March 2010
“I’ve found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing...”
– Walter Murch in The Conversations, via fenced lot, clusterflock (via somethingchanged)
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with...”
– William James (via rulesformyunbornson)
“I wonder what he was really thinking about his life. He married a beautiful...”
– Roger Ebert
My old man, by Roger Ebert →
“I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I...”
– Mitch Hedberg (via simko)
Number of House Republicans That Voted For:
savingpaper:
Social Security: 77
Medicare: 65
Health Care Reform: 0
“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the...”
– The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I get it,” he said. “I’m a slow white guy, and I’m overweight. So maybe you...”
– For the record, Omar Samhan is the best thing ever
You should totally read 'The Big Short', too. It's...
“It’s an incredibly impressive piece of work,” said Jeremy Stein, a Harvard economics professor who included the thesis on a reading list for a course he’s teaching this semester on the financial crisis. “She pulled together an enormous amount of information in a way that’s both intelligent and accessible.”
Barnett-Hart’s thesis is highly critical of Wall Street and “their irresponsible...
“Only if everyone begins at the same starting line can it be said that the...”
– Michael Sandel, Justice (via squashed)
“Q: Why football? There are so many other kinds of sports, but, of course,...”
– Andrei Arshavin conducts greatest Q&A ever
“As a blogger, I’m actually required to wear pajamas to work, and my office was...”
– Jesse Lee, White House Director of Online Programs (via somethingchanged)
Here’s another, from Only Fools and Horses, spoken by Trigger:
We have an old saying that’s been handed down by generations of roadsweepers: “Look after your broom” … And that’s what I done … I’ve maintained it for twenty years. This old broom has had seventeen new heads and fourteen new handles in its time.
Trigger is the resident idiot in...
Must see TV
sharingtime:
I hope tonight on The Office when Pam is having her baby Michael says something inappropriate and then Jim looks adorably into the camera and the baby comes out and says, “The Marriage Ref is next on NBC!” and then Jerry Seinfeld bursts into the room and says, “With special guest judge Kelly Ripa!” and then Conan walks into the room and is fired again.
“I’ll stay out of the Guantanamo debate because I haven’t been...”
– Ezra Klein
three thoughts concerning the internet, Angela...
agrammar:
1.
The internet teaches people various ways to present portions of their lives as fun and interesting. Much like with television and advertising, this can create acute self-consciousness in any given internet user, who is constantly presented with visions of other people’s lives that seem way more fun/interesting than his or her own — except, in this case, without the reassuring...
Kanye West channels firmuhment, reveals that he's... →
“The closest thing we have to ‘fact’ is ‘common opinion.’”
(via maura)
“While admitting that security measures need to improve, Google officials also...”
– Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology
“Perfect boredom is the enjoyment of the moment of stasis that comes between...”
– La Vie D’Ennui Philosophy Now (via somethingchanged)
“I just realized something. Rick Sanchez delivers the news like a guy at a party...”
– Jon Stewart (via soupsoup, frangry)