June 2012
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Poopy's. Tomorrow.
recliners:
I know, pretty much a complete failure of marketing, but we’re playing tomorrow at Poopy’s from 1-4pm. Weather looks good, and you should know that last year when we played near the 4th there was someone there who had the most unbelievable outlaw fireworks I’ve ever heard. Either that or he was just throwing whole sticks of dynamite into the woods.
Anyway, come on out. There’s a good...
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To Jason and Jess: a Blessing
Where there be strife, may you find Peace, Love, and Understanding. Where there be darkness, may you know the Sunshine Of Your Love. Where there be cold, may you be shrouded in Kashmir. Where there be miles, may you have a Ticket To Ride. And where there be joy, may you Dance The Night Away.
Congratulations and much love, you two. ❤
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I’ve never met Steve, but I’m sure that when I do at some future tweetup or what-have-you, we’re gonna sit and talk guitar for like a million hours and bore the shit out of everyone else around us and pretty much not care.
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I'm offered for a five lot
I’ve said before that my favorite part of working here is the education department. The class I’m taking right now is Mock Trading where I’m learning the basics of open outcry (pit) trading. I am learning a ton and having big fun doing it. We stand around in a circle and scream markets at each other and trade old school. The traders who run the class tally up all the trades and...
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Here: This is not just about farming. Read it. →
paintedgoat:
GM grass linked to Texas cattle deaths
mamitah:
americawakiewakie:
A mysterious mass death of a herd of cattle has prompted a federal investigation in Central Texas.
Preliminary test results are blaming the deaths on the grass the cows were eating when they…
I clicked through to the source — they have posted an update that says the grass in question is a...
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continued
A clique in an undirected graph G = (V, E) is a subset of the vertex set C ⊆ V, such that for every two vertices in C, there exists an edge connecting the two. This is equivalent to saying that the subgraph induced by C is complete (in some cases, the term clique may also refer to the subgraph).
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squibble replied to your post: Tuesdayishness
If you have the dropbox program installed, the files are sync’d and stored on any computer you own, and remain there when there’s no connection.
THIS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING.
I’d like to think this means I’m not as dumb as I thought, but I think it actually means I’m dumber.
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Tuesdayishness
Epilogue: I regrouped, rallied, and ended up dating Kelly for a little while my sophomore year. Definitely a case where the chase ended up being more fun than the kill. For both of us.
She had a kimono, though. That was kinda hot.
On a flight without wifi Sunday, I was frustrated by a software package whose documentation is 100% online. Last night I saved about half of those web pages to my...
To belong
Freshman year, my dorm was all single rooms—clearly, the giant, water-cooled mainframe computer that processed my application had enough smarts to know that a roommate, any roommate, would pose probably irreconcilable challenges for both of us. That’s a pretty crafty algorithm for the summer of 1984.
That computer decided instead that I should live next door to a guy also named John,...
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openareas:
Rape jokes aren’t funny. Child rape jokes, even less so.
I was a little disheartened by all the opportunistic jokes I saw on twitter last night, people trying to get a laugh and/or stars out of a terrible situation.
Worse than that were all the “hope he gets raped in prison” sentiments about Sandusky.
Revenge is an ugly thing and continuing the cycle of barbarism only begets more...
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Algorithm
IF twitter is down THEN go to tumblr to complain
IF tumblr is down THEN go to twitter to complain
IF facebook is down THEN look for new pics of your exes on google images
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fancycwabs asked: Is it harder now because people are stealing music, or because digital technology has made the threshold for entry so low that there's been an explosion of competition for a finite supply of dollars?
The David Lowery backlash
Good lord.
By now everyone has seen David Lowery’s flawed but interesting article on the morality of file sharing and what that means for musicians.
And by now everyone has seen the backlash, where he’s taken to task repeatedly by a bunch of ham-fisted idiots calling him a luddite and a dinosaur and more. One oft-cited example is this sneering clown at huffpo who took his fingers out...
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kellydeal replied to your post: Crowdsourcing: need a song for a wedding
Butterfly Kisses or The Christmas Shoes.
In that vein, I once sang “True Companion” by Marc [sic] Cohn [sic] at a friend’s wedding. It was their sincere request, so I did it irony-free and full-throated and straight-faced. Hardest performance of my life, hands down.
Epilogue: she left him a few years...
Crowdsourcing: need a song for a wedding
This weekend I’ll be heading to North Carolina to celebrate the wedding of one of my college roommates, one of the all-time great guys in the history of guys.
They actually got married in private a little while ago and are having the big celebration now. Near as I can tell—this is all from a Facebook invite, so there is some uncertainty—there is a circus theme of some kind for...
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Fade Into You // Mazzy Star
I want to hold the...
Falling apart like a leper at a theme park
That’s my favorite part about that “Hydrogen, bitches!” post that went around.
It’s also relevant to my interests here on Epiphany Monday. Somewhat cryptically:
You guys play poker? You ever have that moment when you’ve got the short stack, but you get a decent hand that you’re feeling pretty good about and decide you can probably double up here and you...
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THE SPU IS UP 10 HANDLES AND VOL'S COMING IN HARD
Things we say.
Anyone else spending their Father's Day on a...
To make sure everything is trading OK after the Greek elections?
No?
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fünf
The only thing worse than shaving is how I’d look with a beard.
I used to think I’d retire to somewhere warm, but it looks like the warm is coming to me.
I have six hours of outdoor performing to do over the next two days. I am excited.
For the first time, I am going to assert Father’s Day privilege: I just want to sit on the couch and watch the end of the US Open.
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Consensus
Move.
Fart.
Sing sexy, sexxxy musics.
You guys are the BEST.
xo
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monkeyfrog replied to your post: Public transit: need a ruling
You are beautiful.
In my head, you are singing this to me as Joe Cocker.
WHO’S CREEPY NOW.
Public transit: need a ruling
I’m looking to start taking the train more often, for reasons. It’s been a while since I’ve been a CTA regular and I’m out of date on etiquette, so let me run this by you:
I get on a blue line train downtown. It’s crowded, very few seats open. I take an aisle seat next to a 30ish woman. We make no eye contact, have zero interaction—I respect her space, I know...
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