August 2009
18 posts
“Police say Davis walked into the terminal and said she was planning to shoot...”
– Armed Missouri woman forces plane to abort landing - STLtoday.com I understand getting mad, but doesn’t that seem a bit, I don’t know, EXTREME, what with the inevitable death of dozens of people if you actually shot down a plane? (via jamiek) What I wonder is how, precisely, she thought she was...
Aug 31st
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Never promise crazy a baby
Aug 31st
WHAT? [face palm]
elizabite: Me: How old is your little guy now? Customer: He’s two and a half. Me: And it looks like he’ll be getting a new brother or sister..? Customer: Oh. Um, no. Me: Oh my G_d. I am so sorry. I’m sorry. [foot, meet mouth] Customer: That’s okay. Me: No, I’m sorry. This is why I *never* say things like that. Customer: Really, it’s okay....
Aug 28th
Aug 27th
Aug 27th
RIP Ted Kennedy
It’s not unexpected, but he’ll be missed. A great senator, a great lawmaker, a great politician, and the next-to-last surviving child of that generation of Kennedys. And, also, this means that Chappaquiddick jokes will no longer be as funny.
Aug 26th
Aug 25th
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This is what my internal monologue sounds like right now because I just deleted some files from the server at work that I REALLY NEEDED. Because I’m a moron. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Aug 25th
Aug 19th
“A writer is someone who wrote this morning. A black belt is someone who worked...”
–  my dad, July 9, 1975. (via vmarinelli) That reminds me of the old AA adage “The person who’s been up the longest today has the most sobriety”
Aug 19th
Aug 19th
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“As you can see, and as Politifact editor Bill Adair has noted, the claims of...”
– The Monkey Cage: Scoring Truthfulness in the Health Care Debate (via Political Animal) And here I thought every word that came out of their mouths was a lie. Turns out almost a quarter of them are true! My apologies. (via moltz) I would believe that 1/4 of the words coming out of their mouth...
Aug 14th
shoesonwrong: Anyone else got a cross-eyed cat? Is yours unspeakably stupid also? A friend has this cat (b/c of stupid tumblr you have to click-through to view from the dashboard): I’m not sure “stupid” is the best word for her, but she does consistently roll off of things…
Aug 12th
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Aug 12th
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Aug 11th
I have an idea
it’s not much, but it’s an idea, and it’s nice to have that feeling again. Now stealing enough time to implement said idea is another matter entirely…
Aug 8th
I just hate it when my firefox tabs get out of...
ronbailey: G-Mail, Tumblr dashboard, my Tumblr stream, Facebook, Google Reader, Google Voice, THEN Google Apps, dammit. Somebody needs to make an app for this. My approach was to make a folder on the Bookmarks bar with the links in the appropriate order and then just “Open All in Tabs”
Aug 2nd