Bethel student to girlfriend: I’m not saying the guy dipped the knife in a vat of AIDS or cut himself with it before he cut me, but he could have!
Girlfriend hits guy: You should have told me that earlier.
Bethel student: Well, if I have AIDS, then you have AIDS, and we can have AIDS together!
Bethel University Dorms
Overheard by a.lil.
Bus Driver: Well, now you get to remember what it’s like to ride the bus in the summer. It’s hot! And if the person next to you had eaten garlic, it will make your ear wilt. And if the person next to you is from another country, their perfume will make your other ear wilt!
Passenger #1: He must be near retirement.
Passenger #2: Yeah! That was pretty racist.
Passenger #1: Borderline.
Passenger #2: Borderline racist.
Number 2 bus on Chicago and Franklin
Overheard by Max.
I am seeing this on forums all over the place including TechNet.
Can anyone confirm or deny this from personal experience? In any case, I haven't read a single good thing about it.
Tesla's kind of on the edge of steampunk, where it moves into dieselpunk and straight up high tech, but given that he is the grandaddy of all mad scientists, I figured this was fairly appropriate.
Guy on souped up scooter to guy next to him on normal scooter at stop light: THIS one lets me ride on that short stretch of 35E at 45mph.
Summit Ave
Overheard by Dude on the bicycle who kept catching up at stop lights.
Drunk girl: I don’t have herpes but I have, um, some Minnesotan hurt, you know, it’s not herpes. God damn, god damn. My tummy hurts. Just let us know who was there, all right? God damn. Stop typing, dammit. Ow, my tummy hurts!
Bethel University
Overheard by a.lil.
Blonde co-worker: So, like, is CO2 what makes Helium balloons float?
Brunette co-worker: Yeah, it must be. (long pause) Wait!! HELIUM is what makes Helium balloons float!
Downtown Advertising Agency
Overheard by brunettes struggling to keep it just one step ahead.
Obnoxious girl: Oh my gosh, my mom totally tries to be so cool. (giggle) Like this morning she had money and she was like, here take this money, it’s ten more dollars than you have now.
Teacher: Oh stop! Your mom is adorable! My kids think I try too hard, but I think I’m a ninny.
Obnoxious girl: Whatever! My mom was trying to give me money and I was like, I don’t understand you!
Teacher: (laughs) Who’s the ninny now, Jane?!
Obnoxious girl: (laugh) I don’t know, it’s too early for math.
Plymouth Lunds
Overheard by wait, what?
"James David Manning is the energetic and visionary pastor of the ATLAH World Missionary Church located in ATLAH, New York. He has founded three schools and developed a national church ministry. He holds a PhD in philosophy, the author of The Oblation Hour book, a former Marketing Executive with Proctor and Gamble and the Ford Motor Company."
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angelady!We have your jingle bells. I'd like for you to have your jingle bells.
Will you be at the Vil show Saturday night?
Or,
Will one of your fellow Dregs be at Saturday's CVG concom meeting and willing to take your jingle bells for you? Other than Your Fearless Leader, I mean, who is IN the Vil show, and probably doesn't need to be keeping track of One More Thing on Saturday. In short, do ya think Lio, or maybe the lady-in-the-band-who-is-not-preggers, I mean the-one-whose-LJ-name-I-can't-think-of, will be there?
Lemme know.
Girl #1 (going on field trip): You guys, the bus isn’t here yet, we might have to drive everyone separately!
Girl #2: I don’t think the school will let us do that, that’s a big liability issue.
Girl #1: Oh, it’s okay, I have car insurance and everyone has life insurance.
Wayzata high school
Overheard by huh.
Lit Class Substitute Teacher: Did I hear that correctly? “Please don’t rape me with your feelings”?
Burnsville High School
Overheard by Yep, your hearing is perfect.
Study Hall Girl: We’re reading a bunch of Africa books. All they talk about is urine.
Burnsville High School
Overheard by I’m sure that’s not ALL they talk about.
Very large woman in line (staring at menu board which clearly does not list chicken wild rice as a soup option): Um, I’ll have a bowl of chicken wild rice.
Employee: I’m sorry ma’am, we don’t have that today.
Very large woman: You don’t have it? You always have it!
Employee: I’m sorry, we don’t have it today.
