November 17, 2009

Complaint #534 - IRL Whine

whitewhine:

Everytime someone asks me to fax something I become enraged. Can we please retire this technology once and for all?

-Whine by @Michelleimiller

Agreed!

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October 28, 2009
myvintagevogue: Margaret Hamilton

myvintagevogue:

Margaret Hamilton

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October 16, 2009
slaughterhouse90210: “Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. ” —Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

slaughterhouse90210:

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. ”

—Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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October 3, 2009

My 87-year-old grandfather just got a tattoo. Of a wedding ring on his finger.

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September 24, 2009
Uncanny Valley

bestofwikipedia:

The uncanny valley hypothesis holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot’s lifelikeness. (via Ivan)
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September 14, 2009
“ It costs so much to publish, would it not be better for the author to put his manuscripts in a safe?
The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: costs so much…Thoreau’s Journal: 14-Sep-1855 •
August 31, 2009

It’s my 10-year New York-iversary, give or take a day. Word, Bx and Manhattan.

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August 28, 2009

When NYC is Cute: Babies and Kittens on the Subway

This afternoon on the uptown A train I saw the cutest baby. He was so cute sitting on his mother’s lap, laughing and drooling and being chubby and adorable, that every single person in the immediate area was smiling at him. To compound the cuteness, a man sitting a few seats down, across from me, had a kitten in a pet carrier on the floor—and the ten-or-so-year-old kid sitting next to me was playing with the kitten by waving his umbrella around low to the floor. The cat followed it back and forth with its eyes and looked like it wanted nothing more than to jump out of the carrier and pounce on the kid’s lap. I have never seen a more contented group of people on a subway train.

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slaughterhouse90210: “I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden

slaughterhouse90210:

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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August 26, 2009

Every year around this time, I can’t help but think (rather smugly, I’ll admit) how GLAD I am to not be a teacher. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to go back to work after a two-month vacation. I have a hard enough time coming back to work after the weekend.

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