2010
It is well established that robots are one of my favourite things. The tumblrbot is an awesome robot.
So thank heavens for Zuckerberg’s startling lack of basic social niceties. If he had even a sliver of self-awareness, Facebook would have never existed. If Zuckerberg hadn’t been dumped, none of us would be able to keep in touch with people from school with whom we deliberately lost contact a decade ago, or - worse - we would, but on Myspace.
“Ready for your close-up? First, get dumped”, Stuart Heritage, The Globe and Mail Weekend Edition
Brother-Sister-Blog-Bonding
Note from 2022 Rachel: My brother no longer blogs that I’m aware of and these links no longer work, but he does continue to be hilarious.
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My brother is always hilarious, that is undeniable. But this article is so honest, and speaks to something I agree with so wholeheartedly, that I had to share it with you all. This is my soul friends; my soul.
This moment of brother-sister-blog-bonding is brought to you by cookie dough ice cream.
In this world, there are many things I love. Women, for example; good poetry, a nice beer, video games, proper grammar, Batman…
But of all the things I love in this world, few give me as much immediate joy as cookie dough ice cream. This may be caused by my intense affection for cookies and milk, which indeed is, inarguably, the king of all deserts; nonetheless, there is something about the perfect marriage between raw food stuffs and icy delicious sugar that cannot be beaten.
Oh! Also shirts.
Shirts are pretty rad.
Dapperly demure, sartorially sad, via gnomebomb. (How have I never seen this site before? Thanks, time magazine.)
This year marks the first time that I have experienced frosh week as a post-graduate, and the first time I have been at a university that takes it seriously.
These measures do not seem extreme to me. PHD Comics: Fall outbreak
He calls everyone Wesley. I don’t know why.
I miss this show.
Flap Flap Flapping my Albatross wings!
(Also I just realized that this show was made in 2002, which means it’s already 8 years old.)
(Note from 2022 Rachel I don’t even want to do that math.)
I say this every fall, but the Hershey’s Marshmallow Pumpkin is one of my favourite things in life. (photo by Michael N)
