July 2009
30 posts
Val issues a challenge
pterodactyls:
Valerie: this pop tarts commerical just said there are twenty five flavors name them Vicky: smores cinnamon-(something) strawberry Vicky: well, that’s all I’ve got Valerie: wow you stink
Without google, how many pop tarts flavors can you name?
Tumblr’s shitty poll function doesn’t allow for the whole list, so i have reblogged:
Blueberry, Cinnamon Brown Sugar,...
Tell me what to buy
My DVD player decided to die this weekend, and since I own a HD TV it only makes sense that the new player I buy is Blu-ray. Does anyone have any recommendations? A key requirement would be able to make at least regular DVD playback region-free, as I own a number of foreign DVDs I would love to be able to watch. I have tried to read up on players in various av/dvd forums, but the discussion...
23 Minutes into "For All Mankind"...
…is about when we get our first look at what we were waiting for. Fuck the inferno of the rocket melting the gantry, fuck the “Trans Lunar Injection Burn” (and what song from teh 90s sampled that?), fuck the amazing space walk that looks kind of stop-motiony. You know what we wanna see: TANG. FINALLY WITH THE TANG MONEY SHOT. They don’t explicitly call it out and say...
“A new lawsuit from a Beverly Hills, Calif., man alleges that Apple conspired...”
– AppleInsider | Offbeat: Paranoid lawsuit attempts to link Apple to Italian mafia
Best American Short Stories ‘09. Please read. (via dyfl)
You know what? After the recent Amazon.com Kindle/Orwell story, I am not inclined to immediately dismiss these claims.
ETA: and now, every map I try to pull...
I'm a little iffy on this williamsburg waterfront...
dirty projectors, muddy sound :/
Do I want a device that will monitor and track the stages of my sleep? Yes, I do want such a device. And I promise I will learn to lucid dream , wear this thing while meditating and/or boning, and in general design unlikely and quite possibly insane experiments to do on myself, and then report all findings and funky brain wave patterns here - if, after ascertaining whether or not this thing...
Naming Rights?
Another reason to hate the MTA
Commuters passing through the Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue subway station in Prospect Heights may soon hear the word “Barclays” added to the already long subway station name.
Barclays, a London-based bank company, is the first buyer in the MTA’s five-year effort to sell the names of subway stations to raise more revenue. The...
Our Lady(s) of Momentary Chart-Toppingness
My primary source of news, the elevator, has informed me that there exists a top-charting country singer named “Lady Antebellum” (who I imagine dresses exactly like Scarlett O’hara). We obviously also have a Lady GaGa, who is emblematic of Pop at the moment, so I must therefore assume that every single genre of music must also have its own standard-bearing Lady. As I am...
Only in New York?
Just saw a guy in the building across the street climb out of his third floor window and make his way down the fire escape to street level (having to balance on an awning for the last story, as the ladder was not all the way down) in order to pick up his food delivery. Then he took his keys out of his pocket and walked back in the front door with his food in hand.
Manhattan Henge
Not afraid to be servicey - today is Manhattan Henge. Sunday, July 12 — 8:25 P.M. EDT
A Day of Logickal Thinking
Premises:
1.) Someone from New York won megamillions
2.) The person who won has apparently not realized they won yet
3.) I purchased a megamillions ticket
4.) I have not yet checked my numbers.
Therefore,
1.) I must be the person who won megamillions
Hooray, Dads!
“He doesn’t want to eat meat at all. Just chicken nuggets and that. I had to force him to eat his bologna yesterday. I think he’s going to grow up to be a pacifist, like his mother.”
- guy in NYPD boxing league t-shirt to the counterguy at Brooklyn Bagels this morning.
Fireworks suck .
This article is pretty true. I would only add that Fireworks are also a great distraction if you need to go do something borderline criminal, like trespassing or pushing a guy off a roof
