November 2010
3 posts
Female orgasm 'overwhelms' →
THE brain’s reward circuits and rational thought processes are overwhelmed with electrical activity when a woman reaches sexual climax. In the first film of what goes on inside a woman’s brain as she approaches and then experiences orgasm, researchers recorded how sexual arousal generates a cascade of events that, at its peak, involves 30 parts of the brain. … In their...
The Mall, Part II
I’ve written before about how goddamn annoying mall kiosk workers can be. If anything, they’ve gotten worse since; I no longer fear the cell phone kiosk guys (yes, they’re almost always guys) nearly as much as the people selling random useless beauty products. It’s infuriating dealing with them, because they don’t take no for an answer and they seem to be trying to...
The Mall, Part I
The local mall has an anti-youngster policy. From 4pm to close on Friday and Saturday, you cannot be in the mall if you’re under 18 unless you have a 21-year-old guardian (only four per guardian, too). Starting at 4pm, there are white-shirted fascists checking IDs at every entrance as well as throughout the mall (in case any 16-year-olds got there at 3:15).
I would be opposed to this...
October 2010
10 posts
He's a school board member, folks
All right. I started a new job this week, getting up early, going to bed early but not early enough, haven’t really had a lot of time to stay caught up on the latest bigotry. My outrage muscle is underworked, so I need to find somebody to say some unbelievably ignorant shit to get me raving fucking mad. Arkansas, can you help me with that?
Clint McCance is a school board member at...
Hey, lookit
Employment (pending a physical and a drug test). I was beginning to believe you were mythical.
Roblog with 'i love you' in a different language.
imissedtumblr:
jhameia:
pensata:
javierfigueredo:
planetesauvage:
kaleidoscopicmind:
themonchismonsta:
bouquetofbarbedwire:
holdingdestiny:
beautifulrichxo:
nohopeforthehopeless:
σας αγαπώ.
iamtheshadow-puppet: Me tu encarta
je t’aime (:
Rwyf wrth fy modd i chi
Rydw i’n caru tu
Jeg elsker deg
Io ti amo
Eu te amo.
Wgah’nagl fhtagn.
ani ohevet at.
Daku...
Love, Belle and Sebastian-style →
So after [Carey] Mulligan and [Norah] Jones, is there anyone else Belle & Sebastian would be keen to work with? The band consider the idea for a moment, before recalling that, at the behest of [Sarah] Martin, they had asked the physicist Professor Brian Cox to be on the album cover, but he was too busy. “But anyway, can Cox sing?” wonders [Stuart] Murdoch. “He can play...
WatchVideo (not mine) of Belle & Sebastian’s encore, “Me and the Major” and “Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying.”
Belle & Sebastian / 30 September 2010
1. I Didn’t See it Coming 2. I’m a Cuckoo 3. Step Into My Office, Baby 4. Like Dylan in the Movies 5. I’m Not Living in the Real World 6. Piazza, New York Catcher 7. I Want the World to Stop 8. Lord Anthony 9. Sukie in the Graveyard 10. We Rule the School 11. Another Sunny Day 12. The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner 13. Write About Love 14. There’s Too Much Love 15....
September 2010
8 posts
Dos and Don'ts for Mall Kiosk Workers
1) When you do your little step-out-ambush move to try and foist your overpriced beauty product on a woman and she, startled, says, “no, thank you,” DON’T stand out there and admire her ass for ten seconds as she walks away.
2) Especially DON’T try to cover for it by acting like you’re trying to ambush me, too, ‘cause I’m just going to shake my head and...
Members of Stryker Combat Brigade in Afghanistan... →
The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, floated the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. The...
Purple Hearts Elusive for Traumatic Brain Injuries →
Commanders turned down some soldiers despite well-documented blast wounds that wrenched their minds, altered their lives and wracked their families.
The Army twice denied a Purple Heart for Sgt. Nathan Scheller, though the aftereffects from two roadside explosions in Iraq have left him with lasting cognitive problems, according to the Army’s own records.
…well, maybe the...
Emergency rooms cont'd →
Ezra:
There are certain facts that Americans hear about the Canadian system — that they often wait weeks or even months for elective surgeries, for instance — and they just can’t believe that modern human beings would allow themselves to be put through such misery. But by the same token, there are facts that people in other countries hear about our system — that we...
Pastor "Weighing Plans" to Burn Qurans →
I’m too tired to properly state just how pissed off I am about this.
A Florida pastor told CNN on Tuesday that while his congregation still plans to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the church is “weighing” its intentions.
Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, who was interviewed on CNN’s...
How to tell college is back in session:
1) Walmart has about twice as many people as its usually-high normal.
2) The beer aisle and the condom aisle are packed to the point of impassibility.
3) There’s a cloud of college-age kids of both genders hovering around the condom aisle who don’t really want to be seen as “in line for the condom aisle,” but who clearly don’t want to ruin their plans for the...
Summer Songs
(This was the less important project I lost with my corrupted flash drive. Originally it was going to be bigger, better and more interesting, with one post per year. Now you get the crappy, shorter and cramped version. Originally it was going to be posted the last weekend in August. Now you get it before I go to bed the morning of September 1.)
For me, music is really defined, in a lot of...
August 2010
54 posts
My flash drive is corrupted
I’ve tried for the last 45 minutes to get it to work. It doesn’t work on this computer, it doesn’t work on my laptop. Booting into Linux and trying to recover any of the stuff on it, bit by bit, also doesn’t work, just errors out without copying anything.
So I’ve lost, among less-important things, two projects I’ve been spending a lot of time on, one of which...
I love poorly-timed commercials
National broadcast of a car commercial, excited announcer: “It’s the end of the model year, and —”
Interrupted by local broadcast of low-budget technology commercial, amateur announcer: “Do you want an HP? A Dell? Or another name-brand computer?”
Nah, I think I’ll wait until the Dell 2011 series hits, I hear the gas mileage is going to be better.
Man, watching Jeff Francoeur take a first-inning walk really makes me wonder if this game is worth watching.
EDIT: And Santana strikes out the side? I guess at least maybe I’ll see a perfect game no-hitter never mind, go Alvarez.
Scientists discover evidence the moon has been... →
amandaw:
Did I not post this already? Here you go. THE MOON IS WANING ahahaha.
Here’s, to me, the best part of this story:
And finally, what does this mean for the ultimate size of the Moon? Well, you have to put this into perspective: the Moon’s diameter is about 3475 kilometers. This shrinkage is only about 0.003% of that. In other words, you’d never, ever be able to see that by...
I'll post another cat picture after this, don't...
So we know the U.S. intelligence agencies have had a mad-on for Julian Assange and Wikileaks for a while now:
(S//NF) Wikileaks.org represents a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC, and INFOSEC threat to the US Army.
…
(S//NF) Web sites such as Wikileaks.org have trust as their most important center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insider,...
Things I Miss (III)
Not realizing that something that had happened to me was directly related to and the primary cause of what I’ve been ever since.
It’s not that life was easy before I made the connection, because it wasn’t. It’s that life was damned sure easier.
Things I Miss (II)
Hearing certain friends’ ringtones.
This kind of ties into the last one, in that some of those friends are college friends I haven’t spoken to since. For some, it’s been more than four years since their ringtone went off. For others, it’s been closer to one year. Either way, I miss it.
I have had an abnormal and unhealthy fixation on ringtones ever since I figured out...
Things I Miss (I)
College.
This is kind of cheating, because it’s really two things I miss. The first is the college experience I didn’t have, but now realize I could have had. I just wasn’t prepared for it. 13 years of Catholic school combined with my own issues to prevent me from reaching out, from taking chances, from being then something closer to what I am now.
The second is the college...
What boggles my mind
All the (white) liberals commenting on Park51 (and, for what it’s worth, sharing my opinion about the overall matter) who feel the need to add that it’s so rare to see an issue in America get this overtly racist.
Really? Really? Because it seems to me what’s “rare” is you actually fucking paying attention to an issue that’s this overtly racist.
Tampon advertisements continue to confuse me
From a Tampax Compak commercial: “With a 40% smaller applicator, it’s full-size protection, only cuter.”
I… just… what?
Sometimes I miss Tumblarity. Not often, but sometimes.
“You *can* build a Catholic church next to a playground. Should you? … Or...”
– John Oliver on yesterday’s Daily Show, providing the best mockery of the Cordoba House backlash I’ve yet seen.
There aren't many days
that can’t be improved, even just a little bit, by the words “Arrested Development marathon on IFC.”
(Yes, I own the DVDs. Not the point.)
Oh, dear
My brain doesn’t work right. This should not be a surprise. In some ways it works to my benefit, and in others it works in active opposition to my well-being and continued existence. This is probably a case of the latter.
See, I see a published journal article like this one, and the title catches my eye. “Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical...
Why is there a different set of posts on my...
Goddammit, Tumblr, get your act together.
