May 2012
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Le Tigre - Much Finer
whatever. fuck this moping....
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April 2012
What Have We Learned? →
Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, the landmark book connecting pesticide usage with species decline. Carson noted the very real threats of chemicals on humans as well as species and helped usher in the environmental movement that transformed the nation in important ways during the 1960s and 1970s. Elizabeth Kolbert wonders if, a half-century later, we have learned anything....
A Dangerous Mind? - NYTimes.com →
LATE last year, a jury in Boston convicted Tarek Mehanna, a 29-year-old pharmacist born in Pittsburgh, of material support for terrorism, conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign country, after a 35-day trial in which I testified as an expert witness for the defense. On April 12, Mr. Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison. Hearing...
this is what my itunes thinks of me
here are the 12 genius mix genres it offers me:
hip-hop/rap
alt. singer/songwriter
punk
post punk
metal
electronica
pop
alt-pop
brit-pop
electro-pop
dance pop
teen pop
DO I LIKE POP AT ALL ITUNES
grad school: continually lowering the bar on the shittiest paper you’ve ever written
grad school: do you even know what you are talking about anymore
grad school: do you even care what you are talking about anymore
grad school: asfhafnldwelknafwelngd;lkfaw
upheaval
Grad School: What the Fuck Were You Thinking?
bthny:
Grad School: Congratulations, You Spent Your Friday and Saturday Nights Staring at a Computer Screen!
Grad School: Because You Weren’t Already Insufferable Enough
Grad School: Why Aren’t You Working On That Paper, Huh?
Grad School: And Don’t Forget About the Other Paper!
Grad School: Too Bad You Can’t Write a Paper About the Fun You’re Not Having
Grad School: Stop Seeing Who Else is...
kelsium:
Ugh, I forgot that my gym closes at seven on Saturdays. That is deeply inconvenient for those of us with no lives. I did get twenty minutes on that machine that’s kind of like an elliptical but not, though, so it was not for naught. A good way to feel badass is to bounce along to Kanye on that machine while watching Viggo Mortensen cut people up in Return of the King on TNT.
i used...
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not on either list i made earlier but apparently...
listen to the two song sequence of miguel ‘arch n point’ and 2:54 ‘you’re early’ over and over and over and over again.
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Palace: Kate has graduated as 'fully fledged'... →
The Duchess of Cambridge has successfully graduated as a “fully fledged member” of Britain’s monarchy after fulfilling all her objectives one year on from her marriage to Prince William, a senior royal source has told CNN.
fulfilling all of the objectives to become full-fledged british royalty sounds like the most boring video game ever.
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ugh
the canned black beans from trader joe’s are the total worst.
sun vista forever.
Passive Voice Day 2012 →
It has again been decided that April 27th will be passive voice day. Fun will be had by everybody as the passive voice is used for tweets, blogs, and casual conversation. The active voice will be frowned upon. The hashtag #passivevoiceday should be used when passive voice is used in social media, so the fun can be shared by all. Why is this being done? Simple. It’s considered fun. No point is...
Eliminating Words from the English Language →
We asked readers to propose a single English word that should be eliminated from the language. The nominations piled up, in the hundreds and then the thousands. People who like words, as it turns out, also hate words. Superfluous adverbs took a beating: people unloaded on “literally” and “actually.” One woman challenged anyone to think of a case in which a deleted “actually” changed the meaning...
Agriculture, Child Labor, and Monocultures →
Big agriculture is going to the mat for what really matters–exploiting child labor.
Last year, two teenagers handling a large grain auger had their legs severed while working at the Zaloudek Grain Co. in Oklahoma. The Department of Labor (DOL) proposed rules that might have prevented this tragedy. The rules, designed to curb dangerous child labor in agriculture, were finally unveiled last year...
The Arpaio case: when to come down? →
I’m sympathetic with the idea that Joe Arpaio should have been indicted years ago. Now that Arpaio’s prosecutor sidekick has been disbarred for what the a panel of the Arizona court system found to be “evidence … beyond a reasonable doubt” of “a criminal conspiracy,” the odds that there is enough to convict Shurf Joe have shortened enormously. [ Text of Arizona disbarment findings.] That makes...
