Crumbs and Frosting

done!

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:25:13 -0700

I feel very very caffeinated, only I haven’t had any caffeine. Please hire me, job. Please?

waiting for the phone to ring for phone interview.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:34:12 -0700

NERVOUS.

It’s like a first date, only worse, cause this first date might pay me if it goes really well. Wait, that made employment sound like prostitution which is…well, only kind of accurate.

hobbescomics: (via dailydoseofdylanmoran) LOVE.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:51:23 -0700

hobbescomics:

(via dailydoseofdylanmoran)

LOVE.

operation SUPER COOL COFFEE TABLE MAKEOVER is complete.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:01:55 -0700

And it is super cool.

I just made Mexican hot chocolate flavored oatmeal, and it was AWESOME.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:46:23 -0700

I just made Mexican hot chocolate flavored oatmeal, and it was AWESOME.

Guy on BART: baby, how do you do it? how are you so beautiful you make the sun shine?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:54:58 -0700

Guy on BART: baby, how do you do it? how are you so beautiful you make the sun shine?
Me: um, science?
Guy on BART: so you're blinding me with science?

fuckyeahthemountaingoats: (via mlee525)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:10:20 -0700

fuckyeahthemountaingoats:

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"Watson’s report here of a wounded shoulder contradicts his testimony—in The Sign of Four and..."

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:03:00 -0700

“Watson’s report here of a wounded shoulder contradicts his testimony—in The Sign of Four and elsewhere—of a wounded leg. … W. B. Hepburn, in ‘The Jezail Bullet,’ reaches the logical conclusion that Watson was wounded twice, but many other scholars ingeniously attempt to explain how two wounds could have been caused by one bullet only.”

- Note in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels, edited by Leslie S. Klinger

LOLSCHOLARS

(via novazembla)

I’d like to hear their reasoning. I can fanwank anything. How does one do it professionally.

(via turnabout)

This is how it continues:

“Alvin Rodin and Jack Key, in Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, suggest that Watson may have been bent over a patient when shot, with the bullet passing through Watson’s shoulder and leg. Similarly, Peter Brain [!] proposes that Watson was shot from below while squatting over a cliff to answer a call of nature. Others hypothesise that a single bullet may have ricocheted off the bone, grazed the artery, left the body at an acute angle, and then entered the leg, while several physician-scholars point out that the bullet may have passed along the subclavian artery and lodged in a place remote from the entry wound. Julian Wolff, however, concludes that Watson deliberately misrepresented the site of the wound so as to avoid mentioning the actual, embarrassing site: his groin.”

HIS GROIN. (But how does that explain the shoulder?)

(via novazembla)

The last one is definitely the best wank, as the others defy the laws of physics. I don’t think bullets and guns from that period were so advanced that they could go through the body multiple times, and when they ricochet, they lose speed and momentum, making it harder to then reenter the body and do more damage. The last one works, because it explains why Watson would randomly lie about where he was injured.

Though now there’s an opening for hurt/comfort fic about how he can’t maintain an erection because his dick almost got shot off.

(via turnabout)

OH. MY. YES THERE IS.

My question is why the hell would you squat over a cliff to do your business? That just seems rude, and precarious. There could be a totally innocent buzzard hanging around below that cliff, and as much as we all love John Watson, there’s no textual indication that this buzzard is into scat. Rude.

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“The last one is definitely the best wank, as the others defy the laws of physics. I don’t think bullets and guns from that period were so advanced that they could go through the body multiple times, and when they ricochet, they lose speed and momentum, making it harder to then reenter the body and do more damage.”

Although this is true, they don’t lose nearly as much speed as you might think. I’ve been watching Mythbusters like a madwoman lately, and I just saw an episode where their experiment involves a dude in the Civil War getting shot through the leg into the testicles, and the bullet continuing on into the uterus of a woman 150 feet behind him, impregnating her. While the myth itself turns out to be false, it’s false because the bullet was still too hot after leaving the testicles to carry living sperm, and shockingly, SHOCKINGLY, not because such a shot was impossible. They actually execute the shot with ballistic gel and bone models, and their expert sharpshooter gets it in on the first try with a period weapon, and the bullet goes through the tibia, through the, *ahem* sac, and about halfway through the far-off woman. Science is CRAZY.

(via hobbescomics)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:49:48 -0700

(via hobbescomics)

one time warren buffet told michelle rhee he knew how to solve the crisis in public schools

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:27:35 -0700

novazembla:

isabelthespy:

(this was an anecdote related to us by michelle rhee in her speech at NYNP’s summer training retreat)

she asked him how, and he said: make private schools illegal, and set up kids to be sent to public schools by random draw. when you have upper east side kids potentially heading to school in the south bronx (a fairly reasonable commute for them by the way), probably suddenly schools will improve drastically in a shockingly timely fashion.

he is, i am pretty sure, more or less right, and it really bums me out that in the US giving families choice - not something i’m exactly against, mind you - is so AUTOMATICALLY, taken-for-grantedly considered a far superior method of combating the education crisis over FORCING it to become a TRULY COLLECTIVE problem, one in which the burden, and thus the responsibility and impetus to find a solution ASAP - falls on all of us equally because it’s all of our problem, which frankly, it SHOULD weigh on all of us equally, because JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, how people can be so blase about how absolutely shittily we as a country deal with our most vulnerable and helpless population, one which AGAIN HOLY FUCK YOU’D THINK “TRYING TO DO OUR BEST BY MOTHERFUCKING CHILDREN” WOULD BE KIND OF A NO-BRAINER TO SIGN ON TO (and ACTUALLY sign on to, not sign on to “family values” style)… it just boggles my mind, breaks my heart, etc. etc. etc.

