March 2012
So I just signed up for a Netflix free month trial, and it seems like their algorithm is *starting* to sort of understand me.
e.g. In the “drama” category, they have determined that my favourite types of dramas are “dark dramas with a strong female lead” and “emotional political dramas.”
NAILED IT.
Now, how do I decide what to watch first?
They don’t...
February 2012
a bird just shat on my foot.
one step further and it could have been my head, so i’m grateful, really.
Last night I had a dream that I was dancing with an octopus in the ocean. It was weird but also strangely exhilarating.
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Writing warm-up S01E08: 3 Tips for Flat Belly
aaronleaf:
Do you want a flat belly? Well here’s some expert tips to achieve that, (flat belly). I’m an expert because I have a belly. It’s becoming flatter. Here’s how I flatten my belly (I’m also really good at SEO):
Cut your pork intake by 75 percent. I had a nervous breakdown when my girlfriend suggested cutting back on pork two months ago. What about my famous pork part tacos? My Chinatown...
pohaancheckish replied to your post: The contest within me between reading more Hunger…
Sigh… Tahmoh Penikett is the bee’s knees.
He is, isn’t he? Such a babe! and Hilo is hands down, the best person on Galactica. <3 dat guy.
The contest within me between reading more Hunger Games (or rather, Catching Fire) and watching Battlestar Galactica is really quite funny.
If I could do both at the same time, I would.
I got accepted to UBC!
So I guess I’m going to have to make a hard decision then… and I have one more school to hear from.
Should probably go ahead and book a flight back to BC to check things out, meet people and get a feel for the 2 campuses I so far have to choose from.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
“Hooray!
Look at me! I’m an idiot!
I’m in a long distance relationship!
Yeah!...”
– Cristin O’keefe Aptowicz, “Long Distance Relationship” (collected in The Last American Valentine, edited by Derrick Brown).
Aria recommended that I check out Derrick Brown’s poetry, so I bought this compilation that he edited. It is incredible! This one evoked both a lot of laughs and a sad wave...
lukut asked: Re: rice, whenever we make it at home we just take some of the like, 10 kilos of basmati my partner likes to buy, put it in the rice maker (or a regular pot) with some oil to keep it from sticking, a bit of salt, turmeric, and coriander (or herbs you like), and put enough water to cover the rice, and then a little bit more than that. Heat until it rises, stir if you feel like it, and then...
Can someone please explain to me how to make rice...
It’s so fluffy and un-sticky! It’s perfect! I can’t even begin to imagine how this is achieved.
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
I adored his speech. Well done.
(via mohandasgandhi)
This is awesome. I just heard about this movie for the first time last night, and I’m really going to have to check...
Street Justice on Main and Hastings
cocoku:
On my lunch break, at Main at Hastings, I saw a tourist take a beating from a fearless young woman for taking her picture without her permission. She was chasing him in bare feet with her high heels in her hand, yelling “Erase it!” Now!”, while he tried to scuttle away. She caught up to him and gave him a good whack with her shoe and made him stand there and show her while he scrolled...
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When you are corresponding with enthusiastic potential supervisor and she draws your attention to a book you might like by another faculty member, and you are also on Amazon.ca at the same time, and that book shows up in your “recommendations” list.
Wierd shit man.
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People who refer to my neighbourhood as “sketchy” really grind my nerves.
I have *never* felt threatened here. No one has ever bothered me. I live right next door to a halfway house, and yes, shirtless ranting dude who pees out his window is kind of irritating, but sketchy is a whole nother story.
Sketchy is a code word for fearing the poor, the mentally ill and all them brown...
Capitalism is weird, man. I could buy the Hunger Games box set for $3 cheaper, having it shipped by some company in Ireland than I would if I ordered it from Amazon and had it shipped from the warehouse in Mississauga (a 30-40 minute drive from my house.)
I am not going to do that, but the fact that I could is really weird.
“In other words, what ecological ethics needs right now is a strong theory of...”
