links for 2008-02-28
2008.02.28 @ 06:23-
Intriguing vid & article. I’d like to spend an hour interacting with my environment in this manner.
Breaking news from Amish Country
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From xoxoANP! correspondent DKP:
Last Saturday your mother and I were watching the birds when a squirrel jumps out of the big tree behind the house, lands on the top of the feeder (thud), scares all the birds away, and begins to enjoy his hard earned meal of black sunflower seeds (delicious!).
Ma says, “kill that god damned squirrel right now!”
Always the obedient, I put four pumps into my pellet gun, dropped in the .177 caliber “slug,” push the “safe” button and slowly start to open the window in the kitchen (the one without a screen). He hears the low screech of the opening window, stops eating, takes a gaze around… back to the matter at hand. So I bore down on that little varmint, pushed the “safe” to off, held my breath and ever-so-gently began to pull back on the trigger. He staggered, fell to the ground, began to twitch and flop as the clouds gathered for him (don’t look at the light!).
After he finally settled down (died), Ma screamed, “Don’t you ever do that again - it made me think of my son!”
So are the terrors of every day life.
Don’t adjust your monitors
2008.02.27 @ 11:06It just occurred to me that presently the front page of xoxoANP! has two pictures, both of which are me hugging on some white dude.
So, here: me getting trampled by two Azn kids over the holidays.
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Phew. Close call.
links for 2008-02-27
2008.02.27 @ 06:20-
This is awesome. Continuing to push boundaries + redefine self = A+. Reminds me of my Loreal jaunts as of late.
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Can we please get some consumer lobbying in order w/r/t insurance companies? Litigation = stopgap.
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A coaster vessel. Hence, I am sure, “Ahoy!”
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Thanks to Bird Dog for putting this on my radar.
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Or, your NONsentimental photo. I could get a lot of mileage out of these guys.
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“It must mean something about my emotional development though, because a few years ago I would have never attempted something if I thought I would be bad at it!”
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To pay for
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at kimmel center until 2/29! crap!
Haterz are everywhere
2008.02.26 @ 18:23I. Aleksey Vayner Haterz!
A lot of folks mock & loathe the guy in the picture below, but I must admit that after a brief exchange last night with the 06520’s most notorious recent grad (not to be confused with 06520’s famous-person-baby-daddy recent grad), my heart went out to him. He reminds me of myself as a socially clueless kid on the fifth grade playground: no matter what I tried to get the cool kids to like me (get good grades! give out stickers on my birthday! win all the games at a birthday party that I was invited to off the wait list!), all my tactics were ridiculed — generally publicly — and I went back to the drawing board to solve the ever-elusive challenge of how to win friends & influence people.
So, he has haterz, and to said haterz I say: chillax. He’s a sincere kid that’s a little clueless and a little lost, but there’s no need to be a bully. Bullying, after all, is just plain declasse.
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II. Half-Breed Haterz!
The guy that bought me the dress I’m wearing in the above picture — a man that in the times he occupied any brain waves oscillated, in my mind, between “a really sweet guy” and “a loathesome pariah” — once suggested that I needed to stop pretending that my membership in the Brown People’s Club actually meant anything in broader society. Easy for an Ivy League grad who has spent the vast majority of his life in the greater New York metropolitan area to say.
But, in reading an interview with 06520’s most recent non top model, I came across proof that I am not entirely making up the mean-people-energy I sometimes sense from the great underwashed:
IG: After the premiere you e-mailed us about stopping a rumor that you were half-Asian. What was that all about?
VM: I’m not half-Asian, or Asian at all, but somehow on the internet people started saying that, and I got tons of really, really racist e-mail and letters about the impurity of my blood and the corruption of the white race by my “Oriental father.”IG: Whoa. So it was white people writing hate mail?
VM: Yeah, white people sending these really anti-Asian or anti-mixed-race stuff. I’ve taken measures to prevent it since: I changed my mailing address, my e-mail and stuff. It’s like, not only did I manage to piss off two supermodels while on the show, I managed to be the target of racial hate while not actually being of that race.IG: When you first wrote to us, I was afraid it was my fault, because I’m half-Asian.
VM: Really? I mean, I think half-Asians are hot. [ed.note: Tory thinks I’m hot! This is the best day of my life] It was just weird for me, to be getting all this anti-Asian hate. But it was kind of funny, in it’s own way, too.
(Hmm, perhaps by gradu-ma-cation Victoria will have learned a word more appropriate than funny to describe her experience.)
links for 2008-02-26
2008.02.26 @ 06:27-
The official currency of Bangladesh. Likely stronger than the dollar at this point. Will work for TAKAS
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Note how addiction terms prevail throughout the U.S.A. First comes phonics, then comes crack!
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My dad tipped me off to this when I was in Chicago and I’ve been watching it in every hotel room possible.
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Mixx solves the democracy problem by having “mayors”, but won’t be a pipe until critical mass is reached
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Newmark needs to believe that flat earth is best, otherwise, he’d have to implement tools in CL to solve for the fact that thin upper crust (and the thick lower crust) actually exist
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HRM + distance tracker. As reco’ed by Lisa
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Looks good
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Another way is to realize that happiness and self worth <> how many productivity widgets you’ve excreted
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Precedent set. Yes!
Dept. of twisted panties
2008.02.25 @ 12:52ANP’s admissions of political confusion couched as political certainty have resulted in a few longtime listeners, first time commenters to come out of the woodwork!
Too bad I forgot to apply Aruban deodorant sensation Odorono in scent Fresh Bamboo this morning. All this excitement is making me sweaty.
links for 2008-02-25
2008.02.25 @ 06:21-
An anatomical network
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Yoga, 5:30, $20, Ts & Ths, Squash Court
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A thing that catches fish as they move downstream.
Discuss (capital D)
2008.02.25 @ 00:16Hilary won’t get the Democratic nomination because if Democrats were rational and valued qualities like experience, ability to execute, and the manner in which a leader solves problems over things like style, how one looks in a suit, and that which makes one feel warm and fuzzy …
Well, then, wouldn’t they be less likely to consider themselves Democrats, capital D?
(ANP ducks for cover.)
Gift-o-rama
2008.02.24 @ 20:14Just in time for … uh … St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget to consider Boutique_ANP when you’re thinking of the perfect and unique gift for your lurfed ones.
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