June 2012
1 post
May 2012
8 posts
PronunciationManual - YouTube →
With the power of the internet, I’m learning!
WHEN I ASPIRATE THE PELLET
whatshouldwecallgradschool:
credit: Charles
EtOH I GET IT…
April 2012
15 posts
Three Word Phrase, by Ryan Pequin →
And in “The Village Schoolmaster,” everyone sees the giant mole and wins a Nobel for biological sciences.
Three Word Phrase, by Ryan Pequin →
““When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first...”
– ― A.A. Milne (via haffalump)
“In the story, an apparent take-off on Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and...”
– So… this suggests a pineapple is an animal? Or do we compare the hare to the animals that bet on the pineapple?
See If You Can Answer the Weirdest Standardized Test Question Ever
TitanicVoyage (titanicrealtime) on Twitter →
I’ve been following this for about a month. Beautifully done. I have an odd sense of foreboding about this weekend, though.
March 2012
15 posts
“After as long as six hours in the trench, Cameron—best known for creating...”
– So wait… he just leaves steel weights at the bottom of the ocean?
James Cameron Now at Ocean’s Deepest Point
Cards Against Humanity Question Card Contest
While studying for finals these past 7 days, I used being a creatively horrible person as a catharsis by coming up with question cards for CAH over at http://pzlr.org/
(Hopefully I’ll win a free copy of CAH! Exciting!!)
Of the 180 or so submissions, I’m listing a few of my favorite… and yes, most of “my favorite” are ones I came up with. Because I think I’m...
Chris Hanel: Spread the Word: Theft is Theft →
chrishanel:
Do you support webcomics? Take this one question survey:
1. Do you take the RSS feed of over 90 webcomics, rip the images, put them in your Android app, and then put your own advertisements next to them in order to make money?
Congratulations: If you said “Yes”, then NO, YOU DO NOT SUPPORT…
Level up! -On academia
I always want to make fun of people who are are a high level in MMORPGs such as Mass Effect 3 (“Level 40 Infiltrator”) or WoW, until I realize that’s what an education in a liberal arts college is like.
“You must be level 300 or above in MATHEMATICS before you can proceed to the Domain of Abstract Algebra.” “Do you wish to use your scroll of AP credits to...
“myspacebarisbroken,
ohwhatshallIdo?
myspacebardoesn’tspace,...”
– Brokenspacebar « Let ε < 0.
February 2012
13 posts
Veggies.
nique:
K: I’ve got some veggies for dinner tonight… Nique: The word “veggies” makes them sound like the talking muppet-vegetables on Sesame Street. I want to eat vegetables, I want to be friends with “veggies”. K: … I think this is one of those crazy-person conversations.
I totally get it, Nique, and have wanted to link to this for a long time.
...
What is the argument against mandatory drug...
Mandatory rehabilitation and oversight for “hard drug” users has proven moderately successful in some european countries. So what is the argument against mandatory rehab and oversight for people on welfare who have tested positive for hard drugs?
(Or is the debate generally about simply denying welfare for drug users, rather than helping them in other ways?)
