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Krispy Kreme is giving away one free donut per customer at its Penn Station location today. I went and they were definitely keeping that information on the hush-hush. Randy and I gave our fellow donut compatriots the heads up about the free donut situation.
This is an interesting photo because the blond bridesmaid seems really tan. Like, really tan.
I predict this image of the Democratic nominee Barack Obama and his wife giving each other a youthful "fist bump" will become one of the iconic political photographs of the early 21st century. Hyperbole what? Unlike the stilted and contrived interactions of politicians and their wives during presidential campaigns, this seems to be a genuine expression of their close friendship.
Reading this website IAmNeurotic.com where people can anonymously submit their various neuroses makes me feel positively normal. Here are a few that made me laugh:
- i refuse to capitalize “i” when referring to myself. It seems pretentious to me. i use AbiWord because it doesn’t automatically capitalize “i” for me. When i use Word it takes me forever to type anything because i have to go back and turn all the “I”s into “i”s.
- Every day, I have to touch someone I do not know, like a quick pat on the shoulder or a tap on the back. I try not to make it obvious, like I act like I accidentally bump into someone in the mall. I have no idea why I do this at all. I cannot stay home all day because I have to find someone to touch. Some days I get in my car telling myself I want fast food but actually just have the urge to lightly tap a stranger…
- When he goes to sit on the toilet, one of my housemates removes all of his clothing except his socks and boxers. He does this at varying times of day. He says it’s “a matter of cleanliness.”
Read more here (with a healthy dose of skepticism). I'm sure my exes and close friends can recall my neurotic tendencies, but I'm having a hard time thinking of any... OH! I have one: I have to ALWAYS sleep on the side of the bed nearest to the door. Oh my god... I AM A FREAK.
Through April 2009 at least while it undergoes renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is forbidding people from sitting on its famous steps. What a travesty! The steps of the Met is one of the best places to sit on a warm day in all of New York City.
After I watched the guard shoo dozens of museumgoers from the steps, one young woman refused to budge, and remained sitting for a few minutes while guards stood nearby looking annoyed. After a short time the woman walked off. She told me she was a tourist from Montenegro and didn’t see any reason for the ban on sitting. And she was simply waiting for her friend to take her photograph on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Read more here.
And it happens right in front of an escorting cop car. You've probably already seen this photo all over the Internets, but it's just a crazy photo...
The bootyologists at Us Versus Them bring their critical analysis to the current situation taking place at Danity Kane (Quick! Name one song by them! Yea, me neither. Oh what about that one?! No, that's by the Pussycat Dolls.):
3. Previously super thick D. Woods is now super tightNuff said, though she may want to watch getting too tight in the middle. She’s starting to get that Venus Williams extra hard stomach piece. I want my lady strong, not skrong.
Lines like "I want my lady strong, not skrong" compels me to be a repeat customer.
Read more here.
Taken by the Mars rover in 2005. Awe-some.
The NY Times jumps on board about this website I had previously blogged about here.
When Dan Walsh, a 33-year-old technology manager in Dublin, started posting doctored versions of the comic strip “Garfield” on his blog in February, he thought he might amuse a few friends.Instead, his site on Tumblr started receiving as many as 300,000 hits a day from the United States and beyond. More recently it has leveled off to 30,000 to 35,000 a day, which is not bad for a site whose content takes about five minutes to create.
Mr. Walsh does nothing to the panels except strip away Garfield and other characters — like Odie the dog and Nermal the kitten — to create a new, even lonelier atmosphere for Jon Arbuckle, the main human. Without the cutesy thought-bubbles of his lasagna-loving cat, Jon’s observations seem to teeter between existential crisis and deep despair.
Read more here.
An interesting insight into how Americans are spending their federal stimulus rebate ($600 for most individuals, and $1200 for couples) and where that money is going can be viewed at the website: HowISpentMyStimulus. It appears that we're spending it on EVERYTHING. Don't get me wrong: I like free money. But I'm not so sure that this program is the best way to stimulate our economy. I prefer my suggestion instead.
Here are eight reasons why the increase in gas prices is a good thing, especially if the cost of gas per gallon hits the astronomical (comparative to what we are used to paying that is) $8 benchmark, which "would be a catalyst for economic, political and social change of profound national and global impact."
1. RIP for the internal-combustion engine They may contain computer chips, but the power source for today's cars is little different than that which drove the first Model T 100 years ago. That we're still harnessed to this antiquated technology is testament to Big Oil's influence in Washington and success in squelching advances in fuel efficiency and alternative energy.Given our achievement in getting a giant mainframe's computing power into a handheld device in just a few decades, we should be able to do likewise with these dirty, little rolling power plants that served us well but are overdue for the scrap heap of history.
Amen. Most of the reasons (mass transit development, reducing city sprawl, etc) are fairly obvious, but it never hurts to proselytize against oil.
Read more here.
Reading like the latest thriller the WSJ examines the players (the egos...) and the frantic maneuvers involved in the nail-biting conclusion of the epic collapse of Bear Stearns:
Late Sunday night, as lawyers raced to finalize the merger agreement, executives of the New York Fed convened a call for Wall Street CEOs. So many people were dialing in that officials were repeatedly interrupted by the announcement of new participants... During the question-and-answer session, Citigroup Inc.'s new CEO, Vikram Pandit, spoke up.
Mr. Pandit -- who did not initially identify himself -- asked a shrewd but technical question: How would the deal affect the risk to Bear Stearns's trading partners on certain long-term contracts?
The query irked Mr. Dimon. "Who is this?" he snapped. Mr. Pandit identified himself as "Vikram." Offended that Mr. Pandit was taking up time with what he considered granular inquiries, Mr. Dimon shot back, "Stop being such a jerk." He added that Citigroup "should thank us" for staving off further mayhem on Wall Street.
Read more here.
This image is from a New York Times' article about a joint Israeli-Palestinian web start up. But the street art in the accompanying photo looks like something that came from the inspired and imaginative mind of Banksy.
I've been having a stressful month and then I read this and I realized my life in comparison is a-ok.
For almost 60 years, Dianne Odell lived inside a 7-foot-long metal tube, unable to breathe outside it but determined not to let it destroy her spirit.From her 750-pound iron lung, she got a high school diploma, took college courses and wrote a children's book about a "wishing star" named Blinky.
Read more here.
[Thanks Nicole]
A new study from the Harvard Medical School argues that not eating is a good way to avoid jet lag:
Normally, the body's natural circadian clock in the brain dictates when to wake, eat and sleep, all in response to light. But it seems a second clock takes over when food is scarce, and manipulating this clock might help travelers adjust to new time zones, they said."A period of fasting with no food at all for about 16 hours is enough to engage this new clock," said Dr. Clifford Saper of Harvard Medical School, whose study appears in the journal Science.
Great, so I'm no longer jet lagged but instead FUCKING STARVING.
Read more here.
Artist "draws" using a GPS briefcase as his pencil and the world as his blank canvas. At the end, the package traveled through 6 continents and 62 countries. First the sketch:
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And the journey:
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At the end of the video I wasn't sure if I saw art or a (fantastic) DHL commercial.