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Student Debt Chart 1999-2011
Via The Atlantic.
Hey, guess who is glad they dropped out of school? Me! Guess who paid off their loans and has an awesome credit score? Me! Guess who can undercut your salary because I have $0 in extra monthly payments?
If you plan on getting only an undergraduate degree you better have good social skills, good connections, a keen sense for the stock market, and/or studied accounting.
Taunting does not apply to those with full scholarships or rich parents.
Great NE Earthquake of August 23, 2011. It’s Virginia’s fault.
Seismograph picture via Steve Jurvetson
“Earthquake? No… we don’t get earthquakes like this in New Jersey. Maybe the guy mowing his lawn next door fell asleep at the wheel and rammed into my house. Or maybe a bear is attacking my garage.”
I was right the first time. (Although 5.9 is really unusual, even for Virginia’s Seismic Zone.) That’s how my brain work. It thinks of something reasonable and then it retracts that and replaces it with something complicated and ridiculous. I am glad though it wasn’t bears.
If there’s any aftershocks, I’ll be sure not to think that it’s the cubs that have returned to feast on my flesh.
Here’s how my brain works: it’s stupidity, followed by self hatred, and then further analysis.
– Louis C.K.
Hitler Cats and Olivia Wilde’s Digital Nipples
A Hitler Cat via thisischris.com
Happy August and Happy Monday.
There was an article that was all over the news this weekend, creating a palliative effect to counter the raging panic attacks and gross economic despair Congress has beset upon us, in which a cat in England couldn’t get adopted because it had a black patch of fur that looked like a Hitler ‘stache.
Spoiler alert: The cat was eventually adopted.
Because, really, who doesn’t want a cat that looks like Hitler? (And secretly want to paint stars of David onto mice and have an adorable, historically inaccurate photo shoot.) The Cats that Look Like Hitler blog knows what’s good.
In other news that doesn’t suck, Olivia Wilde had a psuedo-nip slip during the filming of her new movie, The Change-up, in which Ryan Reynold’s hand slipped, revealing the pasty which covered her real nipple. She reported on Jimmy Kimmel that it wasn’t a big deal since computer graphic technology has achieved a level where we can digitally insert a nipple post-production.
Wilde:
I got to approve the nipples! […] They sent me an e-mail and they were like, ‘Please review nipple cover shot one through seven and decide which one is most like the original.’
I wonder if any of the stock nipples were men’s. If somebody who knows how to make flash games is reading this please make a “man or woman nipple?” game.
And my favorite Pokémon is…
You’ve been Chikorita-rolled!
I wanted to do some real writing these past couple days, but I have to do 20 hours of Continuing Education to renew my Pharmacy Technician Board Certification. The modules have nothing to do with my job since I’m not allowed to counsel patients, but it’s a formality to say I’m all dedicated to my job and shit. I’ve learned way more about Ulcerative Colitis than I ever wanted to. Never become an adult, it sucks.
New Suite 101 article- EV Battery Charging Stations
Photo Courtesy of Frank Hebbert
I need to do eco-writing more often.
A list of some private and grant-funded projects that are improving Electric Vehicle (EV) battery maintenance accessibility when away from home.
Read more at Suite101: Where do you charge your electric car on the road? | Suite101.com http://www.suite101.com/content/where-do-you-charge-your-electric-car-on-the-road-a381431#ixzz1T9Rt6rJ4
Should Gay Couple Sue Vermont Inn for Refusing to Host Their Reception?
Photo by donnjmck, flickr
From ABC News via Sodahead: http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/should-gay-couple-sue-vermont-inn-for-refusing-to-host-their-reception/question-1996709/
Lesbian couple Katherine Baker and Ming-Lien Linsley were looking forward to their fully legal Vermont wedding later this year, and especially to their reception, which they had planned on booking at the Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville.
The Vermont Convention Bureau said it would be the “perfect … destination wedding” reception location. Only, it wasn’t. Because the Wildflower Inn’s keepers “do not host gay receptions” due to personal opposition, ABC News reports.
Now, private businesses have a right to deny service based on sexual orientation… in some states. Vermont isn’t one of them. Their attorney was right; this is clear violation of Vermont’s anti-discrimination law.
A place of public accommodation means “any school, restaurant, store, establishment or other facility at which services, facilities, goods, privileges, advantages, benefits, or accommodations are offered to the general public.
What does the law say about discrimination in places of public accommodation?
Such places may not, on account of a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or other protected characteristic, “refuse, withhold from or deny to that person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of the place of public accommodation.”
There might be some leeway with “general public,” but any autonomous individuals of legal age can get married and seek reception services. So I say… you gay couple, sue the shit out of them.
List of good Star Trek Themed Songs and Autotunes
^Image by Alan Light
- Nerf Herder – Mr. Spock
- The Hillman Morning Show – Star Trek Rhapsody
- Hank Green – What would Captain Picard do?
- DarkMateria – The Picard Song
- Dan Bull – Data Raps (Ode to Spot remix)
- The Firm – Star Trekkin’
- Q-Continuum – Q is comin’
- Voltaire – The Sexy Data Tango and others from his album Banned on Vulcan
You’re welcome, Trekkies. Comment if you have more suggestions! I know there’s more but I couldn’t find full streams of them all.
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