My coworker went on vacation to the Dakotas to take a tour of where her grandparents and parents used to live. At one point, they were in a schoohouse that her grandma went to, which had been converted into a museum.  Hanging on the wall was this map, created by Orlando Furgeson in 1893.


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Thanks to midnightmadness for the following:

LiveJournal has started "spying" on you - nice of them to, like, let US know

How To Fix This Invasion of Privacy and Potential Browser Function Fuckery
For those that just want to fix, it go to the following page (while you're logged into LJ)
http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/
and enter
set opt_exclude_stats 1
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 I answered my work phone at 5:05pm and ended up working until 9pm.

In other news, the HTC phone commercials re-ignited my love for Nina Simone's "Sinnerman". Man, this is such an amazing song.

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And so is this, by the way:  Watch to the end, when Letterman is so tickled with the awesome performance that he asks them to continue for a little longer.

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Testing.

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Scrabble tips and (sometimes dirty) tricks.

I don't know why, but I have just spent the majority of my cup of coffee + 20 minutes reading these. I started off with an interesting photo essay about the rotting and abandoned schools in the Detroit metro area and ended up reading snarky snippets that "Oh No They Didn't" would love. [some images are NSFW, NSFK]

Here's a few of the tamer ones.


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I'm kind of obsessed with photos, stories, and documentaries about North Korea. I think it started with the story my (South) Korean roommate told about North Korean propaganda during a visit "reuniting" families that had been split apart during the war. The North wanted the family members from the south to feel that their families were better off ( Read more... )

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