Adam
Navigating the seas of awkwardness since 1991.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
It’s like there’s some rule that real stuff can only get mentioned if everybody rolls their eyes or laughs in a way that isn’t happy.
I was nervous, but the call went really well. Please call your representative. Tumblr makes it really easy for you.
The Internet is my home; keep it free.
In case you’re on the fence.
Last night I was on an incredibly boring redeye flight back to LA, but thanks to wifi inflight I was able to get on Twitter and detail our exploits once the whole flight decided to go H.A.M.
Thanks to the RocNation Tumblr (or whoever they reblogged from) for compiling what turned out to be quite a massive live tweet session!
Aziz Ansari: On flight back to LA. Bored as fuck. Might start blasting N*ggas in Paris on my laptop just if everyone starts goin gorillas. #HUH!Aziz Ansari: Oh man. Just spoke to the Captain of the flight. He’s down to do this…Aziz Ansari: “Folks this is your captain speaking, air traffic control is diverting our course… we’re about to head to Paris….”Aziz Ansari: WE JUST THREW THE THRONE ON ON THE INTERCOM!!! WHOLE CABIN IS GOIN GORILLAS!! WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT!!!Aziz Ansari: THE CAP’N IS ON YE’S VERSE, I’M HANDLING JAY’S DUTIES!! THE PLANE IS GOIN H.A.M.!!! BEST FLIGHT BACK TO LA EVER!!!!!Aziz Ansari: WHOLE PLANE CHANTING “THAT SHIT CRA!” “THAT SHIT CRA!” FLIGHT ATTENDANTS PULLING OUT BOTTLES OF ACE! MAKE IT 2!! #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: Some dude asked us to quiet down, flight attendant throws fish filet him on on the filet line! #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: Flight attendant grabbing hung up coats “Is that jacket Margiela?” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: WHOLE PLANE CHANTING “DON’T LET ME GET IN MY ZZOOOOOONE!” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: Several passengers at cockpit. Upset. OH SHIT. Cap’n goes “WHO GON STOP ME HUH?!” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: WE BLASTING “WHO GON STOP ME.” People grabbing duffle bags, “Black strap you know whats for!” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: Capn to angry passengers - “Y’ALL WEED PURPLE, MY MONEY PURPLE, Y’ALL STEVE URKEL, I’M OPRAH’S CIRCLE!” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightoLAEverAziz Ansari: “Capn here. Just saw our inflight magazine. I’m upset. THE PAPER READ MURDER! BLACK ON BLACK MURDER!” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: People popping bottles of Ace & tiny bags of peanuts everywhere!! #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: Everyone on flight yelled “CAN’T YA SEE THE AMERICAN AIRLINES JETS FLYING OVER YOU!” #Otis #ThroneFlightAziz Ansari: “Racks on Racks on Racks! (Luggage)” - Flight Attendant #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEverAziz Ansari: WHOLE FLIGHT CREW ROCKING SUNGLASSES AND HOLDING ADVIL. #ThroneFlight #NoChurchintheFlight #BestFlighttoLAEverAziz Ansari: “Prince Williams aint do it right if you ask me cause I was him I woulda” - Capn “MARRIED KATE AND ASHLEY!” - Whole Cabin #ThroneFlightAziz Ansari: Dudes in the bathroom blazing. “What’s that smell? Oh I’m just boiling some agua!” #ThroneFlight #BestFlightBacktoLAEver
Uncontrollable laughter.
I’m speaking at TEDx MidAtlantic on Saturday in DC. The cast of The Wire is also speaking, which means I get to have dinner with Omar Friday night. I know it’s cliched to say that The Wire is my favorite show, but it is. I lived in Baltimore during the time they were filming it and my building is in too many scenes to count. The last week I lived in Baltimore, I saw three people die outside my window and had my moving truck stolen. But I love Baltimore. Not enough to live there, just enough to say I lived there.
AHH, soo jealous.
Mack and I went to the taping of John Mulaney’s Comedy Central special tonight and, guys, he’s so funny. You’re definitely not gonna see me in the audience, but you should watch it anyway when it airs because I laughed real human laughs consistently throughout the whole thing, which like, why am I surprised? I’d never seen him do standup before, so I was walking into the whole experience like, “Maybe he’ll blow,” but who the fuck am I with that attitude? He has a Comedy Central special, Christine, of course he doesn’t blow.
Woohoo!
It’s blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and saves countless human lives. It’s the blood of horseshoe crabs, and for decades it’s proved vital to biomedical companies that must screen vaccines, IV fluids, and medical devices for bacteria that can be fatal in our bloodstream. Thanks to proteins in cells that act like a primitive immune system, the crabs’ blood coagulates instantly when it touches pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella.
So sensitive is the test derived from the proteins that it can detect amounts as slight as one part per trillion. That’s like one grain of sugar in an Olympic-size pool, says John Dubczak of test producer Charles River, Endosafe. Now Princeton University researchers are looking at another approach using synthetic molecules that replicate antimicrobial peptides found on the skin of African clawed frogs. That would take some of the heat off horseshoe crabs—if it can match the sensitivity of their millions-year-old strategy.
- About 500,000 horseshoe crabs are collected annually along the U.S. East Coast under interstate regulations.
- In a laboratory, blood is drawn from the crab’s primitive equivalent of a heart.
- The live crabs are returned to the sea. The estimated mortality rate is 15 percent.
- The blood’s blue color comes from copper in its oxygen-carrying protein, hemocyanin— akin to the iron-based hemoglobin in humans.
(via kateoplis)
Seeing your reflection on Apple’s glass monitor — this happens especially often when it’s near the sunny outdoors — is a reminder that you are just sitting inside staring.
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