Life begins at 40

bingoparaphernalia: hortenseg: “Substitutiary Locomotion,”...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:58:11 -0500

hortenseg:

“Substitutiary Locomotion,” Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

This has been my psych up song since probably 1987. I listen to this whenever I’m exhausted, sick, or slightly down in the dumps, and suddenly I feel a million times better.

I don’t really trust anyone who doesn’t believe in the powers of Treguna, Mekoides, and Trecorum Satis Dee.

“They were in me book the whole time. Nobody nevers asks me nothin’” - Paul (I’m totally paraphrasing that - I can’t find the exact quote)

Gas station kitsch: a dispensor for bags to pick up dog poop....

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:50:46 -0500

Gas station kitsch: a dispensor for bags to pick up dog poop. Note the bag exiting the back and the squinty expression of the dog.

Shasta (my contribution to the kitty klatsch)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:29:10 -0500

Shasta (my contribution to the kitty klatsch)

mabelmoments: In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:19:30 -0500

mabelmoments:

In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from Africa’s most endangered giraffe subspecies stands in the bush near Koure, Niger. By all accounts, they should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996, an unlikely boon experts credit to the concurrence of an impoverished government keen for revenue that has enacted laws to protected them, a conservation program that encourages people to support them, and a rare harmony with humans who have accepted their presence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

W. Africa’s last giraffes make surprising comeback

Love & Radiation

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:10:44 -0500

Pssst…

"You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:58:34 -0500

“You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in...

"At what age do you tell a highway that it was adopted?"

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:51:36 -0500

“At what age do you tell a highway that it was adopted?” - Zach Galifianakis (via...

noonish: instant-noodles: (via inspiro)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:49:00 -0500

noonish:

instant-noodles:

(via inspiro)

oasi: (via voodoovoodoo)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:40:47 -0500

oasi:

(via voodoovoodoo)

I'm almost 30, man. I need to get my shit together.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:31:15 -0500

subjecttomeg: (via awesome-everyday) I’m over 30. I should probs get on that, too. I’m 41...

Happy Birthday Love-and-Radiation! Jimmy Olsen tried to make it...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0500

Happy Birthday Love-and-Radiation!

Jimmy Olsen tried to make it to your party yesterday, but he tends to get himself into weird situations. He’ll eventually make it to your doorstep on his giant wiener!

Have a happy recovery day/birthday.

Alice S. Rossi, Sociologist and Feminist Scholar, Dies at 87 By...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:37:54 -0500

Alice S. Rossi, Sociologist and Feminist Scholar, Dies at 87

By MARGALIT FOX Published: November 7, 2009 (New York Times)

(Picture: Peter H. Rossi, 1968)

subjecttomeg: This is going to be sort of a sidenote tangent, but I really wish when people were...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:06:06 -0500

subjecttomeg: This is going to be sort of a sidenote tangent, but I really wish when people were...

I did a Google search for Joseph Cao. The blurb for his...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:24:51 -0500

I did a Google search for Joseph Cao. The blurb for his Wikipedia page is quite interesting. If you go to the actual Wiki page, it isn’t there. It must have been an edit by an unhappy Republican that got quickly changed?

i have so much to say about the shitshow that the democratic system has become in the last few days.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:08:20 -0500

sparkleneelysparkle: but right now i am just disappointed in people…in Americans. when did we...

turnofthecentury: i12bent:Birthday of a great heroine of...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:07:17 -0500

turnofthecentury:

i12bent:Birthday of a great heroine of science:

Marie Curie (Nov. 7, 1867 - 1934), one of only two people to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different disciplines, Chemistry (1903) and Physics (1911)

(The only other double Laureate across disciplines is Linus Pauling, who got the Prize in Chemistry and the Peace Prize. Two additional double Laureates have received their two Nobels in the same discipline: John Bardeen, twice in Physics; and Frederick Sanger, twice in Chemistry)

Madame Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Her husband Pierre Curie was a Nobel co-laureate of hers, and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie also received Nobel prizes.

Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. It was also under her personal direction that the world’s first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive isotopes. (Wiki)

Photo of Marie Curie in her Paris lab, 1911

bradelterman: Yep, I took these Michael Jackson photos. It was...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:30:14 -0500

bradelterman:

Yep, I took these Michael Jackson photos. It was 1978 and I was inside photographing Michael at the post Grammy party at the wonderful old Chasen’s Restaurant. This is the place where Frank Sinatra would pay fifty bucks for a bowl of Chili. The photos inside where boring and a bit too posed, but when I stepped outside with Michael, that is where all of the action happened. Best part is that there was no pain in the ass publicist or bodyguards to get in the way. Michael looked so dam elegant. Not only is he gone, but Chasen’s is now an overpriced supermarket! Go figure.

Rosa, you and Mini will like these (and any other Michael Jackson fans).

Ewan McGregor Tells Craig Ferguson That His Constant Nude Scenes Are "A Feminist Thing" - Ewan Mcgregor - Jezebel

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:20:37 -0500

Ewan McGregor Tells Craig Ferguson That His Constant Nude Scenes Are "A Feminist Thing" - Ewan...

spontaneouslove: this is what i do when i can’t sleep. recreate...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:07:31 -0500

spontaneouslove:

this is what i do when i can’t sleep. recreate the periodic table, write my name, and watch the disney channel.

don’t you want to come hang out with me now? i’m so much fun to be around.

Pretty!

linusinhats: Linus’ manifesto includes a plan for everyone to...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:11:09 -0500

linusinhats:

Linus’ manifesto includes a plan for everyone to be able to play with straws, and for interspecies prom dates, among other dangerous ideas.

(Who still makes Unabomber jokes these days?!)