i listened to an audiobook on a long boooooooring drive recently and it made my experience much betteraudiobooks are for people who like podcasts that are 9 hrs long
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
memories of boy scout trips as a kid where we always listened to audiobooks of tom clancy novels on the drive to the campground.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
15. 44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.
perhaps this is because wealthy people only start work at noon?
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
i tried to listen to the game of thrones audio books driving across country but damn those shits are interminable and so much worse than the tv show so i just read the wikipedia summaries instead
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
the worst thing about my audiobook was that the woman reading it sounded a little like terry gross, but otherwise it was v entertaining.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
I would catch myself daydreaming and have to rewind sometimes
the only one I've ever done is a bootleg of the William Gibson books on tape reading of Neuromancer which RULED
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
i listened to The Game on audio book
highly recommended.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
I got hit by a taxi in Istanbul. Turks are some crazee-ass mfers on the road.
The cab I took from the airport in Istanbul didn't exactly hit anyone, but the driver did sort of poke a pedestrian aside with the side mirror.
― jmm, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
cab I took to the airport in Istanbul drove like 150 kph and a cop saw us but the driver waved and pointed to us in the back, and the cop musta said, oh he's got passengers, no biggie, and on we drove
― Euler, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/fashion/social-networking-App-allows-women-to-rate-men.html?pagewanted=all
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
it's like an amazing game of quiddities - gender hideousness - tech people bingo
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
gross
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
78% of the wealthy were born wealthy. 0% of the poor were.
― Aimless, Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
'Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky'
cmon
― j., Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Way to bury the lede, Times:"She said she drew from Cosmopolitan and Glamour magazines to come up with the app’s supportive voice."
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
On the upside the people doing the reviewing, the people being reviewed and the people trusting hashtags for relationship advice all clearly deserve each other.
http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo2-e1385384598732.jpg
― silverfish, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
that's kind of sweet. maybe it's just because I think she's cuet.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.
I get up 3 hrs before sometimes bcz 1) I am a slow riser and 2) every successive apartment I can afford is further away from my job.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
I wake up 3 hours before work because my toddler wakes up 3 hours before work
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
i wake up 3 hours before work because i am slow and i ride my bike 10 miles to work and i am a teacher so if i am late everybody leaves
― j., Monday, 25 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
I work in my sleep
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
*starts waking up 3 hours before he needs to be at Wal-Mart job**does aerobic exercise four times a week*"Ok, so how long does this take before I get rich?"
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
i wake up three hours before work because im a breakdancing policeman
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
seems like the true measure of success is that top 10 or 20% of the wealthy people who get to do all of the poor people stuff while staying wealthy
― wk, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
photo on this is perfectly hilarious
― goole, Monday, 25 November 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Ms. Chong founded Lulu with a friend, Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky.
And this sentence is known as Clunky.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 25 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi
Al Corbi’s residence in the Hollywood Hills has the requisite white walls covered in artwork and picture windows offering breathtaking views of downtown Los Angeles, but it has more in common with NSA headquarters than with the other contemporary homes on the block. The Corbi family doesn’t need keys (thanks to biometric recognition software), doesn’t fear earthquakes (thanks to steel-reinforced concrete caissons that burrow 30 feet into the private hilltop) and sleeps easily inside a 2,500-square-foot home within a home: a ballistics-proof panic suite that Corbi refers to as a “safe core.”Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.
Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
they're gonna need some skynet robots if they want to keep ruling us from inside their safe cores
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/what-we-hate-read-2013
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 14 December 2013 07:00 (ten years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952
Really dunno where to put this
This thread or shit that looks like an onion article?
― 乒乓, Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
here - too many past tense indicative sentences w/o sufficient historical irony
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
real resigned view of education dere
Apart from mathematics, which demands a high IQ, and science, which requires a distinct aptitude, the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling. Having been a good student, in other words, means nothing more than that one was good at school: One had the discipline to do as one was told, learned the skill of quick response to oral and written questions, figured out what professors wanted and gave it to them.
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
agree 100% wasps have funnier clothes and names than nerds
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 December 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
I don't think there's any shortage of people willing to do boring but well-compensated jobs.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 22 December 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
They were alive and breathing, and they had such names as......Robert McNamara.
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling
Forgot to tell you I went back in time to when I was 16 to write that article.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 December 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Insistence that WASP rule resulted in a nobler, less corrupt and self-interested society is breathtakingly myopic. Yes, when one group dominated, they did indeed fashion of the nation a fine playground for themselves. I hardly think it's coincidence that the decline of American WASPocracy maps so comfortably onto the rise and consequences of the civil rights era. I mean, sure — the wealthy society WASPs I know do tend to be liberal progressives, heavily involved in community and charitable work, tightly bound by puritan propriety, and averse to flagrant displays of power or wealth. At the same time often racist, smug, exclusionary, cruelly blind to the concerns of anyone not in their circle, etc...
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 December 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/realestate/a-white-glove-state-of-mind.html
Some prime quid/ag holiday reading right here
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 December 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
New hires take a weeklong course to learn how to color-code residents based on their personality type. A red-coded resident needs to be validated and heard, whereas a blue resident simply wants the facts.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 December 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
'is he cool?'
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
I feel like that's not only a class thing but also a generational class thing, with the increasing mentality of "service" as a "product"
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 22 December 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah the baseball chitchat with the help is very old-school noblesse oblige.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 December 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
where a three-bedroom rental apartment was recently listed for $22,995 a month
What?????
― carl agatha, Monday, 23 December 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
oh, it's been a while
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/nyregion/as-shop-owner-woman-sees-troubling-sides-of-herself.html?_r=0
― j., Sunday, 12 January 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
that's a gem
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 12 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I can't even read past that fucked-up lede about emotional landscapes.
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Sunday, 12 January 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
sort of reminds me of the big firm lawyers who complain about how they'll never be "truly rich" like their clients
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Silby otm
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 January 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
this is classic:
http://nypost.com/2014/01/21/upper-east-side-residents-feel-spurned-after-plow-delay/
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 January 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link