oh, this

Complaint #534 - IRL Whine

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:22:42 -0500

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

-Whine by @Michelleimiller

Agreed!

myvintagevogue: Margaret Hamilton

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:13 -0400

myvintagevogue:

Margaret Hamilton

slaughterhouse90210: “Little girls are cute and small only to...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:22:38 -0400

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

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

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:16:57 -0400

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

Uncanny Valley

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:38:28 -0400

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)

"It costs so much to publish, would it not be better for the author to put his manuscripts in a safe?"

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:26:59 -0400

“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

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

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:56:32 -0400

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

When NYC is Cute: Babies and Kittens on the Subway

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:43:29 -0400

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.

slaughterhouse90210: “I say, beware of all enterprises that...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:53:23 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

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

Every year around this time, I can’t help but think (rather smugly, I’ll admit) how GLAD...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:27:31 -0400

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.

slaughterhouse90210: “He has the personality of a child prodigy,...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:31:57 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.”
— Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

Boyfriend loves Hall and Oates. I love boyfriend.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:31:38 -0400

Doing things around the apartment listening to Sirius/XM… which periodically beeps to signal that a Hall and Oates song is playing on another station.

slaughterhouse90210: “I came to New York and in only hours, New...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:49:14 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”
— Philip Roth, Exit Ghost

This is really well-done. shinyredballoon: “Scary Mary” Mary...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:45:57 -0400

This is really well-done.

shinyredballoon:

“Scary Mary”

Mary Poppins as a horror film.

This is actually kind of terrifying.

slaughterhouse90210: “Being a nerd, which is to say going too...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:37:00 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.”
— Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

slaughterhouse90210: “People worry about kids playing with guns,...

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:07:37 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands—literally thousands—of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

slaughterhouse90210: “For what do we live, but to make sport for...

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:54:39 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"People like to say that City Island is a slice of New England only 15 minutes from the Cross Bronx..."

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:39:47 -0400

“People like to say that City Island is a slice of New England only 15 minutes from the Cross Bronx Expressway, but in fact its atmosphere is even more peculiar. Less Cape Cod, perhaps, than a tiny, Stephen King-like town on the lonesome Maine coast.”

- Local Stop - City Island - A Small Fishing Village With a Big-City Area Code - NYTimes.com

What I found in the dryer after doing our laundry today

Fri, 29 May 2009 15:52:23 -0400

One $20 bill

Two guitar picks

Score!

a conversation

Sun, 10 May 2009 12:54:25 -0400

Dad: How long have you been in New York now? Me: New York City, 10 years in August. Manhattan, 5 years in August. Dad: You’re really a glutton for punishment.