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just saw my landlord as i was exiting the building to drop off my laundry and tried to engage in niceties as quickly as possible before i could squirt away. i get back home and peel off my already damp t-shirt while filling a glass with ice for my newly purchased liter of coconut water, deciding then to turn the fan back on despite the racket (now i know why it was on sale at century 21) only to feel heat emanating from the back of the fan. my initial thought that it was hot from the motor as it had been on for the better part of three days but then i realized the base was hot as well. did i mention that the fan is perched on the radiator?

so i call down to the landlord, and yes, i know my cell phone is shitty but we get into an abbott and costello routine over who he is actually speaking to. maybe he had an even louder fan purchased sometime in the mesozoic made from teradactyl wings. (i have no idea if dinosaurs existed then. another demerit for myself and the american school system.) he calls me by nearly every name of every other tenant in the building including that of his eighty plus year old best friend living on the floor below. at first i was sure he was making a joke but by the end while literally screaming into the phone i just accepted whatever name he was calling me at the time, that being "al", my upstair neighbor.

once the name puzzle had been solved we got on to the meat of the conversation. i shrieked into the phone at least a half a dozen times that the heat was on in the building before the pilot light in his head caught wind of what i was trying to impart, and undoubtedly the knit in his brow at that moment turned from confusion to consternation. "i'll go switch it off," he said with an exasperated tone. "that's costing me money!" i couldnt argue with that logic and shouted my approval before hanging up.
- dave 5-29-2011 7:26 pm [link] [add a comment]

asciimeo.com translates vimeo videos into ascii art.

- jim 5-25-2011 10:33 pm [link] [add a comment]

my yahoo mail tracks trending stories and lists the top ten. the other day it said "jennifer anniston", the prevailing news story linked to yahoo news noted that her beloved dog had died. oooh, topical!

today the "trending now" banner across the top of my email page read "may 21 judgment day". i just hope its true what they say, that all good dogs go to heaven. wait, no one says that? shit. now what am i supposed to do with this beagle costume?
- dave 5-21-2011 6:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States.

Available initially for the iPhone.
- jim 5-19-2011 8:55 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

you know what really annoys me?
- dave 5-19-2011 7:31 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

GD eugene


- bill 5-19-2011 12:36 pm [link] [1 comment]

this is pretty cool. and, yes, i follow roger ebert on twitter.
- linda 5-18-2011 11:35 pm [link] [1 comment]

Guy saves his house from the White River flood.

- jim 5-13-2011 4:33 pm [link] [1 ref] [6 comments]

Dribble is like twitter for graphic designers, where instead of posting short text messages, people post small images of designs they are working on. Pretty cool even for a non graphic designer lurker.

- jim 5-11-2011 3:54 am [link] [add a comment]

EW

Elizabeth Wilson
1921-2007

Love you, Mother, still.

- alex 5-08-2011 5:58 pm [link] [9 comments]

A Branch of May
May contain

BLINKS

Bobolinks!

BLINK

Black on the bottom and white on top, it's the backward blackbird.
There were five in one tree at Calvert Vaux Park, and singing.
The bird is named for it's song, a bubbling ramble of crazy high-pitched, self-harmonizing notes; sounds like electronic music.
Recordings cannot do it justice...
Happy Spring.

- alex 5-08-2011 5:44 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

vogue yarns
- dave 5-07-2011 12:01 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

weakly world noose
- dave 5-06-2011 10:11 pm [link] [add a comment]

bus2
- Skinny 5-06-2011 4:20 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]

Software engineer Kyle Conroy has compiled a list of how much money you would have today if, for example, instead of spending $5700 on a Apple PowerBook G3 250 when it was released on November 10, 1997 you'd spent that same amount on AAPL stock. The answer? Instead owning of a laptop that's probably worth all of twenty bucks today, you'd own $330,563 of AAPL stock.
- Skinny 5-06-2011 2:39 pm [link] [4 comments]

aww, sweet
- linda 5-03-2011 5:39 pm [link] [add a comment]

It's Bird Week at the NY TImes.
- alex 5-03-2011 12:22 pm [link] [1 ref] [3 comments]

MAY POLE

May Day 2011

- alex 5-01-2011 11:56 pm [link] [1 comment]

Children's book. Don't miss the editorial reviews.
- jim 4-28-2011 12:44 pm [link] [1 comment]

True??

IMPORTANT ATTENTION! FRIDAY - APRIL 29, 2011, Facebook will become owner of the publishing rights to ALL your private photos. You need to make a simple change: got to 'Account', 'Account Settings', 'Facebook Ads' (along the top), go to 'Ads shown by third parties', choose 'NO ONE' then SAVE. It's just a 2 minutes job, and please Share, share, share, share (for those who haven't done this yet...)

- Skinny 4-27-2011 3:36 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

they say "the worlds first chain of green general stores" two so far in PDX
- Skinny 4-26-2011 11:04 pm [link] [add a comment]

its too cold hot outside.
- dave 4-26-2011 7:24 pm [link] [5 comments]

onion skin egg dying


- bill 4-25-2011 1:06 pm [link] [add a comment]

Restrained animated gifs.

- jim 4-25-2011 12:30 pm [link] [6 comments]

Maybe in our Sparta there lives a happy little tree over there.
- mark 4-21-2011 11:50 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]