I am a human who likes stuff.
If you like stuff too that is cool.
My tastes constantly change so many different things will be here.
I ramble here because I can't do it elsewhere.
I'm either fascinating and unique or absurd depending on who you ask.
I put no labels to myself and try hard not to label others. That is all.
(P.S. since writing this I have realized that that labels line is complete and utter hipster bullcrap, I hate labels but that doesn't mean I am immune to their influence, in fact I probably hate them because my immunity to them is oh so very weak.)
(P.P.S note my awesome use of a label in my tirade against labels.)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Socialism: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbor.
Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.
Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.
Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.
Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..
Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.
A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......
Counter Culture: 'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'
Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Apathyologism: You have 2 cows. You do not care.
Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows...
Atheism: You have 2 cows. There is no God.
A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.
PETA: You have two cows. You kill them both. You then use naked women to convince other people that killing cows is wrong.
Moffat: You have two cows. Both of them are your daughters time traveling from the past where they had a brief love affair with Da Vinci making you the rightful Queen of England.
Hussie: You have 2 cows. You ask for another one. Instead of getting just 1 cow, you get 2,485,506 cows.
Romney: You have 2 cows. You are not the president of the united states.
Once-ler: You have 1 cow. Everyone decides to make 5 different versions of that cow.
Old Spice: You have 2 cows. The cows are now diamonds. I'm on a horse.
An Irish Corporation: You have a million cows because they're everywhere
Cuil Theory: You have two cows. I give you a hamburger.
Oprah Winfrey: You get a cow! And you get a cow! Everybody gets a cow!
Mushu: Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow.
Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, gives love advice on twitter. (Part 1)
This. All of the misandry. All the hilarious. I am in love.
Getting a Job in a Nutshell
Not in Worland. Here it’s more like “Hey aren’t you guys hiring?”
“Sorry we already filled that position, try back when the school year starts.”
“Yeah great, thanks, I’d love a five hour commute to work, that’d be just peachy.”
“plop.”
With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.Absolutely beautiful
America, we will never be this awesome again if we don’t give more funding to NASA.
The Brain Scoop - Episode 23
De-Extinction, Part 1 - How it works, kinda‘De-extinction’ is a concept that has been popping up in a lot of scientific magazines recently, but what does it mean? Is this Jurassic Park all over again? Will I get to fulfill my dreams of riding a pterodactyl?
Best show
John Green's tumblr: The Commencement Address
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…
Step 303: Always have at least $20 cash on you when you fly
Actually, just have $20 cash on you, period. There is never a time when you’ll think, “Oh, man, if only this $20 bill weren’t weighing me down!” but there will be many, many, many times you’re glad you have it.
Related: I am in New York, doing book press and acting like an excitable country mouse. But mainly, I’m here for the book party, which is tonight! 7 p.m.! Housing Works Bookstore Cafe!
Glad I’m not the only person who keeps an emergency twenty.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.
Robert Brault (via raspberrying)
(Source: creatingaquietmind)
Do you ever just have one of those days?
Shout out to Michelle. Incinerate those who would fuck with you.
