December 2011
88 posts
Different generations of slang
I had just had to look this up due to an email from my advisor.
natch |na ch |
adverb
informal term for naturally .
Subway musings #2:
Love isn’t the only way to check if I have a soul
Subway musings #1:
Is the desire* to be fulfilled by a “career” elitist?
*ok, what about feeling entitled to fullfillment?
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“Interesting footnote. I’m purposefully avoiding eating black licorice because my...”
– Sassy TA comment. Touché. :D
#Also, he was entirely right. It was totally non-obvious from my text. Oops.
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That thing where everyone is getting married while I watch How I Met Your Mother and Pirates of the Caribbean: I think I’m just not going to think about it.
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“I am distressed. I cannot find space blanket interliner for my coat.”
– Things that come out of my mother’s mouth
Haiti and the opposite of an urban solution →
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Here’s to hoping that by this time next year, no members of any religion will have cause to persecute or hate those of another—
Starting to plan Israel
The good news: I have somewhere to sleep in Jerusalem!
The even-better news: I will have to relearn how to make turkish coffee to pay my “rent” to Yael, my beloved adopted Yerushalmi mother.
“charming, cute, and portable… you’ve got it all.”
– my new slogan, guys
Re: Some Titles I Am Considering For My... →
kambr:
Is It Weird To Mail A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Homemade Cookies (And Other, Other Things I Worry About)
I read this out loud to my parents. My dad’s response was:
“Well, your gradmother made Lebkuchen (delicious German cookies) for Carl Hempel (famous German philosopher) once when he was at Carleton (where my parents went to college) for a semester”
Holiday joy
Getting to check into a hotel in my hometown and get handed an adorable map of all the shops downtown—what better break could I ask for? And what better feeling than to see my town doing well?
“4. Ranching (raising animals for eating) (self-transporting)”
– Because at this point I might as well be amused at the world-view that looks at a cow and says “how convenient, you’re self transporting! the easier to sell and eat you with my dear!”
(Source: planning economics, recitation notes)
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Devastating explosions on demand →
Jobs that look like fun
It’s cool that in theory one day I’ll be qualified for this kind of thing:
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Transportation Economist/Analyst The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) seeks energetic individuals to join its Department of Planning and Joint Development as a Transportation Economist/Analyst to advance the Authority’s vision of...
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Today's word, courtesy of the NYTimes
chi·a·ro·scu·ro (kē-är’ə-skʊr’ō, -skyʊr’ō) n., pl., -ros. In all senses also called claire-obscure. The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation.
The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art.
A woodcut technique in which several blocks are used to print different shades of a color.
A woodcut print made by this...
“One abortive effort of mine was an attempt to build a model of the distribution...”
– Also this. Krugman, self-effacing footnote.
“Moreover, partly because of the novelty, partly because of the inherent sexiness...”
– Krugman, stop making me fall in love with you (Space: The Final Frontier, 1998)
Urban economists are sexy.
They just are. Don’t fight it.
““President Hockfield,
We have waged infinite battles against our...”
– The note to go with the image earlier.
in general with regards to Shakespeare
contemplatingchicken:
I hope whatever written work I leave behind is rich enough to be violently plundered by my cultural descendants for whatever they need to find in it.
It’s kind of marvelous in a way — his intent, at this point, has long ceased to matter. What matters is what you can make of his words.
Didn't know that
AWIT = Associate professor with tenure
“I feel like the potential in terms of human dignity and actually being connected...”
– Judy Layzer, on the potential of regional thought on sustainability…thinking about reducing travel, thinking about bioregional-specific energy initiatives, etc.
“People with big Christmas displays make me sad. I mean, why are you trying so...”
– via stuffhipsterhate
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“I wish Negroponte was banished”
– Responding to someone’s statement that Nicholas Negroponte was banished from the field of architecture…
That’s a hefty statement Bish.