October 2009
39 posts
“3) Stoners are usually more generous people than the wealthy. The wealthy didn’t make it to the top by just giving money away. Fortunately, there’s a whole different breed of laid back people who’ve cultivated a habit of passing things around. More often than not it seemed like the best tips would come from some shady looking dude who’d just hand over a bunch of crumpled up bills and give an enthusiastic, “thanks a lot man,” before telling you to go ahead and keep the change. When you’d finally get the money organized enough to give it a quick count, it would turn out you’d just scored a $12 tip on a $23 order. Compare this to the house one neighborhood over with a Mercedes in the driveway that graciously gave you $45 on their order of $43.85.”
—Daily Fork - 8 Things I Learned From Delivering Pizza in High School
12+ Watch as Girl is Gang Raped Outside Homecoming Dance →
digg.com
This is absolutely disgusting.
A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today | Technology | guardian.co.uk →
guardian.co.uk
Very cool timeline on the history of the internet
“This is the magical thing about babies on the subway. They carry the antidote to adulthood. The careful decorum we construct for ourselves — grown-up civilian riders of the underground train — simply dissolves. Very few people are immune to the power, the openness of a baby’s unconstructed glance. It stares without rudeness, smiles without solicitation, and somehow it reaches the unconstructed human that remains inside most of us. We get to step outside all the workaday rules of human contact. We get to make faces in public.”
—Editorial Notebook - Baby Faces - NYTimes.com
Craigslist is ripe with horny CMJ bros today. →
freewilliamsburg.com
looking for cute hipster girls with whom to share my soul, or my CMJ PASS!!!!!!!! SEXY INDIE BROOKLYN HIPSTER NERDY LIBRARIAN GUIDED BY VOICES GLASSES BOURBON LEFTIST IPOD CUTE KITSCH WORD SALAD SELF-AWARENESS MARKET HOTEL KINKY FALAFEL SNARKY L TRAIN COFFEE AND A OCCASIONAL STEAK — actual craigslist post.
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“Many in today’s pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we friend our teenagers (literally and virtually), we spend hours teaching our elementary-school offspring how to understand their feelings. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells. “I’ve worked with thousands of parents and I can tell you, without question, that screaming is the new spanking,” said Amy McCready, the founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, which teaches parenting skills in classes, individual coaching sessions and an online course. “This is so the issue right now. As parents understand that it’s not socially acceptable to spank children, they are at a loss for what they can do. They resort to reminding, nagging, timeout, counting 1-2-3 and quickly realize that those strategies don’t work to change behavior. In the absence of tools that really work, they feel frustrated and angry and raise their voice. They feel guilty afterward, and the whole cycle begins again.”
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For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking - NYTimes.com
I’m spanking my kids.
“Turner, 45, who used to be a health insurance underwriter herself, said the insurance companies examined her health records. Even after she explained the assault, the insurers would not sell her a policy because the HIV medication raised too many health questions. They told her they might reconsider in three or more years if she could prove that she was still AIDS-free”
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Rape Victim’s Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?
Wow.
“Q:Why don’t you use Twitter?
A:It just sounds like organized stalking to me.” —Carrie Underwood Interview: 11 Questions - The Boot
I don’t just love her because she’s a vindictive bitch …
A:It just sounds like organized stalking to me.” —Carrie Underwood Interview: 11 Questions - The Boot
I don’t just love her because she’s a vindictive bitch …
Trending on Twitter
1. The average number of tweets per day is 1.9 Million 2. The average number of unique twitter users per day is about 631,737 3. The average number of unique twitter users online per hour is 48,233 4. The average number of unique tweets per hour is 83,394 and unique tweets / minute is ~ 1350 5. Number of unique trending topics per day is ~8900 (these are for one specific day, but average over the last 7 days is in this range). Trending topic has a “shelf life” of 11 minutes, most though are less than 5 minutes. N.B. There are 10 top trending topics shown on Search.Twitter.com at any time.
http://news.buzzgain.com/how-many-tweets-does-it-take-to-be-a-trending-topic-on-twitter/
Financial worker at Bloomberg News sees the bigger problems of the nation of which Balloon Boy is just a result
15:21:03 NBCM WORKER: HI
15:21:03 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: Thank you for using Bloomberg HELP! We have received your question, and a live representative will be with you momentarily. Thank you for your patience.
15:21:09 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: hello
15:21:51 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: how can I assist?
15:22:03 NBCM WORKER: any ideas on how we can get this kid out of the hot air balloon over colorado?
15:22:08 NBCM WORKER: b/c i am totally consumed by this
15:22:22 NBCM WORKER: and noone at my work is offering anything sensible
15:23:07 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: I wish I knew of a simple solution
15:23:25 NBCM WORKER: i mean is this helium going to slowly leeak out?
15:23:36 NBCM WORKER: or should we send the seals in with some chutes?
15:24:01 NBCM WORKER: and where are the parents in all this. im sorry to be venting. i just feel like i dont have anyone to talk to
15:24:38 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: please talk to me about it
15:24:49 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: I feel the pain.. I wonder that the kid is thinking up there
15:25:00 NBCM WORKER: this issue is bigger than just kids in hot air balloons
15:25:12 NBCM WORKER: its a lack of parenting in this country, its dispicable
15:26:25 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: Im sure the parents will never leave the kid alone
15:26:47 NBCM WORKER: i mean what did they have this balloon tied down with? 4 lbs test berkely trilene?
15:26:56 NBCM WORKER: like i have on my trout rod?
15:28:58 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: im sure we will find a lot of answers once this situation is resolved
15:29:17 NBCM WORKER: 6 year olds cannot hardly wipe their own bums let alone climb in a homemade hot air balloon and friggin set it free
15:30:12 NBCM WORKER: in other news apparently the dad was on wife swap, so now things are adding up. the dad, as if building a hot air balloon like a boyscout isnt bad enough, is a scum bag
15:31:06 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: karma
15:35:16 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: Patrick, hopefully the kid will be fine and you can get back to work. Is there anything else I can assist you with?
15:35:47 NBCM WORKER: too much to handle in 25 mins before the bell. but i thank you, kindly
15:36:15 NBCM WORKER: HEY WE GOT IT DOWN!!!!!!
15:36:24 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: NICE
15:36:55 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: thats great news, hopefully the markets will close high
15:37:00 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: thank you for using bloomberg help!
15:37:01 NBCM WORKER: exactly
15:37:03 NBCM WORKER: TY
15:37:17 NBCM WORKER: you’d make a great psychiatrist
15:37:46 BLOOMBERG HELP DESK: thank you