This is actually more or less the system in San Francisco, minus the whole “making private schools illegal” thing, which I don’t think you could ever make happen, realistically. It’s a disaster, because everyone with the resources to do so sends their kids out of the city to private school, and so all of the public schools suck equally.

more ok cupid dog-whistles

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:20:00 -0700

novazembla:

cijimcb:

takes care of herself = you are not fat

active = you are not fat, and won’t ever get gat

hwp = not fat

eats right = not fat

fun = not fat

In which Ciji is a genius.

One of my general ok cupid rules is that if a guy mentions his thoughts and/or requirements about my body anywhere in his profile, he’s automatically disqualified, no matter what those thoughts are. If you care enough about my body that you’re willing to put requirements right up front, then I am not the girl for you.

Same goes for messaging me with anything even vaguely relating to my boobs. I know what they look like, I do not need you to tell me about them before I’ve even met you.

"I support the correctly used apostrophe with that kind of fierce emotional investment in an..."

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:47:22 -0700

“I support the correctly used apostrophe with that kind of fierce emotional investment in an irrelevance that most people reserve for football.”

- David Mitchell (via knowledgehoover) (via fuckyeahdavidmitchell) (via thedaysarenotfullenough) (via novazembla)

My biggest pet peeve, bigger even than my hatred for Comic Sans and Papyrus, is “it’s” in place of “its.”

(via hobbescomics)

I feel passionately about apostrophes.

"No pressure…as long as you’re trying as hard as you can to shrink to an ACCEPTABLE size."

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:25:36 -0700

“No pressure…as long as you’re trying as hard as you can to shrink to an ACCEPTABLE size.”

- Huge, which I’m kind of surprised to find that I like?

novaya zemlya: missshirley replied to your post: On my way home, I picked up another...

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:35:31 -0700

novaya zemlya: missshirley replied to your post: On my way home, I picked up another...:

missshirley replied to your post: On my way home, I picked up another two reminders of why I literally do not leave my block, and usually not even my apartment, alone after dark.
…
GAH. My mother is pretty young, and young-looking. She’s 46 now. She and I have been hit on TOGETHER….

I tend to get catcalled while I am on first dates. Last first date I went on, a random guy followed us three blocks yelling that my date “wants to fuck that girl! Tell her you want to fuck her!” It was looooovely.

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false..."

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:49:17 -0700

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?” …Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, “We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”

- — Charles M. Schulz (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover) (via hobbescomics) (via alittlebirdcallede)

Well, crap.

novazembla: tlmonahan: pigtailsandcombatboots: Well, not me,...

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:48:26 -0700

novazembla:

tlmonahan:

pigtailsandcombatboots:

Well, not me, cuz I’m working, and that wouldn’t go over too well.

Let’s Get Naked - appliqued pillow / cushion

Do you think people would judge me if I had these on my couch? I mean, I would HIDE them if my mother and father were visiting. But otherwise, cool, right?

Ooh, see, this is brilliant. You could have them out when you invite someone you like in after a date or whatnot, and when they jump out at you both (as pillows that say “LET’S GET NAKED” in bold, capitalized, and sometimes red lettering are wont to do), you can say “WHOOPS, that’s embarrassing!”

And then you’ll both have a laugh about your rogueish decorating style, but it will be all that either of you can think about. And then you bone.

~*FIN*~

Oh man, this needs to be on my couch.

novazembla: mar-see-ah: notthatkindagay: halfpastkevin: Fox...

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:47:43 -0700

novazembla:

mar-see-ah:

notthatkindagay:

halfpastkevin:

Fox News Poll

Tumblr, you know what to do (click the image)

edit: also “I don’t care what a judge thinks about the constitution”? fucking hypocrites. the constitution is the word of god…unless some fags use it to defend themselves

BOMBS AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

We’re up to 26% - click the picture to vote.

Ohoho. Let’s do this.

Currently 52% say prop 8 is unconstitutional. Tumblr fixed it!

here is a heart. here is a hearti made it for you, so take...

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:34:22 -0700

here is a heart. here is a heart
i made it for you, so take it
battered and braised
grilled and sautéed
just how you like it, like it
you know i live to fill you up

“Here Is A Heart” - Jenny Owen Youngs

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’"

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:47:38 -0700

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

- David Foster Wallace (via novazembla, beelockwood)

novazembla: love-and-radiation: hotblondecocktail: Like, I have seriously given up on trying to...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:54:04 -0700

novazembla:

love-and-radiation:

hotblondecocktail:

Like, I have seriously given up on trying to get people to not hate the fat. If you’re going to hate the fat, at least be honest about it and say you are against the fat because it offends your precious little eyeballs.

I have a belly and sometimes I drum it it like a bongo.

I do too.

I also do this! When I was little, like three or four, I took a kids music class with a whole section where we sat in a circle and played the “tum drum” on our bellies, and I still find it kind of soothing.