the words alone are vile and hideous to read
chinese rockabilly lesbians???
is that what your co-worker is dressed like today?!
naw just a girl on the bus
i was j/k silly
omg 10cc sucks assssssssss
is listening to them like walking in the rain and the snow when there’s nowhere to go and you’re feeling like a part of you is dying?
Y
i hope the knowledge that i pulled that lyric out of my jr high school memory bank makes you feel a little better. if nothing else you should feel happy knowing that, unlike me, you don’t have shit like that rattling around in your head.
yikes
we’re playing the jack.fm guess the song game and i just beat them to Hot Chocolate
that sounds fun except for the part about having to listen to terrible songs
we’ve been guessing who they might play next and WEIGGLEY GOT IT!! U2 unfortunately
“The renewal of life is the great theme of our age, not the further dominance, in ever more frozen and compulsive forms, of the machine. And the first step for each of us is to seize the initiative and recover our own capacity for living; to detach ourselves from the daily routine to make ourselves self-respecting, self-governing, persons. In short, we must take things into our own hands. Before art on any great scale can redress our lop-sided [technology], we must put ourselves in the mood and frame of mind in which art becomes possible, as either creation or re-creation: above all we must learn to pause, to be silent, to close our eyes and wait.”
– Lewis Mumford, 1951
the revenge are running a contest on their blog, what’s the best/worst/funniest request you’ve gotten whilst DJing. somebody posted this, said it was from last week:
The holy grail of chips and salsa has been located at Redwood on Capitol Hill. The chips are brought directly from the deep fryer, burning hot, plenty salty, with a squeeze of lime; they’re entirely crispy, but they still have enough body that you know you’re eating a tortilla. The salsa is pico de gallo–style, fresh and uncomplicated, made with organic tomatoes and onions and pickled jalapeños. Chips and salsa are not usually a thrill. These are shockingly, amazingly good. Your mouth will tell your brain that you’re having a life-changing experience. (Redwood, 514 E Howell St, 329–1952. 4 pm–2 am, $4/$3 at happy hour, 21+.)
yum
i know right!!
i want my mouth to tell my brain something about those chips RIGHT NOW!
Straight-up, helicopters are beyond fresh, and how many times do you get a chance to actually go up in one?
delete that and we’ll still be able to see it lol
sonned
been a while
i love that place
strovie sterner
Yellow Fever are creating many traditions of their own, the most notable being when male supporters remove their shirts at the 80th minute mark when the Phoenix are winning.
e.h0pe went in a helicopter ride over a volcano and took this picture. i think it is so surreal.
titled “love awakening zones”:
corry’s dry cleaning scrolling marquee:
september 12, 2009
8:04 pm
-196
skatafell national park, iceland:
don’t know what it means but i like how it looks:
ah, now i know, thanks to wikipedia:
QSL cards confirm either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio stations or a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, television or shortwave broadcasting station. They can also confirm the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party listener. A typical QSL card is the same size and made from the same material as a typical postcard, and most are sent through the mail as such.
azadi tower, teheran
dude
i know!
funny twist on tilt-shift timelapse
Colorama - Makeover from Upper First on Vimeo.
Lewis Mumford: “Forget the damned motorcar and build the cities for lovers and friends.”
poor east timor ;_;
i know right
“Discovery News reports that scientists have identified a region of the brain which appears to control morality and discovered that a powerful magnetic field can scramble the moral center of the brain, impairing volunteers’ notion of right and wrong. ‘You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior,’ says Liane Young, a scientist at MIT and co-author of the article. ‘To be able to apply (a magnetic field) to a specific brain region and change people’s moral judgments is really astonishing.’”
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oh haha, i can’t even remember what it was now.
^watch later w/sound
In case you were wondering, I always stare at airplanes for a long time when I see them in the sky and sometimes it is very difficult to resist the urge to wave at them and I collect tiny things like chairs and boxes
did i write that somewhere in my sleep?
Kabul Nightlife: Thriving in Between Suicide Bombs
By Tim McGirk Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010
Nightlife may seem like a luxury no one can afford in Kabul. The Afghan capital is hit by suicide bombers with depressing regularity, and on some nights expatriates receive word from their embassies that a suicide team is plotting to attack a “foreign guest house” — and these are the truly chilling words — “in your neighborhood.” On those occasions, you sleep with your clothes on and shoes beside the bed, after having mapped out an escape route over the wall into your (hopefully friendly) neighbor’s garden.(See a TIME video on the nightlife in Baghdad.)
But on most nights, Kabul’s expatriates go out and partake in the manic craziness of the city’s bar and restaurant scene in houses reminiscent of America’s Prohibition-era speakeasies, behind 20-ft.-tall blast walls and an outer perimeter of armed Afghan security guards. “It’s like dancing at the edge of a volcano,” explains Anne Seidel, a German architect working for the U.N. in Kabul. The expatriates are a boisterous crowd of young and usually single diplomats, aid workers, journalists, spies and mercenaries — or, as they like to call themselves, “contractors.” Most of them earn $100,000 salaries and have money to burn. They tend to be adventurous, but the security constraints of their jobs often leave them cloistered in claustrophobic boredom — following suicide attacks, most foreigners are confined to their fort-like compounds.