EEOC Breakthrough: Anti-Transgender Discrimination... →
Consider this: A person applies for a job at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives as a ballistics forensic technician, is well-qualified for the position, and is offered the job. She then tells ATF that she is transitioning from male to female. A few days later, she’s told the job has been cut for budget reasons. And then she learns that the job hasn’t...
jakke asked: What piercings do you have? And which additional piercings, if any, would you be inclined to get?
things i'm finding more fulfilling than doing...
watching the pilot of “l.a. complex”
chasing my cat around the house while making laser noises
organizing my nail polish
i am excited to see what other thrilling activities i can add to this list.
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homework
i would be totally willing to complete this assignment but for my total lack of either respect for this class or any semblance of motivation.
fedex/kinkos print centers are the bane of my...
Who Made That Pie Chart? - NYTimes.com →
Like many of his contemporaries, the design consultant Stephen Few bemoans the ubiquity of pie charts. Here, he explains his perspective:
You wrote an essay called “Save the Pies for Dessert.” Why do you dislike pie charts so much? Pie charts are very popular, but it’s rare that a pie chart does the job better than a bar chart.
So, it’s fundamentally flawed? When looking at parts of a whole,...
Bilingualism →
Even people who appear, to naive judges, to be fluent in a second language they learned after childhood, perform well below native speakers at cognitively demanding linguistic tasks, such as understanding speech in noisy environments, or explaining proverbs. I don’t have the citation link for this, but Jürgen Meisel reported that German students learning French by immersion did much better if...
Audit: Online schools fall behind in Colorado →
State auditors delivered a highly critical report on online schools Monday, saying their students perform worse and drop out more often than their counterparts in public schools. Auditors also said the state Department of Education failed to act against school districts that sponsor underperforming online schools, despite state rules requiring that such districts have their accreditation revoked...
Why Are Prisoners Committing Suicide in... →
By the time John McClellan Jr. was found dead inside Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cresson last May, he had long been categorized as “special needs” for his history of addiction and mental instability. Yet prisoners and staff say the 42-year-old inmate was not living in one of the facility’s treatment units but in the Restricted Housing Unit, or RHU—otherwise known as...
“Pie charts are perhaps the most abused chart type. There are just endless...”
– Junk Charts
PREACH
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BREAKING NEWS
gebthedestroyer replied to your post: this housing policy class
When you read something it is processed differently in the brain, yes watching more is interesting reading can be more meaningful. I think its rather foolish to say “this professor has lost all credibility” just cuz u hate the reading selected
YES THERE MAY BE LEGITIMATE REASONS THAT A GRADUATE LEVEL CLASS IN HOUSING POLICY WOULD...
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this housing policy class
this professor has lost all credibility by assigning us all this reading about the realities of living in project-based public housing in the 80s and 90s when we could just watch an episode of the wire instead. the opening of season 3 even involves the destruction of the towers for HOPE VI revitalization while also including a discussion between bodie and poot which would be a lot more interesting...
States Leaning Heavily on Spending Cuts to Balance... →
States made almost $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in new revenues to close the huge budget gaps that resulted from the Great Recession, our new analysis finds. It is the first attempt to quantify how states collectively balanced their budgets in the face of their worst fiscal problems in at least 70 years. States have cut services by $290 billion and raised taxes and fees by $100 billion since...
Does low socioeconomic status have to bring poor... →
Some individuals, despite facing recurrent, severe adversities in life such as low socioeconomic status (SES), are nonetheless able to maintain good physical health. This article explores why these individuals deviate from the expected association of low SES and poor health and outlines a “shift-and-persist” model to explain the psychobiological mechanisms involved. This model proposes that, in...
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The top 10 fastest-growing U.S. industries (Hint:... →
Now IBIS World is out with a new report (pdf) on the 10 fastest-growing industries:
1. Generic pharmaceuticals 2. Solar panel manufacturing 3. For-profit universities 4. Pilates and yoga studios 5. Self-tanning product manufacturing 6. 3-D printer manufacturing 7. Social network game development 8. Hot sauce production 9. Green and sustainable building construction 10. Online eyeglasses sales
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holy shit
poached egg attempted = unqualified success. now i am unstoppable.
i watched 'julie and julia' this weekend
so last night i made hollandaise sauce (triumph) and tonight i am going to try to poach eggs to have with the rest of the hollandaise sauce.
i do not excel at transitions
why can’t everything just stay the same all the time always
