January 2011
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morninggloria:
Hate on my weird curved penis of a banana all you want, Internet, but you know that shit’s packed full of potassium, plus it all looks the same in the dark of my stomach.
Yes, but seriously of all the fruits in the world you pick a banana? Their mushy texture, dairy-esque remnants of flavor left on the tongue and the fact that their carrying cases are oh-so-slippery?!
No, no,...
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Online Shopping
I have an addiction to online shopping. It’s not all bad though, I end up buying gifts for friends and amassing huge lists of awesome websites. The first of such lists is reproduced below, along with my notes.
Enjoy, fellow addicts.
Daily Deal Sites
www.woot.com
www.yugster.com
www.dailysteals.com
www.tanga.com
Awesome Selection & Shopping Sites
http://www.sciplus.com/ - this site...
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LookingOut: The Top 10 Logical Fallacies in... →
dailyrenegade:
Ad hominem
Tries to counter an argument by attacking the person, rather than addressing the argument itself.
Ad ignorantiam
States that a specific belief is true because we don’t know that it isn’t true.
Argument from authority
Argues that something is true because a respected individual (an individual with authority) says it is.
Correlation implies causation
Fairly...
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Ba-fucket-ma List
Hike a secluded location to view Aurora Borealis in all its splendor
Sky-dive (that’s a gimme)
Make one, full-length, professional-sounding song of any genre
Travel to all 50 states, 48 of which should be done during a single road trip
Spend a month in a monastery
Go hunting (for anything really)
Scuba Diving around an old shipwreck
Snow-ski (I’ve still never done it)
More to...
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It's Been Too Long
Well, a death in the family took me away from updating the Tayke for a while and gave me some much needed time to reflect on my current state. Overall, the state of my union is solid; balanced and stable are two words that come to mind although neither excite me to any degree. My life is awesome, but I need to discover ways to make it even more awesome so I’m creating a BFucket List.
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20 Dollar Amazon Gift Card for 10 Dollars -...
It’s from one of Groupon’s competitors, LivingSocial - here’s a link to take advantage of the deal.
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Too Busy to Create Content at Work
What kind of a world is this in which I am now too busy to blog while at work? That’s the sad reality folks. Now that they’ve got me on a leash they’re going to beat me mercilessly, like a dog that can’t escape - and what, like I’m going to just up and leave this cush job?
Of course not, what would I do? Become a barista and work on my art? Puh-lease, I can be poor...
Teaching Race to (Your) Children →
I hadn’t figured out how to explain to [my 6-year-old daughter] what I break down to my college-age students all the time: that race is a biological fiction that attains reality because we, as a society, have made it real. I teach that there’s no inherent logic to race aside from our own propensity to create and sustain differences between people but nonetheless, that social reality has very...
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Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools →
To justify their campaign, ed reformers repeat, mantra-like, that U.S. students are trailing far behind their peers in other nations, that U.S. public schools are failing. The claims are specious. Two of the three major international tests—the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and the Trends in International Math and Science Study—break down student scores according to the poverty...
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I want to make a camera...
that takes the picture a full 2 seconds after the flash goes off, so it looks like everyone has delayed reaction times. It’d also be one of the best ways to assure a candid-yet-posed photo. You know, you’d shoot a couple of film canisters on the thing, make ‘em prints and call it conceptual art or something. Conceptual art is what you call something that doesn’t make any...
Watchmoneyisnotimportant:
This video is 18 minutes and 34 seconds long, and it will completely change your mindset on giving and investing in others. I HIGHLY recommend that you take the time to watch it, and reblog it for your friends.
via TED.com
What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: “they” need “our” help, in the form of a few coins in a jar. The ...
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A teaser of all the current audio projects...
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Can I Get a Witness?
My father stopped visiting me when I stopped attending the Kingdom Hall. I moved out of his house with my mother when I was somewhere between the ages of 8 and 12. She was a Human Resources professional; he was a used car salesman. He didn’t like to work, and she didn’t like to loaf. The solution to this equation presented itself after 14 years of marriage, and the result was a figure...
