December 2009
34 posts
“It’s almost 2010, and that means it’s time to retire some old phrases that just...”
– DanWarp: “Funny” Phrases It’s Time To Retire
Each and every one of these deserves not just retirement, but banishment. A while ago, I heard a person use “… Never mind!” which would have been bad enough, but they also used it incorrectly.
Continuity →
Continuity describes itself as a “puzzle platformer,” and I’d say that’s about right. I also realize I’m pretty late to the show on this one.
How to be popular on Tumblr.
prophetized:
You MUST be attractive.
Shit.
“The first thing you will need to get started with Emacs is a beard.”
– Wilhelm Bierbaum (via merlin)
“In Dune, by contrast, the willingness of the Fremen to accept Paul Atreides as a...”
– That’s Matt Yglesias in The Racial Politics of Dune and Avatar. I haven’t seen Avatar yet, so I can’t comment. But the interpretation of Dune is spot on.
Probably Best
Ian: Hey, I might learn how to make cottage cheese.
Isabelle: I'm not going to say anything for or against that. I'm just going to glaze over it.
You Have Nothing to Apologize For, Panera Bread... →
codykniffen:
I think I announced earlier in the year that someone won the Internet, but that was wrong. THIS GUY WINS the Internet.
What I love is that Panera appears to tolerate this.
“Salvian of Marseilles wrote a long hell-fire sermon called On the Governance of...”
– Chris Wickham, in The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000. (via Matt Yglesias)
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70-Minute Video Review of 'Star Wars: The Phantom... →
This is just an incredible piece of work. I agree with Gruber: “I know, a 70-minute long video review of The Phantom Menace sounds nutty. And, when you start the first segment, you’re going to be tempted to close the tab when you hear the guy’s voice.”
But this is great. And it rewrote my thinking on the film.
I, Too, Am Sorry In Advance
baileygenine:
All of you with your degrees, your great jobs, nice homes, just being put together and only a few years older than me. It is probably one of my biggest causes of anxiety, and I’ve even told you before, most of you give me a complex.
I may be wandering far afield of the etiquette here, because I basically feel like a stranger eavesdropping on a (now quite old) conversation and...
“Most serious news stories are peppered with information that is laughably false,...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via marco). One of my favorite books of all time, ever.
“Davinia Phillips, a mum of three flame-haired children, saw red when she came...”
– Tesco withdraws Christmas card reading: ‘Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones’ after woman complains | Herald Sun
“Everyone on Tumblr is intimidating and funny and better at this than me.”
– Myself, Moments Ago, As I Typed It (& Read Aloud What I Was Typing, Like In “The Net”)
A Short List of Self-Referential Phrases
This phrase references itself.
This phrase does not reference itself.
This phrase would be better if it were more self-referential.
This phrase is shorter than the last.
This phrase is longer than the next.
The prior phrase, unlike this one, was false.
RTTP (Reblogging This Tumblr Post)
ericasavestheday:
Jill: OMG, did you see this? [link redacted]
Anne: Ha! Omg! LOL! (laugh out loud)
Jill: LOOL! (laughing out outrageously loud)
Anne: LOLA! (laughing out loud again)
Jill: SWL! (screaming with laughter)
Anne: DWL! (Dying with laughter)
Jill: LMAO! (laughing my ass off)
Anne: MBO! (laughing my butt off)
Jill: LMABO! (laughing my ass back on)
“One does not simply sidle up to the voice of ‘Go Places’ and casually offer to...”
– everything in the sky
“Especially at Christmas, the cake ladies of Alabama distinguish themselves with...”
– Layer Cakes as Southern-Style Stacks of Tradition
The phrase “the cake ladies of Alabama” shall, from now on, be a euphemism.
A Short List of Items That I Will Not Be Including...
iPhone applications centered on literary fiction
Journals of recreational mathematics
Additional sets of Field Notes
“I’d order bright red lagers and pumpkin ales and thick stouts with high...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: If I Were Built.
