March 2007
40 posts
“I am up in the clouds And I can’t and I can’t come down I can...”
– Thom Yorke
Proposal
Vinh: Somehow, I have to go have drinks after work tomorrow with the accountants at work.
Vinh: I think I was tricked into it.
Joshua: somehow
Joshua: lol
Vinh: One of them stopped by my office this morning and said, "I can't wait to have drinks with you. I just know that deep down inside, you've got a fun personality."
Vinh: And I said, "Wow ... hmm .. thanks for judging me"
Joshua: what a strange way to ask someone to have drinks
Joshua: "I can't wait to have drinks with you. I've been thinking about you a lot and pondering the depths of your soul. After watching you from afar, I feel like we are best friends, we just haven't had a chance to let it happen yet. Will you please be my soulmate?"
“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make...”
– William Lyons Phelps
Tom Arnold's Demon Spirit →
Made me laugh so many times. Just the idea of it. Dear Lord, bless my dreams with the evil presence of Tom Arnold.
Good News for London Fishes. →
Bicycle Barometer ( track the trend )
There is a movement to install one of these lovely devices in Portland. Basically it keeps track of bicycle traffic that passes through. There is currently one in a Bolzano, Italy. In an article for Bike Portland, Michael Downes talks about his efforts to get one installed in Portland. Downes said he thinks a bicycle barometer — which would display a live count of how many bicycles cross under...
“We have our halloween costume all planned out already. I’m going to be a...”
– A true southerner on the return flight from Boston.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to...”
– Theordore Roosevelt
Watchi love mario so much. i need an NES like photosynthesis needs sunlight.
Human Sheep
“Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.” I’m not sure what to think about this. I think as long as they don’t...
Travels
Sunday: PDX > Chicago > Boston Tuesday: Boston > Chicago > Home Sweet Home
“That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good...”
– Mitch Hedberg
Double Positive
This linguistics professor was lecturing the class. “In English,” he explained, “a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.” “However,” the professor continued, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.” Immediately, a voice from the back of the room piped...
I love the Old Testament →
R.I.P. Zach Piazza
Thanks for teaching me how to surf.
freund hein (unwelcome friend, death, knocks) →
Latest film project by Elisabeth Smolarz. Via swissmiss.
“For it is only at the scale of our direct, sensory interactions with the land...”
– David Abram
Things It Takes Most Of Us 50 years to learn:
1. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. 2. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time. 3. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. 4. The one...
WatchPortlandia
Mid 20's Crisis
Krista: and neither of you are really mid 20s yet
Joshua: but the reason it caught my attention was cause i'd been having quite a few of these conversations lately, so i think a lot of people are feeling the same way
Joshua: you madame, are incorrect
Joshua: how is 25 not mid 20?
Krista: you JUST turned
Joshua: i'd say it's exactly in the middle
Joshua: haha
Joshua: still
Krista: not still
Krista: you have to get to 25 and a half
Krista: ihianhy
Joshua: you are discriminating!
Krista: i get to, as i am WAAAy over mid 20s
Joshua: so very far over
Joshua: you are ridiculous
Joshua: and a discriminator
Rejoice!
it was just about when the cymbals started ringing all around, and the notes were all melting together drawn out like pulled taffy. people were standing so close, not expecting the clash of bells and sudden performance behind them instead of in front where they had focused their attention on the old man in the kimono whose skin was drooping and hair was thinning. when the tambourines started up is...
Laughs on the daily.
Dave: starts with an r
Dave: larose
Dave: wait
Joshua: scott
Joshua: eric scott
Dave: shit
Dave: god
Dave: yes
Dave: larose was that other nubbin
Joshua: lol
“Men generally only tend to cry in the presence of their parents or their...”
I'm foolish and continue to be foolish.
I’m a careful stepper. I watch my steps. I’m a thinker, I think things through. You go through life and you learn lessons. Some are small, some are medium, some are large. Some are devastatingly huge. You’d figure that immediately after the huge ones that the lesson would sink in deeply quite quickly. Especially if you have a decent amount of time to stew on it. Not so. My lesson...
