Jeremy K (trochee)
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Bay 2 Breakers in 1:14:04 - 79th %ile overall, 67th% men's, 62nd% age bracket. <10min miles, barely (traffic!) Next year, start farther up.
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"I stole it eight megs at a time/and it never cost me a dime" @marnanel writes Johnny Cash filk; it's pretty ear-wormy http://is.gd/c6ys7
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http://is.gd/c6iv7 banning "ethnic studies" in a state WITH A SPANISH NAME WTF. No doubt they'll step up for hater-American studies
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http://is.gd/c6gvc great infographic on tax rates (USA Today). Reagan's tax cuts only helped >$200k; for rest of us, flat ETR since 1945
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Back from a training run I organized -- & I bicycled to it. Just call me Captain Fitness. (& when the captain arrives, tell him I'm out)
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You know, I'm really surprised I haven't heard more "By The Time I Get To Arizona" references. (Perhaps it's time for a NorteƱo remix?)
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so nice when my boss uses casual-register punctuation forms in emails to me: "Awe.Some." (the content is not bad either!)
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Strictly speaking, the proper form is "Hanged Parliament". #authoritative #nonsense
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when the mountain will not come to Mohammed... (Bay Area fact-checking, framed as "bug reports") http://mediabugs.org/
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UK seat names: absurdly awesome. Thirsk & Malton, Twickenham, Ashton Under Lyne, South Ribble, Batley & Spen, Stoke-on-Trent Central
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@marnanel: ok, why are 3 districts in Sunderland the only ones to report in? I don't understand why it's so locali[sz]ed?
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@marnanel ... also: "cheap despite its expensive-looking brand", "imported", "bland" and "fizzy" #upstartcolonial #wesecededcenturiesago
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@marnanel: BBC prop'l map of UK seats: beautiful para-geography (looks like gameboard). I'm pulling for upstart LDs (or is that misguided?)
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@marnanel: does that show blue (Tories) winning the exit poll? but it is a wonderful choice for visualization.
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fandom racism in "rebooting" superheroes to white: Racial Politics of Regressive Storytelling http://bit.ly/a2KSOs via @deantrippe et al.
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Am peculiarly pleased to be described as "hilar!" by someone's internal 14-year-old.
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I really wish that the first Ubuntu release had been Alliterative Alligator. (maybe it was in Alpha?)
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upgraded to Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) yesterday, very smoothly. (exception: flash plugin confusion on FF; superuser.com suggested fix)
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word of the day for me: "hapax horrorshow". Inspired by actual discovery of one.