Born Under Punches

Love ya like a sistah

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:34:05 -0600

Love ya like a sistah

If you're going to show major spoilers of any sort

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:38:00 -0600

Please use the Read More function like so: Spoilers![No really]

This way you get your tumblarity pumped up and I don’t get uninterested in an episode of TV I’d really like to watch. Because undoubtedly, if I proposed that everyone wait a day so that everyone can catch up, someone will toe the line closer and closer until we’re back to where we are.

Because I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate seeing that Schu and Emma kissed when I haven’t even watched the Mattress episode yet.

Also, Snape kills Dumbledore.

Gwenyth Paltrow’s head is in the box.

He didn’t travel to a different planet, just a future earth.

Soylent Green is people.

It was all a dream.

They are the ghosts, but believe themselves to be the humans.

Tyler and the Narrator are the same guy.

It’s a cookbook.

He uses his twin brother.

She’s only looks like a girl, but is actually an adult.

Bruce Willis’ character is dead the whole time.

The aliens don’t like water

The village is actually on a nature preserve, in the modern time.

Paul is the Walrus.

Also, this isn’t directly to annahinks, because it’s been done before, but apparently there’s a big fuss (that I can side with) and she’s at the middle of it.

Hopefully this will solve some things if it gets used.

Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s new movie, Greenberg, starring...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:57:53 -0600

Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s new movie, Greenberg, starring Ben Stiller.

YOU HAVE TO BUY THE LOST SEASON 5 BLU-RAY TO PLAY LOST UNIVERSITY.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:30:08 -0600

This is dumb.

"Do we matter? Can we matter? I think I told you early on if you wonder about the impact of one human..."

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:12:26 -0600

“

Do we matter? Can we matter? I think I told you early on if you wonder about the impact of one human life, think about the lady in the blue dress in Bill Clinton’s life. I do believe that there is a way to measure the impact that any of us have in our world and it goes back to a final exam question that I don’t remember how I answered, but I do remember reading it on a final exam I took in high school in a physics class. Now I’m gonna embellish the nature of the final, so just bear with me.

The final exam question, it’s one of those story problems that you get in physics that essentially said ’ A man is going out to do some early morning fishing and he packs his fishing gear and a thermos of coffee and maybe a late breakfast and so on and rows out into the middle of the lake, casts his line, sets it in a secure place in the boat, pours himself a cup of coffee and sits back to enjoy the experience of outdoorsmanship. Fish strikes his line and, in the course of trying to reel in the fish, he inadvertently drops his cup of coffee into the lake. Now, the physics problem was this: they gave us the volume of the coffee cup, the temperature of the coffee, the volume of the lake, and the water temperature and they asked us to assume the equal mixing. How much did the lake temperature go up because a cup of coffee had been spilled into it? Well, you could calculate that, it’s like 2.4x10^-15th degree or something like that and the point of the question was to get us to see if we could manipulate very small numbers in arithmetic.

I like the concept as well as anything. That, hypothetically, plausibly, you could in fact (if you had a device sensitive enough to measure it) calculate the impact of a cup of coffee spilled into a lake. Similarly, I think, with a device sensitive enough to measure it, I think you can calculate the impact of a single human life. The measuring device? Compassion. How much of that you got. Well, first of all, what is it? I’ll tell you what it is not. What it’s not, is looking at somebody’s sad, sorry life, whether it be some impoverished person in some far off country or just Tiger Woods, and going ‘Ain’t that awful, what’s for lunch?’

Compassion is knowing that there is nothing happening in anybody’s sad, sorry life, that given the convergence of time and circumstance, can’t happen to you. All of us are a car wreck away from being mentally retarded. ‘Thanks a lot for that one, Doc.’ You cannot predict, or even imagine, how time and circumstance will converge. You are left then, I believe, with the inescapable insight that there is nothing that can happen to anybody that couldn’t happen to me. And once you know that, your little compassiometer starts flicking and the more of that you have, the more of that you understand, you’ll change the world.

”

- My sociology professor, in his last lecture to our class.

danhacker: Andy Kubert Pirate Batman preview art for ‘Batman:...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:34:32 -0600

danhacker:

Andy Kubert Pirate Batman preview art for ‘Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne’

Batman is finally coming back to the DC Universe. Since the final page of Final Crisis it was shown that Batman was not killed by Darkseid like the DC heroes assumed, in fact he transported into the past. Now Grant Morrison will write a epic time-spanning miniseries that will bring the caped crusader back to his rightful place in time.

DC’s Blog The Source revealed recently that Bruce Wayne will return in a six issue miniseries ‘Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne’ which will be written by Grant Morrison and hits in April, 2010.

PIRATE BATMAN IS AWESOME.

