No but good idea. It will make it easier to prove to the judge. Can't breakdance anymore can't make money
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
savy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
yea the whole idea of pedestrians having the right of way is just not present in latin america xps
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I loved how in La Paz, Bolivia, on most streets cars were going in both directions in all parts of the street, like there were no lanes, no directions, just "I want to go there", made for some fun taxi rides
my brother lived in Hyderabad for a while & said that his driver (quiddities) hit pedestrians like every day
― Euler, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I got hit by a taxi in Istanbul. Turks are some crazee-ass mfers on the road.
― kate78, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
these young turks and their driving
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
From that "habits of rich people" link:
"4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people."
damn the audiobook market must be boomin
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.
so 'making it through the week' is not, like, a 'single goal'??
― j., Tuesday, 19 November 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
lol this list is gold
11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% for poor.
― j., Tuesday, 19 November 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
From that "habits of rich people" link:"4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people."damn the audiobook market must be boomin― polyphonic,
― polyphonic,
What they don't tell you is that 98% of those are 50 Shades of Gray.
― nickn, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:06 (ten years ago) link
no, they are business books
just like the audible.com commercial guy says
i LOVE to READ
but WHO has the TIME?!?
NOW i can listen to BUSINESS BOOKS in my CAR
― j., Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
the wealthy jerk off in their cars vs. poors jerk off on the bus
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:18 (ten years ago) link
How do you drive while listening to an audiobook and not miss 50% of it?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link
just let it wash over you, if it feels like you're understanding it then you can count it as 'read'
― j., Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
i listened to an audiobook on a long boooooooring drive recently and it made my experience much betteraudiobooks are for people who like podcasts that are 9 hrs long
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
memories of boy scout trips as a kid where we always listened to audiobooks of tom clancy novels on the drive to the campground.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
15. 44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.
perhaps this is because wealthy people only start work at noon?
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
i tried to listen to the game of thrones audio books driving across country but damn those shits are interminable and so much worse than the tv show so i just read the wikipedia summaries instead
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
the worst thing about my audiobook was that the woman reading it sounded a little like terry gross, but otherwise it was v entertaining.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
I would catch myself daydreaming and have to rewind sometimes
the only one I've ever done is a bootleg of the William Gibson books on tape reading of Neuromancer which RULED
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
i listened to The Game on audio book
highly recommended.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
The cab I took from the airport in Istanbul didn't exactly hit anyone, but the driver did sort of poke a pedestrian aside with the side mirror.
― jmm, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
cab I took to the airport in Istanbul drove like 150 kph and a cop saw us but the driver waved and pointed to us in the back, and the cop musta said, oh he's got passengers, no biggie, and on we drove
― Euler, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/fashion/social-networking-App-allows-women-to-rate-men.html?pagewanted=all
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
it's like an amazing game of quiddities - gender hideousness - tech people bingo
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
gross
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
78% of the wealthy were born wealthy. 0% of the poor were.
― Aimless, Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
'Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky'
cmon
― j., Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Way to bury the lede, Times:"She said she drew from Cosmopolitan and Glamour magazines to come up with the app’s supportive voice."
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
On the upside the people doing the reviewing, the people being reviewed and the people trusting hashtags for relationship advice all clearly deserve each other.
http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo2-e1385384598732.jpg
― silverfish, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
that's kind of sweet. maybe it's just because I think she's cuet.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.
I get up 3 hrs before sometimes bcz 1) I am a slow riser and 2) every successive apartment I can afford is further away from my job.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
I wake up 3 hours before work because my toddler wakes up 3 hours before work
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
i wake up 3 hours before work because i am slow and i ride my bike 10 miles to work and i am a teacher so if i am late everybody leaves
― j., Monday, 25 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
I work in my sleep
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
*starts waking up 3 hours before he needs to be at Wal-Mart job**does aerobic exercise four times a week*"Ok, so how long does this take before I get rich?"
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
i wake up three hours before work because im a breakdancing policeman
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
seems like the true measure of success is that top 10 or 20% of the wealthy people who get to do all of the poor people stuff while staying wealthy
― wk, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
photo on this is perfectly hilarious
― goole, Monday, 25 November 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Ms. Chong founded Lulu with a friend, Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky.
And this sentence is known as Clunky.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 25 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi
Al Corbi’s residence in the Hollywood Hills has the requisite white walls covered in artwork and picture windows offering breathtaking views of downtown Los Angeles, but it has more in common with NSA headquarters than with the other contemporary homes on the block. The Corbi family doesn’t need keys (thanks to biometric recognition software), doesn’t fear earthquakes (thanks to steel-reinforced concrete caissons that burrow 30 feet into the private hilltop) and sleeps easily inside a 2,500-square-foot home within a home: a ballistics-proof panic suite that Corbi refers to as a “safe core.”Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.
Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
they're gonna need some skynet robots if they want to keep ruling us from inside their safe cores
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/what-we-hate-read-2013
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 14 December 2013 07:00 (ten years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952
Really dunno where to put this
This thread or shit that looks like an onion article?
― 乒乓, Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
here - too many past tense indicative sentences w/o sufficient historical irony
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
real resigned view of education dere
Apart from mathematics, which demands a high IQ, and science, which requires a distinct aptitude, the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling. Having been a good student, in other words, means nothing more than that one was good at school: One had the discipline to do as one was told, learned the skill of quick response to oral and written questions, figured out what professors wanted and gave it to them.
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
agree 100% wasps have funnier clothes and names than nerds
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 December 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
I don't think there's any shortage of people willing to do boring but well-compensated jobs.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 22 December 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
They were alive and breathing, and they had such names as......Robert McNamara.
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link