First, something really cool and heart warming. The Weta Workshop in New Zealand built prosthetic mermaid fins for an amputee.
Second, something really cool and nostalgic, (nod to Hobbs for the link) though I have already sent this to some of you: CHANGE Into A Truck.
I’m out of country for a little over a week starting […]
This just happened:
My mother calls, I’m sprawled on the couch, and she wants to talk about the speech Obama just gave to Congress. I hand one of my roommates the remote; she is the only other one home. She changes the channel and flips to The L Word. The scene that ensues has 3 athletic […]
This is why I love R Kelly. (nsfw. nsf momma, either)
Is the fight at the end scripted or not?
If you hate this you will hate Trapped in the Closet, pt. 2.
The Black Keys - I’ll Be Your Man
Autolux - Turnstile Blues
Alicia Keys - Jane Doe
Chin Up Chin Up - Collide the Tide
Every week, on Thursday, I drop by the Jewish Community Center’s gift shop to purchase, for $4.25, a challah, which they only sell on Thursday and Friday. Thing is, there are lots of Jews in my hood, but they’re a pretty diverse lot and evidently make it hard for the JCC gift shop to forecast […]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Change scares me! They’re being pretentious! Why didn’t anyone ask me first?! What’s going on here?! (Add other statements of getting older & more crochety.)
Apparently, the move to HD gave Groening & Co. reason enough to refresh the sequence.
I am so happy Valentine’s day is on a Saturday this year. After the Halloween debacle I had about enough of holidays during school. Lots of candy that I had to confiscate till the end of class but overall the kids weren’t too bad. I did have to keep 12 of 30 kids after one […]
» Read the rest of this entry ...As a teacher, I have access to lots of data on students to help me help them learn and achieve better. In the attendance program I can just click on any one of my students to instantly get parent contact info, language spoken at home, schedule of classes during the day, transcript info, scores on […]
» Read the rest of this entry ...More accurately, help me shamelessy whore myself out to Boingboing.
To clarify a bit: Moving Poetry as Read by an Indian Call Center.
You may or may not be familiar with services like Reqall or (formerly) Jot. It’s basically a Mechanical Turk for dictation and scheduling. I pick up my phone, or launch the handy-dandy iphone app, […]
On orangejello’s recommendation.
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