January 2012
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I’ve been reading Anna Karenina for a week but it feels like it has been a month.  It is a very long book that I have decided to challenge myself with.  I’m only 25% through it.  I could have done without the description of the horse and the race, however, I have a feeling that whole bit of the story is going to be symbolic to the outcome of a certain couple of people.  And the...
Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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AMERICAN GODS US Kindle $1.99 edition...
neil-gaiman: It looks like no-one at Amazon has noticed and taken their American Gods Kindle Special down yet. It’s http://say.ly/Qrj1i92 and was only meant to have been a 24 hour special, so may not last for very long.
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in...”
– Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale (via blogut)
Jan 20th
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“If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact...”
– Newt Gingrich False. And stupid. And slightly scary. (via greaterthanlapsed) Andrew Jackson took this approach—so it’s been tried. It resulted in the Trail of Tears. (via squashed)
Jan 19th
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Yuengling Is Now America's Largest Brewer →
thegreg: passthemike: culby: fuckyeahbeer: Yuengling takes the number one spot. DAMN RIGHT And we still don’t have it in Boston! My beer of choice. Well done, Yuengling…
Jan 19th
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“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Joshua Speed, 1855 Watching Republicans parse who deserves rights and freedoms always makes me think of this quote … from the man who would be the first Republican president. (via politicalprof)
Jan 17th
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WatchWatch
cracked: Parks and Recreation and Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon performing “We’re Not Gonna Take It” will probably improve your day for days.
Jan 8th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 2nd
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Reading with Style →
I have been trying to find a book club for quite some time that would suit me.  Most of the ones I have looked into or briefly been a part of haven’t included much variety in their selections.  It seems to me that many book clubs focus on chick lit far more than any other genre.  I am not knocking chick lit, I am ok with reading books outside my main interest.  I just don’t want it to...
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 27th
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From following Mark Reads, I got an incredible urge to re-read The Lord of the Rings along with Mark.  Just a few chapters in and I recalled that I said I would never re-read this book.  Don’t get me wrong, I love this story, I am happy to have read it.  Exposition! Exposition! Exposition! and then some more.  I am just a few chapters in.  Seriously, they walk a lot and there are trees and I...
Dec 22nd
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This is not the first time.
Coworker 1: What types of elevators are we quoting for this project?
Me: Otis.
Coworker 1: Are they the only one that can do the sliding doors?
Me: No, there is that other one that has sliding doors by ThyssenKrup, the... What is it called again?
Coworker 1: Why aren't we getting quotes for that one?
Me: The client asked for an Otis elevator. I think the other one... what is it called?! Oh, the Volanits! We don't have enough overall height for the hoist way.
Coworker 2: The Volantis?
Me: Wait, that's not what it is called....
Coworker 1: The Volant, it's called the Volant.
Me: Where did I get Volantis from... oh, crap.
Dec 21st
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Dec 18th
Naturally, I'm Worried: Sherlock & Batman →
starline: Went to see the Sherlock Sequel last night with Kelly. I wasn’t expecting it, but the new Batman trailer aired before the movie! Both Kelly and I had the same reaction to what was happening on the screen. Sherlock itself was a lot of fun. Cheeky humor and beautiful action sequences…. Seriously, that is literally the face we both made while watching the Batman trailer.
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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More details on the final NDAA bill →
shortformblog: The administration cited several revisions to the final bill’s detainee sections. The bill dropped the word “requirement” from the section on the military detention of terror suspects, which was among the most contentious parts of the bill. The legislation mandates military detention for al Qaeda terror suspects, while it grants a national security waiver for the executive...
Dec 15th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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“[It] bears noting that rarely are cultural and religious traditions and...”
– -Hillary Clinton, December 6, 2011 (via Hillary Clinton’s Groundbreaking International LGBT Rights Speech Full Video & Transcript) She brought me to tears tonight.  (via lifeincoffeespoons)
Dec 7th
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