May 2009
4 posts
ahshit
me: "It is probably of little consolation, but you might be interested in the fact that you were of the 30 finalists culled from that crop of 300 applicants."
mlyons10s: dude, that's not consolation
mlyons10s: that just makes it 10X worse
mlyons10s: it should just say, "sorry, REJECTED"
polymatrix22: they might kill the program next year because of finance issues
polymatrix22: this may very well be the last class they assemble
mlyons10s: it's like telling the second place person in the olympics that they're only giving out golds
Top 10 books on April 29, 2009 and in 1961
sujay:
sharingtime:
From Amazon today:
Conservatism
Da Vinci Code 2
Vampires
Vampires
Inspirational Christian novel
Vampires
Vampires (by a different author than the other 3)
Set of four books… about vampires
Pop-science
Vampires
Publishers Weekly from 1961:
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
...
April 2009
1 post
eff vietnam
me: a viet girl working at a sushi place? sorta sketch. shoulda applied for sun rise or pho bac biet
chau: FUCK THAT SHIT
March 2009
22 posts
“Who you want to be is not nearly as important as who you are right now.”
– I Wrote This For You (via thresca) (via quote-book)
Pervasaurus →
Path Dependent Fashion →
“I looked down. Why collars? Why ties, and why ties in that particular shape? Why lapels? In short, why do we go to our bourgeois jobs looking as we do? I thought about path-dependent evolution, the notion that starting points have a crucial impact on subsequent developments…”
*click for full article
Poor guy
tim: dude nig im SICK
tim: MOTHERFUCK
me: shit
me: from wat
tim: dude no idea
tim: but i got sick right after my immunology midterm
tim: the irony
tim: fml
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
– William James (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
Paraplegic man bitten by spider, walks again after... →
“Guy 1: Sorry, I woke up in a foul mood today.
Guy 2: Yeah, I’m pretty...”
– Overheard this today.
The Lonely Island - Like a Boss
Dinnertime conversation
Mother: Her name is Rose, named after Miss Kate Winslet in the movie Titanic!
Brother in Law: Hahahaha - you named your daughter after fucking Titanic?
Husband/brother: That's Cassie's favorite movie.
Brother in Law: You've got to be shitting me. Hahahaha! *points to Cassie's other son, who is a fat boy* So what's his name, fuckin' Shrek?
...
“I mean, he drew a pentagram made of penises. You know, I think he’s a real...”
– Art teacher, Eastbound and Down
A Late Night Random Sampling (LNRS), volume 3
me: say something funny
tim: um
tim: i like watermelons a lot cuz im black
me: that's not funny
A Late Night Random Sampling (LNRS), volume 2
me: hey tell me something funny or disturbing
m: no
m: i don't know
m: dolphins sleep with one half of their brain at a time
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me: hey tell me something funny or disturbing
g: i feel as though someone is watching me from the back
g: i think it's disturbing how two of my housemates who are bf/gf
g: don't have sex?
g: LOL
g: oh and i always wonder if my door is unlocked but i'm too lazy to check
A Late Night Random Sampling (LNRS), volume 1
me: hey tell me something funny or disturbing
C: at our dragonboat retreat, we all have cups with our names on it and we put notes in each person's cup (compliment, joke, whatever, serious note)
C: this one guy on our team that nobody likes because he's fat and annoying...well...he only got one note
C: I read it, it was from the girl that was kind enough to write everyone a note and it was completely generic, "Danny you're a cool guy"
C: ...I LAUGHED
C: are you not amused?!
