June 2008
According to a coworker I check my nails like a...
danhacker:
According to me that coworker is an asshole.
Go-forward basis
Is any one else as annoyed as I am with the over-usage of the phrase “on a go-forward basis”? Isn’t everything on a go-forward basis? Is my boss expecting me to go back in time unless he specifies otherwise? He seriously uses that phrase at least once per paragraph in his internal memos.
Converse Shoes gives Kissing Lessons →
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Chat between my 2 1/2 year-old niece Evelyn and...
Evelyn: "Mommy, we go to ballet class or pochway?" (pochway = Chipotle Mexican Grill)
Anne: "We should go to ballet class, honey"
Evelyn: "Pochway!"
Watchsds:
A theologian addresses the “Problem of Evil” in a clip from The Apostles’ Creed - a two-hour condensed version of a 12-hour video series discussing the Biblical foundation and theological meaning of the most well-known and ecumenical statement of basic belief in all of church history.
hilker:
sometimes i leave a dashboard tab open when i go home from work so that when i come in the next morning i can see how many posts i’m not going to have time to read.
I’m way too anal to do that. I hate the thought of Firefox updating the page countless times overnight when I’m not around to see it… all those little electrons buzzing around my machine with no one to...
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"Get Smart" movie review - Much better than...
I was a fan of the Get Smart TV show. Sure, it was campy, silly, and over-the-top, but it was satire… what’d you expect? The movie removes any spy-genre satire from the docket; after all, Austin Powers has been there, done that (and then some). So then, the ineptitude of the spy Max Smart, the bread-and-butter of the original show, wouldn’t make sense of the movie is not a...
“In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of...”
– Tennessee Center for Policy Research
My wife and I paid just over $25 for our last electric bill. I could have bought a new car with the difference between my house and Gore’s - but then, I probably wouldn’t have bought a hybrid, so I guess it’s better this way.
(via bellatoris)
Demagoguery and...
A must-read.
hilker:
complicatedshoes:
sds:
A selection from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. It’s quite long, but well worth the read. I’m 160 pages into it, and it’s very informative. _____________________________________________________
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This kind of skewed rationale gets to the heart of liberal fascism....
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