October 2011
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
6 posts
“Though from what I remember of Mineral, I can’t help but wonder—if the quake did...”
– Randall Munroe, Earthquakes
“The important thing about a vocational model of incentives is that it can be...”
– Cory Doctorow in Matt Damon explains non-financial motivations and the education sector
July 2011
1 post
“NICE PEOPLE DON’T GO TO OWINGS MILLS MALL ANYMORE BECAUSE OF THE DANDER...”
– Comment by sillyman at 12:31 PM July 28, 2011 in Groundbreaking for Owings Mills development raises hopes
February 2011
1 post
JQAdams: It's Domino Theory time →
jqadams:
Domino Theory is making a sustained comeback. The theory first emerged in the 1950s. The idea was that if a country fell to Communism neighboring countries would be more likely to fall as well. Domino Theory was the reason we became involved in Vietnam.
December 2010
1 post
“The fatwas notwithstanding, the new state policy was ascribed to economic...”
– How Caviar Turned Out to Be Halal
September 2010
2 posts
“I got out of bed, turned on my computer, and opened a quarterly report for...”
– Sweatpants In Paradise: The Exciting World of Immersive Retail
Plate of the Week: 2009 Maryland Passenger →
A New Jersey license plate blog talks about the time when New Jersey made license plates for Maryland. They’re a little ugly, but still better than the new plates.
August 2010
1 post
“You very well might have a math learning disability. Such disabilities are...”
– Cal State professor
July 2010
1 post
Affirmations for the ADD-Addled
1. You can make it to affirmation 2. 2. You can make it to affirmation 3. 3. You can make it to affirmation 4. 4. You can make it to affirmation 5. 5. You can make it to affirmation 6. 6. You can make it to affirmation 7. 7. You can make it to affirmation 8. 8. You can make it to affirmation 9. 9. You can make it to affirmation 10. 10. You could have read all these affirmations without skipping to...
May 2010
3 posts
“[Baltimore Mayor Stephanie C.] Rawlings-Blake accepted $50-plus worth of L’Oréal...”
– Stephen Janis in FULL DISCLOSURE — Mayor’s expansive ethics disclosure form lists gifts from Jay-Z tickets to Barbie Dolls
“What might tomorrow bring? Perhaps in the future Facebook will create...”
– Ben Popken in Visualizing The Devolution Of Privacy On Facebook
“Think of it, in this modern hi-tech age of gadgets and gizmos, what we saw was a...”
– Peter Moskos in Eyes on the Street Help Defuse Times Square Car Bomb
April 2010
4 posts
“What we did was just eliminate regulation for the sake of eliminating. That’s as...”
– Chekote
“Does this mean we may see an [upsurge] of people making ears in their basements?”
– Matt Walker, commenting on the article Micro-Brewing the Bioeconomy: Beer as an Example of Distributed Biological Manufacturing
“Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free health care....”
– John Fugelsang
March 2010
5 posts
“In other words, defendants contend, this is not a FISA case and defendants are...”
– United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, ruling that plaintiffs were subjected to unlawful electronic surveillance within the purview of FISA
“Bismarck Fire Captain Rob Carlson had an unexpected role in the drill. He was at...”
– Emergency Simulation Sends Simulated Patients to Hospital
“What you see here is the sermon as written, not exactly as preached, because you...”
– Christopher Halverson in 2 Kings 17:24-28 Lions, Samaritans, and Fear! Oh My!
“My musings on the benefits of adding a little gluten to pizza dough got me...”
– Laura Vozzella in Gluten-free community attacked (again)!
“If you want your own private parking spot, you should buy a property that...”
– Brian M. on reserving your spot with a lawn chair
February 2010
5 posts
“Nine out of ten voices in my head tell me I’m insane. The tenth voice...”
– kaiser on QDB
“Personally, I’m holding out for Blogger Barbie, who comes wearing pajama...”
– Laura Northrup in Computer Engineer Barbie Thinks Math Is Awesome And Lucrative
“The real reason you feel like a fraud is because you have been successful in...”
– Steve Schwartz in The 3 Types of Knowledge
“It always amused me, when I was an economist at the Federal Trade Commission, to...”
– William Shughart in Snowed Under in Washington, DC
“If you open up the military to transgenders, to hermaphrodites to gays and...”
– Congressman Duncan Hunter speaking to NPR on the consequences of repealing DADT
January 2010
4 posts
“To all you rats, snitchers, lucky enough to cop one of these DVDs, I hope you...”
– Ronnie Thomas aka “Skinny Suge”
“Well, with all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy’s seat, and its not...”
– Scott Brown’s reply when asked if he would be willing to sit in “Ted Kennedy’s seat” and block health care reform for another 15 years.
My iTunes and iPod rating system
Star ratings need to have specific meaning and consequences, in exactly the way that the Homeland Security color system doesn’t. Here are mine.
*****
Condition: I’ve played this **** rated song a few times now, and it doesn’t get irritating to listen to.
Result: This gets added to my five star play list for days when I don’t even want the remote chance of listening to...
“The whole date was such a lesbian cliché. By the end I wanted to throw her iPod...”
– From the e-mail archives
December 2009
3 posts
“I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money...”
– Warren Buffett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via internetsurfwithzachrose) (via mikehudack)
“People think nothing of kicking a small, yappy dog. And they can be abused by...”
– Dave Frangipane, senior coordinator for Chihuahua Rescue of Beverly Hills
“Due to Mayor Smith, formerly the night security guard in city hall, resigning in...”
– Spokesman for Baltimore City Hall speaking on the succession plans on December 17, 2013 after a series of scandals eject a record-breaking 158 un-elected Baltimore Mayors from office over the course of four years. (HT: Atzok)
November 2009
2 posts
“Yes, this is exactly what is happening. There’s a rounding-error bug in the...”
– Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? - Engadget (via kevintwohy) (via mikehudack)
Why does an auto-focus routine need to know what time it is?
“Sheila, thank you for using your Reward Zone card.”
– A Best Buy receipt where Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon had just used gift cards to buy an Xbox 360 Need for Speed with extended warranty. From Nothing says ‘I love you’ like an anonymous envelope of gift cards in the Baltimore Sun.
October 2009
5 posts
“That kid trolled ever[y]body, farted on Wolf Blitzer’s show, and then...”
– Anonymous Guest Commenter on Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog about the Balloon Boy
“Rules that are imposed from the outside or unilaterally dictated by powerful...”
– Ostrom and Williamson Share Nobel in Economics - NYTimes.com (via amanda)
I was listening to Dick Gordon talking to Ehsan Samei on The Story last night and he said very much the same things about the population’s reaction to the new rules against music and movies imposed after the revolution...
“Oh, Internet, you are like a giant greeting card store that is always...”
– PZ Myers, who regrets your traumatic brain damage
“You would starve to death if you were trapped for 40 days in a fully stocked...”
– John Lindner’s #6 of Top 10 Signs You’re a Foodie
September 2009
5 posts
“Sometimes life leaves a hundred dollar bill on your dresser, and you don’t...”
– Shit My Dad Says
“Back in 2002, science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer wrote an essay about the...”
– Bruce Schneier, CRYPTOGRAM, September 15, 2009