rand0mflora:

Lost humor always gets me.  And this made me laugh to the point of tears:

How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich, by the Losties

Jack
1. Gather ingredients
2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?”
3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients
4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly

Kate
1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly
2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring it the best
3. Take a bite of the jelly sandwich, declaring it the best
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 ad infinitum
5. Follow peanut butter or jelly sandwich into grave danger

Sawyer
1. Throw the jar of jelly at wall, sneering “I don’t need no sandwich”
2. Call the mascot on the jar of peanut butter lots of clever nicknames
3. Huff and puff and stomp around and grumble a lot
4. When no one’s looking, make perfect, even, symmetrical peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sit in a corner, enjoying every bite

Locke
1. Sit idly by, believing that the ingredients will find a way to make a sandwich out of themselves
2. Lose faith and make the sandwich anyway
3. Realize that you were the instrument by which the ingredients chose to make a sandwich after all
4. Run around the room and grab everyone’s knives, insisting that their sandwiches will do the same in time

Hurley
1. Make sandwich
2. Eat sandwich
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 ad infinitum

Sayid
1. Procure 23 milligrams of uranium-20
2. Set hadron supercollider to eight megajoules
3. Program a sandwich-making macro using Cobol or Visual Basic
4. Act all tough-like

Desmond
1. Eat sandwich
2. Call the sandwich “brother”
3. Place peanut butter slice over jelly slice
4. Spread jelly on the other slice
5. Spread peanut butter on one slice
6. Take two slices of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly

Ben
1. Steal someone else’s sandwich
2. Claim you coerced them into making the sandwich for you all along
3. Say you’ll tell them everything if they make you another sandwich
4. Stare at them all creepy-like

Libby
1. Lay out plans for one of the most intricate, fascinating, and delicious sandwiches of all time
2. Just as you start making it, get shot

Danielle
1. Apply peanut butter
2. Disappear for eight months
3. Apply jelly
4. Disappear for eight months
5. Eat sandwich

Claire
1. Mmmmmmm, peanut butter

Thank you, Dan, for making me hurt myself with laughter…

I looked at my Tumblr page just now and was totally shocked because I had forgotten that I changed themes a while ago.  There are some pretty themes out there, but what’s the point when we read everything through the dashboard?  There should be a blank theme that displays nothing but a blank screen so you have to follow the person to read anything.

anonymousami:

This list is perfect.

Okay, I like it too.  Even if it’s a bit redundant.  #1 or #6 could replace #4, #7, and #2.  But redundancy is good sometimes.  It really is.

henryeatspeople:

ffffound:xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

This is pretty much what I want to do today.

sciencevsromance:

applewagon: via theduty: noahkai:callmecash: by deadshot

I LOVE THIS.

oh, YES. plus, it links to an adorable unofficial “Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games” video with cute animal cutouts and gently trippy animation.

Josh I can’t believe you didn’t send this to me directly.  Awesome.

sciencevsromance:

The Faces of Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org

I love this.

Me too.  I’m surprised he didn’t get more pictures out of it though.  A webcam portrait seems, to me, to be worth a lot less than $0.50.

I immediately thought, “This would make a great t-shirt.  Which I would never wear.  And probably wouldn’t sell well.  Someone else will probably do it anyway.”

(via nashamble)

1. What we’re doing, right now, in 140 characters or less
2. What we’re listening to, right now
3. What’s in front of us, in the form of a picture
4. Audio, but who does that?
5. What we overhear others saying
6. What we’re eating
7. What we’re spending money on
8. A link we just saw
9. Repost something someone else posted
10. A photo we liked
11. Thoughts on any possible topic
12. Our relationship status
13. What we just read, watched, listened to
14. Where we are, exactly, right now
15. Our weight
16. Our goals
17. How far we ran
18. Video, but it’s not very easy
19. Our mood
20. A response to anything in the universe that moves us

So, we can record things.  The temptation to record and save for later turns into a temptation to be completely comprehensive in our records.  Record every meal, record every transaction, record every day of our lives.  And at the end, I presume we’ll have a record for all to see.

And this record for all to see, what will it be good for?  I think it will be voyeuristic and interesting to, perhaps, our children.  The first generation to have a very thorough glimpse into our lives before them.  If we become famous, it will be good fodder for our bibliographies, though the precision of our records might for the biographers to avoid embellishment and mystery that usually makes such accounts shine.

We can use the information to connect to one another… to be closer to people we like but might not have time to know every little detail about.  It’s efficient.  It’s easier to follow a thousand twitters than to have a thousand micro-conversations throughout the day.

But I don’t feel more connected.  It’s like we’re all watching each other on television, but can’t necessarily reach through the screen.

Name something that is bigger and better than you but that could also benefit from your support.

aprilini:

Censorship Wildly Underrated

Fun with censor bars. An incredibly original and creative music video by The BPA- The BPA ‘Toe Jam’ Feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal.

I felt a little embarrased watching this at work!  More than some other videos that would be considered not safe for work.

What do I really want with this whole 8:36pm.com idea anyway?  What’s the desired end result?  I messed around with the most obvious functionality this last weekend, but it is leaving me with a feeling of not quite getting the full picture.  I think I need to start with the core feeling of amazement around the slice of life idea.  That feeling of capturing life in a slice, and then sharing that slice.

Jimmy Livingston’s site captures that. Maybe its because of the breadth of the years flowing by.  Maybe it’s because of the quality of old Polaroids.

I have a couple problems.  One is that it’s not clear whether this is about Twittering or Flickr photos.  I realize that the idea started with Twittering, but I think the experience and end product is a lot better through photos.  Who cares really about a line of text written every day.  A photo says so much more.  Especially if it includes a caption and a location.  But not everyone has a cameraphone, including Kellianne (and Chadwick, whose idea I borrowed).

Which view is better.  Everyone who took a photo on a particular day, or every photo that a particular person took.  Which tells a better story?  Or are they both equally compelling.

Also, I have to say something about emotions.  A child feels all emotions fully, without constraint, without the layer of emotion management that occurs as they slowly learn about manners, society, and in general get socialized.  As adults, we have our initial emotions, and then a layer of management emotions, second emotions, that help us control the first emotion.

Emotions though have a bad reputation.  We are usually trying to manage our negative emotions: anger, fear, contempt, disgust, sadness… rather than accentuate our positive emotions.  The Dalai Lama talks about destructive emotions.

What about the constructive, creative, life-giving emotions?  Is it possible to manage emotions without in some ways taking the pleasure away from them as well?  This is my primary complaint with Buddhism and self-improvement strategies in general.  In order to control ourselves, to know ourselves, to be attentive to ourselves, we have to distance ourselves from our core.  And this distancing may be education, but it is also irreversibly numbing.  We are leaving the garden of emotions.

There has to be another answer.  Something that is about expression rather than management.  Because that first emotion is often  much less violent and harmful than the secondary emotion, which is why the secondary emotion can often overtake it and control it.  It’s violent and aggressive and overkill.  But that initial emotion may have been soft and vulnerable, or sad, or longing.  Long live the first emotion.