May 2011
15 posts
“Out the window in the distance an old woman stops her clothesline work and...”
– via @normmacdonald
“Just got off a horse. Hell of a thing. Hell of a thing.”
– via @normmacdonald
“A girl just dropped a can of cat food outside and I didn’t pick it up for...”
– via @_chrisgarcia
Vermont, the Land of Healthy Firsts →
blakewhitman:
Vermont is a land of proud firsts. This small New England state was the first to join the 13 Colonies. Its constitution was the first to ban slavery. It was the first to establish the right to free education for all—public education.
This week, Vermont will boast another first: the first state in the nation to offer single-payer health care, which eliminates the costly insurance...
“party tip: never let a russian prostitute feed you squid.”
– via @hotaction
“Idea: an album of ambient room tone from important historical places....”
– via @apelad
“Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher...”
– via @DeepakChopra
Disappoint
I was having problems with my Acer Revo sending audio through the HDMI port, so I wiped it clean of Windows 7 and installed Ubuntu. That was relatively easy and the audio is working now after apt-getting some nvidia drivers, but the wifi is not working now and the Internet has offered no good solutions other than tinyproxy, which is slow as hell. Also, now Boxee doesn’t work, and XBMC is...
“Every story I read about SCVNGR and their “Chief Ninja” makes me...”
– via @gavinpurcell