When the dust settles, Kabul has hordes of war-zone entrepreneurs who are only too happy to help lighten the wallets of expatriates while providing opportunities to blow off steam. And that has given the Afghan capital a greater variety of restaurants than Delhi, Karachi or Tehran, cities 10 times its size. Kabul offers Thai cuisine as well as Turkish, Balkan, Italian, French and Persian, plus several steakhouses, a martini bar with a DJ and a Mexican cantina with high-stakes poker games. The city boasts dozens of Chinese restaurants, but a few were shut down several years ago when authorities realized that the owners were offering the services of hookers along with the Kung Pao chicken. Tiger prawns, pork loins and French wines are flown in from Dubai. The T-bone steaks come frozen from Australia.
It takes a special entrepreneurial mentality to look at a city under sporadic siege by jihadists and see a golden opportunity for supplying exotic food and illegal booze. Some restaurateurs have even migrated to Kabul from past wars in the Balkans or East Timor; they missed the wartime camaraderie — and the whopping profits. Some provide echoes of Bertolt Brecht’s archetypal war profiteer, the indomitable Mother Courage, who drove a cart through an artillery barrage to make a profit off the sale of 50 stale loaves of bread. A female Thai restaurant owner says she gives a dagger to each of her waitresses to scare off kidnappers in the bazaar — do-it-yourself security at its best.
Just like snowflakes, no two days at eworks inc. are alike.
make use of that in your answer to the question ‘why should we hire you instead of someone else?’
worthwhile article about hyperlinks
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/05/experiments_in.php
People making travel plans may unwittingly heed a strange rule of thumb — southern routes rule. In a new experiment, volunteers chose paths that dipped south over routes of the same distance that arched northward, perhaps because northern routes intuitively seem uphill and thus more difficult, researchers suggest.
sciencenewsVolunteers also estimated that it would take considerably longer to drive between the same pairs of U.S. cities if traveling from south to north, as opposed to north to south, says psychologist and study director Tad Brunyé of the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command in Natick, Mass., and Tufts University in Medford, Mass. For journeys that averaged 798 miles, time estimates for north-going jaunts averaged one hour and 39 minutes more than south-going trips, he and his colleagues report in an upcoming Memory & Cognition.
i noticed through the vent in my room that a light was on in the tv room. i went downstairs and found Friends on tv, chatting away
:) good storage tip
ysidro farfan
Two on a big ocean
Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore met while studying philosophy in college. The two agreed that upon graduating they would sell their collective possessions and leave behind their lives in Denver. They planned to buy a small sailboat and spend the next year living aboard and traveling exclusively under sail. For years this dream was carefully nurtured while preparations were made. Learning to sail and selecting a boat is difficult to accomplish from a landlocked state. Their nautical self-education consisted of a steady diet of how-to books and videos.
They were motivated by stories shared by sailors like Joshua Slocum, or Lin and Larry Pardey. On a sailboat minimalism transcends efficiency. There are no schedules, no agendas, or the many concerns that come with modern life. A sailor cares only for the direction of the wind and the condition of the water. Riley and Moore did not want their perception of the world to be shaped by spreadsheets, or facts gleaned in classrooms. They wanted a life of experience unmediated by people or things, a life of intimate participation with their environment. Cell phones, television, household appliances, the conveniences of modern life were traded for simplicity and contentment. A return to evenings spent indulging in the profound silence of the remotest regions, far from the yellowy glow of civilization.
Voyaging along the North Atlantic coastline for seven months at an average speed of five miles an hour lends itself to reordering one’s priorities. The long way is the beautiful one. The hard way is the most rewarding. Two years after completing their 2500 nautical mile voyage, Riley and Moore’s experience has led them to seek out a new endeavor. Their music bears the mark of months spent alone with the sea and each other. It is tinged with the sweet affection of new lovers. It bears the uncluttered aesthetic of time spent in remote and uninhabited regions. Their music is a modest attempt to translate an old truth rediscovered. Their album will be released by Fat Possum in January 2011.
SEATTLE – Some members of the 12th Man ended up in jail over the weekend when Hoquiam Police decided to use last Saturday’s playoff game as a way to round up some suspects.
Police figured a lot of people would be home watching the game on TV, so they decided to knock on the doors of those with outstanding warrants.
Twenty-three people were booked into jail. They also missed the end of the game.
this tweet made me :)
Marcotti Gabriele Marcotti Happy B-day: Wayne Gretzky + Jose Mourinho. The Great One and the Special One.
i am against off-brand mayonaise
yes, don’t let’s ever buy it plz.
that one’s totally cute
