kara: i had a dream i had an ipad and was a reading a magazine on it and it was awesome
kara: sadly, i hear magazines are so far not awesome on the ipad
eric: yeah
eric: people are still figuring it out
eric: guess it started off better than the web though
eric: early web pages were hilarious
kara: true
kara: i mean, i should be able to switch to ‘paperless’ subscriptions on my current magazines, just like i can opt out of paper statements for my credit card and other bills
eric: haha, the publishing industry is so far away from being able to figure that out
eric: the whole thing is like this incredibly brittle porcelain vase being propped up by lots of crossed fingers & old money
quotes
dreams and cold, hard reality
Posted in quotes on June 10th at 5:36pm – commentso true
Posted in quotes on March 15th at 6:29pm – commentI myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
~ Rebecca West
via angie
no, but admittedly I didn’t have my face near that end
Posted in quotes on March 1st at 6:39pm – 1 Commentme: maybe i should just move to new zealand and work in tourism and walk around a glacier all day
me: sounds good to me
eric: pet koalas
me: YES!
me: oh my god
me: so cute
me: so sleepy and cute and so soft
eric: did their farts smell like coughdrops?
(they sound like pure joy)
Posted in miscellany & errata, quotes on October 19th at 5:57pm – commentfrom the madeloud.com review of the edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes album:
Make no mistake, though: Edward Sharpe & the Magnificent Zeros are no jam band. Don’t think Phish; instead, imagine what Arcade Fire would sound like if they’d sprouted up in Southern California, hanging out in a sun-baked backyard rather than hunkered down in a chilly old church in Canada.
me: i think you put it better
me: and more succinctly
eric: yeah, maybe “chilly old church” means their butt
eric: and “hunkered down” means they put a stick up in it
gotta get some v.c. together for this
Posted in quotes on October 12th at 9:14pm – commentpost-dinner, laden with unwanted leftovers and in search of a homeless person to whom we could offer free food, how many homeless people did we see after walking around for 15 minutes? NONE. WTF. we started studying every person we saw, judging whether they seemed homeless. none did. none were. frustrated:
me: this is ridiculous!
jula: usually there are - i mean, this is hollywood.
terry: where are they? i can’t believe we can’t find a single homeless person! where are they hiding?? …is there an app for that?
just SAY something!
Posted in quotes on September 10th at 11:19pm – commenttonight jula and i watched ‘gone with the wind’ (her first time, my second) and during one of scarlett and rhett’s frustrating miscommunication-based fights:
jula: oh my god, can’t they just hug it out??
this is why i love my mom
Posted in quotes on September 8th at 12:04pm – commentone reason, anyway. after i looked at our australia/new zealand trip itinerary:
me: wow this is so expensive
me: i owe you forever
mom: naw
mom: you’re worth it
mom: :)
mom: you might go back there some day - but i doubt if we will
me: i don’t know if i will - it’s so far away!
mom: i’m sure nathan (your future husband) will want to go there
mom: fillion
bacon makes everything better
Posted in quotes, this is what happened today on July 10th at 12:07pm – 1 Commentmy parents usually have turkey bacon for sunday breakfast but a few weeks ago my mom fried up some real bacon she had leftover, prompting dad to say yesterday, out of the blue:
there are probably things we should carry regular bacon in the house for. …like, everything.
this week’s best dollhouse quotes
Posted in quotes on May 2nd at 6:02pm – commentcarrots! medicinal carrots! personal use medicinal carrots…that were here when i moved in…and i’m holding it for a friend.
i totally want this print; i totally do not want my bodily functions scored
Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, quotes on April 23rd at 10:40pm – commentre: this awesome time traveler essentials print by ryan north:
eric: hehe
eric: yeah
eric: i saw that the other day
eric: tempting
eric: especially as a print
kara: i like the ‘woo’ on the wing cross-section
kara: ha in this [print] he gives the chemical formula for synthetic birth control
kara: this is totally the kind of thing that would be great to have on the back of the bathroom door so you can contemplate it while sitting there doing your business
eric: mike has that one from questionable content that just says “mmm… that’s good poopin”
kara: i think that would freak me out
kara: i mean, i don’t need my BMs evaluated like it’s the olympics or something
eric: 6.8