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Mags: OH I FORGOT TO TELL YOU

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:49:47 -0500

Mags: OH I FORGOT TO TELL YOU
Mags: there is a bathroom at CMU that has FIVE out of FIVE automatic things
Mags: the fifth being AUTOMATIC TOILET PAPER
Evan: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Evan: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Mags: DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?????
Evan: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Evan: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Choose Your Own Adventure

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:55 -0500

Choose Your Own Adventure

"Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out..."

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:27:32 -0500

“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It’s sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I’d ever be able to do it again.”

- John Hodgman

"The ancient Greeks got themselves oiled up to wrestle for a good reason: to channel their bloodlust..."

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:52:42 -0400

“The ancient Greeks got themselves oiled up to wrestle for a good reason: to channel their bloodlust into something meaningless. Also because they were crazy gay.”

- Joel Stein

"I wish many guns. Floating around me. Controlled by murder thoughts."

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:52:34 -0400

“I wish many guns. Floating around me. Controlled by murder thoughts.”

- Transmetropolitan

"It’s a terrible world, and modern parents are trying to cocoon their kids as much as possible. What..."

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:40:01 -0400

“It’s a terrible world, and modern parents are trying to cocoon their kids as much as possible. What better way to protect them than wrapping them in nostalgic brands?”

- Alfred Kahn, chairman of 4kids Entertainment, in The New York Times

"Man the food-gatherer reappears incongruously as an information-gatherer. In this role, electronic..."

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:21:03 -0400

“Man the food-gatherer reappears incongruously as an information-gatherer. In this role, electronic man is no less a nomad than his paleolithic ancestors.”

- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

"People tend to stick to their own size group because it’s easier on the neck. Unless they are..."

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:50:58 -0400

“People tend to stick to their own size group because it’s easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.”

- Miranda July, “The Shared Patio”

"And we who were born in one millennium and will die in the next are slightly underappreciated and..."

Sun, 04 May 2008 14:39:01 -0400

“And we who were born in one millennium and will die in the next are slightly underappreciated and slightly oversexed”

- Dan Bern, “Thanksgiving Day Parade”

(via garfieldminusgarfield)

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:44:48 -0400

(via garfieldminusgarfield)

This is totally me next year. (from xkcd)

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:25:34 -0400

This is totally me next year. (from xkcd)

"I wish that I could turn back time/Cause now the guilt is all mine/Can’t live without the..."

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:55:00 -0400

“I wish that I could turn back time/Cause now the guilt is all mine/Can’t live without the trust from those you love”

- “Komm, susser Tod”, End of Evangelion OST

"A machine the size of a marmot, rather than of a moose, can be installed in the shaft, rather than..."

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:10:11 -0400

“A machine the size of a marmot, rather than of a moose, can be installed in the shaft, rather than in a room of its own, freeing up space for architects and landlords.”

- Nick Paumgarten on machineroomless elevators

"If the intermittent wiping feature is working in the K Car, then virtual real estate might not be..."

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:39:51 -0400

“If the intermittent wiping feature is working in the K Car, then virtual real estate might not be for you.”

- Chris Bachelder, Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography

"I hate you, Edgar Dijkstra!"

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:27:13 -0400

“I hate you, Edgar Dijkstra!”

- why the lucky stiff

"…we all spend moments and years counting ourselves wise in the spending of them and hopeful..."

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:11:45 -0400

“…we all spend moments and years counting ourselves wise in the spending of them and hopeful almost to certainty that today’s temporary difficulties will be stabilized tomorrow and then there will come no new misfortunes, not ever…”

- William T. Vollman, Europe Central

"All you need for a good movie are tornadoes and scientists. Actually, that’s all you need for..."

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:22:46 -0400

“All you need for a good movie are tornadoes and scientists. Actually, that’s all you need for anything.”

- Randall Munroe

"…it’s like you’ve been on the brink of starvation at every other time of your life..."

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:46:27 -0400

“…it’s like you’ve been on the brink of starvation at every other time of your life and are suddenly offered a seat at the Queen’s holiday feast. It makes you feel like you can run around the continent and back, like you can fend off an army with your bare hands, like you can do anything, anything, because this one person believes without question that you can.”

- mblase on love at e2

"Anything you say can and will be used against you…in a court of Robocop."

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:36:20 -0400

“Anything you say can and will be used against you…in a court of Robocop.”

- Jack Black in Be Kind, Rewind

"My wang was all I really had that I could call my own."

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:11:28 -0400

“My wang was all I really had that I could call my own.”

- Phillip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint