July 2009
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June 2009
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AS: Hats are perfect for people like you.
Me: What do you mean, "people like me"?
AS: You know, really white and afraid of the sun.
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Short, high-intensity exercise is comparable to... →
“There’s a catch, though. Those six minutes, if they’re to be effective, must hurt.”
Yeah, I’ve always hated suicides, fartleks, and what-not too much to actually do them on my own.
“Michael Jackson is dead.”
– The lady in the passenger seat of the painting contractors van, as she lights her cigarette and the van backs into the street and I walk by. Demonstrating that this sad news unites us.
“Blind Tiger Ale House on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village is one of New...”
– “Is good food too much to ask now that we can take good beer for granted?”
- NYT
“The city estimates that it costs roughly $36,000 a year to house a homeless...”
– That’s $3,000 per month, enough to get a decent apartment anywhere in the city. Which leads me to believe that the problem of homelessness is not due to a lack of funds.
-NYT
Smart Phones as Modems →
I had felt that the cable companies were beating the land-line phone companies in the battle to provide consumer internet service. Now the cell phone companies are standing hesitantly on the sidelines, hungry for the market but fearful of a three-way price war.
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At Last, Facing Down Bullies (and Their Enablers) →
Having recently seen Let the Right One In, I was surprised to learn that bullies are still a problem in Scandinavia.
Clubbing Baby Seals →
Awesome
(via whattheproblemis)
Boomers to This Year's Grads: We Are Really,... →
They should be. I’m still waiting for my side to return fire in this war between generations.
“Most of us are still in jobs chosen for us by our unthinking 22-year-old selves....”
– Alain de Botton, same interview as below.
“As a society, we have put our belief in two great ideas: work and romantic...”
– Alain de Botton (WSJ)
“IN 1968, when Billy Amato moved to West 80th Street, it had poor lighting, no...”
– - NYT
I’m torn. The only way for the UWS to get cheap (as in I could actually buy something within a decade) is for the filth, drugs and crime to return. But that’s not something to root for.
FICO then SEX
adriennes:
diablocodyisnotevenherrealname:
tmiweekly:
Julia: Any big mistakes you made when you were younger? Suze Orman: Co-siging loans for your boyfriends!..Don’t you dare! Do you hear me? You’re going to FICO then sex! You’re going to check his FICO score before you EVER get in bed with him! If he doesn’t have a good FICO score, here’s my advice to you, you walk away! Yeah!
I can’t help...
HIMYM: Barney Stinson's Video Resume →
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“As a group, men are behind now in every major category of health, education and...”
– Compared to women, US men are more likely to be: in jail, alcoholic, in a traffic accident, in drug rehab, unemployed, suffering from heart disease, and not a graduate of college.
-WSJ
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