Very large woman: So you’re saying I can’t get chicken wild rice today?!
Employee (looking a bit bewildered): Yes, that’s what I’m saying.
Very large woman: This is bullshit! I’m going to McDonald’s!
Very large woman’s friend (to employee): I am so sorry.
DT St Paul Macy’s Marketplace
Overheard by It must be frustrating to maintain that weight.
Little Girl after looking in her mailbox and discovering it was empty to the mailman: GIVE ME MONEY!
Como Neighborhood
Overheard by damn… I wish it worked like that!
On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
Compiled and edited by William Crozier, Clarke Chambers, Patrick Costello, Chad Gaffield, Beverly Stadium. The HTML version of this document was edited by Wes Miller and Chad Massey.
What this document is, is several essays on (oddly enough) life in lower Manhattan at the turn of the century. With essayists such as Jacob Riis and William Dean Howells addressing topics relating to the tennements of the area. The residents are most often described as "inmates" and conditions are both appalling and fascinating. Well worth a read if you are interested in the underbellies of major cities.
Luxim labs recently unveiled an incredibly energy efficient light bulb that packs more luminosity than a street lamp into a pill-sized form factor. Each bulb is filled with argon gas, which turns to plasma when electricity is focused through it. The energy is driven to the bulb without electrodes. The resulting light is intensely bright and mirrors the quality of light radiated by the sun, yet is produced by one of the smallest, most energy efficient light sources we’ve seen.I read about these brilliant innovations, and love them, but wonder if they'll spread down from the top in enough time to help. Most of the light bulbs in my house are the twirled glass energy savers, my roommate and I trek across the alley to illicitly use the neighbor's blue bins, we now have a balcony worm farm compost, and we shop as conscious consumers, as ethically as we can for every sort of product, be it food or clothing or cleaners. The same goes, likely, for most of my friends, but not, unfortunately, for the majority.
Luxim, Pill bulb, tiny pill light bulb plasma bulb, halodes, super bright light bulb, eco lighting, green lighting, sustainable lighting, energy efficient lighting, lumen, pill-sized plasma bulb, argon gas, super-bulb, LED, light bulb
A substantial portion of energy is converted into light instead of heat, which makes the bulbs highly efficient. Each super-bulb produces a stunning 140 lumens per watt, doubling the output of high-end LEDs (70 lumens per watt) and leaving standard light bulbs in the dust (15 lumens per watt). While cost and longevity have yet to be released, these brilliant bulbs represent a bright future for energy efficient lighting.
Which makes no sense.
From every angle I can see, it's a good idea to go green, even if you're one of the hidebound stalwarts who don't believe the constant, savage news about climate change or the impending food crisis. If we prepare for the worst, we have a chance to handle the worst, if we prepare for nothing, we can't handle anything at all. I think of it as a logic problem, preparing for the future, like Pascal's Wager applied to the environment instead of religion. "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing"
What do you do to try and make a change?
- Music:el-p - poisonville kids no wins
Men running for president should not call women who are doing their jobs sweetie (or touch them on the arm while dismissing them). For any reason. Good intentions or no. This, of course, will be brushed under the rug, but it is patronizing and he should get over that "bad habit" real darn quick.***
I didn't really think this primary season needed to be over; I was happy to see it out because we're so close and that seems respectful to as many voters and sides and coalitions as possible, but boy they really are both tripping over themselves to see who can mess up the worst right now, aren't they? I guess now I am wishing we'd just finish so that the gaffes will end.
In case you haven't seen it . . . I'm not good with the You Tube, so I tried to find a link on a site that didn't look *too* biased to the Clinton folks side of things and it's here. The apology has the bit about the bad habits, which is over here.
Why, yes, I am trying to avoid talking about serious matters like more big tragedies in our world this week. It is easier to talk about the dumb things politicians get up to, isn't it? That doesn't mean I'm not thinking about tragedy and the fragility of life, though.
*** Funny, I was just talking to my lefty baby boomer lesbian boss this morning about ways to love Obama and she was persuading me that I will enjoy voting for him come November and not to worry and here are ways to be happy with this outcome (not real super hard, given that Clinton has made big gaffes of her own lately). I definitely wasn't trolling for this, just bored.
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