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Faceless ‘aliens’ spotted in crowd at Wimbledon |...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:11:33 -0500

Faceless ‘aliens’ spotted in crowd at Wimbledon | Mail Online

I FUCKING WANT ONE OF THESE MASKS SO FUCKING BAD.

/may make one.

So I can’tdon’t sleep-in late anymore because I am...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:22:01 -0500

So I ~~can’t~~don’t sleep-in late anymore because I am becoming an old, old man. So as I rise with the sun and rooster, I troll the book of face seeing if I have any messages or if it’s my turn in any of my scrabulous games, then I laugh.
I’m lol’ing bc it ain’t the first time I have seen this, and it probably will not be the last either, but a girl who I am friends with has a status that reads “…loving being in state XYZ with boy XYZ :)” and her profile pic is her with a guy I am guessing is boy XYZ but they live out of town, so I ain’t sure.
The reason I find this so damn funnny is this a girl I have known for awhile and have traded war stories with about being single in college, crazy things we have done/been a part of and now, like I have seen many times before, mostly with the ladies but in a more watered down form with some guys too, a formerly debauchery inviting facebook profile morphs almost instantly into a facebook profile that exudes domestic proficiency. Profile pics that used to have 40oz beers and sorority girl friends in costumes get traded for prim and proper and couple-ish photos that seem to be from a wedding or other event with a professional photog and the new profile pic serves to reinvent the person and their online persona from life of the party, wild, undiscovered Tucker Max type of willingness to get in to crazy shit, in to a facebook page that looks like they have become the perfect person to slang laundering supplies and household cleaning products.
Man I’m an old fuck.

jennifur85:nevver:ExtasyBecause I know you two are...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:32:42 -0500

jennifur85:

nevver:
Extasy
Because I know you two are sleeping together tonight. And because I know I’m sleeping alone. And because I met the most D-Bag individual ever at the bar this evening. Everying is OK! I don’t miss you
…and to top it the fuck off, all I have is this giant, worthless ssri that if only were some sort of benzo, I may get ten minutes of relaxation.

Now, however, ties are staging a comeback - thanks to nervousness over the credit crunch.

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:26:00 -0500

Credit crunch sparks tie revival

By Charlotte Bailey Last Updated: 2:03AM BST 22/06/2008

Once it looked to be going the way of the cravat and the waistcoat. Eschewed by David Cameron and Jeremy Paxman, the necktie was thought to be heading into obsolescence.

Now, however, ties are staging a comeback - thanks to nervousness over the credit crunch.

Tie merchants have enjoyed a ten per cent increase in UK sales in the last three months.

The reason their trade is flourishing against a grim economic backdrop is, they say, because office workers are desperate to “smarten up” to avoid being picked for redundancy.

Even those who have already got the chop are buying ties to wear to job interviews.

Richard Whitbread, marketing manager of Tie Rack, said: “Since the doom and gloom set in, sales of ties have picked up. We have seen a 10 per cent increase in sales over the last quarter.

“When people start to be more concerned about their jobs, they start to smarten up. Also a lot of people are looking for jobs at the moment.”

Lee Hamilton, a buyer for formal wear at John Lewis, reported a sales increase of 17 per cent in narrow ties 18 per cent in Italian ties.

What ties feel like to me:

Gas, schmas. There are infinite ways to get something from...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:26:53 -0500

Gas, schmas. There are infinite ways to get something from point A to point B.

It’s getting awfully crowded under that bus. (via Is it...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:15:59 -0500

It’s getting awfully crowded under that bus. (via Is it time to throw ‘under the bus’ under the bus?

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“BASTARD IN A...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:11:51 -0500

“BASTARD IN A BASKET”!

eatsleepdraw:

Milkshake
-Hunson N.

lomo:Designboom - Weblog - flexibility - domestic sandbags by...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:50:51 -0500

lomo:

Designboom - Weblog - flexibility - domestic sandbags by antenna design

"Every morning we check Google News for Facebook-related stories and without fail, always find a news..."

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:46:12 -0500

“Every morning we check Google News for Facebook-related stories and without fail, always find a news story or two illustrating how vastly more entertaining Facebook is for the rest of the world. Australians, Britons and Spaniards seem to use Facebook only to plan huge flash-mob parties at beaches, pools and vacation homes. Here, we sometimes get Facebook invites to Tech Karaoke. In America, the only crimes Facebook facilitates are child porn and child molestation — depressing, not fun. Abroad, Facebook figures prominently in stories of murder, prostitution, and even clashes against the government. Below nine news stories showing exactly how much more enjoyment foreigners are having getting into trouble with Facebook. Here in the States, we’re sitting at our computers while wondering how Facebook’s going to make money, or something. Clearly, we’re doing it wrong.”

