November 2008
71 posts
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round...”
– Apple Inc. (via skysignal)
Dancing Plague of 1518 →
lhh:
lenachen:
danw:
err, is this a real thing? Could a fake wikipedia article survive?
Apparently, it happened.
What. The. Hell.
I think I might start a little series of posts that I’ll add to randomly that I’d like to entitle
“You know you go to CMU when…”
Some will be ones I came up with and some I’ve heard…
Most probably will not make to much sense to most people, but I guess that’s part of the point…
I’ll start with this one I came up with today…
...
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via psychotherapy) (via potterspoet)
I AM TIRED OF FOOTBALL.
muppetpants:
streetsofchicago:
ohtrouble:
This may have something to do with the Chiefs season.
You’re probably tired because the Thanksgiving games blow this year, except for the Eagles/Cardinals game, which is on the NFL Network, which no one gets. Ergo… football today sucks. Come Sunday, this will all change.
Dear Minnesota,
He’s yours. Hope you enjoyed Randal as well.
Love,
...
craytonc:
livesophia:
Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle...
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you...”
– Bjarne Stroustrup
Tell me about it…
“If it weren’t for our presumptuous desire to learn, humanity would have...”
Challenged MN Ballots: You be the judge →
filigree:
I am not kidding when I say that I love this link. Decide which candidate actually got the vote in these challenged ballots.
Pretty sure mine wouldn’t show up here, but had to check (not that I’d be able to tell anyways)
These were fun to vote on, although it makes you wonder what kind of people we have deciding our countries fate when some of them can’t follow the...
New Trailer for Up! →
allthingspixar:
Check it out in HD Quicktime.
Looks interesting…
“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here...”
– Dr. Seuss (via onemoretimewithfeeling) (via lifeasart) (via etrangere) (via lhh)
potterspoet:
im gonna go shoot myself, k?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
potterspoet:
i need a job. badly.
me too…next semester hopefully i’ll have time…
BMW + 140mph + Deer = hidden storage compartment →
This has convinced me to buy a BMW whenever I buy a car…
it snowed a little today (enough to cover the grass)…and today i pulled out the winter coat for the season…
'Meh': Apathetic Expression Added to Dictionary →
randyhaddock:
The origins of “meh” are murky, but the term grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of “The Simpsons” in which Homer suggests a day trip to his children Bart and Lisa.
“Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the...”
– Consequences:
Gentle Mode: A certain amount of time after you stop writing, a box will pop up, gently reminding you to continue writing.
Normal Mode: If you persistently avoid writing, you will be played a most unpleasant sound. The sound will stop if and only if you continue to write.
...
15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever
potterspoet:
deadshot:
scout:
alanajoy:
1. Even Koko the Gorilla loved him. Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English.
What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to...
Thanks Google!
So yesterday I posted that my Safari would no longer open…
I had tried everything I had found on the Internets, but to no avail. I resigned myself to using Firefox again.
Then today I noticed that Gmail now supported video chat if you installed a plugin. I downloaded it and installed it and suddenly Safari opened!! I have no idea why or how, but Google fixed my Safari! I went to Gmail and...