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the high(low?)lights: the only 2 VPs with anywhere near as LITTLE experience: Agnew (!) & Chester A. Arthur. I quibble with his Pres. mortality stats, would normalize for improved medical conditions. (the deaths of Harrison, Taylor, Garfield & McKinley seem likely to be survivable w/modern medicine.) but that's beside the point. via mkelley.
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ie, Livejournal circa 1890. 🙂
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HAWESOME quasi-l33t-speak from Roger Ebert.
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has already cost the school more than $5mil. ouch. plus: "I don't have any idea whether we do the debate" at a later date. "(We) probably wouldn't do it."
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looks like they'd be nice beach shoes. (I'm not much for flip-flops either.) and only about $20 for tevas!
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"I know for sure my great grandparents would never have made it through this – Instead of being here writing this, I, like they were, would probably be a peasant farmer somewhere in Eastern Europe." no kidding. (IIRC, Ra's g-pa was illegal back in the 50s?)
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"Dr. Rubio does not entirely dismiss the suicide theory, but yesterday she declined to say whether she believes it rests more solidly on other evidence besides the note." so maybe not so deliberate of a suicide, but definitely death by her own hand nonetheless.
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"What has never been revealed is that L.M. Montgomery took her own life at the age of 67 through a drug overdose." apparently after decades of severe depression. oddly enough, the Anne books were one of the things that got me thru the dark times after dad died, up into junior high. (I should send this to Thao.) via alykat.
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"The high priests of unbridled laissez faire need to go take a long vacation now while reasonable people find a sensible middle course. Because you, Wall Street, and you, absolute capitalists, you could dish it out but you couldn't take it."
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if you applied for a loan anytime between 1986 & 2007 (!) then you're eligible for free credit monitoring. (and maybe a tiny bit of cash.)
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"Locale allows you to create Situations, which specify Conditions under which your Settings should change." killer feature! (would be VERY useful at work, especially.)
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very clear & concise!
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"Critique-Safe Environments"
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I think I've mentioned that I tossed 99.9% of the contents of my SXSW swag. (The bag, OTOH, goes with me to work EVERY day. I put all my stuff in the bag, put the bag into a pannier. I love it.)
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fun little effect
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$179 with 2-year contract. not sure about how the data plan part works. (we've been with tmobile for 6+ years.)
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I keep losing track of this one; great photos as desktop background images.
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what the title says. 🙂
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"By 2007, an increasingly large number of mornings would find me staring, dead-eyed, at del.icio.us or Digg or reddit, feeling queasy as I wondered what possible role, how ever small, my stupid blog might have had in helping inspire 1,000 hucksters to try their hand at half-assing a living from pretending to help strangers — while providing their quarry an unapologetically infinite source of pointless procrastination in the bargain." also, continue on to part 2, in which there is (apparently) rebirth.
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"In the process of convincing one of these [financial] firms to send me the requisite paperwork, a customer service rep challenged me to answer a custom security question that I had set up when I opened the account (close to 10 years ago now). This is a *good* thing, in theory." indeed.
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"I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you." heh.
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"She's just a cyclist. Riding her bike to work." about this time of year, after all summer riding, it's kinda like that. I get up, throw on some clothes, and get on my bike, without thinking about it a whole hell of a lot.
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"Also, if the Singularity ever does arrive, I expect it to be plagued by frequent outages and terrible customer service."
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"The reality is that conservatives have been quite actively using the power of the government to shape market outcomes in ways that redistribute income upward. However, conservatives have been clever enough to not own up to their role in this process, pretending all along that everything is just the natural working of the market. And, progressives have been foolish enough to go along with this view." entire book online. interesting thought experiments!
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that looks a lot like a couple of the tests in Big Brain Academy.
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"Talk like a modern pirate day" and that is all I have to say about that.
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gorgeous butterfly photos from Shelley
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I link this only to say that I drink my morning tea out of a ceramic cup that I got at the *2000* Northwest Bookfest. (I also own a (Air Force square dancing group!) mug that my father got in Germany sometime in the 1960s, which I sometimes use on the weekends.)
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so freaking cute!
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"The problem with anything that relies on network externalities is that stubborn non-adopters can drag down its value for everyone else." the general recommendation of the commenters is to just switch to the new mode, luddites be damned.
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"I was reminded of how cripplingly, dully, horrible depression is, how unromantic, how difficult" indeed. sometimes a bit like having yr worst enemy whispering in yr ear all the time.
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oh, these sound both easy & yummy, and I've been wanting to make cinnamon rolls for ages.
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sounds yummy. I like quiche.
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omg. Dr. Bronner quote generator! (via AskMe)