December 2010
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altidude:
“The teens’ friends told police that the car was having engine trouble, and they had probably left it running so that they wouldn’t get stuck with a car that wouldn’t start, police spokesman Carl Zogby said.”
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Family: 5 dead in Fla. motel were like brothers
(Followup to my earlier post in which I wondered if the boys might have overreacted to over-dramatic news coverage of the...
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Oops.
smutandeggs:
So, I work at this crazy popular restaurant and today we were PACKED. I’m talking to our hostess about what tables we now have available when we hear a loud … well, I’m gonna say commotion. I heard a woman calling out, then I heard a bang/thud/boom and it all came from the bar area. I look over there and one of our food runners is looking at the floor kinda stunned.
Now, it’s SUPER...
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Making your gay daughter straight →
randomhector:
The third one is the best, holy shit.
Did you read the comments on this? I did — I had to figure out if this was just a really bad joke or if the author was serious. Turns out the author really stepped in it with this article and tried to clarify her points in various comment responses.
Although her suggestion for mothers to set their daughters up with transvestites...
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Tumblr Queue Dumped All Over Me
So it’s GPOYTu now.
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The Milwaukee Meetup is ALIVE! →
Although TheNeilShow will unfortunately not be able to attend what was going to be his going-away party, the Milwaukee meetup is still on for January 8th.
All of you spectacular human-beings from Wisconsin should know that the meetup is now listed on the Meetups page as are all of the details. RSVP if you can, don’t worry about it if you can’t; we’d just like to be able to give...
Mentally, I'm in "a place"
Among other things, today I went 15 miles on the freeway in the absolute wrong direction before realizing I was supposed to be driving to Madison, not Milwaukee.
The only reason I noticed when I did? I was thinking about where I was going to stop for breakfast when it dawned on me that all of the places I normally went to while on my way to Madison were not at all on the way to Milwaukee —...
The dumbest ideas I've had in life I had when I...
My passions for art, working in live entertainment, understanding the human mind and emotion, and navigating the world as a productive member of society — and every other passion of mine have gotten me in trouble at some point.
It’s the rare situation that I regret, although in many cases I feel some burden of shame. Most of the time I just wish that my words, actions, and intentions...
“I’m pretty passionate about things I do, and particularly at this age, because I...”
– Dr. Phil
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different...”
– William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842 - 1910)
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different...”
– William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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My humor.
It is actually possible for it to be drier, but I’m pretty certain there’s a better chance of finding moisture on Mars.
Possible, but it’d take an army of brilliant people with a $17billion/year budget to produce results.
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Biggest mistakes of 2010
boston:
Remember the Apple engineer who left the iPhone 4G prototype in a bar? » more mistakes
This shouldn’t really be considered a mistake. It should be something that he should’ve done sooner and more often:
March 23. Inevitable Joe Biden mistake of the year:
Vice President Joe Biden, failing to note his proximity to a microphone, announces to the world that health...
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The Milwaukee Meetup is ALIVE! →
Although TheNeilShow will unfortunately not be able to attend what was going to be his going-away party, the Milwaukee meetup is still on for January 8th.
All of you spectacular human-beings from Wisconsin should know that the meetup is now listed on the Meetups page as are all of the details. RSVP if you can, don’t worry about it if you can’t; we’d just like to be able to give...
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“How beautiful is youth, youth which is gone so soon. Let him who would be happy....”
– Lorenzo De Medici (1449-1492)
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“How beautiful is youth, youth which is gone so soon. Let him who would be happy....”
– Lorenzo De Medici (1449-1492)
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annarb:
when life gives you shit, make something amazing out of it.
Christmas Eve is my favorite single day of the...
Because it’s a day when I know I’ll be sharing in the Holiday experience with all of the other poor bastards like myself who put their gift shopping off until the very last moment.
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effort in ≠ success out
In a week where a whole hell of a lot of things went wrong, where “effort in” was not at all proportional to “success out”, and where the absurdity of the number of things going wrong transitioned from frustrating to comical, it was nice to have Fred (aka our fearless leader aka our CEO) say, “Hey, thanks for all your hard work,” while I was packing up my cube...
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Merry Christmas, Maya.
Me: Merry Christmas, Maya.
Maya: ...
Me: ...
Maya: Fuck you.
To make a long story short, Maya thinks that the Salvation Army telling people Merry Christmas is equivalent to them saying "Fuck You" to everyone, so whenever someone tells her Merry Christmas, she says "Fuck You." Now everyone likes to walk into her cube and tease her by saying hi and with a careful grin on their faces telling her to have a Merry Christmas.
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I'm in Middleton the next few days.
I’m working out of ETC’s Middleton office through Wednesday. If any of you cool Tumblr cats from Madison want to grab lunch this week, hit up my askhole.
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I accidentally ended up in the middle of the meet...
Before the evening show, they had a line of a dozen or so people in a backstage hallway. Ronnie was led into the hallway by his production manager Jaimie (Ronnie being blind and all). They stood Ronnie at the end of the hallway, and two by two, everyone got their photos taken with Ronnie. Time and time again, a group of 2-4 people would approach, tell Ronnie how much they like his work, wish him...