Brilliant marketing. People send postcards all the time now, especially since it's so cheap. And when I decide to spend a little money on a stamp, I want to make sure there's no room for me to write. I hate writing about myself!
Postcards are the wave of the future
Brilliant marketing. People send postcards all the time now, especially since it's so cheap. And when I decide to spend a little money on a stamp, I want to make sure there's no room for me to write. I hate writing about myself!
Idiots
Let's have an unguarded ladder against a building on a busy street in midtown where speeding cars might want to pull over really quickly and plow into it!!
I married a Fireman
I've had three conversations with you. In two of those, you've managed to mention, "I married a fireman."
You won the lottery sister. You should brag and brag.
Ask and ye shall receive
Bakers love to bake. I've asked co-workers, family members, and roommates to bake for me and they have. All you gotta do is ask! (but be very respectful)
Catfight In the Bushes
I'm lucky enough to have a small plot of land with a lot of un-tamed greenery outside my window.
Since before dawn, two cats have fought intermittently in the bushes having screaming cat fights every half an hour or so.
Krakah! There's more bushes in the Bronx! That's not the only one.
New Pet Peeve
I have a new pet peeve and it's an odd one. I don't like it when people bitch and moan about jury duty. I think it makes the person look like a tool.
It's your civic duty. Just do it and shut up.
My old dog
When I see this on the pavement, I think of my old dog, Butch, and how much he would have loved to have eaten these french fries.
Oh Butch: I hope you're keeping those trains in heaven in line.
idiot social retards/sneakers
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Washing ones own sweaters
I washed my sweater and now it smells like wet, mildewed wool. Yuck.I smell like a church rummage sale.
Eating Breakfast
I understand picking up a bagel or muffin at the deli. That doesn't bother me. But eating a big bowl of cereal at your desk annoys me.
To Keep the Family Name
People excited that you gave birth to a boy in order to keep the family name are tools.
Kicking Myself With My New Shoes
So Sketchers let me down this season; they typically make this great unisex shoe that is perfect for my lifestyle. I've been wearing this shoe for years. No dice for 2007. So I could go cheaper (no) or go more expensive. I went with John Fluevogs (ouch). Bought them online assuming I'd get them from a distributor in Oklahoma.
Today, I got a phone call from the Prince Street store. A very friendly woman named Karen asked me if I just wanted to come down to the store and pick them up. I thought about it, and said no, I'd rather she ship them.
I get the bill. $12 for shipping uptown. I WOULD HAVE PICKED THEM UP FOR TWELVE DOLLARS!!! I suppose it's dumb of me not to think of it, but she could have said something....you know? I would have.
Hometown Hotties Competition
This was mistakenly delivered to our office instead of where it was supposed to go. I can't tell you how much I wanted to open it.
Mona Lisa Britney Spears
Alas, I weep for her. She's no Sinead O'connor. Very few women can pull off the shaved bald thing: she's not one of them.
I've always had a theory that a woman who toys with her hair too much is very unhappy. I believe that's what's going on here.
Oh Britney. Kevin DID tame you.
Sperm Donor Father Ends His Anonymity
Ick. What if your whole life you thought your dad was like Kevin Costner or Bill Crosby and he ends up being this creep. I'd have that look on my face too.
Microsoft Clippy
Just like I don't understand the appeal of Tori Amos, I don't understand the animosity towards Clippy. What has he ever done to anger everyone so? He's just a little friendly thing. You can get rid of him. He turns into a little motor scooter and rides away.
And Barney. Why the animosity against Barney? He's such a nice, jolly fellow.
Cute Dog
I worked at a client's last week; her dog slept sweetly at my feet.
And he lit some really fierce farts.
A Beauty and a Big Bertha
This is the way TIME wrote about overweight women in the sixties:
"The Mamas and the Papas are two beards, a beauty and a Big Bertha.
After knocking around the fringes of folk music separately for a few lean years, they joined forces in 1965 and made their first single, California Dreamin'. It went straight to the top of the bestseller charts, as did their next release, Monday, Monday. Papa John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor.
Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph; Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year."
-- Time Magazine, Friday, Oct. 28, 1966
Oily Stools
The problem with oily stools? I keep falling off!!
Over-the-Counter Weight-Loss Drug Is Approved
By STEPHANIE SAUL
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first officially sanctioned weight-loss drug to be sold without a prescription.
Experts expect the drug, Alli, to be available to consumers in the summer.
Although the medication has been available by prescription since 1999, some experts predict that it will be more widely used as an over-the-counter product. It will be the lone government-approved alternative to unproven over-the-counter remedies.
People in the United States spend about $1 billion a year on herbal formulas and other supplements that advertise fast weight loss but have no proven effectiveness and can be dangerous.
