December 2009
104 posts
New Year's Eve -Eve musings on sociolinguistic...
Koch & Pratarelli (2004): Men make ‘greater use of the internet’ and ‘reported much higher usage of sexually explicit material’… ‘introverts expressed a much greater preference for on-line rather than face-to-face communications with people’…
random reblog: 45 Questions of pure nonsense.
1 . When was the last time you saw the 2nd person on your top friends? Top friends? Wtf is that? 2. What is bothering you right now? The fact I’m awake at 3 a.m. 3. Will you kiss the last person you kissed again? Umm pshyeah. 4. What is in your wallet right now? Money, ID and a fuckton of receipts. 5. Wallpaper on your computers desktop? Drawing of the sun melting into the Earth amid some...
“I do not read to think. I do not read to learn. I do not read to search for...”
– Passion, Stephen Sondheim (via makingmeordinary) (via melomania)
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.”
– Frater Ravus (via sharklauncher) (via canned)
Bold the truth.
daveintheyearoftheplague:
stephernie94:
stitches4veins:
amberisanowl:ferdowsi:moderrnlove:nonbelieversgobeyondbelief:saysomethingclever:crashcourselove:unfgirlunf:kicksenselessmydefenses:
1. I’m a boy. 2. I’m gay. 3. I’ve kissed a girl. 4. I’ve kissed a boy. 5. I have a facebook account. 6. I have a myspace account. 7. I know who Sid Vicious is. 8. I wear glasses. 9. I’m left-handed....
Today, I ate a fortune cookie. It was really good,... →
^ reads like an FML
Today, Facebook told me I should reconnect with my... →
modern liturgy
Walmart Distribution Centers
canned:
So I have been mapping Walmart Distribution Centers. I’ve come across a couple interesting things.
A Walmart distribution center that is larger then college across the road from it
A Walmart distribution center that is in a massive array of distribution centers, a good 20 of them in one huge sprawling district that seems endless.
A SAC (nuclear) missile base where a Walmart...
(916): They were so loud I wrote them a sex... →
I hate having to try to be quiet. Really puts a damper on things.
I’m going to see Avatar for a second time in a little while. I look upon the story of the shiny neon people and their shiny neon world through rose-colored 3-D glasses, but these are some interesting thoughts.
langer:
Avatar is a bad film.
Not because it lacks any meaningful character development (which it does), not because its plot is laughably flimsy (which it is), and not because it...
It’s weird when you finish watching porn and close the browser window to find you still had your minister’s facebook page open behind it.
Can you imagine being new to the English language and having to navigate similar-sounding terms like fisting, fist bump, and the bump-and-grind?
I am awake at 4:30 Christmas morning - not in excited anticipation, just awake - listening to internet radio, some Shirley Temple movie blinking soundlessly past my computer screen, which I stare at as though the meaning of life will seep from it into my eyes … the night overwhelms.
Christmas Eve musings on sociolinguistic topics
Sometimes it helps to keep an audience of peers in mind when trying to synthesize dense academic readings. I’m writing a 15-page paper, due in roughly two weeks, which ideally will connect as many as I can of the following concepts: humor, identity, society (race/gender/economic_status), media, power relations and language use.
The internet (I mean the collective activity of those who...
the basic makeup of inner life varies... →
magnakarma:
ledgergermane:
reclusland:
Dr. Hurlburt, 64, presents the case of Melanie, a young woman who was fitted with a beeper that randomly prompted her to record everything in her awareness several times a day.
The resulting mental freeze-frames are remarkably diverse. On the third day of Melanie’s experiment, as her boyfriend was asking her a question about insurance, she was...
“But the essence of literature is precisely to evade any essential...”
– Maurice Blanchot, quoted in The Blanchot Reader (ed. M. Holland) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Today I discovered that if I hum at a specific... →
“Is there a font that’s even more whimsical than Comic Sans?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Tony Blair
Me: oh Tony Blair why do you disappoint me
Me: "LONDON (AFP) – Tony Blair's admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes."
Me: [pic of Blair mask burning in effigy]
Me: ridic
Me: absolutely ridic
Me: chronicles of RIDIC
Sean: haha
Sean: yeah, he's evil
Me: but cute
“See this Myspace page, I want our website to look like that. Can you also make...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“Isn’t your imagination as much a part of nature as the chair or the table?”
– ~ from Duet For One (1986)
chant/prayer
She changes everything She touches and Everything She touches, changes. She changes everything She touches and Everything She touches, changes. We are the changers Everything we touch can change. Change us, touch us; Touch us, change us. Everything that dies is born again In a new place, on a new day. Everything that’s lost is found again On a new day, in a new way.
“there’s a spark inside us that we can all ignite
and all that’s...”
– The Princess and The Goblin (1992)
purple sheep wants out
i mean it this time
“The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just...”
– Frank Zappa (via likesbears) (via fuckyeahzappa)
“Can you make a mirror in photoshop?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“Chitika ran some analysis on browsers and operating systems, and it found that...”
– Are Microsoft Users More Gullible When It Comes To Online Advertising? (via interestingsnippets) (via infoneernet)
Now we can cut steel with electromagnetic fields. →
(via chrbutler)