January 2009
141 posts
“Wouldn’t it just rock and roll if liking someone meant they had to like...”
– Olive Snook
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Smiley faces on utility bills increase energy... →
squashed:
This is rather amazing. The utility company showed customers how their utility usage compared to neighbors with similar homes. Those who did well got one or two smiley faces. Those who did poorly initially got a frowny face, but people got up set about the frowny faces, so they were discontinued. Apparently the program worked. Apparently we are so competitive by nature that a desire to...
“I suppose I could pay my bills with blind kids’ smiles, but money is a lot...”
– Emerson Cod
When it is cold and grey and dark and gray and...
(like it has been for the past 2 months, and will continue to be for the next 2 months)
I find myself spending time on flickr searching for places that are warmer and more colorful.
I don’t know if that makes it easier or harder to bear.
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Dear cellphone,
Could you try maybe ringing when the call is coming in, and not just to notify me that I missed a call? Because I was sitting next to you the entire time. I think maybe you missed the call.
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“Something inside pushed me to where I am currently, but I think now I need a...”
– Bryon McDonald: Thoughts, 1 PM
This so where I am right now. If you went through my journal from the past few years, this is what you’d find. (Though probably not so eloquently.)
I think I might be starting to see a direction for myself. Not a destination yet, but at least some co-ordinates...
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Birthday Info
(robot-heart:pinkpolkadots)
From http://www.paulsadowski.com/.
The most fitting part?
11 September 1984
Your birth tree is Weeping Willow, the Melancholy: Beautiful but full of melancholy, attractive, very empathic, loves anything beautiful and tasteful, loves to travel, dreamer, restless, capricious, honest, can be influenced but is not easy to live with, demanding, good intuition, suffers...
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bebelestrange:
When I was little I used to hang upside down over the side of the bed, looking at the ceiling, wondering what it would be like if the ceiling was the floor. I’m probably alone on this.
Totally not the only one. Didn’t you read Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, who lived in an upside-down house, and whose ceiling actually was her floor.
(And who also teaches children to be nice and polite....
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Ladyhawke (25)
Electric Light Orchestra (23)
Andrew Bird (18)
Bon Iver (15)
Simon & Garfunkel (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans,...”
– Dave Eggers
Question of the Day.
Why is Too Legit to Quit a 5 min and 36 second song?
I mean, at the beginning I’m in! Too Legit! Too Legit to Quit!
At about the 3 min mark, I’m thinking “okay, Mr. Hammer, I think it’s about time to quit.” I mean, there’s only so much early 90’s “hey heey! yea yeaaa-ah!” background singing a person can take.
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Andrew Bird - Take Courage
Night’s...
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Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly
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“The best way to accomplish serious design is to be totally and completely...”
– Paula Scher
So I don't think I like Coldplay.
They were never my fav, but I thought I was neutral on the “Coldplay, yea or nay” debate.
But I’ve realized I can’t sit through a whole Coldplay song without hitting the “next” button.
Sorry Coldplay.
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Chief Justice Roberts might have screwed up the... →
Scientists Welcome Obama’s Words - NYTimes.com →
In early 2004, more than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement claiming that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry.
The administration, it said, had “misrepresented scientific knowledge and misled the public about the...
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lindsayneedscoffee:
Party All The Time by Eddie...
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type.fwis.com →
A new typeface every day for the month of January.
type.fwis.com is a playground for typographic experiments by Fwis (and friends). Fwis provides no warranty as to the functionality or usefulness of the typefaces. They are very likely to render your project unreadable, in point of fact. The typefaces are provided free and “as-is” for your personal or corporate use.
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Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
I’m...