February 2011
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Lindsay Robertson: On Behalf of Female... →
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What the fuck is up with the fact that SXSW comedy has booked TONS of male comedians and only ONE female, YET AT THE VERY SAME TIME and same part of the festival they have a panel about the tired old “Are women funny?” question, which involves exactly zero female comedians? (Note: this should be clear but I’m not criticizing the panel’s existence, it’s pretty clear this...
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what is facetiousness?
urban dictionary for facetious:
Being facetious is when you say something you think is funny, but NOBODY laughs. So then you have to say “Oh, uh…I was being facetious”. And everyone’s like “Ooooh Kayyy… (What a jackass.)”
this is the closest thing that i feel adequately describes the word. found while having a discussion about what exactly it means to...
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today's meetings:
10:15 AM - dev team check-in 3:00 PM - “a nice afternoon chat about icons”
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“Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve...”
– from dear sugar’s letter to her 20 year old self
i cried after reading this. should be read by everyone, to the end. thank you pilot.
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“There is absolutely nothing interesting about the Pinboard architecture or...”
– - this is on pinboard’s ‘about’ page
from: pinboard creator, maciej ceglowski, on why boring architecture is good via soxiam
compare to this: hashbang hell
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this is really, really important:
from a very extensive description of ‘rape culture’:
Rape culture is the narrative that sex workers can’t be raped. Rape culture is the assertion that wives can’t be raped. Rape culture is the contention that only nice girls can be raped.
this right here is extremely important, and not often hit upon. that second sentence, nestled right in the middle. to really get how...
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how it feels to be in a bad mood
jess: and he was like
jess: I just wanted to give you a good morning kiss!
jess: I'm like
jess: GREAT
jess: JUST WHAT I WANT RIGHT NOW
jess: AFFECTION
nik: LOL
nik: "but i just wanted to give you affection"
nik: "THE BEAST DOES NOT WANT KISSES LEAVE ME ALONE"
jess: And there's nothing you can even do to control yourself
jess: You know you're acting ridiculous
i am not a morning person
07: 56 heya nik--
07: 57 < nik--> dude
07: 58 < nik--> too early
07: 58 bro
07: 58 < nik--> tty at work
07: 58 -!- nik-- [~pudding@ool-18b890b8.dyn.optonline.net] has quit [Client Quit]
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brandonadkins-deactivated201103 asked: Sorry. One other comment that wouldn't fit with the other (reply/answer) ones I left. Ever since I uninstalled and reinstalled applications, which fixed the problem, I've been able to apply updates ever since, so I don't think you have to worry about doing the uninstall/reinstall for every update. I think after you've done it once, the problem should go away for good, which...
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mac app store: fucking fail
all right. ready for this nonsense? so i’ve bought about 14 things through the store- almost all of them paid. ranging from oh… 5 to 40 dollars. yay developers!
i haven’t been able to update ANY of this software- and multiple releases have gone out for individual applications already. why? who the hell knows! apparently this is a documented issue for multiple people, all of...