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sasharappaport: Mayor Cory Booker Responds to Question about NJ...

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:41:00 -0400

sasharappaport:

Mayor Cory Booker Responds to Question about NJ Marriage Equality Referendum

Just Cory Booker being totally awesome again. Same shit, different day.

My President.

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:21:53 -0400

My President.

beeborg: xmurphys-lawx: “I want a woman who can sit me down,...

Mon, 07 May 2012 10:40:06 -0400

beeborg:

xmurphys-lawx:

“I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.” - Henry Rollins

I can talk about neurons, seizures, autism, strokes, headaches, genes, tuberous sclerosis, reflexes, somatosensory pathways, the motor cortex, the cranial nerves, and probably more stuff! Maybe you don’t know some of it! That’s at least 10!

Note to self: You need a thicker neck.

So, uh, you see something up there? (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 02 May 2012 22:24:19 -0400

So, uh, you see something up there? (Taken with instagram)

lindstifa: calumet412: Storm rolling in over Lake Shore Drive,...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:08:01 -0400

lindstifa:

calumet412:

Storm rolling in over Lake Shore Drive, 2010, Chicago. Ken Tanaka.

www.kennethtanaka.com

I was living in Aqua during this storm. This is the one that made Tucker afraid of thunder. I was texting updates to swamibooba and standing on my balcony like an idiot. It was awesome.

Awesome.

Holy crap. (via APOD: 2012 April 18 - The Flight Deck of Space...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:35:35 -0400

Holy crap.

(via APOD: 2012 April 18 - The Flight Deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour)

ginamarr: me. No, me.

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:52:40 -0400

ginamarr:

me.

No, me.

thegreystripeshirt: “I stopped looking for a Dream Girl. I just...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:12:53 -0400

thegreystripeshirt:

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl. I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.” - Charles Bukowski

the-overlook-hotel: The facade of The Shining’s Overlook Hotel...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:02:50 -0400

the-overlook-hotel:

The facade of The Shining’s Overlook Hotel set, under construction on the backlot at Elstree Studios.

ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:06:10 -0400

ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff

"8 years old. Just laying in bed, thinking. And I realize. There’s nothing stopping me from becoming..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:31:00 -0400

“

8 years old. Just laying in bed, thinking. And I realize. There’s nothing stopping me from becoming a child dentist.

21. Found a pencil on the beach. Embossed on it: I cherish serenity. Tucked it away into the inside breast pocket of my suit jacket. Watched the waves come and recede.

22. Found a beetle in my bathroom that was just about to fall into a heating vent. Swiped him up. Tailored him a little backpack out of a leaf and a thread. In the backpack: a skittle and a AAA battery. That should last him. Set him loose out by the front gate.

Three years of age. Brushed aside the curtain. Sunlight.

14. Riding my bike out on the pier with my coach who is jogging behind me as the sun goes down right after I knocked out Piston Honda in the original Nintendo version of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.

11. Sick. Watching Heathcliff on television. For hours, it was Heathcliff. And he was able to come right up close to my face. His head spun toward me. His face pulsed back and forth, up close, then off millions of miles away. Sound was gone. In fractions of a second, Heathcliff filled the universe, then blipped off to the end of infinity. I heard my mother’s voice trying to cut through the cartoon. Heathclose, Heathaway, Heathclose, Heathaway. It was a religious rave with a cat strobe and muffled bass of mother’s voice. (I ran a fever of 105 that day.)

18. Bought myself a gigapet. A duck. Fed it for awhile. Gave it a bath. Forgot about it for almost a couple months. One day, while cleaning, I found a chain and he was there on the end. Hey, little duck. Mad freaky, hoppin’ around with his hair out, squawking diagonal lines. In a tuxedo.

”

- Seven Moments of Zen from My Life, one of many sidebars in Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Yes, this is from a programming book. I was not familiar with this _why character until I read the recent article in Slate that everyone is talking about, but now I’m thoroughly obsessed. From the article:

“The book I feel is closest to my book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which interleaves brief math puzzles and astronomical diagrams with the story,” he wrote to a listserv. “[I’m] interested in presenting an initial stab at giving literary value to a programming text. I’m also interested in getting people to at least feel what I feel when I program.”

If you’re not familiar with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NIght-Time, it’s a mystery novel written in first person from the perspective of the story’s protagonist, a 15-year-old autistic boy. It’s a fantastic book.

Replacements. Answering Machine. Live. 1989.

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:11:30 -0400

Replacements. Answering Machine. Live. 1989.

gettingblownaway: Recent inspiration. Thomas Hooper is of the...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:00:15 -0400

gettingblownaway:

Recent inspiration. Thomas Hooper is of the same “school” of tattooing as the artist who did my sleeve. I am very fond of their work.

Virginia’s art is also a big inspiration to me.

I love Black & Gold!

"Design is largely code these days. It wasn’t print that died, it was the graphic design industry as..."

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:10:09 -0400

“

Design is largely code these days. It wasn’t print that died, it was the graphic design industry as we knew it. The idea of making a living out of forming and applying static shapes to cumbersome paper is almost absurd now and growing ever more so in my opinion.

If you go along to a potential client and say “I have this really exciting thing that I think will really help your brand to sell more stuff” then you show them a beautifully designed, beautifully printed, beautifully typeset and beautifully photographed/illustrated and laid out (and exquisitely bound) piece of graphic design work, they will say “Its a brochure… how is a brochure ever going to help my business?… no thanks”.

If you went in to that company and said “I have this really exciting thing that I think will really help your brand to sell more stuff” and then you start to demonstrate a mobile phone app that can utilise the inbuilt camera to identify product and drive customers to the nearest retail outlets or just order straight up online… they’ll be as excited about working with you as clients used to be years ago, about the idea of getting a graphic designer on board to make the brochures look amazing.

”

- Messageboard post, Tim S. (via magnificentruin)

Justin Vernon - Hazelton Just kinda listening to this over and...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:45:22 -0400

Justin Vernon - Hazelton

Just kinda listening to this over and over again.

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:36:13 -0400

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

"Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent iPad, this concept of..."

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:01:00 -0500

“Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent iPad, this concept of “apps as content” has gained a lot of currency, and now every media company in the world feels compelled to be in the business of developing native software as a distribution channel. Despite the press’s tendency to portray this trend as futuristic, I actually think of it as a bit retrograde—particularly since we’ve actually been evolving an incredibly sophisticated medium for content presentation and distribution for over 15 years now: the web.”

- Buzz Andersen, my pal and Director of Mobile Development at Tumblr

Couldn’t possibly agree more.

Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:46:16 -0500

Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye

recordedhistory: It’s a Leap Day...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:21:44 -0500

recordedhistory:

It’s a Leap Day Miracle!

saddlesmusic:

DOWNLOAD EVERY SADDLES SONG EVER FOR FREE TO CELEBRATE LEAP DAY!!!

http://saddles.bandcamp.com

Holy shit.

banquetsamerica: You can order one of these now, if you’re so...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:06:13 -0500

banquetsamerica:

You can order one of these now, if you’re so inclined. http://banquetsamerica.limitedpressing.com/products/16178

Inclined!