I am currently set up with my blanket draped over me, my laptop and my copy of Don Quixote.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:35:01 -0600

I did this so I wouldn’t be distracted from anything and what do you know? My roommate decides to tap on my blanket, which I thought was my fan rustling it because that’s how far into my zone of focus I’m in. I ignore it. He does it twice more. Ignored. Then he starts tapping on my knee through my blanket and I figure I’ll answer him.

“Was I distracting you? I figured with the blanket…”

My Brain: YOU WERE NOT DISTRACTING ME, I WAS JUST TRYING TO WRITE MY PAPER WITHOUT BEING INTERRUPTED, BUT NOW YOU ARE DISTRACTING ME.

My Mouth: “No, it’s all good.”

Google Goggles - Web Searching from your cell phone using images...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:51:00 -0600

Google Goggles - Web Searching from your cell phone using images and your cell phone camera.

I really wish I had the Motorola Droid right now. This looks really cool.

The Mountain Goats - Color in Your Cheeks [Iowa City Trance...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:01:20 -0600

The Mountain Goats - Color in Your Cheeks [Iowa City Trance Remix]

I Always Burn Out On The Second Page Of A Paper

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:51:44 -0600

AV Club's Top 50 Movies of The Decade

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:21:40 -0600

AV Club's Top 50 Movies of The Decade:

It’s a pretty solid top five, if I say so myself.

wtnss: The Golden Filter - The Hardest Button To...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:36:33 -0600

wtnss:

The Golden Filter - The Hardest Button To Button

(via winnr and thegoldenfilter)

"Fears: So I’ve been thinking’s lately about admissions and how I haven’t even applied to college..."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:16:00 -0600

“

Fears:

So I’ve been thinking’s lately about admissions and how I haven’t even applied to college and what that means to me subconsciously. I’m pretty sure it just reinforces the conscious part of me in that I am afraid of college. All my life I’ve had my parents to keep me in check, to make sure I don’t make some bad choices. I know a lot of people that make bad choices and I know I’m better than them, but there’s a lurking variable, to put my life into statistical terms, that lurking variable being my parents. Going to college means I’m going to leave my parents at home for semesters at a time and only visit on long weekends and holidays; I don’t think I’m ready for that much change in my life. Hopefully I can just deal with it and hopefully I get into the college I want because I don’t have any other choices right now.

”

- My first post, from two years ago today.

It’s interesting going into someone’s archives and seeing their first post/s as compared to their last because it shows the change in perspective or intent that they had with their tumblr. I hardly think someone goes to make one of these blogs with a concrete idea of what identity it will take on. Hell, I don’t even know my blog’s identity, for a while it was music, for another while it was personal and next week it may be just tons of links. Hopefully, I’ll find a nice balance and assume that identity.

And with that, I’d like to thank all you followers no matter how long you’ve been following me for. It’s been a fun two years.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:45:10 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Saturday Saturday Saturday

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:23:45 -0600

Saturday Saturday Saturday

Wednesday [25 February 1970]

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:14:51 -0600

Dear Pete—

After you hung up last night I felt very bad because [I] could tell from your voice that you were way down. And it made me feel bad that there was nothing I could do but offer advice—and advice is something you can do without.

But please, Pete, don’t do anything foolish. You are like me and have a very bad habit of doing foolish things to help ease the hurt. Do as her mother says. Ignore her, hard as it seems—one thing a girl can’t stand is being ignored. Maybe she just doesn’t want to tie herself down while you’re over there.

And, too, God forbid anything should happen to you. Maybe she feels she’ll be less hurt this way. Give it time. Things will work out; they always do. What is the old saying, “Time heals all wounds”?

Enough advice and lecture. Seriously, though, Pete, please take care of yourself and don’t be a hero. I don’t need a Medal Of Honor winner. I need a son. Take care and write often.

Love,

Mom

Peter Mahoney, a first lieutenant with Mobile Advisory Team I-44 from March 1970 to February 1971, trained and advised Vietnamese popular and regional forces in Thua Thien province, I Corps. He has been active in veterans’ affairs since his discharge He lives and works in New York City.

I have lost all track of time

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:47:32 -0600

It’s Monday right?

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain According to legend, George Clinton,...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:36:53 -0600

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Eddie Hazel to play the first half of the song like his mother had just died and to play the second half as if he had found out she was alive; other variants of the story suggest that he was simply told to play as if he had found his mother dead. The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized the power of Hazel’s solo and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel’s guitar. Critics have described the solo as “lengthy, mind-melting” and the ending as “an emotional apocalypse of sound.”

Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:20:13 -0600

Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover

carlovely: when we die, we will be carried to heaven by jeff...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:04:00 -0600

carlovely:

when we die, we will be carried to heaven by jeff mangum & 1994 rivers cuomo.

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