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Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110 - Telegraph

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:13:46 -0600

Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110 - Telegraph:

Inevitable, but sad. Wars always shape the world after them, but the impact of World War I was incredibly far-reaching. From Hemingway to chemical warfare to the Middle East to German reparation, much of the last century was shaped through the outcome of the war. Mrs. Green was the last living connection to that war, and now that era is passed completely.

jamiek: courtneyannabelle: billhinton: anniehinton: The...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:54:46 -0600

jamiek:

courtneyannabelle:

billhinton:

anniehinton:

The Mountain Goats - No Children

And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here

Someday burns down

And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away

And I never come back to this town

Again in my life

Reblog for life.

^

Reblog always and forever

Our friends say it’s darkest before the sun rises
We’re pretty sure they’re all wrong
I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn’t over
And I hope you blink before I do
Yeah I hope I never get sober

Domestic bliss (orange chocolate cinnamon rolls with Ti)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:57:50 -0600

Domestic bliss (orange chocolate cinnamon rolls with Ti)

Oh my morning is going just fine. Yours?

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:17:51 -0600

Oh my morning is going just fine. Yours?

It turns out the big dog is less adorable when he’s...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:07:56 -0600

It turns out the big dog is less adorable when he’s sitting in your seat

You can tell me there’s something more adorable than a...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:37:33 -0600

You can tell me there’s something more adorable than a 175 lb dog loving a small stuffed dog, but I don’t know that I’ll believe you.

What is this? Why this is my brand new alarm, the Sonic Bomb™, a...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:51:31 -0500

What is this?

Why this is my brand new alarm, the Sonic Bomb™, a Sonic Boom™ alarm by Sonic Alert.

It is loud. And it has a hockey puck that goes under my mattress to shake it and make sure I am awake. What it DOESN’T have is a way to keep me from hitting the snooze button repeatedly. That’s where my ingenuity comes in. It is now locked in a box, and that key is in another room locked in a box with a combination lock. My neighbors are going to LOVE me.

Me: Here's something gross

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:37:43 -0500

Me: Here's something gross
Me: remember my pinky toe getting smashed?
Ti: yes......
Me: the nail just came off
Me: but there was a new nail underneath it
Me: I don't think I've ever lost a toenail before
Ti: there was a new one under it?
Me: I was surprised to find one underneath it
Me: yeah, smaller, but there
Me: maybe I'm like a shark

Seth Avett singing “Remember the Alamo” Is this...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:03:51 -0500

Seth Avett singing “Remember the Alamo”

Is this technically a country song? I think an Avett Bro. singing about Texas probably makes it close enough to count.

(Themesong: Up The Country)

Scott Avett singing Roger Miller’s “Where Have All...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:01:45 -0500

Scott Avett singing Roger Miller’s “Where Have All the Average People Gone?”

I could probably do this all day.

(Themesong: Up The Country)

Hank Williams Sr. - Love Sick Blues So we want to do country,...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:00:21 -0500

Hank Williams Sr. - Love Sick Blues

So we want to do country, huh?

(Themesong: Up The Country)

Last day, talking this afternoon. The jacket didn’t want...

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:10:56 -0500

Last day, talking this afternoon. The jacket didn’t want to iron well, so it looks like I’ll be a little rumpled today (Taken with picplz in Chapel Hill, NC.)

Full on business casual today. It’s the only day this week...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:01:37 -0500

Full on business casual today. It’s the only day this week I don’t have to give a talk (Taken with picplz in Chapel Hill, NC.)

If you ever wondered “would Reagan drive 40 minutes for a...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:56:35 -0500

If you ever wondered “would Reagan drive 40 minutes for a Panchero’s burrito?” The answer is yes, absolutely. (Taken with picplz.)

Day w2. I had a long talk I had to give thoa morning, the jacket...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:12:57 -0500

Day w2. I had a long talk I had to give thoa morning, the jacket did not make it through. Got to show off my tattoo, though (Taken with picplz in Cary, NC.)

