October 2010
14 posts
And I'll Form The Legs
Know what’s fun?
When a birthday starts out crappy because The City’s science museum is run by greedy elitist asshats and then takes a right turn into a fantastic dinner with one of your best friends. Which leads to a conversation when all the ideas you’ve been bouncing around in your head for the past eight weeks collide and form Voltron.
That’s right: there’s a...
"The only way I know how to make sense of the Iron... →
So good I read it at top speed without my glasses.
atencio:
A fantastic read.
Typoh!
Nearly sent off a reallllly bad typo on the name Cynthia, guys.
Peep your keyboard to figure out what, cuz I ain’t writin’ it here.
The Internet has completely ruined my ability to think, but at least it gives me the opportunity to smile now and again.
So I’m reading the linked post by georgiaisyourfriend (see below) about drinking and dating and the part of me that always says at these moments “Hey, let’s become an alcoholic” starts to argue with the part of me that always says “Booze is no substitute for a personality” and I’m all “Shut up, all of you.”
In Which You Should Always Drinks...
“Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky says the federal tax code...”
– The Associated Press: Rand Paul would replace income tax with sales tax (via apsies)
Brilliant. Tax consumption in a consumer economy built on consumption. Brilliant.
(via mikehudack)
What sort of retail tax (aka sales tax) would this sort of initiative require?
[edit] This says 23%. Hmm.
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“The planets may be too dim to detect directly, but aliens studying the solar system could easily determine the presence of Neptune — its gravity carves a little gap in the dust,” said Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. who led the study. “We’re hoping our models will help us spot Neptune-sized worlds around...
