The thing about flourless chocolate cake is it is basically a chocolate omelette which doesn’t sound nearly as good as it tastes.
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I’ve never wanted a conspiracy to be true more than this one. Please, Obama, run a shadow government. Please.
For some reason my mail app doesn’t seem to let me make a rule for “move all incoming mail to archived.” š Bummer.
Iām intrigued by the unabashed absurdity of this unsolicited promotional letter from a university that starts with āWeāre excited youāre already discovering Central College.ā
[looks over both shoulders] I meanā¦I am nowā¦
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This is the best writeup so far of the crazy cool pictures of Saturn’s moon Pan.
Trepidatious is apparently not a word*
I love language. Learned this the other day. Follow the steps… (* in the prescriptivist sense. It is obviously a word by usage.) Read moreā¦
I wrote this last year about some of the women who made a huge impact on my industry.
Women of the Computation Revolution
[ed: As ListApp is now defunct, this link has been updated to point to my local archive instead.]
Hugh Jackman looks like a skinny guy until he takes his shirt off. Then he doesn’t look skinny anymore.
I mean technically both of them are children of both Mamie and I but Isabel (in blue) is definitely Mamieās child and Sophie (in grey) is definitely mine. This conversationā¦
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I hate the word research. We need to ban anybody who is not a Phd candidate from using it.
“I did the research” ā “I googled it and confirmed my suspicions.”
I want to write a browser extension that simulates me typing and deleting, typing and deleting, in all available Facebook comment boxes so this thing shows up for everyone everywhere. It would be CHAOS!
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BREAKING: Google announces slate of products carefully designed to be canceled in 2018.
Japanese Hive Mind: Will this plug in to a typical hotel outlet in Japan?
(100-240V 50-60Hz so I think the current is fine, but Iām a little uncertain about the physical prongs. This is a standard US plug with both narrow prongs instead of one narrow and one wide.)
Thank you!
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Just to be clear, we’re the bad guys now.
Idea: Uber, but for hailing a lawyer.
BREAKING: Tump accuses democrats of conducting a witch hunt, casts a punishing curse, disaperates in a cloud of black smoke.
I don’t know about you guys but I think an accounting firm mixing up envelopes at an awards show is the biggest problem facing America today. #boycottPWC
Choosing a seat on an airplane is all about balancing competing anxieties and discomforts.
This sounds a little wide eyed and aphoristic but the more I think about it the more I think it is actually pretty astute.
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Facebook should have a way for me to privately rate posts and then if someone’s average rating drops too low I can unfollow them.
This makes me chuckle. The Clerk of the Supreme Court reprimands anti-LGBT groups for mis-gendering Gavin Grimm in their amicus brief. It is against the rules to not use the correct caption on your brief so they have to call him āhimā.
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Aside: Jefferson loved the free press so much he used his budget as Washingtonās Secretary of State to secretly fund an opposition newspaper that attacked Washingtonās policies, and had two copies quietly mailed to Washingtonās residence every day.
Wait that might just be because he was kind of a jerk.
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I made a cauliflower pizza crust. But instead of cauliflower I used regular flour. Turned out ššæ
Maybe step one here is to contact your kids’ schools and let them know you support respect and accommodations for transgender students. Sophie’s school doesn’t really need to hear it but I emailed the director of student services anyway.
How great would it be if schools all over Phoenix got this message today.
Correction: Three years and four days.
I’m not a fan of the “where there’s smoke there’s fire” trope (because it is neither literally nor figuratively true) but seriously Uber… This is like strike 14, 15, 16, and 17. You’re out.
As Parliament debates the Trump State Visit question, I am reminded of this passage from Pride and Prejudice.
From this day forward, Mother England, you must be an enemy to either Donald Trump or the American People. Just kidding weāll love you no matter what you do.
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Dear businesses who send me happy birthday emails:
Stop. It is creepy. You’re not my mom. You’re not my family. You’re not my friend. I don’t even like you.
It isn’t my birthday yet.
The decision to launch the weapons was mine alone to makeā¦Everything would happen so fast that I wondered how much planning or reason could be applied in such a crisis. ā¦ a nuclear war couldn’t be won by either side. It must never be fought. Ronald Regan
I get my news from Breitbart, I’m rash and make poor decisions, and I’m not really what you’d call a “thinker?. Donald Trump (paraphrased)
Took this big hearted dreamer to La La Land and sheās still processing.
A bit of madness is key
To give us new colors to see
Who knows where it will lead us?
And that’s why they need us
So bring on the rebels
The ripples from pebbles
The painters, and poets, and plays
Here’s to the fools who dream
Crazy as they may seem
Here’s to the hearts that break
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Donald Trump concerns ranked by how much I care about them:
1: Racism, misogyny, islamophobia, muslim bans, dishonesty, incompetence, cruelty, indecency, poor grasp of national security, conflicts of interest, attacks on the pressā¦
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99,999: How much it costs tax payers for the secret service to protect his family.
I started listening to lectures about Don Quixote last night and the prof inadvertently answered a question I’ve wondered about for 25 years, which is why Mexico is pronounced “Mejico” but spelled with an “x”.
These kind of things make me happy.
Fact: The phrase “It’s simple economics” is always preceded by a statement that is false and has nothing to do with economics.
I just found out Kelly Anne Conway has children.
[ed: This post is sad in hindsight.]
āMom, did you eat my Halloween candy?ā
āYou want to talk about Halloween? What about all these teenagers who hardly even dress up and they expect candy with no effort? What about that, Tommy? Whereās the outrage about that?ā
āOk. ā¦ But like did you eat my candy?ā
āLook, the candy was eaten, that was already made clear.
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Instead of playing Jeopardy maybe IBM’s Watson should start insta-checking Trump press conferences. Real time on the fly “Actually…” notifications. We could wire them into live news feeds.
Iām getting the biggest kick out of these pictures. This is exactly how I look at Canada.
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Khrushchev to Kennedy, October 26, 1962:
If you did this as the first step towards the unleashing of war, well then, it is evident that nothing else is left to us but to accept this challenge of yours. If, however, you have not lost your self-control and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter that knot will be tied.
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One forgets the effect on Japan as one senses the foundation of one’s own universe trembling. New York Herald Tribune, August 7, 1945 (the day after Hiroshima)