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For a group of people who can't read, the cast of...
Yeah Dan, it’s a lot like those people in the mid-90s who got retarded Chinese characters which didn’t end up meaning what they thought it did. It’s cool to appear cultural.
Yeah, I like to look like I read books, but have you ever actually tried to read one? Yuck.
Mumblecore? More like, tumblecore.
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Nietzsche
In high-school I signed up for the first AP class made available to sophomores at my school. This class was called World Studies, and it sought to combine History and English into a single, multidisciplinary class. Like liberal arts for those who might still find value in them. Lamentations against my major aside, part of the course curriculum required that each student select a philosopher (lots...
Here is the website for the Australian Red Cross,... →
aatombomb:
inothernews:
And here is the website for the Queensland Government, and a page through which to make donations AND check for scams.
FOR EVERY 5 REBLOGS THIS GETS, I WILL DRINK A MARTINI.
stay thirsty, my friend.
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This is me, attempting a comedic rendition of a...
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Bored on a Monday night with Joey, the result of a...
Snot Stew
There’s something really pleasurable about blowing your nose, on par with excreting feces and expelling urine. Something about being rid of waste.
Is this merely something weird which (I think) almost all humans share, or is this some sort of evolutionary adaptation designed to ensure we excrete whatever waste is within us as soon as possible?
It's 46° in Austin...
and I’m wearing flip-flops. It’s wet outside, so the moisture seems to be sucking the air of its bite. I don’t feel cold in the slightest, but I am self-conscious about my choice of footwear. What will people think?
I’m sitting in a Starbucks, waiting for my car to finish getting its oil changed. The day is gray, but at least my car will feel better when it’s over.
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Just Admit it, You Hippy Prick.
You’d put down your protest sign in a patchouli-soaked-second if you had the chance to join the cadre of shadowy figures pulling the strings behind the world’s geopolitical and economic landscapes.
You’d shave your soup-stained beard and slap wingtips on those black and calloused soles just to trample the masses, given the chance.
You’re human. You’re always looking...
I Was Raised a Jehovah's Witness...
thus I was not socially conditioned to say “bless you” after someone sneezes. I just don’t feel the urge.
BUT…when I sneeze, I begin to feel odd when someone doesn’t tell me “bless you”. Like physically odd, as in the tip of my nose itches a bit and my face just feels a tad too warm.
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On Zombies...
Let’s say you’ve got your normal, garden-variety zombie stumbling around town. A quick bullet to the brain will kill them. Why? Because for some reason in zombie mythos, the brain is still a functional and necessary part of a “living” zombie’s essence.
So what happens on day 365 when the zombies’ brains have decomposed past a state of function?
I mean; do...
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What's that? Oh, just the most fucking awesome...
One of the most respected, senior and widely published professors of psychology, Daryl Bem of Cornell, has just published an articlethat suggests that people — ordinary people — can be altered by experiences they haven’t had yet. Time, he suggests, is leaking. The Future has slipped, unannounced, into the Present. And he thinks he can prove it.
Already critics are jumping up and...
You totally look chicano, hermano.
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“‘Reagan Diaries’ is the name of a great bar in the D.C. area. Their signature...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
My grandfather calls Brazil Nuts
“nigger toes” - that’s what he calls Brazil nuts.
As in, “please pass me the nigger toes.”
100% true. He’s not that racist from what I can tell (and this isn’t just some sort of paltry defense of my grandfather) I’ve never heard him say anything racist up until the moment we shared some Brazil nuts.*
Hate it when cops write "suspect was found...
“I photograph bar mitzvahs, so I know the songs. I like the one that goes, ‘It’s...”
– Flash Rosenberg, an artist-in-residence at the New York Public Library, in the New Yorker. (via abbyjean) 