December 2010
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Dear World,
Please acquire for me a career-oriented job that wants to pay for my grad school in a cool corner of the country in which I can live happily ever after.
Thank you,
B
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4:45 AM December 22nd, 2010--It's a momentous...
The rough draft of my ridiculously long project is done. Finally.
I think.
Before submitting the last two chapters for feedback, I’m thinking it might be a good idea to try to get a little sleep and re-read what has been written over the last couple of hours, because my mind is not very reliable this time of night.
And then…and then I submit it and it’s done. My life has,...
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Merry Christmas
ackb:
Do you know what really irks me about the DREAM act failing today? Most of those Senators who killed the bill are going to go home this week and on Friday night or Saturday morning they’re going to go to church. They’re going to listen to the story of a mother and a father who were in a strange land with no place to stay. They’re going to celebrate and honor and value and cherish a baby...
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Making a PowerPoint Presentation right now...
it has been YEARS since I have opened PowerPoint (and even longer since I’ve presented anything in front of people) and I have kind of forgotten all the do’s and don’ts of making slides…this should be interesting.
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Fun Facts for Friends: foxnews.com has absolutely...
MSNBC links to it, I didn’t see anything on ABCnews either, but nobody really cares about them and didn’t look very hard, so whatevs.
Unbiased Reporting Bringing You the Latest Political Happenings!
UPDATE: ABC News does have coverage, but you have to kind of search for it.
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like this is kind of important and a big moment in politics, right?
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21 reasons Michael Bloomberg can win nationally →
It should be no big secret that I’m a big ol’ treehugging faggy democrat, and I’m definitely not anti-Obama. But quite honestly, if Bloomberg decided to run in 2012, barring anything too crazy coming out, there is definitely a chance I would vote for him. It brings up interesting political implications though because you would be taking a pretty big risk of splitting up the...
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“But that’s for tomorrow. Tonight, I’ve seen a man with no legs stay standing,...”
– CJ Cregg, “The Stackhouse Filibuster,” The West Wing.
I’m just going to leave this here, and go back to watching CSPAN for now.
(via -dodgergirl)
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Watchthedailywhat:
The Interpipes Are Leaking of the Day: Great Moments In Memetic History: Ryan Gosling recites image macros from his single-serving Tumblr blog F**k Yeah! Ryan Gosling.
[mtv / fy!rg.]
You win, Ryan. You’re the most adorable person to exist. Congratulations.
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I'm on a quest for a great Pecan Pie recipe, so if...
I had no idea there were so many variations for a pie. This is getting ridiculous.
Bonus points if the recipe has been approved by a grandma.
Extra Bonus points if we can get Ned the pie-maker involved in this somehow.
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!!!!!
I just found out that Yann Tiersen is going to be in concert at a (small) local venue! I’m a major fan…but if life starts to work out, it could be after I move across the country. Guess I have to hold off on buying tix until I know wtf is going on in my life.
WHITE WHINE 2010
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I would be perfectly content if the rest of the...
I’m jonesing HARDCORE for an all-day “Saturday mornings of my youth early high school years” kind of day
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Watchthedailywhat:
After Hours: Louis C.K. does the impossible, brings funny to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
See Also: Parts 2 & 3.
[splitsider.]
Seriously though, Louis C.K. is probably the greatest stand-up comedian working these days.
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“‘The share of the poorest 20 percent of the world’s people in global...”
– [Figures according to the World Bank]
In doing some research, I came across this quote that really has nothing to do with my research, but I found very striking in light of recent political events in the United States. This can roughly be interpreted as saying that countries with per capita income...
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FACT: For every passage in the bible against the...
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Just found out today that I'm pretty closely...
She’s sold almost 50 million records, credited with being the precursor to the riot grrrl movement and is still rocking out almost 60 concerts a year (mostly in Europe). Not to mention a stint on Happy Days and appearing in an episode of Gene Simmons’ Rock School.
I realize this doesn’t really mean anything, but I’ve always known so little about my heritage and have...
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TAX CUTS VS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
bandwagonpete:
“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office did the math—literally, they did the math on the various policy options that are being considered right now, to deal with our problem and our friend, this giant number. They crunched the data on a bunch of policy propositions to figure out which of those policies would have the best net effect on the economy in terms of jobs. At...
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NPR: Hanukkah's Historic Roots In...Cincinnati? →
npr:
Hanukkah, which begins this evening, has its roots in an ancient Jewish revolt against the Syrians. But the fact that we celebrate it the way we do today has its roots in, of all places, Cincinnati:
There is nearly no record of people celebrating Hanukkah just a couple of centuries ago. But it…
I’m no Jew, but I really miss celebrating Hanukkah in Cincinnati. The day of...