- Social Networks: 9 ways foreigners are having more fun with Facebook

jeralyndwile:I just bought this today! Yay! I was so...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:06:44 -0500

jeralyndwile:

I just bought this today! Yay! I was so excited…
It did kind of break the bank, but I think that more expensive perfume is worth it because it will stay on longer. I bought the lotion and the perfume as to layer on my scent. I can’t wait to wear it!
I seem to have issues in getting my perfume to last. I put it on all the pulse points and stuff, but somehow an hour later it has already faded. So, I figured that maybe it was because I didn’t have a very “expensive” brand. Now I have one (believe me, quite pricey) so hopefully it will last. I heard that if you put Vaseline on the point before you spray, it will last longer. Does anyone know if this is true??? Let me know! lol :) Any helpful hints??

wow. wow. I’m on my 3rd pair of og sperrys now they...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:53:00 -0500

wow. wow. I’m on my 3rd pair of og sperrys now they have become ‘cool’ and come in colors like the ones above, which still, all I can say is wow. Your patriotism knows no bounds sir.
I been rocking these since I was seventeen. They seem to have a three year shelf life before they just get too gross and you have to go pay 55$ for another pair from the boat shop:

biteofpythias:

Red, white and blue: have a happy 4th bitches!

"To slip past Internet censors squashing reports of a weekend riot in China’s Guizhou province, some..."

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:07:43 -0500

“To slip past Internet censors squashing reports of a weekend riot in China’s Guizhou province, some bloggers have started writing backward.
…
… One recent strategy involves online software that flips sentences to read right to left instead of left to right, and vertically instead of horizontally.”

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the quotation is from here via this; the above familiar instance of mirror writing by da Vinci is from here
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(via stumblng)
Necessity is the mother of invention.

100 years from now:So ADD was from advertisements, the moon...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:05:17 -0500

100 years from now:

So ADD was from advertisements, the moon landing was stock footage from a previous landing a decade before, it was caffeine that caused mental illness, yes caffeine folks. Now let’s take a minute to give praise to Beck and El Ron Hubbard and go on to the next level for the next exhibited…get out your credit card key!

yourmonkeycalled:

MAKE IT STOP!
As I read this Economist article, no less than four video advertisements played around the text I was trying to concentrate on.

A lack of culture is not our problem. The problem is we’ve...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:51:00 -0500

A lack of culture is not our problem. The problem is we’ve become too effective at distributing that culture — at the same time, in the same way, and with the same velocity. It all ends up feeling interchangeable, which makes it all marginally irrelevant. As it turns out, my initial question was beyond impossible. There are no interesting twentieth-century Americans. There can’t be, because they all are. (via How Foreigners See America - American Pop Culture - Esquire by Chuck Klosterman

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"Angela Eversole, 34, was nabbed last weekend during a police stakeout at a Days Inn, where she..."

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:40:52 -0500

“Angela Eversole, 34, was nabbed last weekend during a police stakeout at a Days Inn, where she allegedly trysted with customer Kenneth Nowak. According to investigators, Nowak admitted paying for Eversole’s services, in part, with a $100 gas card. Eversole was hit with a prostitution rap and also charged with doing business without an occupational license.”

- Sex For Gas - July 2, 2008

I’m in to this. I have great stories for days about my former drinking days.Since for the...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:27:46 -0500

I’m in to this. I have great stories for days about my former drinking days.
Since for the better part sober, I like the term “streaks” bc thats all life is, you have been doing x for y time or not, anyway my current streak is 4 months, and for the past 42 months I have been streaky sober, but sober from alcohol nonetheless for about 30 of those months.
IT FUCKING SUCKS
The not having alcohol for medicinal purposes gets pretty easy after you are clean for a few months and then go out and get real fucked up falling off the wagon. I got alcohol poisoning this way, didnt go to the hospital bc its embarrassing to show up there as a result of your own indulgence, but did hallucinate from a fever, maybe saw Jesus’ face briefly in a mirror after throwing up the for the 43rd time, fuck it was rough - anyway, after a while your body gets clean and does particularly want to drink to for the physcial effects but:
The damned lonliness for me can get unbearable and I have trashed several months of accrued sobriety to go out and get a buzz, only to put myself on the level of the rest of the eligible make out mates at the bar. Going home with a random member of the opposite, and from what I hear, same sex person is just easier from a BAR bc its common practice. And its bullshit.
I have like 6 decent at best stories from my months of sobriety. No alcohol, making less volatile for some, does not mean that it gets more exciting.

katieschenk:

mills:
brianvan:
It’s not so much that I feel like I absolutely NEED a drink… though all this water is keeping my taste buds quite bored… but alcohol seems to be the keystone of all decent spontaneous social plans in NYC. What the hell am I supposed to do that DOESN’T involve alcohol?
[…]
So part of being sober is: accepting that you’ll sometimes not be able to immediately immerse yourself in the energy of a gathering, or enjoy a social interaction when your heart isn’t in it. Sometimes, you just won’t like an evening with hordes. You have to start obeying your natural moods: no more drowning a few and suddenly feeling talkative, exuberant, thrilled, energized, sexualized, rowdy.
You will definitely begin to see things about people you never noticed before, or didn’t care about before. During one of my many sober streaks, I began to realize that I really didn’t like hanging out with certain people and couldn’t figure out why I was friends with them in the first place. I’m not going to jump on the “you can have fun without drinking” cliche, cause honestly some of the funniest, best moments of my young life involve drinking stories, but that cliche does have some merit to it. You just have to be confident in the person that you are… sober.
And as always, Mills puts everything into words more beautifully.

