I’m not normally this way…
Some Dummy Keeps Spoiling My Pictures
I’ve been spending a couple lovely vacation days alone seeing the sights. Read more…
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How My Profile Pic Came to Be
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Oh My Gosh Guys My Child is Beautiful (And Our Photographer is Amazing)
Isabel is a lot of great things like nerdy and funny and dedicated and creative. But they also happens to be lovely on the outside. Somehow we have to pick one or two of these… Read more…
Irrational Pet Peeve
It doesn’t bother me when people say ATM Machine or PIN Number…
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine. from Ulysses by James Joyce
Who wants to come over for a traditional Irish meal?!
Dear Senate: Here’s how I see it. You can either approve this Garland fellow right now. Or wait until next year when either Hillary sends you Bill Maher for approval or Trump sends you Judge Judy.
[ed: This post is no longer funny.]
Reasons I'll Never Really Be Totally Ok With the Whole Über Thing
Car sickness
This is the main reason. Just took a lyft. Now I feel a little sick and I hate feeling a little sick.
Smells
I am very sensitive to smells.
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At the super cool University of Arizona Mirror Lab where they are currently building the seven 28 foot mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. Amazing!
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Things I Feel Compelled to Finish
A yawn
This song
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Impressions I'm Very Good At
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Questions for the Youth of America
Are you up yet?
Why are there dirty socks on the kitchen floor?
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Things I've Never Stepped On
This list … is dumb. Read more…
My Favorite Snippets From the Leaked Star Wars Episode Viii Script
MAZ: That was many years ago. Before the Ewok genocide.
SNOKE: [picks up Luke Skywalker’s light saber] My preciousssssss…
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"Go Through the World With Open Eyes, and Listen to the Pains, Interests, and Longings of Others"
Milada Horáková was a politician and dissident executed by the communist Czech government on June 27th 1950. The night before her execution she wrote a remarkable letter to her 16 year old daughter, including this advice about listening, learning, and the importance and limitations of positivity. Read more…
Biggest Disappointments
The time I bought a bag of pretzels before my 4 hour flight and they turned out to have peanut butter in them.
That’s about it. That’s the biggest one anyway.
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The "Han Shot First" Scene if Greedo Were Replaced by an Aging Jar Jar Binks
INT. CANTINA. Diverse strange space creatures mill about. Roguish space pirate HAN SOLO is about to leave the cantina to transport LUKE SKYWALKER, OBI WAN KENOBI and the DROIDS to ALDERAAN. Read more…
While We're Taking About Baby Showers...
My wife threw one on Saturday.
I made a killer cheese plate with three salamis, prosciutto, the best soft goat cheese I’ve ever tasted, cheddar for weenies, and a few other cheeses, sourdough bread, olives and cornichons (I have no idea how you spell that… @Lisa_Fav?), Brazil nuts and pistachios, halved dried figs and dried sour cherries, and sour cherry jam.
It was beautiful.
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It’s officially time for everyone with an ideology to sell to explain the Trump phenomenon through the lens of that ideology and conclude that they were right all along.
Tolerable Children's Music
There’s a period of time when your kids are little enough that you need some kid-friendly music to entertain them in the car. Unfortunately most children’s music is insufferable. Here are some good albums. Read more…
NPR In the Car
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As we contemplate the comedy of a Trump presidency, let’s sober up a bit…
@imc Through the Ages
@imc finished her senior thesis this week, which was the last big milestone before high school graduation. Indulge me while I reminisce about the milestones that came before. Read more…
Would You Rather...
Never touch another person again.
Or never speak to another person again.
Never use google again.
Or never read a book again.
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The old world is rapidly aging. Because it is old. That’s what aging means.
Phases of a School Parent Meeting
The teachers awkwardly alternating who’s speaking phase.
The slight head nod at the people you only ever see at parent meetings and have never actually talked to phase.
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Fictional Women I Would for Sure Date
Inspired by @kcupcaker. It’s not lost on me the fact that none of these women would be particularly interested in an introverted homebody like me :) Read more…
First very good question in this hearing:
Congressman Cicilline: “Do you agree that the authority to authorize this comes from Congress?”
FBI Director Comey: “…No…”
This gets to the heart of the case because:
Comey has been saying all throughout the hearing that it is important that Congress and the American People make the decision around this issue.
Apple has been arguing all along that what they’re being asked to do should be authorized by congress and not unilaterally compelled by the courts.
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Congressman Issa is trying to school FBI director Comey on breaking encryption in a patronizing way which is funny because what he is suggesting makes no sense at all.
Anybody have a home security camera they’re happy with? Ideally something that you can monitor from the computer and/or iPhone.
I’m not super concerned about security, but I would love to be able to quickly check who’s ringing my doorbell when I’m working so I can ignore most of them…
Scott Kelly is poised to become the first naturalized space man to spend significant time in the harsh gravity environment of Earth.
Two Whatever's and an I-Don't-Understand-What-We're-Doing-Here
Somebody help me out.
Are there rules?
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Things That Are Just as Much Fruit as Tomatoes but Nobody Gets Smug When You Call Them Vegetables
Inconsistent smugness is one of my pet peeves. Read more…
The girls and I made candy. Holy yum it is basically homemade bit-o-honey only in almond/pistachio and cherry/walnut.
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My Day in One Sentence
Ugh
Cleaned
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Two Truths and a Lie
My father’s initials are GMC and my mother’s are BMW.
I have a glass eye.
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It’s nice to see the independently-minded Chris Christie come out stumping for Hillary so early in the cycle.
Apple's Argument in the "Unlock-This-iPhone" Case
Apple filed their motion to vacate the court order that they “unlock” an iPhone yesterday. In other words they’ve made their formal argument for why they believe the order is invalid. Link It is quite readable but here’re the basics of Apple’s 3-part argument. Read more…