February 2012
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Notes from a museum
Last night I was positioned next to a giant wall depicting the dates of Egyptian rulers from Scorpion to Cleopatra.
The following things were said from people looking at it.
“Jesus was born in 370 BC, so the calendar immediately switched to AD, so all these years [pointing to the 370 on years, including Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, and Cleopatra] are wrong”
“two thousand...
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ugh
It’s taken over an hour to try to upload this picture
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January 2012
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So there’s this attractive lady who works in the Special Events Dept. at the Museum (that I also work at, convenient some would say.) with whom I am on an awkwardly waving and smiling status with. Last night I was heading to the cafe and I saw her on her way to the tunnelvator with a cart.
the Tunnelvator is an elevator that goes up and down one flight of stairs so
that...
Watchmeet the Barry White voice
That moment when
you’re walking to the tub to take a shower, and your neighbors turn on their shower at the same time, and you know that means you won’t have hot water for an hour, and you’re standing there thinking about if you want to wait that long to go have breakfast, and your hand slides over you butt for the first time since you’ve been walking to and from work every day (2 miles...
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grungesundae asked: 18, 24 and 43.
The best part of this job is when you pass a docent giving a tour to late middle school/early high school students, but (s)he has confused them for Pre-K. “and what colour is this?” “Uhm, red…” (confused look) “Very Good” (claps a little) “and can anyone tell me what shape this is?” “a square…” (confused look)...
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I have two stories
first the eyerolling one
A couple weeks ago Some of my neighbors were trying to get work the lock on the apartment gate. (it worked a bit funny, that you had to only put in 95% of the way for it to work properly) I mentioned to one of them that my remote wasn’t working, so if they asked the Landlord to replace the gate to be sure that I didn’t get locked out. So, naturally, last...
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December 2011
26 posts
Every few minutes
I hear the roar of a torrential rainstorm barraging the roof of my apartment. It’s quite a pleasant sound, but it is somewhat troubling in that the sky is clear and deep navy, and has been all day.
with five more liked posts
I’ll have like 5000 posts
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“These are the Grover Norquist disciples who want to ‘drown government in the...”
– Rep. Keith Ellison: If It Ain’t Broke, Break It (via pantslessprogressive)
Boom. 10 megaton truthbomb.
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yep, this is pretty accurate