January 2009
December 2008
“Life would be so much easier if I didn’t give a shit, but I do.”
– Nick Hornby- SLAM (via frecklesmakemestrong) (via wayne-remy)
How to Overcome Passivity →
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
– Lynda Barry
Top Ten Words and Phrases for 2008 →
#864 Mastering the art of the all-you-can-eat... →
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
wordjournal:
noun • a hypothetical, invented disease of the lungs, caused by inhaling mineral or metallic dust, such as silicon and quartzite, over a long period of time.
Notes: This is the longest word ever to appear in a major English dictionary.
foreign people
(via thebrightsideoflife)
Oh! Fosho! I’m obsessed with mixed race/multi-cultural and foreign people.
“Girls are always running through my mind. They don’t dare walk.”
– Andy Gibb
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
Million vs. Trillion
michaelikesit:
via billda:davereed:
To get an idea how much bigger one trillion is than one million, ponder this: A million seconds is 12 days; a trillion seconds is 32,000 years.
Now get this: It is estimated that in the Universe there are a trillion stars for every human being on planet Earth.
In the grand scheme of things, quite humbling, as we are pretty insignificant.
The New York Times Buzzwords of 2008 →
wordjournal:
“Malus”—the opposite of a bonus—is this Word Journaler’s favorite.
Is Malus the new Fail? Because I’d be totally okay with that.
And, tbh, I haven’t heard of many of these. I did live in a Build-a-Bear box in a dream once…
Seeing people using Internet Explorer
(via whatannoysus)
Oh definitely! And then I ask them why and they say, “I don’t know, it came with the computer”. Argh!
I was at the library flipping through Kama Sutra and got a whif of cigarette smoke. Goes to show what kinda people read books like Kama Sutra.
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it”
– My friend’s Facebook status
Best and Worst Ads of 2008 →
10 Religious Holidays Not Yet Exploited by... →