“We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography but we couldn’t find any.”
bookofjoe: Pictures Reframed (Leif Ove Andsnes + Robin Rhode)
I have adored Andsnes for years and years, I would’ve killed to see this.
“The data center, built by IT firm Academica and scheduled to go live in January, will capture heat from computer servers and use it to warm Finnish homes via a network of water-heated pipes. Academica’s data center, which the company claims is the greenest in existence, will use just half the energy of a typical data center, provide heat for 500 homes, and save Academica approximately $563,000 each year on power. […] Eventually, Google might trump the Finnish company with a super-green data center of its own. The search giant filed a patent last year for a floating data center that uses ocean water to stay cool and wave energy to power on-board computers.”
“When the garlic is ready, throw the chopped romaine into the hot pan. This is where the little bit of danger comes in: if you put in only part of the romaine, and it is still wet, there may be violent little splatters of hot oil. Do not be timid. What will protect you from splattering romaine is the romaine itself, a solid pan full of it. If you approach it falteringly and drop in a little handful, the hot oil will sense your weakness and attack. If you then panic and try to shield yourself with a pot lid, you will lose control of the situation entirely. You are a human being; the contents of the pan are plant matter. Calmly and quickly deliver all the chopped leaves, and the only thing they will splatter will be their fellow leaves.”
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me on Chicago’s failed bid for the Olympics.
New glasses. I feel I’m embracing my inner @gbullard?
Why I am an idiot.
In the relatively short amount of time that I have been on Tumblr, you may have noticed something about me. I am an idiot. My idiocy extends into many areas of my life, but I believe it is most prominent in my interactions with boys. Men, if you will.
You see, I have this problem. The problem is flirting. I do not understand it. I don’t know how to do it. I can’t tell when it is being done to me. If a boy is flirting with me, I just assume he is being very polite. It never occurs to me that anyone would ever be expressing interest in me. Honestly.
When I like a boy, I don’t flirt. When I try, I tend to go with the look-at-you-until-you-notice-me-looking-at-you-and-look-away-so-that-it-looks-like-I’m-ignoring-you method. Which is like, the shittiest method ever in time.
So, basically what needs to happen is that we need to go back to kickin’ it Cro-Magnon style. This means that if boys like me, they pretty much need to bash me on the head with a stick and say “ME LIKE YOU” and then I’ll be like, “OHHHHHH. ALRIGHT, COOL.” Then we can have makeouts. Come to think of it, even if you just told me that you wanted to make out with me, I would totally think you were joking. Because I’m an idiot.
There is no clear answer, here, friends. Because I’m an idiot.
Excuse me, miss? Please stop plagiarizing from my BRAIN. Thank you.
(Holy crap this is so me.)
- Chaya: omg, I want a baby: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-TREX-ONESIE&Category_Code=QW
- Brad: I think shirts, awesome though they may be, is like the second worst reason to have a child
- Brad: The first being for meat
Can we talk about how awesome this logo is?
Also, they posted an Adventure of Pete & Pete mix. (via edp)
“Wow, look at you now, kitten in the window, it’s such a lovely day…”
HEY WE HAD A TWEETUP AND DIDN’T INVITE YOU EXCEPT FOR ALL THE INVITES WE LEFT ON TWITTER AHHHHHHHH!
Won’t these jerks be surprised when they find out United just happened to have a last minute weekend flight special and I show up in about 1.5 hours. WHERE MY STD AT NOW, BITCHES?!
-SENT FROM MY ASSHOLE PHONE IN THE SKY
Holy crap, “-SENT FROM MY ASSHOLE PHONE IN THE SKY” kills me.
I unfollowed a shit load of people on Twitter and Tumblr last night.
And it probably wasn’t as many as I should have, and here’s the reason: my concern for preventing other people’s butthurt has led me to butthurt of my own.
I had basically stopped reading my twitter stream all-together over the past month or so. A few times a day I’d scan a couple of the most recent posts, but otherwise it all got ignored because there was just too. much. noise.
The result of all that noise is that I missed some really cool things that I shouldn’t have missed, and things that I’m quite disappointed to have missed. […]
I totally feel you, but I chose a different solution. I follow 252 people, most of whom I follow for the lulz, a portion that I follow for “political” reasons essentially, and then a portion that I follow as local news/event sources. Similarly, I found that I was missing out on events because of the sheer volume of tweets. But I also didn’t want to eliminate the primary thing I enjoy about Twitter: anytime I need a laugh or to cheer up or distract myself or whatever, I just go to my home page and a fresh load of cleverness awaits me. The last thing I need in my life is fewer laughs, you know?
Solution: RSS feeds. With those feeds that I use for updates on events and news, I actually do want to read every single one of their toots, so I just added each account’s RSS feed to a folder on Google Reader. I never miss an update, I can search easily, and I can tag updates (most commonly “to do” or “to eat”). The one downside is that there’s no way to turn off seeing @ replies, but it’s easy enough to just scroll past.
I mean, of course, just because this works for me doesn’t mean it would work for everyone. But just a possible alternative solution for anyone facing the same problem.
Typical
According to Tumblr, my top crushes are catsdoingshit, fuckyeahbabyanimals, @sween, and @tony_d. Sneaky cats, baby furballs, a Canadian, and a weirdly hot writer? Sounds about right.
