June 2009
7 posts
Still-sparkling
merlin:
BET Awards celebrate Michael Jackson - CNN.com
Like a well worn but still-sparkling glove, BET slid easily into Michael Jackson mode Sunday as the network’s annual awards show began.
Ok. Wait. Let me get a pencil and a nice Xanax.
This glove sparkles. Still sparkles. Despite being “well-worn.” I’m struggling to reconcile that. But, no matter.
The inexplicable glove simile is...
scottsimpson: I just discovered a new talent: I can tell you which character from The Wire you most resemble. Answer: Snot Boogie. You’re all Snot Boogie.
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“Swimming at the Hampstead lido the other day, I felt like Captain Cook landing...”
– Giles Coren
Walked more than 10 miles today. Apartment hunting sucks.
dwineman: This fried chicken tastes like mortality.
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40 people in this room, only 3 of them women. Why did I decide to do math, again?
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“The rest of the proof is essentially trivial, so we write it with formulas to...”
– From the proof of Theorem 2 in Robert Lipshitz, Peter Ozsváth and Dylan Thurston’s paper “Slicing planar grid diagrams: A gentle introduction to bordered Heegaard Floer homology”