Posted 8 hours ago
Vegans

Vegans

Posted 8 hours ago

So I’ve got this crappy Inspiron 530 desktop I’m using right now. Not great. Has like a dual core 1.8 Ghz processor, and 1 Gb of ram. But! I can get a Intel Core Duo 3.16 Ghz processor with 1.3 Ghz bus speed and a 6mb L2 cache for 40 bucks. Which, I know, isn’t the best in the world. But for the price, I’m more than happy with it. Max mem is 4gb, but still. It’ll be a whole lot better. Add a nicer graphics card with HDMI output, if I can. Make it a little media server.

Posted 8 hours ago
I guess you deleted your personal side/partially naked password blog?
Anonymous asked

Omgosh, I deleted that aaages ago. Unfortunately I don’t really feel safe having personally identifiable pictures of me naked online. After all the ‘trap’ websites and blogs, I’m really afraid to end up on one. 

Posted 9 hours ago

look at this ugly picture of me from years months ago

Posted 10 hours ago

All right everyone, here’s the deal. I’ve been using my brother’s laptop for the last like, 6 weeks. And today I finally had the money to send it back to him ($40!). I’m plugging in my extremely sad and underpowered desktop, but unfortunately I won’t be on much for the next few weeks. Hopefully I will be buying a charger for my laptop (only $40!) on my next payday. But seeing as that’s rent/bills/1 year anniversary paycheck, maybe not.

This is probably going to affect A, R, and new emailer who’s preferred name I do not yet know. You three, I’ll try to keep in touch and keep up on the emails as much as I can.

Posted 10 hours ago
iwillevisceratetheheartsoutofyou:

d4vek4t:

onlylolgifs:

Macaroni being made

are you fUCKING KIDDING ME

I can’t stop watching it

iwillevisceratetheheartsoutofyou:

d4vek4t:

onlylolgifs:

Macaroni being made

are you fUCKING KIDDING ME
I can’t stop watching it
Posted 23 hours ago

I’m wearing sexy black lace panties, just for me.

Posted 23 hours ago

Our new Foldgers Hazelnut coffee smells like buttered popcorn jelly beans/suckers taste. It is fucking with me so bad.

Posted 23 hours ago
beveledaubergine:

heretherebdragons:

madlori:

I bet you did.
Did you estimate what mpg your car is getting?  Did you figure out how many hamburgers you could get for six bucks?  Did you think about how long it would take you to get somewhere given the speed and distance?  Did you plan a meal so all the components would be done at the same time?  Did you encounter anything on sale?  Did you figure out how many groceries you could get for how much money you had?
There are about a million other daily, unconscious tasks that use algebra or at least algebraic thinking.  Just because you weren’t writing out an equation or employing variables doesn’t mean you weren’t using the skills that algebra and other math courses taught you.
Science and math aren’t important because you’re going to need to know the exact steps of photosynthesis or the quadratic formula.  They’re important because they teach you scientific and mathematical literacy and rational thinking, and that is sorely needed in a world where charlatans and cheats or people with a political or religious agenda can get away with all manner of pseudoscience and bullshit because people don’t have enough scientific literacy or critical thinking skills to accurately weigh the arguments or even discern where they fail logically.
So study math and science, and art, and literature, and history, and politics, not because you’re going to need it or it’s going to do something specific for you, but because an uninformed populace is bad for the world.

Bless this commentary. 

 
As a science TA, I have to fight this argument at least once a schoolyear  when I’m working with teenagers. I have to try and remember this for next time (usually I’m too busy hauling the batteries and chassis)

beveledaubergine:

heretherebdragons:

madlori:

I bet you did.

Did you estimate what mpg your car is getting?  Did you figure out how many hamburgers you could get for six bucks?  Did you think about how long it would take you to get somewhere given the speed and distance?  Did you plan a meal so all the components would be done at the same time?  Did you encounter anything on sale?  Did you figure out how many groceries you could get for how much money you had?

There are about a million other daily, unconscious tasks that use algebra or at least algebraic thinking.  Just because you weren’t writing out an equation or employing variables doesn’t mean you weren’t using the skills that algebra and other math courses taught you.

Science and math aren’t important because you’re going to need to know the exact steps of photosynthesis or the quadratic formula.  They’re important because they teach you scientific and mathematical literacy and rational thinking, and that is sorely needed in a world where charlatans and cheats or people with a political or religious agenda can get away with all manner of pseudoscience and bullshit because people don’t have enough scientific literacy or critical thinking skills to accurately weigh the arguments or even discern where they fail logically.

So study math and science, and art, and literature, and history, and politics, not because you’re going to need it or it’s going to do something specific for you, but because an uninformed populace is bad for the world.

Bless this commentary. 

 

As a science TA, I have to fight this argument at least once a schoolyear  when I’m working with teenagers. I have to try and remember this for next time (usually I’m too busy hauling the batteries and chassis)

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Posted 23 hours ago

continueplease:

nbcnews:

Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

(Photo: Intel)

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

Read the complete story.

Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Fuck that guy.
Remember this brown girl.
Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr

image

Posted 1 day ago

grrrlfever:

wouldnt it be cool to just like not feel nervous about everything all the time

Posted 1 day ago

callmetierra:

missjessicasmith:

callmetierra:

also, i have successfully ruined Jess by introducing her to Fringe, Supernatural, The O.C, and now Garden State, and also various bands that I listen to. I’m sure I’ll further ruin her by introducing her to other random things she feels necessary to avoid. 

you see what i have to deal with? i don’t even know what i like anymore

oh shush, i’m just expanding your interests

they’re your interests! I wasn’t interested until you had to watch them in front of me!

Posted 1 day ago

callmetierra:

also, i have successfully ruined Jess by introducing her to Fringe, Supernatural, The O.C, and now Garden State, and also various bands that I listen to. I’m sure I’ll further ruin her by introducing her to other random things she feels necessary to avoid. 

you see what i have to deal with? i don’t even know what i like anymore

Posted 1 day ago
The millennials are the people who’ve inherited the hangover from the baby boomers’ party: a warming planet, a dysfunctional global financial system that rewards the rich and screws the poor, a polarized political class that’s moved so far to the right that a centrist like Barack Obama can be described with a straight face as “a socialist.” Millennials may be “narcissistic, materialistic and addicted to technology,” as Stein alleges early in his article; they’re also drowning in college debt, slaves to an internship “system” that demands ever-increasing work for no pay, and entrants into a job market that’s replaced employment rights with the “flexibility” of never being able to afford health insurance.

Why Time’s Millennials Cover Story Says More About Joel Stein Than It Does About Millennials

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Posted 1 day ago
The millennials are the people who’ve inherited the hangover from the baby boomers’ party: a warming planet, a dysfunctional global financial system that rewards the rich and screws the poor, a polarized political class that’s moved so far to the right that a centrist like Barack Obama can be described with a straight face as “a socialist.” Millennials may be “narcissistic, materialistic and addicted to technology,” as Stein alleges early in his article; they’re also drowning in college debt, slaves to an internship “system” that demands ever-increasing work for no pay, and entrants into a job market that’s replaced employment rights with the “flexibility” of never being able to afford health insurance.

Why Time’s Millennials Cover Story Says More About Joel Stein Than It Does About Millennials

(via girldumpling)

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