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I LOVE HIM
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I got you that last year.
I like if you click on Amazon’s gift suggestions for “The One Who Has Everything” they suggest THIS
“Why yes, thank you, I always wanted an extra-large antler chandelier!!”
tomorrow is my brother’s 30th birthday!
what should i do? what should i get him?
tomorrow is my brother’s 30th birthday!
what should i do? what should i get him?
drunk.
remotely, yo—he’s in south pasadena :(
nobody got me drunk when i turned 30 so i had to do it myself.
Fuck, I had my 30th at an Australian bar: getting drunk was not the problem.
my 30th co-incided with a going away party for my then boss. he’s also my current boss because he brought me along when he got his new promotion. we went to a bar in streeterville down the street from where we were working, it was an irish bar, likewise, no problems getting drunk. only problem was it was a protestant bar. :(
My real problem was not throwing myself at the slight, impish bartender who rode his bike to work and who kept serving me free shots. Unfortunately, I succeeded.
This is from the rib place in soho, no?
EIGHT PEE EM. STILL AT WORK. BUMMERZ.
FUCK THAT
YES. FUCK THAT.
Actually it hasn’t been too bad, and should settle down in a day or two.
Hey FA’s—what time you start your set tonight?
Hey Mr. and Ms. BOT—still wanna ride with us? Anyone else need a ride?
q’s—you talk to CH about a ride? i think he was interested...
we’ll go on around 930, i bet
Anybody else see people hawking the iraq commission report paperbacks outside the subway this morning? WTF crazyroom
dudes, sorry, but i can’t make it tonight. there are like 16 lame-ass holiday parties i have to go to and take pictures at and write about.
SAD
In canada, bubble wrap is pink.
PETE what do you think of the new solution for the divide-by-zero problem, developed by a britishes schoolteacher
Canada is fucked up.
tell/link me more tom
I DONT WANT TO WATCH HIM EXPLAIN THIS—I WANT TO READ IT
yes, that is where I stopped, I have no desire to install real player on my work computer.
man oh man those comments are k-classic
The projective line is neat and all but what he is doing is just stupid and fucking up his kids.
He reasons thusly 1/0=+inf -1/0=-inf (already see the problem that +inf=-inf) and 0/0=nullity (hence nullity = +inf)
He then reasons that 0^0=0^(-1)*0^(1)=1/0*0 = 0/0 = nullity.
Now let’s try that another way.
nullity*0=0/0*0=0/0=nullity.
But also if 0^0 is a number then 0^0*0^1 = 0^1 = 0 Thus nullity*0=0 hence nullity*0=nullity=0. This is a pretty clear contradiction.
In other words it’s just dumb. Mathematicians are not idiots. We haven’t missed something like this for thousands of years.
this is from the slashdot comments. I can’t watch it either.
Start a thread on it, see if some of our esteemed mathematical minds can cast some light on it (and see how fast we can get some of our great wits, wags and wascals to post humorous comment on the subject).
CH already emailed me—he can’t go, has to work.
Also, we are GOING to that meeting on MONDAY, KLG. About the shopping center/New Giant? On the flyer at the bus stop announcing the meeting some jerkoff wrote “NO to yuppies, traffic and noise!” I responded by writing/telling them to move to the suburbs.
seems like a fairly meaningless definition to me
wow dudes HOW DO I SHOT NEW JOB/LIFE/PERSONALITY?
[/emo]
Start an emo band, everything else will fall into place.
be like my coworker nando and just up and move to Argentina
“nando”
YUPPIES put the “U” in “Urban” so suburbs is definitely where that fuckwad should go. And yeah I had totally planned to go to that meeting to DEMAND a NON-GHETTO grocery store and some RETAIL for the EMPTY STOREFRONTS.
Because EMPTY STOREFRONTS positively SUCK. I don’t know what ASSHAT is thinking.
depends on what they mean by “retail”
what is bad about that giant? ive never been inside. the giant at the tivoli is pretty sweet—why cant they just revamp slightly?
The Giant constantly is out of staple type items like half and half and their produce really sucks and they don’t have stuff like mushrooms on a consistent basis and (okay this is pretty yuppie I guess) cilantro. They’ll run out of milk a lot too.
Not that I mind walking up or down to either Whole Foods. Or getting in the car to go to SuperFresh over by AU. It just seems like, if you’re going to have a grocery store, have a grocery store. There is plenty of space to expand in the abandoned storefront right next door, seems like a no brainer.
Any neighborhood in which Half-and-half was considered a “staple item” is probably not one I could afford to live in...?
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Yeah I used to flavor my coffee with dirt and bird shit too but that got pretty old after awhile.
We don’t actually have a grocery in my neighborhood. There is a “Safeway” which is approximately 25ft x 35ft, but most of my exploring of that has been “emergency egg purchase” and “cigarettes” (which are in a completely wide open case way at the front of the store and the dudes are always like, “Oh yeah, just get your own, I’m pretty busy here” despite the fact that they CLEARLY AREN’T and are encouraging me to STEAL MOAR).
