January 2011
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Bye, 2010. Let’s hope 2011 doesn’t kill the rest of our favorite public figures.
December 2010
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I fucking hate chopping onions.
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The trick is to do it near a burning stove. The fire uses/burns up the sulfur-containing compounds released by the lysed onion cells before they can reach your eyes and react with your tears to form sulfuric acid.
I think you can do it under water too? But that just sounds like a pain and a half to do.
Nifty! I’ll try it by the stove next time. Here’s to hoping I...
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I fucking hate chopping onions.
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Free ebooks for your Kindle →
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Being the frugal shopper that I am, upon receiving my Kindle as a gift for Christmas, I started googling ways to get books on that baby.
I found an article that showed you how to find ebooks available for free download from Amazon. Apparently Amazon doesn’t make them easy to find.
If you’re like me and appreciate the classics, click on the link and happy...
thenewsurrealism asked: What were the Haruki Murakami books that you suggested?
thenewsurrealism asked: What were the Haruki Murakami books that you suggested?
jayther asked: Penguins swim around 35 miles per hour in the water. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
jayther asked: Penguins swim around 35 miles per hour in the water. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
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Thing that kind of sucks:
I’m shopping around for a netbook, but some websites’ specifications are kind of lax. Like specifying the keyboard as “yes” as opposed to, say, standard or chiclet.
reblog if you want your followers to ask you...
Yup, I’m bored.
But answers are not guaranteed.
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Brogressive = Lefty type who routinely downplays...
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Note: A brogressive can be a man or a woman.
If you google brogressive, our very own’s downlo definition is the first result. And yes, I see it can be a man or a woman.
Stealing this word.
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“Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist (via caraobrien)
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Lord, that was hilarious.
I was going over what I owed my mom (cell phone bill, clothes, etc.) and she said that I also owed her for a present for my oldest brother. She said that we were all supposed to chip in for a Kindle to my brother in Beijing.
And then I started loling. I don’t even talk to this guy. Dude trashed my computer, ripped out the doorknob to my room, criticized everything I didn’t do their...
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Dear people, please vote for me.
bingoparaphernalia:
I feel a bit weird putting this here, but after such a long stretch of rubbish days and weeks it would be so fucking delightful to win an iPad. I think the last thing I won was an art competition in the local Credit Union when I was thirteen.
My entry is number 14, ‘Eve’. All you have to do is click through here, click the button next to the word Eve and then click vote....
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“When I mention that I don’t intend to have kids, people often try to talk me out...”
– Why I got my tubes tied at 27 - Life stories - Salon.com
I’m always amazed (actually, not really at all) at the outright hostility directed at those—especially women—who choose not to have children.
(via robot-heart-politics)
No kidding, I would do it now if I had the money and a doctor willing...
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Why calling yourself a liberal or progressive does...
thepoliticalpartygirl:
It is becoming increasingly apparent just how expendable women are in the “liberal” or “progressive” movement. Abortion rights revoked in the health care bill, rape apologism, sexist remarks all over the white, male-dominated media. You want our support, but you won’t support us. You don’t get to pass Lilly Ledbetter, pat yourselves on the back, smile for a photo op...
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I need to move out.
Spring semester: 4 As.
Mom: That’s good, keep it up!
Summer mini-session: 2 As.
Mom: That’s good, keep it up!
Fall semester: 2 As, 2 Bs.
Mom: Oh.
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“Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your...”
– Jeffrey Rowland - Overcompensating (via kinelfire) (via rainbaby) (via unclegarfunkel)
Added in the comic strip page in which this quote originally appeared.
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Update, I suppose. Hrgh.
I had a dream that I showed up to my Tuesday final at 9:53 AM instead of 8 AM, and I was trying to finish it in 7 minutes. Finals panic has begun.
I also dreamed that I played footsie with a totes cute guy I know. I’ve always thought of footsie as kind of a bizarre and non-turn-on-y, why-do-people-do-that activity. I’m so not in the right place in my life to be fooling around, and...
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I'm super excited for Christmas* this year!
I just bought The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munschand What Does Mrs. Claus Do? by Kate Wharton for my only niece, who is in the first grade. She is all kinds of curious, thus all kinds of adorable. Eee.
*Yup, atheists can celebrate Christmas.
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“I am SO SICK today of people who can’t see that
1) Wikileaks is important and...”
– TBD commenter Woodscolt (via headphonesnotrequired)
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On Wednesday, my English class was discussing The Normal Heart in groups of four. One person was confused and asked how oral and anal sex could be considered sex. The other asked why AIDS could not be transmitted through kissing.
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Small note:
I’ve changed my username from prettyyoungtext to xuananigans. I made the name prettyyoungtext as a funny little blog-y spin on “pretty young thing,” but after a while, it wasn’t all that clever anymore. It wasn’t all that clever to begin with because of how obsessed we (as a society) are with youth and beauty, and I think I’d just like to step away from that.
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“Full-time, full-year working women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar...”
– Families Can’t Afford the Gender Wage Gap (via robot-heart-politics)
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The pain in my right arch keeps coming back. I made tentative plans to go hiking and camping with my brother right before my surgery so that I’d have something outdoorsy to do before a couple months of sitting on my ass, but I can’t do it if it hurts too much to hike, right? I’m thinking about using a cane to take the weight off my right foot, but I’m… afraid to. I...