Posted 3 weeks ago

Maybe a little self-conscious

It snowed a lot here yesterday, and since then I’ve had a lot of trouble finding someone who will play in the snow with me. So I’m going to go play in the snow by myself now, and throw snowballs at trees or something. What I liked about living in New York is you will get very little scrutiny for doing weird stuff by yourself, since there will always, always be weirder people around doing weirder things alone, even one or two that don’t think they are alone and talk to everyone within earshot. If I’m making a snow fort, there’s a schizophrenic in his underwear down the way, shoveling a sidewalk.

In Albany, I have no such luxury— if I’m doing something weird by myself, I’m going to be the only one. So cars will be driving by, watching me make a lonely snowman (I know this because I watch those people too when I’m driving a car), saying to whoever is in their passenger seat, what is that girl doing in the middle of that field all by herself? And I will yell to them I AM FROLICKING IN THE SNOW, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. SHOW’S OVER.

Posted 3 weeks ago

thedailywhat:

Lunch Links:

At first I thought this guy must have been ultra speed hugging, but math suggests this is about 5 hugs per minute. Even after alloting time to finding the next person to hug, assuming a sufficiently populated place, those are still 5 to 7 second hugs. That’s a pretty quality hug.

Posted 1 month ago

Having the same last name and cover jacket design as a prolific(ally rich and famous) author so people looking for his might read yours too strikes me as not the worst idea in the world.

Posted 1 month ago
Engineers are retarded. They have some kind of brain damage that allows them to not have social skills, that they can concentrate long enough to write code. But it’s a disease. That’s why I had to quit, I mean, I’m like an engineer in recovery. I don’t want to write code anymore, it just makes you retarded.
Jim Reekes, former Apple engineer
Posted 1 month ago

Thank you… thank you… thank you… thanks Channel 1031… Oh!… Aw, AT&T, you shouldn’t have!

Posted 1 month ago

CBS approves, Neil Patrick Harris inches closer to ‘Glee.’ | EW

popculturebrain:

The only barrier between NPH/Whedon/Glee has been lifted. Commence the awesomeness.

This is like that part in The Perfect Storm where all anyone can do is watch the three storms on the screen converge into total and complete musical awesomeness. Wait, what?

Posted 1 month ago

Or Abroad, Maybe?

I will level with you: I am struggling at getting a job. I do not have one yet. But I’m thinking if I frame up the next few months as not “unemployed” but instead “taking a semester off exterior to the constraints of the academic system,” I’ll feel a lot better about myself.

(500th post! High five, Internet!)

Posted 1 month ago

proofmathisbeautiful:

macmankev:

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Truth.

You can also ask them if they’ve read any of Brian Greene’s books.

Posted 1 month ago

And so the Jobs brought down the tablet from on high, and the tablet was good!

Posted 1 month ago

Went back to my old hometown today with my mom to visit a family friend. The kind of place where gas stations support the high school football team, TAKE THAT, (NEWLY REBORN FROM YOUR OWN ASHES, SO THAT’S A LITTLE FRIGHTENING) CORPORATE AMERICA.