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slow loris: watch and learn.

Jun 19, 2009
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Slow Loris!

WARNING: You will get The Giggles from watching this.

Local Contest Winner has a Rock&Roll Soul

Jun 4, 2009
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Recent contest submission form, whose author won Art Brut tickets at the Mercury Lounge for tomorrow night.

"My wife and I just had a baby and it is fucking impossible!
It is so hard, in fact, that we are leaving our "hip" Brooklyn "lifestyle" and moving to the suburban midwest, where our souls will die, but at least we can fob the kid off on the family once in a while.
Art Brut is one of my favorite bands, but I have not ever seen them. My wife has never been to the famed Mercury Lounge, and now fears she never will.
Please let us feel like real people just for one night, and let us enjoy an evening of rock and beer and independence and youth!
Sweet baby Jesus, Eddie! If you have one shred of compassion, you'll make this happen for us.
Thank you, sir. Now that I have shed my dignity, I bid you good day."

Josh Boelter, ladies and gentlemen. *Applause*

what the world needs now

May 28, 2009
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Rocky_raven

...is puppies, more puppies. Meet Raven! Rocky IV, 8X the size of Raven, is the sniffing monster.

tracie's cupcakes: a review

Apr 22, 2009
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Here's a review of cupcakes from one colleague to another.

Tracie,
This batch of cupcakes was a true triumph. The icing was haughty, even arrogant, yet the cake itself was forgiving and supple. The combination was Wagnerian yet approachable, with a tangy middle and a finish that left me in a newer, brighter world than the one I was in before I entered the kitchen.
Regards,
Jim

I love my job.

happy ada lovelace day!

Mar 25, 2009
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to celebrate women in technology, i'd like to share a geeky source of inspiration of my youth:

It's a Unix system

goodbye, anthropologie emails

Mar 16, 2009
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Hammer_pants

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Two words: Hammer Pants. UN. SUB. SCRIBE.

If you've googled my name lately, you'll see that Michael Sippey spoiled my google results and outing my love for Lost. Great show, crazy suspense, unbelievable mysteries, yadda yadda yadda, but really...sup with dem lady habits?

You know what I'm talking about. Armpit hair and "Island Makeup".

Yes, I'm picking on repeat offenders: Juliet, the secret ninja assassin; Claire, whose accent is real according only to Anil; and Kate, who merits more than just three adjectives. Some of the strandeds are innocent from my criticism:

Yes, Dirty Kate is on the innocent list. She looks almost like a real person when Dirty.

But seriously, Lost Stylists, they're on a deserted island. Stop making their hair, faces, and armpits so damn pretty. You're ruining my standards for becoming one with nature one day when I crash on my Oceanic flight and land on a time-travel-enabled island.

unsmug mug

Feb 6, 2009
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Computer_angel

this was a gift from my mother. in case you can't read the caption, it says: "keep the bugs from my system, keep viruses away, protect me from crashes both night and day". i like this mug because it's targeted towards women, just like my mom, who use technology but feel that they're somehow cursed and feel the need to pray to technology deities as a failsafe against bugs, viruses, or crashes. on one hand, it depresses me that it's acceptable to target older women with a pink mug and an angel carrying a computer to heaven because the stereotype that older women aren't good with technology sometimes holds true. but it also makes me have hope, since it proves that those women are at least using computers and know the difference between a bug, a virus, and a crash.

my mom must think i'm a healer of some type.

is this real??

Jan 9, 2009
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just got this in the mail. is this an actual invitation to the inauguration, or some kind of thanks-for-campaigning-for-us gimmick? kind of surprised to receive this...