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Dissipation of Economic Rents: when money is wasted chasing money
I posted this to FB in January, apparently, and more recently remembered it vaguely and went to look for it and couldn't find it, because FacebookWTFLOL. But I just now stumbled across it again, and figure I'm more likely to be able to find it again if I post it to LJ ( Read more... ) -
An armed society is a polite society
Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service
Witnesses said Braxton started causing a fuss over the seat, but soon calmed down after talking to a church usher and a pastor ( Read more... ) -
Are you fucking serious?
Actual "conversation" with the Caesars reservation phone system:
IVR: ... "are you a Total Rewards member? Please say yes or no."
me: "yes"
IVR: "You said... 'yes'... is that correct?
me: "YES" -
How did I not know these existed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven_Symphonies_%28Liszt%29
Beethoven Symphonies (French: Symphonies de Beethoven), S.464, is a set of nine transcriptions for solo piano by Franz Liszt of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies.I only discovered this because ( Read more... ) -
It's pronounced "ahsweepay"
Saw an ad on the side of a Caltrain for a company called Anaplan. Is it just me or is that a stunningly poor choice? -
"Please call me"
Some organization is still somehow successfully marketing phone books, because another one showed up on my doorstep today, including the stick-on ad on the front cover scanned in below.
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Separated at birth?
Is it just me, or does this guy look like Simple Jack? -
Close call
I semi-randomly have difficulty sleeping. Sometimes it's straight up insomnia -- this seems vaguely but not strictly related to caffeine intake earlier in the day; oddly it seems coffee has more of an effect than soda. Other times it's far more annoying -- as I drift off to sleep, I will get sudden leg spasms/involuntary twitching (it can happen ( Read more... ) -
WTFOTD
I have no words:
Artist Sarah Levy painted a good likeness of Donald Trump using her menstrual blood, a tampon, and a paintbrush. She says her "goal is to auction it off and give the money to an organization that helps Mexican immigrants in the U.S., because ol' Don would hate that."
The picture is... well, see for yourself.
Related: wtfMt. Grant Memorial Challenge 2015
When I moved to Las Vegas in 2009, I often drove up to Reno for a gambling weekend. This makes total sense :-) Because I still had friends in the Bay Area and it was closer for them and there were more of them than me. Also I enjoy driving, blah blah. Although my first drive from Reno to LV was several years earlier for a WSOP trip ( Read more... )