December 2010
365 Days
Dear Tumblr;
I went to the archives to pull up a post from December 31 of last year with every intention of following up on your meme. Really, honestly, truly, I tried.
But seeing myself in those words, seeing my life at the time reflected in those pictures? It was like getting punched in the gut.
You see, I was deliriously, over-the-top happy on December 31, 2009. After decades of looking...
Frogs are for smooching, Marley. SMOOCHING.
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A little help here?
Do you know of a deserving charity, non-profit or individual that could benefit by having a web presence, but can’t afford to pay someone to design or host it?
Creative Geekery (the enterprise I run to help pay my rent) is set to give away a years worth of hosting and a basic website for 2011. Problem is, I have no clue who should get it.
That is where you guys come in. If you do know of a...
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A Scouting Life: Obamacare →
samsplace:
Okay then. I worked long and hard for many years without health insurance. I did so with the knowledge that if I stuck with it my career path would get to the point where I qualified. I put my time in.
I just received notice that my health care now costs an additional $500 per year. I can easily…
Yeah, you are right. It really will cost more for some of us up-front. And...
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A Physicist, regarding the TSA Naked Scanners:
1. All microwave photons are far too weak to cause damage to molecules through their absorption. The energy level of a microwave photon is sufficient to cause a molecule to rotate or vibrate (this is how microwave ovens work) but not to cause it to disintegrate or modify its structure, and those are essential requirements for causing a DNA molecule to mutate into a malignant strand....
Watch
trelvix:
Laura Veirs is all growed up.
ronbailey:
This is a little bit wonderful.
thesemicullen asked: Ron, I am very glad our paths have crossed. Merry Christmas, frog man.
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thesemicullen asked: Ron, I am very glad our paths have crossed. Merry Christmas, frog man.
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“War perverts and destroys you. It pushes you closer and closer to your own...”
– Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail by Chris Hedges (via thenoobyorker)
I just bought my kid an MP3 player for Christmas.
It came pre-loaded with a Von Bondies song. Not bad.
I'M *STILL* WAITING ON MY CR-48, GOOGLE.
I was inclined to overlook that whole episode where you made me wait forever for an invite to try that one product no one understood and everyone gave up on after a just a few weeks. And I didn’t say a word when you didn’t acknowledge all my hard work in finding and squashing Chrome 10.0 bugs. I knew you were busy. I realized that you had thousands of people clamoring for your...
Why is it that "Japan" is a perfectly legit word...
This is how they regulate inter-state players like...
By segregating and prioritizing internet traffic. By setting up gatekeepers in the name of commerce. By making certain that corporations and the wealthy are the only voices loud enough to be heard on the “real” internet.
“When young, I remember clearly how my father told me why our country was so...”
– Steve Wozniak, in an open letter to the FCC on net neutrality. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and created the Apple I and Apple II series computers in the mid-1970s.
Read the full letter here.
(via theatlantic)
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I just discovered that Eric Idle is still alive.
And just like that, things are a bit brighter.
“In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is...”
– The incoming Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Things are going to get much worse before they get better.
Spencer Bachus finally gets his chairmanship | al.com
via Nick
