February 2012
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dot com vs. dot co
Merlin Mann: What is "co"??
Dan Benjamin: It's, uh, company. Company.
Merlin: Well what's "com"?
Dan: ...Commmmpany.
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clientsfromhell:
Client: I really don’t like what you’ve done with the copy.
Me: I proof read it and corrected some spelling mistakes.
Client: There was no need to be so bloody thorough.
Jersey Shore
Victoria: Why do you watch it? Is it interesting?
Pim: OF COURSE IT'S NOT INTERESTING!
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January 2012
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Clients From Hell: At 3am, after finishing a... →
clientsfromhell:
At 3am, after finishing a website template for a client who had to have it “by 6am their time,” I sent an email letting her know that it was finished. The next day I get a call:
Client: I don’t appreciate you staying out all night when you should be working on my project.
Me: I’m sorry? I was…
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Clients From Hell: After sending two invoices for... →
clientsfromhell:
After sending two invoices for payment, I sent another and called the client when the receipt that they had received it came back.
Client: Why are you calling me?
Me: You haven’t paid and this is the third invoice I’ve sent.
Client: It’s even more than the last one!
Me: Yes. The…
WORST.
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clientsfromhell:
Me: Did you want the font in cursive or something more simple?
Client: I want it in English.
Me: English is a language - cursive is a type of font we use. Did you want it to be fancy, or simple?
Client: No! In English!
Me: English it is then.
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Let the meat cake!
shitmystudentswrite:
Mary Antwinet is famous for saying “let the meat cake.” She was a leader of the French revelation. She was very popular and fashionable until she died from guilty.
I really hope English is not this person’s first language.
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A SOPA analogy from Julian Sanchez →
“As a rough analogy, since antipiracy crusaders are fond of equating filesharing with shoplifting: suppose the CEO of Wal-Mart came to Congress demanding a $50 million program to deploy FBI agents to frisk suspicious-looking teens in towns near Wal-Marts. A lawmaker might, without for one instant doubting that shoplifiting is a bad thing, question whether this is really the optimal use of...
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“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...”
– Fidel Castro
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The iPhone Economy →
Apple’s iPhone is a model of American ingenuity, but most of its components are manufactured somewhere else, leading to the decline of other kinds of jobs.
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Song of the day.
Gucci Mane/Running Back...
QUEER ODOR ▽ ⚧: One of the potentially nastiest... →
tranqualizer:
One of the potentially nastiest things about race, racism, and white supremacy here in the U.S is that if you internalize it for the majority of your life, you begin to buy into the idea that your culture and your identity is defective and faulty. You start apologizing for how complicated your…
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clientsfromhell:
Client: You’ll be working with one of our interns on this project. She’s not much of a designer, but I’m paying her and she doesn’t have much else to do.
Me: Does she have any design experience at all?
Client: Well, she has a Mac.
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SCHOOL:
In class: 1+1=2
Exercises: 1+2+1=4
Test: John buy 4 oranges. He eats one and gives another to Ted. Calculate the sun's mass.
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“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact...”
– Douglas Adams
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Back to school: Thank goodness for history books.
shitmystudentswrite:
Slavery in the end turned out to be a good thing for everyone. Because then we wouldn’t know that treating people like that was wrong. And without slavery, we never would have had a Civil Rights Movement that showed racism is bad. Thank goodness for history books because then I never would know that racism existed before.
WHAAAT!? SMH.
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Heinie sniffing
shitmystudentswrite:
When I went down into the basement at the party, he was down there. I was standing so close to him I could smell his colon.
I swear, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!
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Making connections
shitmystudentswrite:
If slavery wasn’t abolished women wouldn’t be able to vote, we wouldn’t have things such as the refrigerator, and women wouldn’t be able to work.
I mean… clearly.
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Posthumous publication
shitmystudentswrite:
Plato wrote the last days of Socrates, and describes within that document how Socrates comes to accept his death is 399 B.C. The text was written the years following his death but wasn’t officially published by Penguin Classics until 1954.
OMG. DEAD.
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Watchkawaiiandlovely:
The most adorable thing ever! from tonight’s show. aww… <3
D’AAAWWW!!!!
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Y files: The Gathering Storm
chopbouie:
Yglesias:
These escalating rounds of constitutional hardball (into which we ought to fold warrantless wiretapping and assassination of US citizens & the debt ceiling crisis) seem to me bound to result over time in either de facto parliamentary government or de facto plebiscitary dictatorship. The former result would be much better, but the latter is much more likely.
To indulge...
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"I'm concerned about my brain"
Me: I keep having weird shooting pains in various parts of my head...
Me: Only on the left though
Josh: O___o
Josh: you're morphing
Me: into what??
Josh: a philosopher.
December 2011
Mom: DINNER'S ALMOST READY MELISSA
Me: Why are you taking so loudly?
Dad: She always talks loudly!