An official of the food agency, Dr. Curtis J. Rosebraugh, called the approval important in light of the array of unproven products on the market.
“It’s rather significant that there will now be available an over-the-counter product that we do have data on, that we know is efficacious and what the safety profile is,” Dr. Rosebraugh said.
An obesity specialist in Washington, Dr. Arthur Frank, said Alli had a safe track record and could help patients lose 5 percent to 10 percent of their weight.
On the negative side, Alli can cause side effects like diarrhea and oily stools.
How to conquer a sweet tooth
1) Gorge yourself on stale pastries your roommate brings home from her cafe job.
2) Wake up the next morning with stomach flu.
Poor Bastard
This poor bastard had to take a jarring ride from Pelham Bay to Buhre Avenue before it was intelligent enought to fly away. The doors closed before it could finish picking through the blunt on the newspaper. I hope it found its friends quickly.
Global Warming
Why did God create and then kill off the dinosaurs to make petroleum if he didn't want us to burn it up? It doesn't make any sense.
Panel Sees Centuries of Warming Due to Humans
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and ANDREW C. REVKIN
PARIS, Feb. 2 —The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.
The report released here represented the fourth assessment since 1990 by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, of the causes and consequences of climate change. But for the first time the group asserted with near certainty — more than 90 percent confidence — that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases were the main drivers of warming since 1950.
In its last report, in 2001, the panel, consisting of hundreds of scientists and reviewers, put the confidence level at between 66 and 90 percent. Both reports are online at www.ipcc.ch.
More! More! More!!
January 26, 2007Scientist Develops Caffeinated Doughnuts
DURHAM. N.C. (AP) -- That cup of coffee just not getting it done anymore? How about a Buzz Donut or a Buzzed Bagel? That's what Doctor Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has come up with. Bohannon says he's developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee.
While the product is not on the market yet, Bohannon has approached some heavyweight companies, including Krispy Kreme, Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks about carrying it.
Late For Class
Had another one of those fun dreams last night where I was late for class and hadn't studied for a biology exam. I had to beg the teacher (Renée Zellweger?!!) to give me a second chance but it was a no go.
So I just stood there and verbally abused her.
Learn How To Juggle 3 Balls from Jason Garfield
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Thank God for Government Intervention
White Tiger (Kenny) Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Eureka Springs, Ark.: In the United States, all living white tigers are the result of selective inbreeding to artificially create the genetic conditions that lead to white fur, ice-blue eyes and a pink nose. Kenny was born in the care of a breeder in Bentonville, Ark., on Feb. 3, 1999. As a result of inbreeding, Kenny is mentally retarded.It's times like this I'm glad for government intervention. These are the people we should parade down the streets in shame.
China Shames Prostitutes and Pimps
Why doesn't China shame the real assholes? Like computer hackers and people who scam old people out of their money?
No, they go after women who have been told they're crap since before they were born. (I don't mind the Pimps though; I've always thought they were the lowest of the low).
No, they go after women who have been told they're crap since before they were born. (I don't mind the Pimps though; I've always thought they were the lowest of the low).
December 13, 2006
As Vice Dragnet Recalls Bad Old Days, Chinese Cry Out
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
SHANGHAI, Dec. 12 — For people who saw the event on television earlier this month, the scene was like a chilling blast from a past that is 30 years distant: social outcasts and supposed criminals — in this case 100 or so prostitutes and a few pimps — paraded in front of a jeering crowd, their names revealed, and then driven away to jail without trial.
The act of public shaming was intended as the first step in a two-month campaign by the authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen to crack down on prostitution.
But the event has prompted an angry nationwide backlash, with many people making common cause with the prostitutes over the violation of their human rights and expressing outrage in one online forum after another.
So-called rectification campaigns, or struggle sessions, like these were everyday occurrences during the Cultural Revolution, which officially ended in 1976.
In that benighted era, popular justice was meted out and so-called class enemies were publicly beaten, forced to make confessions and sent to work camps for reeducation.
That this event took place in Shenzhen, the birthplace of China’s economic reforms and one of its richest and most open cities, seems to have added to its shock value.
“Even people who commit crimes deserve dignity,” one person wrote on the popular Internet forum 163.com. “Must we go back to the era of the Cultural Revolution?”
Another asked, “Isn’t this a brutal violation of human rights?” Likening the parading to an act out of the Middle Ages, he added, “Shenzhen’s image has been deeply shamed.”
The All China Women’s Federation has reportedly sent a letter expressing its concerns to the Public Security Ministry in Beijing, but later denied having done so. At least one lawyer has stepped forward to defend the prostitutes, citing legal reforms in 1988 that banned acts of public chastisement.
Cleaning out the Address Book
I went through my Yahoo! address book today: the one I've had since the mid 90s. A couple people have died. Young people. That sucks.
Do I get rid of them or not?
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