aaaah i still know pretty much what they’re saying
I understood ‘garden’, ‘delicious’,’at the gala’, and ‘princess’ despite taking French for three years.
/sad.
December 2011
Play
A first-year hedge fund associate explains why Wall Street is rigged against the 99% →
reddit.com
Excerpt:
If you aren’t in the .1%, you have no access to the derivatives markets, you have no access to the special deals that hedge funds and other wealthy investors get, and you have no access to the resources, information, strategic services, tax exemptions, and capital that the top .1% is getting.
… I’m a first-year analyst on wall street, and based on what I see day in and day out, I support the OWS movement 100%.
But you should really read the whole thing.
“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
—
Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)
Though vinaigrette is tasty.
Is anyone else’s dashboard claiming that there are 10 or 26 new posts, and when you refresh, there’s only one?
November 2011
Livejournal Phishing Attack →
lj-support.livejournal.com
Signal boost for any potential LJ users that follow me.
There’s another attack with something trying pose as Livejournal, but it’s a third party trying to get your account information. It’ll seem as if someone left you a comment, and there will be a popup asking for you to enter your user name and password again.
If anything like this pops up, don’t enter your password. If you already have, go change it now.
“I’m old enough to stop being surprised at the extent of people’s rudeness, but hot damn. What the fuck is wrong with people. How can someone be so oblivious to time and place and a sense of occasion, that she doesn’t understand how inappropriate and unacceptable it is to purposely leave your phone turned on in a room full of people attending a talk about an upcoming surgical procedure. Or, for that matter, any other venue where something serious is going on. But by all means, why don’t we stop the world so we can wait for you to yammer away with your friend.”
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OJ Isn't the Only Lethal Agent Around; Toxic Levels of Arsenic found in Juice →
health.yahoo.net
- Roughly 10 percent of our juice samples, from five brands, had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards. Most of that arsenic was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen.
- One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5 ppb. As with arsenic, no federal limit exists for lead in juice.
- Apple and grape juice constitute a significant source of dietary exposure to arsenic, according to our analysis of federal health data from 2003 through 2008.
- Children drink a lot of juice. Thirty-five percent of children 5 and younger drink juice in quantities exceeding pediatricians’ recommendations, our poll of parents shows.
- Mounting scientific evidence suggests that chronic exposure to arsenic and lead even at levels below water standards can result in serious health problems.
- Inorganic arsenic has been detected at disturbing levels in other foods, too, which suggests that more must be done to reduce overall dietary exposure.
Client: “I don’t mean to sound racist, but…”
Me: “But what?”
Client: “But the site is too black.”
Me: “Like, literally too black?”
Client: “Yes. The background is too black.”
Me: “That’s not racist. That has nothing to do with race.”
Client: “Phew. I can never tell with you black people, what’s offensive and what’s not.”
Me: “I’m actually Lebanese. And, yeah, that one might be a bit racist.”
“Upon landing back in Mexico City, AeroMexico didn’t bother to offer any of the passengers food or hotel vouchers, though they did hand out several coupons for free entrees at T.G.I. Go Fuck Yourself.”
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“People have sex for a lot of different reasons, and one of them is to be soothed and comforted”
—Jill Di Donato: ‘Comfort Sex’: Is It A Bad Thing? (via huffingtonpost)
Decency exists:
Movers and police refuse a bank’s order to evict 103-year-old Atlanta woman.
She looks very much like my great-grandmother…
Just made http://eleventhhoursuperpower.tumblr.com/
Wait, how many sideblogs can I create on one account. That’s madness.
On a side note, I remember asking my parents why no one would hire me (Wen we ere in Virginia - because there’s a Black side (Hampton) and a White side (Yorktown), even though there was more - but not much- diversity in Hampton, and Langley just happened to be on the edge of both.) and they looked at my resume and said “Three years of office volunteer work and trade school before you’re 18 - You’re too overqualified to work at Taco Bell.” As well as this other job in Yorktown as a Network admin’s assistant that I think they just put up USA Jobs because it looks like no one ever got hired for it.
We have quite a few computer repair stores around here - do you think I should offer to volunteer at one?
Vizualize your resume in one click. →
vizualize.me
This sounds SUPER cool.. only posting so I can go back and play around with this later. I don’t think I would ever actually use this as a resume format, but I’m curious to see what mine would look like.
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.” —Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.” —Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Compares Women Asking for Equal Pay to Children Demanding Candy →
comicsalliance.com
“The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.” -Scott Adams
I love how he almost comes out and says exactly what he actually means, which is, “Women are treated like children and disabled persons because they are incapable of doing things men can”. That’s patently false, and that’s why we’re all pissed that women are getting paid less to do the exact. Same. Things.
What an asshole. Dilbert was mediocre at best, you jackass!
is this for real? seriously, was this guy kidding or did he actually mean what he wrote? sometimes i forget that people like this actually exist… i’d say boycott dilbert, but i don’t know anyone who reads that crap to begin with.
