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I just wrote about 500 words in this text box, accidentally refreshed the page, and lost it all. Do not use the web interface for real work. So bummed. I may try to re-write it all later.

Lyrics For Jack Parow’s – ‘Eksie Ou’

This line drops perhaps the most perfect syncopated meter of any rap song ever.

Listen here - marker at 1:57.

liquiddiamonds:

I’m looking for ideas for good (not Michelob Ultra) drinks that are light-ish on alcohol content and summery. Do you have any favorites?

I’m asking for my face.

La paloma. A low-cal way to get shitty:

A good silver tequila, diet Squirt and a little lime juice.

80 proof tequila is 64 calories/oz. So half a bottle is still within a daily calorie intake if you skip a meal. (not that I would suggest anything that extreme)

Good tequila = 100% agave.

Cheap + good= el Jimador.

La Paloma is the most popular tequila-based cocktail in Mexico!

Outstanding in his class. on Flickr.

I mean, can you imagine how large my grocery bill is?

It’s at about 7 or 8 years that a child turns from “cute object of your love and affection” to “jobless roommate.”

— Paul Emerson(@emersunn) May 23, 2012

via reddit

Tiny tales with locations.

Workin’ on stuff. There will be lots of sweet, delicious soldering and sawdust involved.

“Bad sneakers and a piña colada, my friend.”

Suns being eaten.

As ephemeral as a total eclipse of the sun, another epi of the podcast shines like a pre-1969 quarter found in your tip jar. That is to say, our fans have upgraded us from “not very good” to “average.”

even if you don’t show up in your Chemise Lacoste

Bottle cap tricks with Sophie.

Found it.

@roderickon

Edit: Does anyone from the midwest remember Pump ‘n’ Munch? Or did I imagine that?

onethingwell:

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In short, properVOLUME will save you a lot of futzing around in the Sound pane in System Preferences.

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Bond’s BB Gun

David Hurn recalls that when he was commissioned to shoot the Bond portraits required for the publicity campaign for the second Bond film, it was decided that the main image in the poster and advertising campaign should be a strong portrait of Sean Connery as Bond 007 with his Walther pistol. When Connery arrived at the studio for the shoot, it was discovered that no one had brought the gun needed for the shoot (a Walther PPK). By chance the photographer practiced air pistol target shooting as a hobby and had the air pistol he used for this purpose (also a Walther). Without telling Sean or the other representatives of United Artists the photographer decided that “we would use my pistol for the pictures and presumed that should anyone have doubts on their seeing the name Walther on the gun, they would be reassured.” The long barrel of the air-pistol was to be removed by airbrushing during the designing of the actual poster. This was never done.

merlin:

What.

This just further muddies the X-Men storyline.

Severin on Flickr.

a) Neighborly kid.

b) I like taking pictures.

The value of Klout just skyrocketed.

1. “Roommate-buddy-friend beef” sounds like an artisanal filet of meat for cannibals.
2. The rest in the middle makes little or no sense to me.
3. Make love - not Warcraft.

New career path.

I present to you the (hopefully) unintentionally nightmarish drawing my youngest made over a year ago. Obviously, it’s a keeper.

I did not betray Mr. Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone—and to this day I don’t know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience.