Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Bear and Penguin's HandMade Super Duper Parachutes

how about this book list?

while this diet is less super delicious looking than maybe whole living or goop, i appreciate that they thought out the whole thing so you wouldn't have to spend a lot of time prepping or have a lot of wasted ingredients.

nerd chef bear would like this list

i thought it was because ants can't tell time

how to fall in love with anyone

obama's less-talked about tax hike- although i'm not sure how this hike benefits anyone

responses
1. while i understand we have to stand up for our freedom of speech, Sony doesn't have an army and would likely be blamed if there was a terror attack because of not pulling the movie. I understand what it was thinking. Of course, we don't believe that N. Korea could mount a successful attack on us but then again after Charlie Hebdo, all you need is a few sympathizers. Who gets blown up in Team America?

2. Oh Virginia! That kind of thing should only pass in The Good Wife and D.C.

3. I think the demise of Chipotle is greatly overexaggerated. The chicken is probably fine.

4. I understand why cable is the way it is - because who's going to buy that hallmark channel otherwise? but why can't cable just lower their prices to combat this?

5. The most interesting part is the restaurant owner's reporting of death threats to the FBI's "animal terrorist division." Are there animals that are terrorists? (moose perhaps?) or is there a whole category of PETA people who kill humans in the name of animals? so many so that the FBI has created its own division for them.. Also, did you see the update from PETA re death threats?: "PETA is skeptical of the claim that threats are being made. Anyone who's desperate enough to want to serve up the diseased, fatty livers of tortured birds is certainly not above making up a fat lie. This big macho chef needs to 'man up' and recognize that part of being a man means having a heart."

PETA- YOU ARE THE WORST!

R2R
1. not everywhere can be paris (although frankly, "we're not shooting tourists on site anymore" might be better than going to Paris in light of Charlie Hebdo).

4. It's probably chicken and egg. Neurotic people probably read more Facebook than non-neurotic people and they probably get more neurotic from reading the posts of their neurotic friends. 

5. haggling would probably only make sense on big ticket items and i dont' forsee buying any big ticket items on amazon anytime soon.

7. yeah, maybe all 4-year olds should be able to do that? we should train constantine immediately!

9. those were really funny. i like his "lawyer" voice. zippity doo dah!

10. so i guess atkins works because that diet is at least 10 years old. 

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2. Well yes, i figured it wouldn't apply to you because your interest rate is so high. or at least it used to be.

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2. but you never answered the original question about what you would take out of the apartment in case of a fire! you just criticize me for how i would SAVE penguin and bear! I will have parachutes ready though...

4. we do take pictures more readily now and it's probably hurting our memories


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agreed. i see stuff about rape culture and i guess to feminists, it means that sometimes rape victims are not treated as they should be. so i guess by "culture" they mean, "some things that some people have done before." like there could be a racist culture because a racist person exists. 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Back on the Board!

It's embarrassing that Sony caved so quickly, especially since Team America already exists.  It obviously would have been terrible if the people threatening violence successfully followed through on their threats, but whatever happened to standing up in the face of terrorism?  Also, it's North Korea - are we really afraid of them?

Virginia is for lawbreakers.

Get your carnitas while you can.

The cable cartel is slowly but surely falling apart.

Finally, Californians don't have to live like peasants anymore.  Of course, PETA isn't taking the new developments very well...

Responses:

1. Some of the reasons they used seem pretty suspect to me.  It's unclear to me why I'd want to visit Canberra when the appeal is "there's far less to do here than everywhere else in Australia!"  Or Myanmar because "we're not shooting tourists on site anymore!"

2. Good for potatoes.  Bad for still having few answers in the face of an obesity crisis.

3. When I read about the circumstances of the torture memo, I more or less disregarded it as political posturing.

4. I wonder if Facebook breeds neuroticism... Also, resistance syndrome is interesting.  What do you do about it?

5. This seems like a lot of work.  But congratulations on your forthcoming savings!

6. The bull is so iconic - I thought it had been around for far longer.

7. It's a nice story, but I need more information.  How many 4-year-olds know 1) how to operate a telephone and 2) that 911 calls for help?  That number is probably higher than we're led to believe by this story.  It's nice that the kid did it, but if he just sat there and cried the whole time while his grandmother died, I feel like we'd be wondering what was wrong with him.

8. I'll be making that really soon.

9. You should send this link to Dave Chappelle.  (See also here.)

10. My new rule is that at least 10 years should elapse between the debut of a new diet fad and a completed evaluation of its worth.  In other words, ask me again in 2025.

R2R:

2. It's somewhat applicable to me (though my debt amount is higher).  And yes, the stock market could turn, but the variable rates on my loans could also skyrocket.  You make investment decisions based on the information you know now.  That said, given that I owe so much, I'm probably just going to keep paying them down - having a monthly minimum payment of $1,757 limits one's options.

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2. I'm just going to leave this here.  But I'm also going to update bear's insurance policy in case he has to go here...

4. What I mean is that people take pictures and record events more readily now compared to previous generations, so we are already moving in that direction.  Even I (a social media grouch and memory snob) have a better hard record of my life now than, say, my mom when she was my age.

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Agreed.  But even if we were to stipulate a such thing as a rape culture and its existence at UVA (or any other school), it's unclear to me how the proposed solutions help to diminish the culture.  It is clear to me, however, how the promulgation of a belief in a rape culture, along with the insistence that we believe people like Jackie regardless of actual facts (or people like Liz Seccurro regardless of the irrelevance of our belief), says more about these feminists than it does about culture.

B

Sunday, January 4, 2015

socks socks socks socks socks!

I've started this but it's kinda annoying. =P


green sock pack



red white and blue back

   orange/aqua pack

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