January 2009
82 posts
WatchNeil DeGrasse Tyson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking about The Pluto Files
“Lets stop pretending these Guantanamo guys are all super villains, they’re...”
– Jon Stewart, on the fear of moving the Guantanamo detainees to the United States.
30 Rock
Tracy: So how bad is diabetes, really?
Dr. Spaceman: Its quite serious, if left untreated you could loose a foot.
Tracy: Could I replace it with a wheel like Rosie from the Jetsons?
Dr. Spaceman: I suppose, but then you'd have to register as a motor vehicle.
Sex offenders under the bridge. →
The politians and law makers of Miami continue to disregard this issue and pass it on as someone else’s problem. There have been registered sex offenders that have been told and forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway (I195) for over a year. The Miami New Times has chronicled the story since December 2007. Due to the growing population of registered sex offenders they have begun to...
NYC's 10 Best Dumpling Joints →
mascarah:
(via adeandabet thephenthouse)
Joe’s Shanghai does have amazing soup dumplings (life-changing, even).
Agreed. Joe’s Shanghai is simply delicious.
I love this place. Whenever I visit, it’s a must on my to do list.
A Stimulus With Merit, and Misses Too. →
“In the current system, the federal government sends money to states without any real effort to evaluate whether it will pay for worthy projects. States rarely do serious analyses of their own. They build new roads before fixing old ones. They don’t consider whether those new roads will lead to faster traffic or simply more traffic. They spend millions of dollars on legislators’ pet projects...
Orange Bowl Scraps being used around the nation. →
“A piece of Miami’s lost soul has turned up unexpectedly, some 280 miles to the northwest, as an accoutrement to this Super Bowl Week” Although I think it’s great that they are recycling, I still teared up reading this, and since I brought it up in the post yesterday. The steel was used to create “The centerpiece in the park… a 12-foot steel football illuminated...
Marlins Stadium vote coming up. →
I have gone back and forth on the whole Marlins Stadium deal for a number of reasons. The county and the city of Miami are going to end up paying for it; when the education budget will be cutting out all arts and music programs next year. Perhaps they think that the art and music teachers that lose their jobs will be the work force to build a stadium. And why on earth do they need a retractable...
The contest
tumblelikeyougiveadamn:
claytoncubitt:
“The generation that sat in lines for gasoline at the pump in their 20s and 30s was the same that produced and consumed SUVs and pickup trucks as consumer vehicles to be used in daily commutes. The generation that was drafted into a ludicrous war in Vietnam that exemplified everything that was wrong with American military policy was the same that dropped...
“Sometimes you have to expect the worst. Well, fifty percent… Seventy five...”
– Amanda
Our Melamine: There's Mercury in High Fructose... →
(via apsies)
Miami can do more. →
A follow up to the past couple of weeks, Bike Miami Days and the ING Marathon, where Miamians have had the opportunity to go outside without being hit by a car and how can we move forward towards a better city life.
Strike One: “is the hot, muggy climate that encases us in a sauna for seven to eight months of the year. There’s nothing we can do about that, except plant more trees.
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Stimulus to Nowhere? →
John Norquist discusses what we should be doing with funding for infrastructure, the need to invest in the local network of streets and public transportation and not big highways. Norquist is president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism and he wants Obama to take transportation policy in a new direction.
“Barack Obama and Joe Biden recalled the whistle stop campaign of Harry...
Bike Miami Saturday February 21st →
Mark you calendars people, February’s Bike Miami Day will be a Saturday (it’s usually on Sundays) in the Month of February in conjunction with Flagler Fest. Don’t worry if you don’t have a bike you can rent one for free, an hour at a time.
“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got...”
– Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (via filmquotes)
I watched this movie recently because I had read the novella. They turn out very different. I like them both.
“…I believe laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via heyaloverly) (via tuesdayslove) (via unicornology)
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via littlemiss) (via dubonics)
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (via shoelessjane)
“You’re my twin. I know what you need.”
– Amanda, my younger sister, by three years.
Feministe » Ledbetter bill passed by the Senate →
apsies:katoleary:(via robot-heart-politics)
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
“You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the...”
– The Wizard of Oz (via shoelessjane)
Weather report for Miami = cold
A freeze warning :(
My apartment doesn’t have heat.
“Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of...”
– Betty White (via readersquill)
In an attempt to view history in the making.
Just before Joe Biden was going to swear in to take the office of the Vice President, my internet connection was lost. I tried to repair it to no avail. I sprinted from my office as fast as my recovering knee could carry me trying to find someone with a computer or a TV. I was kept up to speed, moment by moment via text by Star, thankfully. I passed restaurants with no televisions, what are...
On MSNBC, they just flashed over to some of the police force standing guard and they are from Miami. They are apparently very cold. The reporter said, “I don’t know what they are going to do down there on South Beach, all their police officers are here” and Olberman responded, “Don’t give them any ideas”.
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
– Charles de Montesquieu (via readersquill)
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I...”
– Martin Luther King Jr (via enquotations)
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by...”
– Victor Hugo (hellovagina) (via bellavita)
“I have a scar here. No wait, or is that you? Oh yeah, it’s her.”
– Gisselle, counting up the scars on her legs and realizing she was including her twin sister’s as her own.
