January 2011
Publishers drinking game →
UCL lectures would have been a lot more fun playing this!
grace-notes:
David Gray - Jackdaw
Watchpopculturebrain:
Ricky Gervais Crosses Paths With Steve Carell on ‘The Office’ (Video) | NBC via THR
This was kind of, no, completely amazing.
Come on OPM! Don’t let me down. You know you want to cancel work for government employees (and by association, me) tomorrow! Go on. Do it already!
Watchheadunderwater:
JAVELIN - “C-Town” and “Mossy Woodland”
Puppets + Javelin = entertained.
via karenhart:
Check out Javelin “VisionVersion” for Dublab video, it is pretty sweet.
LIVE AT: Bob Baker Marionette Theater
DIRECTED BY: Alex Pelly
Always and forever. Diana, please come back to the US so I have someone to go to a Javelin show with! I also still really want a drum pad.
High-speed plans for building high-speed rail
lefthanded:
shortformblog:
85% of Americans to have access to high-speed rail within 25 years source
Excellent.
But we were supposed to have flying cars already. Where is my flying car?! In 25 years I should be able to teleport to where I need to go, right?
“It was like late Clintonian minimalism.” My favorite comment about the SOTU.
Did dust jackets on books exist before someone invented the machine to fold them? Because if that was someone’s job (to fold dust jackets) before they had a machine, that would be THE WORST JOB EVER. I just spent the last hour and half rejacketing books by hand and I wanted to kill myself. I came out of the experience angry and with 5 paper cuts.
Adele - Set Fire to the Rain
This song is so...
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With...”
– Carson McCullers (via sometimesagreatnotion)
The wonderfulness just keeps on coming this week. Horrible interns, cut finger, metro craziness, gas leaks, and now….. re-jacketing books! I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be doing the work a machine was made for. We got 200 copies of a new book in our office and then realized they made a mistake printing the jackets. So the printer is re-jacketing the entire stock they have,...
News: Mei Xiang and Tian Tian will remain in the... →
fuckyeahgiantpanda:
China deployed a powerful tool from its diplomatic trove during President Hu Jintao’s visit Wednesday, announcing it will let two giant pandas spend five more years in the United States.
An agreement will be inked Thursday at the National Zoo allowing giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, who were supposed to go back to China at the end of last year, to stay in the US...
Today was not my day. I busted ass to get to work despite the ice and found out there was a two hour delay. I got flack from an intern, which is pretty much the worst feeling ever. Got on a bus that I knew went by my apartment but apparently only goes half the route during rush hour so I walked an extra 20 minutes home through said ice. Cut my finger wide open making dinner. I hope...
Hey intern - How about you not complain about the project I asked you to do within earshot of me. Do you think I’m deaf? I’m not that old. I heard your sarcastic “Woo, marketing project!” You know the work you’re doing for three days? I did that all summer long. All. Summer. Long. NOW GET BACK TO WORK!
grace-notes:
Band Of Horses - The Great Salt...
I’m going to have this moment. A moment mostly reserved for old people. Here we go: Technology! Oh…. my….. gawd. They can do that with phones? This world! I don’t even know.
I realize people do things like chat on skype everyday but today was the first day I used the skype voice app on my iPhone and it was amazing. I’m stuck at work without my laptop and no...
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My goal is clear but not so simple: Keep my Jan-Feb credit card bill under $300. Last month’s was $1100 (WHOA!) and this month’s is going to be about $700 (if I don’t go crazy in the next week). I can do this. I can do this.
buildingaladder asked: What movie is that? I love Lee Pace!
Anonymous asked: Hey Buddy!
Got a little something something on the way for you! Going to mail it to your new Alexandria, VA address. I'll probably get it out tomorrow! BTW- you met Delilah!!! Takes me back to high school--l love it!
Love, your buddy!
Got a little something something on the way for you! Going to mail it to your new Alexandria, VA address. I'll probably get it out tomorrow! BTW- you met Delilah!!! Takes me back to high school--l love it!
Love, your buddy!
