June 2011
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An ode to Laura Skywalker
There’s something about you, the consistency perhaps, you the ever steady north star in an increasingly chaotic landscape. Whatever it is I can’t ignore it. It compels me, allures me, attracts me. Some would say that you are self serving, a vapid agent of materialist greed, but I know there’s more. In my beholden eye you provide me with a much richer experience. It’s really the poor grammar in...
May 2011
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April 2011
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Opportunity
Just realized that the Royal Wedding is not so much an annoyance as the perfect opportunity to recap the events of 28 days later. Reenactment, worldwide threatening pandemic, I’m flexible.
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Emergency
Is the Reddit-pocolypse over yet?
March 2011
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Climate change
This Tuesday the house republicans rejected a bill which would have recognized that human influence is the cause of climate change. Part of this is a refusal to actually accept the responsibilities that such an acknowledgment would entail, but the other, more dangerous aspect, is the outright refusal to take action in the face of unrelenting evidence.
For those of you not of the scientific...
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February 2011
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The girl from Jurassic Park has a website and it... →
therealmerylstreep:
extrafirmhold
Wow, and it has a gift shop, all my prayers have been answered.
Humans Versus Zombies Game Explodes Into Egyptian... →
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One born every minute.
According to The Metro (not the most august of newspapers I grant you) 50% of Italians aren’t sure if the accusations against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are true. Despite an alleged 300 pages worth of documents that prove that he paid a “significant number” of young women to sleep with him. Conversely 51% of the GOP believes that Obama wasn’t born in the United States...
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Report Finds Troubling Rise In Teen Uranium... →
The onion is the court jester that speaks only truth.
“I will not call (Santorum) the knuckle-dragging Neanderthal that perhaps others...”
– Sarah Palin
P.S. You know, if you don’t believe in evolution, I feel like you probably shouldn’t be making a lot of Neanderthal jokes. (via maxistentialist)
Touché Max.
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January 2011
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Middle Eastern with over 30 years of experience. Good at managing people. Knowledge of IT infastructure and networks. Available immediately.
Were there dragons, dinosaurs and unicorns on... →
Duh and or hello.
“The scientific concept of the “multiverse” has already entered...”
– Nicholas Humphrey, of the London School of Economics, writing for The Edge’s excellent thought experiment “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”
“[Philosopher A.J. Ayer] taught or lectured several times in the United States,...”
– Wikipedia (via maxistentialist)
Lecturing, like a boss.
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Obama just gave me a sci-gasm
80% of the country on renewable energy by 2030. Ghhhh
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Wearing the same raw denim jeans for 15 months... →
Thanks, Science, that’s all the conformation I needed.
Just to bring you up to speed.
Hey tumblr fam, here are the things I haven’t told you explicitly that have happened in the last 6 months.
-Took the GRE, did pretty well.
-Applied to Grad Schools, fingers crossed.
-Job has become slightly unstable. New job may be required. Bartender?
-Little sister just got a job for her first show on Broadway.
-Baby sister got accepted to her first college with a serious...
Priorities
Has anyone else realized that Arnold Shwarzenager is available for the expendables sequel.