– Slow Thinking, Slow Science: Cosmopolitics and Ecological Ethics | Knowledge Ecology
drallos replied to your post: Does anyone else get words stuck in their head?
Yes! For me, it’s usually funny names. I’ll feel this weird compulsion to run outside and scream “RUTHERFORD B HAYES!” or “JETHRO TULL!!” (etc.) at the top of my lungs just to ease the pressure they’re putting on my brain for whatever bizarre reason
Ahahahaha, that’s awesome. I feel the same thing sometimes,...
dolgemátki: sansa and arya stark →
neetainari:
pumpkinapplemuffins:
neetainari:
Purposefully written to create the frivolous silly girl and sensible tomboy dichotomy. We’re not supposed to like Sansa because she’s so girly and useless. Nevermind that she was dragged into the front row to watch her father get beheaded, and later shown his head on a pike by her fiancé who…
I’m willing to give Martin the benefit of the doubt...
Does anyone else get words stuck in their head?
…like you would a song, but just plain words? It’s awful.
Thinspo a No-No for Tumblr →
pluralisms:
becoming-wave:
Tumblr announced today a plan to ban from the website blogs that actively promote self-harm, e.g., anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, or suicide. The new policy will likely take effect starting next week.
Well that’s interesting. Not sure how I feel about it, really.. but I wonder how effectively this will be enforced, and how quickly thinspo/pro-ana bloggers...
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Thinspo a No-No for Tumblr →
Tumblr announced today a plan to ban from the website blogs that actively promote self-harm, e.g., anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, or suicide. The new policy will likely take effect starting next week.
Well that’s interesting. Not sure how I feel about it, really.. but I wonder how effectively this will be enforced, and how quickly thinspo/pro-ana bloggers will find subtler ways to...
Day 2 of 9-5
Waking up was much easier this time.
Canadian universities sign bone-stupid copyright... →
Under a new deal signed by the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, the act of emailing a link will be classed as equivalent to photocopying, and each student and faculty member will cost the universities $27.50/year for this right that the law gives them for free, along with a collection of other blanket licenses of varying legitimacy. In order to enforce these licenses,...
from Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical...
ayiman:
There is, as has often been noted, something peculiarly evangelistic about what has been termed the new atheist movement. The new atheists have their own special interest groups and ad campaigns. They even have their own holiday (International Blasphemy Day ). It is no exaggeration to describe the movement popularized by the likes of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, Sam Harris, and...
Oh great. I just hauled ass to the gym and they are closed.
When you’re already running late, and are just sitting on the bus, AT your transfer point, thinking “this place has some special significance” and then switch back to whatever else you were thinking about not realizing you should be getting off until after the bus starts moving again.
Herp a derp forever.
yay! I just got my first grad school acceptance...
UVic Enviro Studies department wants me, and is offering a great funding package!
Now to wait and see about those other two… and whether I’ll have to make a hard choice, or whether I’ll be heading straight to Victoria.
Hopefully I’ll know soon.
strontiumcapybara replied to your photo: OMG this squirrel is sunning himself on the back…
holy shit, is that bike tiny or is that a MASSIVE squirrel?
IDK if squirrels are smaller in France, but these grey ones we have in Canada are pretty fat. They are like, small cats, pretty much.
That bike is also pretty big. Maybe perspective is skewed?
“I condemn slavery with the utmost vehemence, but the fact that my remote...”
– Richard Dawkins on his family’s connections with the slave trade.
pretty sure the “Dawkins family estate, consisting of 161 hectares in Oxfordshire …bought in part with wealth amassed through sugar plantations and slave ownership” counts as something to do with him
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politicsoflocation:
Can someone please, please help me come up with a lesson plan for tenth graders about the Age of Exploration? It’s not yet at the part about colonization and what exactly the explorers did in the Americas, but more about how exploration grew out of the Renaissance. Please help!
Anyone? I’m at a loss for ideas here. But certainly someone has some thoughts on this.
I suddenly have a strong desire to own a deep...
So I can cook the shit out of huuuuuge amounts of food and freeze individual servings, and always have a million good foods pre-prepared.