In North Carolina for some meetings. Day 1

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:18:17 -0500

In North Carolina for some meetings. Day 1

My first car Christmas of 1996 - my brother and I had just...

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:19:16 -0500

My first car

Christmas of 1996 - my brother and I had just turned 17 and had gotten our licenses about 6 months before. We needed wheels. We couldn’t afford anything, though, and my father had been driving his 1986 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale since it was new. Which is most definitely no longer was.

An uncle had a third car, though (one he bought after his 70s vintage Duster died - that car is a whole other set of stories). A 1987 Oldsmobile Calais coupe. In pink. (Light Rosewood was I believe the formal name for the color). It met an unfortunate end (actually not far off from the car pictured here, which, I need to emphasize, is the exact same color).

That car was a piece of crap from day one. Given for free it cost $1400 to get it to run, pass inspection, and stop and the fuel pump went almost immediately after that work had been done. The ECM fuse once blew while waiting to make a left turn across three lanes of traffic (and we were lucky it went then - the turn was up a steep hill, and even if we had rolled back through the main road without being hit and killed there was a 15 or 20 foot drop on the other side of that). The brakes would lock up if you even thought about braking hard. At one point the radio antenna was in the passenger seat footwell propping the glovebox closed (prior to that the glovebox would pop open at moderate bumps, requiring the driver to reach over and pull on the handle to open the latch so it could be closed again).

It was a terrible car. And worse, it wasn’t even mine, since I had to share it with Jamie. But as I was looking for this picture and I came across the auction for this car, I thought far harder than I would have expected about submitting a bid.

An email to Tumblr support

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:42:44 -0500

Dear Tumblr staff,

I am an active member of the Tumblr community and have been a member since November of 2007. I spend the vast majority of my time in the dashboard, as I know many of the users I interact with do. For the last six months or so I have been using the “missing e” extension made by Jeremy Cutler. I find that it adds a number of features that make reading the dashboard a more pleasant experience, and offers features that I value but that the majority of the tumblr community may not care about.

When Jeremy first mentioned that he had been asked to stop distributing missing e, I was concerned. I know that Tumblr must protect its service and that restrictions on the use of the API and content are a part of this. I was hopeful, however, that an agreement could be reached. A few weeks ago it seemed that it had and a new version of missing e that no longer used the tumblr API was released.

Today I learned that Tumblr is asking Jeremy to halt all distribution of missing e and has said they will delete his account if he does not comply. I cannot put into words how childish, spiteful, and wrongheaded I think this action is. I would like to think that you have the best interests of the tumblr community at heart, but these actions are definitely not consistent with that goal.

Jeremy is an independent developer who put together these scripts into a browser extension because he wanted some features that Tumblr does not provide. He does not sell the extension but rather provides it for free. Others have begun using it because they see the utility of the extension as well. The fact that Tumblr would try to stop a person who is trying to improve their service is completely baffling.

I would ask and urge you to reconsider this course of action. Your respect for the community that supports Tumblr is of paramount importance to the further success of the platform. To threaten a community member who is so committed to the platform that he has spent his own time developing an improvement is so short-sighted that I cannot see what possible benefits would accrue to the Tumblr community or to Tumblr as a company from this approach. You no doubt have the legal right and the ability to take this action, but that does not make it the best thing to do, and in this case, I am sure it is not.

Reagan Kelly

(h/t Ron Bailey)

What the. I don’t even.

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:45:14 -0500

What the. I don’t even.

A different guy showed up at about 5 to fix the ceiling....

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:25:51 -0500

A different guy showed up at about 5 to fix the ceiling. He’s not done yet, but hey, I have something more solid than a plastic sheet over my head for the first time in nearly two weeks!

Also, he did the vast majority of this himself, only bringing in help for lifting the sheets. Now if only my A/C didn’t seem to be broken…