| Like Riding the Subway, Eating Pizza's Better If You Never Make Eye Contact |
[28 Dec 2009|09:00pm] |
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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021281.html Girl #1: Ohmigod! I just saw a cockroach.
Girl #2: Ew! Goddammit, I don't want to have to leave, this pizza is really good!
Girl #1: The roach had wings, so that means it came in from outside and this place isn't necessarily roach-infested.
Girl #2: But it could be.
Girl #1: For the purposes of us enjoying this awesome pizza, it isn't.
Girl #2, as girl #1 continues eating her pizza: And that is what psychologists call "rationalization".
--Pizza Place, 31st St
Overheard by: An A+ in psychology, an F in life
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| "It just doesn’t work,” Watts says, when I meet him at his gray cubicle at Yahoo Research..." |
[28 Dec 2009|05:25pm] |
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http://dalasverdugo.com/post/305266906 ““It just doesn’t work,” Watts says, when I meet him at his gray cubicle at Yahoo Research in midtown Manhattan, which is unadorned except for a whiteboard crammed with equations.”
- Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Fast Company
UGH. I hate when I start reading an interesting article and then see that it’s like six pages long (I’m kind of a slow reader due to mild ADD). WHY DID YOU NEED TO DESCRIBE THE SETTING IN SO MUCH DETAIL? It’s an article, not a fucking novel.
Update: I finished the article. Definitely a good read, mostly because it supports my worldview of anarchy and chaos overlaid with a fictional lattice of “experts” who are essentially astrologers getting paid to give analysis that sounds reasonable, but is mostly worthless.
“that’s the thing about magic,” says Watts. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
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[28 Dec 2009|08:03pm] |
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| Are You Fucking With Me, Ma'am? |
[28 Dec 2009|03:00pm] |
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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021279.html Animated blonde salesgirl: If you get the apple pomegranate body butter...
Weary brunette: I only see the display.
Animated blonde salesgirl: We have more in the back. Okay, well, if you get two or more products from the bath line, like this and our shower gel, you get a free bathtub!
Weary brunette: Huh?
(animated blonde salesgirl points to a little plastic bathtub)
Weary brunette: That's... tiny. Like, I love the scent but I'm afraid I don't have any kittens or fetuses to bathe in that tiny tiny tub.
--Sephora, Times Square
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| Random: Stories We Missed on Dec. 24, 2009 |
[28 Dec 2009|08:41pm] |
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http://beta.morons.org/tally-ho/article/read/8124 Here are URLs that were submitted to our queue on Dec. 24, 2009
but didn't make it into actual stories...
This is an automatically generated list of URLs which found
their way into our URL queue, but were not picked up by writers
due to a limited writer pool, lack of sufficient time, peril,
floods, or hangovers. It has not yet been reviewed by a...
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| 2009 music wrap-up |
[28 Dec 2009|12:28pm] |
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Please enjoy my 2009 music wrap-up. I'm slacking this year: no mixtape, no micro-reviews. However, it is a list of 40 fantastic albums that I advise you to acquire at your early convenience.
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