CRAIGSLIST!!!!I spent the morning taking a stray I wound...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:02:12 -0500

CRAIGSLIST!!!!
I spent the morning taking a stray I wound up with to the vet to scan for the chip, nothing. Got home, CL’d her, went for a leisurely walk, came home to a positive email from someone who knew the owner, had it placed with the owner an hour after that.

livejamie:

ragdoll:
To my Lincoln followers: my dog is missing. Please help me find her. (via My Dropbox)
Anything to help out a friend, I hope you find him soon. :(

Facebook Was Shut Off in China Today

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:42:53 -0500

biteofpythias:

marco:
Ricky Van Veen:
They could have remained on if they had played by China’s rules and allowed the government to censor their content. But unlike Google and Yahoo and everybody else, Mark Zuckerberg refused to play by their rules and told them to go fuck themselves.
Hats off to you, Mark.
Wow. Facebook did something good. Nice job, Facebook.
well it wasn’t really censorship per se… Jintao just wanted zuckerberg to tell him who wrote that he was a total hottie in his honesty box. He was also upset about Taiwan classifying its relationship to the mainland as “it’s complicated.” at least that’s a billion less people to ask me to fight vampires and throw sheep at me…

Lonlienes is the the one that has broken me. Probably because,...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:16:00 -0500

Lonlienes is the the one that has broken me.
Probably because, NEWS FLASH: meeting girls is so much easier when drinking booze at night and early in the morning at parties, bars and clubs.

mills:

brianvan:
It’s not so much that I feel like I absolutely NEED a drink… though all this water is keeping my taste buds quite bored… but alcohol seems to be the keystone of all decent spontaneous social plans in NYC. What the hell am I supposed to do that DOESN’T involve alcohol?
I hate to say it, but there is a difficult adjustment period. Years in, I go out all the time: to bars, clubs, parties, and I rarely miss a Mardi Gras, and I never feel temptation. The urge comes, I find, when I’m alone or depressed or enraged or facing some dire life circumstance like heartbreak. Proximity to alcohol isn’t a problem; proximity to not giving a fuck is.
That said, there’s no avoiding this fact: American social activity in particular (and much of the world’s in general) is based on “celebration,” on social gatherings whose energy and raison d’etre come from a cathartic excitement and an existential exceptionalism: birthday, Friday, gameday, graduation day*. Alcohol chemically and psychologically enforces that exceptionalism, that break with the ordinary and unremarkable mood of your day.
Without alcohol, the appropriate sentiment isn’t something you can “turn on,” just as you can’t turn on happiness. But the parties require that you turn on, or be a wallflower until you feel the right mood. That might not happen on a given night.
So part of being sober is: accepting that you’ll sometimes not be able to immediately immerse yourself in the energy of a gathering, or enjoy a social interaction when your heart isn’t in it. Sometimes, you just won’t like an evening with hordes. You have to start obeying your natural moods: no more drowning a few and suddenly feeling talkative, exuberant, thrilled, energized, sexualized, rowdy.
(You’ll feel that way often enough, but not by your command).
*The can opening, the cork popping: these signal a shift in mood that is largely psychological, and only later chemical. For me, a Friday night party has no start gun; my mood is as it was when I left the office. It may slowly shift into something else, but it will not do so quickly and definitively. Alcohol is useful and probably necessary for a functional society, and if it’s not good for you, accept this: you will have limitations and angst, and -most painfully- boredom. But after a while, you develop around them, and sobriety becomes something you love.

I didnt even read this cartoon bc fuck Guitar Hero. What...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:04:11 -0500

I didnt even read this cartoon bc fuck Guitar Hero. What asshole invests hours in to an endeavor of clacking buttons in order to “play” a song that is not their when the same time you learn the real fucking instrument, which if you got decent at, step three is a coin-flip between heroine and profit.
But you stupid fat fucks sit around and play video games, or WoW, and waste your life in front of the pixels 18” in front of you. Granted we are all wasting away in one way or another, its the nature of our condition, but to do so to get the orange fucking armor or even if you absolutely covered the Wolfmother song beyond computer comprehension, in the grand scheme of things, who the fuck cares?
Riddle me that and why with gas prices never going down again do people feel the need to nascar the bestbuy or grocery store lot 3 times around to find a space that was 12 feet fucking closer to the first one you saw five minutes and a gallon of fuel ago, you fat, lazy, stupid, lost-looking, confused, air conditioned obsessed, out of shape, asshole.
I’m upset with the lazy right now
http://kroanx.muxtape.com/ - Soul Coughing song

danhacker:

I wish I could quit you Guitar Hero.