ashe dryden

Now with more snarcasm.

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Brainstorming

  • me: so in my "all work" section
  • me: ill have two different blogs: one for clients and one for colleagues, but i have to figure out what to call them
  • Matt: friends, romans, countrywomen?
  • Matt: haha that'd be a great "country living" blog
  • Matt: for bored housewives that want to fantasize about living on ranch
  • Matt: "Friends, Romans, Countrywomen" tagline "Lend me your steers"
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Score: 1 for @tapps, 0 for @mathiasx

  • Ashe: trying to write fun, light, but professional content
  • Matt: you're good at this game
  • Matt: me to client: Your site sucks.
  • Matt: Client: Whaaat?
  • Matt: me: You need to pay me a lot of dollars to fix it because I am awsome.
  • Matt: Client: No thanks. We'll go talk to Tracy Apps.
  • Matt: Me: foiled again!
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clientsfromhell:

In the contract I received from Client:

“If payment for services is not received, all work must still be completed.”

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Kenguru - The car you have all been waiting for

Driven directly from a wheelchair – access is via the rear-opening tailgate and steering is by motorbike style handlebar  (joystick option will be available in time)

notemily:

Kenguru - The car you have all been waiting for

Driven directly from a wheelchair – access is via the rear-opening tailgate and steering is by motorbike style handlebar  (joystick option will be available in time)

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Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant…
The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.

hunsonisgroovy:

Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant

SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant…

The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.

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It’s one thing to recognize capitalism for the powerful economic tool it is and to acknowledge that, for better or for worse, we’re stuck with it and, hey, thank God we have it. There’s not a lot else that can produce mass wealth with the dexterity that capitalism can. But to mistake it for a social framework is an incredible intellectual corruption and it’s one that the West has accepted as a given since 1980—since Reagan. Human beings—in this country in particular—are worth less and less. When capitalism triumphs unequivocally, labor is diminished. It’s a zero-sum game. People paid a much higher tax rate when Eisenhower was president, a much higher tax rate for the benefit of society, and all of us had more of a sense that we were included.
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Certainly, the discussion of welfare has always been bogged down by moralistic hand-wringing over the idea that the poor might scratch out some pleasure they don’t “deserve”, because it’s supposed to be reserved for what Sarah Palin likes to call Real Americans—-white, middle class, politically conservative. A long time ago, I read an essay by a woman on food stamps that really opened my eyes to how much this is true. She was describing how she got glares from people in the supermarket for having items as innocuous as strawberries in her cart. I’m sure if those people were confronted, they would say that they don’t want to pay for someone who is wasteful and that strawberries are just too expensive and don’t go far enough. But this argument is bullshit, because strawberries are nutrient dense compared even to most fruits. You get a lot of bang for your strawberry buck in terms of fiber and vitamin C. I think they even have more calories than most fruit. Clearly, the objection to strawberries is that they’re so pleasurable, and someone on food stamps is viewed as someone who doesn’t deserve even the smallest pleasures.

Watching Ben Nelson defend his nasty amendment on TV, he was dripping with this mix of prurience and class warrior mentality. He was delighted at his creative new way to make the sluts admit what dirty sluts they were, by having them write a separate check to pay for an abortion rider. It couldn’t be more obvious what the idea is—-to create a paper trail of you sluttitude that would be seen by the banks and the insurance companies. Some of us don’t give a shit, of course, but obviously Nelson hopes the dirty sluts feel the pain of their dirtiness every time they write that check. If you can’t arrest them in public, you can do this much at least. Or, to put it another way, if you’re going to buy those strawberries, you should be forced to do it in front of people that will sneer at you for thinking you have a right.

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GPOYW - The micro bike is nice, but this is better edition. (ugh, so glad i cut my hair off.)

smutandeggs:

GPOYW - The micro bike is nice, but this is better edition. (ugh, so glad i cut my hair off.)

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If I were a Navi speaking my native tongue, I’d be pretty pissed that my English subtitles appeared in yellow Papyrus font. Holy crap, James Cameron.

grrliz: so many movies, so little time

Really? Papyrus? Come on.

(via notemily)

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dude. sufjan stevens knits.

infinitebutterflies:

comeanddance:

eemmaa:

this makes my life.

mine too.

mine as well.