I did not notice an extensive half and half selection.
What are bodegas like in NYC? Mushrooms? Vegetables? Booze? Half and half?
HAHAHA I just re-read “I don’t mind walking to EITHER Whole Foods” WHAT DO YOU WANT, HAND-DELIVERY OF YR CILANTRO AND HALF-AND-HALF??? we have that too! = www.peapod.com
the bodega across the street from my last apt consisted of weird beer selection (like a lot of 40s and Zima??? The 40s I understood, but the Zima not as much), bananas, Cuban staple items like ginormous bags of rice and dried beans, Medaglia del Oro, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.
they sold eggs and candies and milk too.
The one at my apt BEFORE that sold shit like fuckin le petit ecoulier cookies??? That was ridiculous.
the nearest store to me is the woodner grocery. this is why i tend to do most of my grocery shopping at mr chen’s.
I guess I could do Peapod. I just think it’s totally okay and normal and not yuppie at all to expect better than a halfway decent grocery store which is what we have now.
xpost
Yes the Lame Giant has a whole AISLE of weird English cookies, jams, jellies, plantain chips and pineapple soda but sometimes runs out of, you know, any kind of milk besides Egg Nog.
yeah—there’s no reason for that giant to have bad produce or no half and half
How does one make nog?
Also, if people can WALK to a Whole Foods and are still complaining? No sympathy here. :D
I went to the corner bodega last Sunday cos I had forgotten to get corn and the local grocery was already closed (at six, I think). I started fishing through the freezer chest (spinach, okra, broc, pigeon peas wtf? but no corn) and noticed bug specimens being uncovered by my rummaging: one dead, frozen cockroach and one dead, frozen centipede. I closed the cover and skedaddled.
Yeah, New York is great!
whoa @ centipede
y’know laurel freezing will successfully eliminate the vast majority of bacterial foodborne pathogens
My problem with the grocery store is that it is there. It is a grocery store. In my neighborhood. If there was NOT a grocery store in my neighborhood, no problem. BUT since there IS a grocery store there in my neighborhood, I would like it to ACT like a grocery store.
No, I agree that shitty produce and running out of milk is uncalled for! You seriously should just do peapod though if you don’t wanna have to go to Whole Foods for everything. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO BOYCOTT THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL STORES, THE MORE THEY WILL HAVE TO FIX IT OR CLOSE THEM OR SOMETHING. I think?? I totally agree with you, I think fixing up the grocery store to better serve the neighborhood is GOOD. The mysterious other “retail” portion of it was what I was questioning!!
Does freezing eliminate pathogens, or just slow them down? Once foods are thawed they still spoil eventually...which suggests they still contain the seeds of their own destruction.
xpost to Ally—Gotcha. I realize I’m being sort of a whiny bitch about this stuff. The retail will be scary, I’m sure. You have to take the good with the bad though—if having good produce close by means dealing with a Chiptole/whatever evil shit they put in there, oh well.
it kills off many non-spore forming pathogens (with the notable exception of the fucking godawful Listeria monocytogenes), but unfreezing will once again expose the food to all sorts of potentially problematic issues, some of which are internal and some of which are due to the inherently permeable nature of packaging that allows for gas exchange and rotting/spoiling reactions
they should put another 2 amy’s in there
They should put a bomb in there, to blow your ASS off, what do you think of that
And then a victim of gentrification should come up and hand your ASS to you on a SHINY DISH
umm no i want more 2 amy’s
You people all just want to live in TYSON’S CORNER.
You don’t understand that poorly-stocked bodegas that smell funny inside and boarded-up former hardware stores are WHAT THE CITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT.
I miss being surrounded by orange car boots 1/5th of every week!!!
worst troll ever
dude i just love pizza so much
mr. chens: a place with no pizza at all!
reconcile yrslef
In fairness, it’s not like Cleveland Park is some hold out of cheap housing and putting in a Best Buy is going to destroy livelihoods left and right, I just always find it pretty pathetic when cities actually spend money on bringing in box retail instead of spending that money on helping small business owners in their own city prosper. Generally these days, a lot of property owners go out of their way to push out smaller retailers and businesses to bring in the big boxes and I don’t like it that cities are just A-OK with this.
Another 2 Amy’s would be I guess OK by my standards but that is too many 2 Amy’s within one (1) block of each other.
we’ve become disenchanted with 2 Amy’s.
Though seriously bringing in a Target and a Trader Joe’s and etc improves DC by about 17,000x due to the fact that DC has NOTHING IN IT AT ALL WHATSOEVER AND I AM SICK OF HAVING TO GO TO VA AND MD FOR SHIT ALL THE TIME.
i mean
obv i was kidding about ANOTHER 2 AMYS IN THAT BLOCK
obv i love non-pizza too
but dude that shit is tasty
69 OTM^^^^^^^^^ PIZZA IS TASTY