January 2012
10 posts
The Doree Chronicles: John Tyler's Grandsons Are... →
laphamsquarterly:
Shut UP, history! You are so crazy!
mentalflossr:
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son….
This does not necessarily refer to your email.
alexbalk:
There needs to be a term to describe the condition where you keep an email unread in your box because you’re not prepared to deal with it yet, but then you start to hate and resent the person who sent it because it is the only unread email in your box and it sits there silently accusing you with its boldedness. Or maybe I am the only sufferer of said disease.
Profile: Effie Trinket
thecapitolcouture:
EFFIE TRINKET
HER TRIBUTES AREN’T THE ONLY THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SEASON.
With a keen eye towards cutting edge trends and a willingness to break boundaries, Capitol-born style icon and District 12 Escort Effie Trinket has been a fashion pioneer since her very first Hunger Games. She has been known to take the iconic building blocks of contemporary Capitol fashion...
The Double Bogey: The golf business is a tough... →
thedoublebogey:
The golf business is a tough business. From the WSJ:
Callaway, based in Carlsbad, Calif., reported losses in both 2009 and 2010 as well as for the first nine months of last year. It reports fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, with losses expected to continue. It is losing market share to…
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
8 posts
October 2011
9 posts
I’m reading the Steve Jobs book.
Jobs is just starting NeXT.
Through the first 30 years of Jobs’s life, he comes off as a real jerk in the book.
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September 2011
5 posts
The Doree Chronicles: Mindy Kaling: It makes... →
doree:
Mindy Kaling:
It makes sense, then, that in the romantic-comedy world there are many specimens of women who—like Vulcans or Mothra—do not exist in real life.
Here are some examples:
The Klutz
When a beautiful actress is cast in a movie, executives rack their brains to find some kind of…
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“Studies show that in a phenomenon called “emotional contagion” we unconsciously...”
– Gretchen Rubin, “The Happiness Project” (via triquetras)
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
12 posts
Nicholas Carlson, Chris Anderson, and Esther Dyson...
gaberivera:
It’s true:
Via Bloomberg Game Changers.
Related note: somewhere in NYT’s digital vault are images of me in which I complied with a photographer to assume far more ridiculous poses. Thankfully, the photo they actually published wasn’t so bad.
P.S. Posting this mainly to test Tumblr. I’ll be flying to NYC tomorrow, so I need to get into the groove.
April 2011
5 posts
