Archive for April, 2007
Pop Vs Soda provides us with some statistics (and a really cool map) so we can easily see the geographic distribution of individuals who refer to carbonated beverages as “soda” vs those heathenspeople who call such things “pop.”
Looking at the map, one wonders what’s going on with New Mexico — and what exactly the “other” [...]
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Index Cards Save World Again
Today I got to experience a moment of awesomeness, merely by virute of having index cards on my person — and remembering that fact at the appropriate time, which is often the failing of convenient items. I’d come across the concept of the Hipster PDA (and indeed, who has not, if they’ve spent more [...]
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Things That Make Me Say “…”
My Boyfriend: “I’m hungry.”
Friend: “Me too.”
My Boyfriend: “Let’s get food.”
Me: “It’s raining.”
My Boyfriend: “I shall make the rain my bitch, and it will make me a sandwich. Two birds, one stone.”
My Friend: “…Yeah I was just going to use an umbrella.”
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In the flurry of media content surrounding the shootings, there’s always room for items that surprise no one.
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More VA Tech Musings
It’s the Information Age (…I cringed too); we have the ability to discover all sorts of minutiae on any number of newsworthy items. Why, then, do the recent events at VA Tech – and the now-obligatory reaction to ferret out whatever details we can – make me uneasy?
Maybe it’s because of the lingering fear that [...]
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VA Tech Shootings
Just a quick post for now, I need to get my thoughts together. Very shocking, especially for those living on campuses now — mine doesn’t have any sort of plan for this sort of horrible event, but I’m thinking that will change.
CNN coverage of the events.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families who [...]
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Friday the 13th strikes again
Man Jumps to Death Off Empire State Building (via Gothamist). Sad. Not to mention therapy-inducing for the poor guy who spotted the leg.
Apparently the building itself has been host to at least thirty suicides in its years of existence.
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Femininity vs…?
I’ve encountered a really strange point of view as regards academia lately — namely, that to be ’serious’ regarding something (an area of study, in this case), you can’t present yourself at the same time as being feminine.
On a predominantly female messageboard I’m involved with, the subject had come up yet again — people seemed [...]
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