March 2010
31 posts
Schmutzic.
”[Schmutz’s] adjectival form is schmutzic (also shmutsik) and means dirty or soiled as in, ‘He dropped his blintz and got his shirt all schmutzic.’”
— Wikipedia gives me a new favorite word.
L’esprit de l’escalier
mills:
While naked, getting dressed, she allowed her eyes to lapse out of focus. This time –between the application of various medicinal lotions and powders after her shower and the labored fastening of garments about her body- was sleepwalking: lumbering from the sink, with the mirror she used to vainly try to wipe clear when it fogged, to her dark bedroom, she never brought her eyes to...
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Watchdaveshumka:
A couple years ago my friend A.J. made the original Hot Tub Time Machine. It’s a short film called Hirsute and it’s worth your 13 minutes.
This? Brilliant. And I never watch short films, so I consider myself something of an authority on them.
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“Not every President goes for the multipen signature, however. President George...”
– Somehow, that sounds just like him.
confession
i uncheck bonus tracks in iTunes
that way they don’t automatically play or sync to my phone
i do this to preserve the integrity of the album as originally conceived by the artist
don’t… don’t look at me
How to get your money back, the easy way!
texburgher:
Here’s how you do it:
After a bad eBay experience, you decide to go the route of purchasing your kids a used iMac from an “established” retailer. In this case, the company’s name is Gainsaver.com. Write that down. You’re going to want to refer back to it later.
So, this place gets good enough word-of-mouth from two sources - one anonymous online; another, a friend of an online...
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Possibly not what she meant
Dear Cecil: Can you get cancer of the penis and clitoris? — Maggie B., Chicago Dear Maggie: Not at the same time.
— Cecil Adams in a Straight Dope from the column’s second year. (It’s pushing 37 now.) Also of note: Cecil’s epic poem about Schrödinger’s cat. Thanks, Matt, for reminding me of him.
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“A war of words then erupted between [director Vincent] Gallo and film critic...”
– Wikipedia on The Brown Bunny. How did I not know about this?
Dear everything:
Please stop treating the act of unsubscribing from your marketing emails as a Major Life Event demanding somber and sober reflection; a dilemma rich in both Pros and Cons whose balance requires careful, measured consideration; and one from the brink of which your subject might gingerly be persuaded back if only you could find just the right ingratiating tone to adopt in the (totally necessary and...
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“You can throw dicks in Apple’s face in Mobile Safari all day.”
– Neven Mrgan has a way with words.
whileyouweresleeping:
“I could be totally wrong about everything. But we could also do nothing and I think that’s pretty silly.”
— Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute*, breaks it down for the Times who just asked whether she ever has any doubts about their mission.
— From London.
*Well fancy that, I just discovered SETI stands for Signals of ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.
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yourmonkeycalled:
“This isn’t war, we don’t have to ration.”
Just some words from that song whose video I can’t stop watching.
So damn good.
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Penn Jillette, a hero of mine, proposing...
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Regarding airport body scanners
If I were not very cynical, I might say that body scanners represent a misguided attempt by a desperate, well-terrorized government to do something—anything—to keep 9/11 from happening again, despite the fact that locking the cockpit door pretty much solved that and besides, the next attack won’t look like the last one, so they must not have thought this through.
If I were a little bit...
This is why my entire family calls it Fucking...
Years ago…
My sister’s friend: Oh my god I have had the worst day. You will not believe what happened. I just got home from fucking Duane Reade—
Her mom: Whoa, slow down, sweetie. Just a minute. Duane who?
Informal poll (reblogged for morning viewers)
Do you think you’re going to get an iPad?
(Reply/answer via Tumblr Dashboard or click through and leave a comment.)
Informal poll
Do you think you’re going to get an iPad?
(Reply/answer via Tumblr Dashboard or click through and leave a comment.)
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Math!
whileyouweresleeping:
Steven Strogatz, in Opinionator:
… suppose we add all the consecutive odd numbers, starting from 1:
1 + 3 = 4 1 + 3 + 5 = 9 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 = 25
The sums above, remarkably, always turn out to be perfect squares. (We saw 4 and 9 in the square patterns discussed earlier, and 16 = 4 × 4, and 25 = 5 × 5.) A quick check shows that this rule keeps working...
