March 31, 2010
Tourist Season Bingo 2010.  Where no one really wins, but keeping score helps us tolerate the invasion. 

Tourist Season Bingo 2010. 

Where no one really wins, but keeping score helps us tolerate the invasion. 

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March 23, 2010
I daresay no person looks forward to timesheet reminder emails so much as myself.

I daresay no person looks forward to timesheet reminder emails so much as myself.

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March 11, 2010

sarahb:

twentysomethingtales:

Steve Almond analyzes Toto’s “Africa.” Genius. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.

1. This is fantastic.

2. One time Greg tried to karaoke this song and it was the worst idea ever.

This is for that roommate who incessantly played college a cappella group recordings of Toto’s greatest hits.  She know who she is and what she wrought. 

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March 4, 2010
“ I renamed my iphone the titanic, so when I plug it in to itunes it says ‘the titanic is syncing’
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March 1, 2010
Brian Williams' thank-you note to Canada

frenchelon:

After tonight’s broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we’re going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week.  Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.

Thank you, Canada:

For being such good hosts.

For your unfailing courtesy.

For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.

For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us laugh and cry.

For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games — you’ve made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

For not honking your horns. I didn’t hear one car horn in 15 days — which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.

For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.

For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.

For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.

For always saying nice things about the United States…when you know we’re listening.

For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.

For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.

Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.

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February 23, 2010

necessary backstory: her coworker just had their officemate's baby and got caught by her boyfriend trying to pass it off as his

  • J: read receipts make me happy in a really lame way
  • see also: hacking voicemail systems to get direct extensions
  • E: ahh, you're a cubicle drone now
  • do you have a labelmaker?
  • J: oh, you love your labelmaker, shut up
  • E: because that thing brings me the kind of joy usually reserved for new moms
  • "you can't possibly understand until you have one yourself"
  • J: but no, no label maker as of yet
  • i'm waiting til the time is right
  • when i'm a little more stable, financially
  • E: sure, and emotionally prepared
  • just so you know, mom once told me she wouldn't mind if i had a labelmaker before marriage
  • but she would really prefer it if i waited until things were legal
  • J: it's a personal decision
  • i'd at least like to be involved with a three-hole-punch i felt i could count on until i really start thinking about label makers.
  • E: well, as we learned from your coworkers, never lie about where you get your office supplies
  • because staples does NOT accept returns from office depot
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February 16, 2010

The great disadvantage of watching the Olympics as a historian is that, after a glass or two of wine, you’re all “Zubok and Pleshakov! Didn’t they dominate with the Pamchenko at the Albertville Games?”

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January 27, 2010
  • M: please refer to it by its proper names, the iSavior or JesusTablet
  • E: or iDiedforyoursins
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  • M: please refer to it by its proper names, the iSavior or JesusTablet
  • E: or iDiedforyoursins
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January 22, 2010
Been working on Haiti detail all week and just noticed the view from temporary office.

Been working on Haiti detail all week and just noticed the view from temporary office.

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