“It is ordinary for us to poison rivers also; yea and the very elements whereof the world doth stand, are by us infected: for even the air itself, wherein and whereby all things should live, we corrupt to their mischief and destruction.”
—Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland. Ironically Pliny, who here touches on man’s naturally destructive relationship with nature, was done in when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.
June 2009
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May 2009
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Senior Streaking, 2 years later
- '09 parent: They said they streaked for 40 minutes?
- '09/'07 parent: How long did your class do it for?
- '07 grad: I don't want to go tit for tat...so to speak.
#*@! Washington (in two parts)
- Brian Williams - the speaker my sister’s school had tabbed for graduation - bails because suddenly Obama tells him he’s available for an interview.
- My flight to Chicago is delayed because no planes were able to leave Washington Dulles for hours (supposedly).
“You can’t grow a beard after a tattoo and think it will be as exciting.”
—CL on HR’s new beard
“getting tickets to fenway 4th of july weekend is going to be harder than prying a banana from the yellow nordie’s non-existent banana-grubbing hands”
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Play
I woke up this morning with the following written on my hand:
Inner Circle
“Bad Boys”
Slapbet
- Rome
escalation
i think the fairest way to tax people would be based on the color of their car. i know, i know, you’re saying “hey what about the people with crazy colored cars? when will they be taxed?” but face it, how much do people with purple cars contriubte to society anyway. see what i mean.
as written on Typewriter (the program that doesn’t allow you to delete)
fuck bioterrorism, if the alquaeda reall y wants to get us, find out a way to change the colors on a traffic lifght.
as written on Typewriter (the program that doesn’t allow you to delete)
sometimes people get mistaken for a celebrity or look like a celebrity. we should apply the concept of understudy to the cult of celebrity, so if a celebrity dies, we just go out and find the person who best resembles them and they have to step in and take over in their place. it’s like it would be up to them to keep it going. or if a selebrity is cuking (or sucking) they get replaced - that wmeans you jaoqueiwween phoeneix . it’d be like, man the new matthew maconahey sucks. also, another rule, we couldn’t pick celebrity impersonators, because let’s admit it, unless you’re a comedian and just do a voice, haibving a job where you dreess like its halloween every working day of the year is kind of lame.
as written on Typewriter (the program that doesn’t allow you to delete)
“Be quiet or we’ll stop the car!”
—could there be any more bone-chilling phrase as a kid? If the ability of those seven words to induce sheer terror of shoulder-of-the-highway embarassment could be translated onto a greater, more adult level, we’d probably have acheived world peace. Either that, or that sentence is just the childhood equivalent of “oh, btw, we have the bomb.”
“i liked your comic. i am subscribed to your rss feed.”
— my sister, five years my junior. I barely even know what an rss feed is.
After manie dayes readinge goodlye docvmentes from the sixteenth centvrie, one begins to brake downe and plainely write as theye did and so foorth.
Sometimes, the internet gets it right. →
inbflat.net
click that link and blow your mind.
Varsity Jokes
- tribe22: in amsterdam its 50 euro for a half hour, top on and 100 euro for an hour, top off
- mewsquad007: hahahah
- mewsquad007: thats so weird
- tribe22: why
- mewsquad007: thats how they get you
- tribe22: yeah, it totally is
- mewsquad007: you want the shirt off, you gotta pay extra
- mewsquad007: what a RIP OFF
- mewsquad007: get it??????
ElizSchiff: In anthro. Everyone in this classroom has a laptop. Absolutely none of them are currently open to word documents. →
twitter.com
(via elizschiff)
Sounds like Consumer Insight - aka the class where girls design and order their kappa gear online. So it’s still about consuming, just without the insight.
“There’s a girl in my sorority who thinks that is the hottest thing since sliced bread.”
—Overheard at the library cafe. I love it that dumb hyperbolics like this are still being used in common conversation. What I love more is when people use them in a way that doesn’t even make sense.
“The Emperor of the land where Sun rises sends a letter to the Emperor of the land where Sun sets. How are you doing?”
—A letter Japan’s Prince Shotoku sent to China’s emperor, Yangdi, in 607 CE
Mastodons or Mastodonts are members of the extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth, which belongs to the family Elephantidae. Mastodons were browsers, while mammoths were grazers.
Yo mastodon - I heard you were a browser so I attached a computer to your tusks so you can browse while you browse.
“I must have been really wasted because when I woke up I was wearing his boxers as a shirt.”
—Overheard at Norris
Sunday learnings
Hemp cereal = delicious
Hemp milk = not so much
Hemp cereal + hemp milk = quite logically falls somewhere in between
They say you should derive inspiration from the environment around you. Am I doing it wrong?
Roommate lying sickly throughout the shining day
Roommate lying on her back as though to waste away
Roommate lying quietly, watching the TV
When the cable bill arrives refrain from showing me
“Below is a quick and dirty link to the book of homilies, though a library copy would give you more details as to probable authors and other matters related to their provenance.”
—Prof. DMC. I’ve never heard of a link refered to as ‘quick and dirty’ before. The Tudor era must have been a salacious one indeed.
- ML: she's like a baseball player who spent like age 22 and 23 in the bigs, but then got demoted and is fated to play out the rest of his career in the low minors, never to make it back
- JW: but remember that even in the bigs, she was a shitty shortstop, able to celebrate being in the big leagues but resigned to little recognition and dismissive criticism on blogs
