May 2009
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More Heroics by Eric Mansfield →
More self-aggrandizing media vigilantism by WKYC’s local newsman Eric Mansfield. I respect the guy as a reporter and as a man —I really believe he has a good heart and tries to do the right thing— but these Carl Monday moves drive me crazy.
I was discussing this with my dad and he said, “report the news, don’t make it.” That’s a pretty good way of putting...
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UP FOR GRABS ACT NOW
For free:
Two bottles wine, unopened
Two bottles ketchup, unopened
3 small rugs (ideal for prayer)
LIGHTLY USED deodorant
1 disposable razor
1 mobile phone (Europe only)
1 mobile phone charger (US plug)
LIGHTLY USED sponge
Clothesline and 12 clothespins
1 bag wet laundry
1/2 bulb garlic
Check back for new items and DEALS DEALS DEALS.
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Another Throwback: The Annoying Converse Culture
Girl: (Looking at my feet.) Are those new?
Me: (Following her gaze to my feet.) Yes. I bought them today.
Girl: Man, you need to dirty those up!
Me: Only if my self-confidence is so fragile that I build my image around trying to look like the first guy to wear Converse shoes.
Originally posted 18 April 2007. Tumblr should srsly allow formatting and hyperlinks in all its post forms, including chat posts.
Another Throwback: Homeward-Bound On the Brown...
Spencer: (Looking out the el train window.) Oh look, a homeless person with a shopping cart!
Colin: ... ... drink!
Originally posted 21 February, 2007. Tumblr should srsly allow formatting and hyperlinks in all its post forms, including chat posts.
Throwback
Colin: I still love my eMac.
Colin: It's like a faithful old dog. you know, because I totally know what having one of those is like.
Cassie: haha
Cassie: you hate dongs
Originally posted 10 July, 2005. Tumblr should srsly allow formatting and hyperlinks in all its post forms, including chat posts.
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Miso Funny
EB: Oh. A shower sounds nice... I bonked my head on the soap dish in the showers this morning, really hard, when I was shaving my legs. Giant lump. Ouf.
Colin: Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught to well.
Colin: you* dammit
SoundFX guy: ::Foghorn::
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Read This Thing I Link To, And Just Say No
I recently came very close to giving into peer pressure. I made it through high school without so much as a toke, but this one almost got me. Everyone’s doing it, after all.
Recently, I considered applying to graduate school. That’s the part of college when you’re not a college kid anymore but you know you’ve peaked in the role and you’re not ready to it let go....
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“Holy crap, outlines are amazing.”
– Me.
(Here’s the first one I’ve made and relied on in years.)
Liveblogging A Night Of Last-Minute Term Paper...
Elizabeth: I love [a popular search engine]. Can you imagine finding this information in a library?
Colin: Pff KiiiiiiiLL me.
Anyone Can Do This, part 2
[part 1]
The noise from below hadn’t sounded human. Then again, I’ve never heard a person get hit by a loaded change purse dropped from eight stories above. My window was still wide open. There was no hiding out, and to close it now would only draw attention from whoever was down there, provided he was still conscious.
I tore open my closet and grabbed a dry pair of pants. I put them...
Anyone Can Do This, part 1
The pants had been doomed from the start. I bought them cheap, during the once-a-year megasale around Christmas, the only time it’s legal in France to have sales. They were olive green and linen, with buttons that looked like they had been carved from a fallen tree with a pocket knife. I love linen pants, and these were the coolest looking pair I’d ever seen.
There were problems from...
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Why I'm Going to Start Buying CD's
I’ve never been a big downloader. I wrote off P2P years ago for essentially being malware you install yourself, and it took me a long time to bother how to work BitTorrent. I almost never use it. Certainly not enough for any ISP to notice the kind of bandwidth spike that leads to lawsuits.
But despite my relatively safe and conservative piracy methods, there’s been an unfortunate...
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