December 2010
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“New Jersey and Boston should fight each other to the death.”
– My brother
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FWD Thinking: Newark Mayor Cory Booker Is a... →
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If you are in New York City, or if you have watched the news, you probably know there’s a ton of snow on the ground out there. And, even two days after the flakes stopped coming down, there are still many sidewalks and entire blocks that have yet to be cleared, with dangerous — and even fatal — results. While countless New Yorkers are criticizing Mayor Bloomberg for botching the...
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“Like 95% of the people I know, I don’t have a visceral (look it up)...”
– Aaron Sorkin
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White Christmas Dreams Ruined
Dad: See, you'll get your snow you wanted.
Mom: I don't want it now, it's too late.
Dad: Well, then, I'll tell them to cancel it.
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Buon Natale
Dad: Do you want a baccala cake? Do you know what it is?
Me: It's kind of like a latke, but with fish.
Dad: I don't know what that is.
Me: A latke? The Hanukkah food?
Dad: Oh, that's a Jewish thing. I don't know what that is.
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My Top 10 Most-Played Songs on iTunes in 2010 →
How-To: Create a Smart Playlist, sort first by “Plays Greater Than 0” and then by “Date Added After 01/01/10,” then “Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.”
Here are mine:
1. The High Road - Broken Bells
2. I Stand Corrected - Vampire Weekend
3. Janglin’ - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
4. 40 Day Dream - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
5. Home - Edward...
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A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An... →
“Do unto others…” is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. Buts that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where...
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Nutmeg Treated as Drug for Hallucinogenic High →
About 30 minutes to an hour after taking large doses of nutmeg, people usually have severe gastrointestinal reactions, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. But that’s just the beginning. Hours into the high, people can suffer from heart and nerve problems as well….Visual, auditory or sensory hallucinations do not set in until hours after ingesting the spice, so there is also...
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Yes, Please.
Admittedly, this isn’t exactly a critique of Black Swan per se, but can we burn the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 movie theater in New York to the ground? That place is such a disaster. Every time that I go to see a movie there, I am just like, whoops, this is a nightmare, NEVER FORGET. And then somehow I ALWAYS FORGET. They should sell shot glasses in Chinatown with the Regal Union Square...
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FWD Thinking: Find Out Where Images Came from with... →
mbooth:
Have you ever found an image online and had no clue where it came from? In an ideal world, images would always be linked and credited to their sources but that information often gets lost, kind of like playing a game of Telephone.
Enter TinEye, a search engine from Canada that allows you to do a “reverse image search” — upload an image or insert the URL and it will find other...
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Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm Very Fortunate' →
Most people who have never lived in Connecticut imagine that the whole state is exactly like Wilton. It’s not, but driving toward the town where Dave Brubeck lives, you understand why this dream never dies, especially in late autumn when every tree seems almost mythic in its chromatic display and every pitch and roll of the rural, straight-from-the-calendar-page landscape yields views...
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WatchI am trying to decide who the randomest person in this video is. Steve Guttenberg? Tonya Harding (love the T-shirt, by the way)? Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Ivan Drago from Rocky IV? Theo Huxtable? A mentally-disturbed college professor whose name happens to be Judd Nelson, but who can’t possibly be the same Judd Nelson from The Breakfast Club? The lady from Top Gun? Milli...
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I Got Gate-Raped at SFO
Well, I got gate-raped* at SFO. Ironically, I was discussing the recent hullabaloo over these new security procedures with a friend just a few days ago. “If someone wants to see a weird, black-and-white naked scan of me, be my guest,” I said. “As long as they don’t actually have to touch me.” Nice foreshadowing.
I had no problems whatsoever on my flight out to San Francisco from JFK – I simply...