February 2012
3 posts
char*: Lament of the Delicious Librarian →
jessiechar:
But you know what? Fuck everyone who ever called us booth babes. Fuck everyone who thought that our wearing pencil skirts must have meant everything was some other dude’s idea. We designed, built, and ran everything at that booth and I’ll always be proud of the work we did there.
Fuck Yeah Jessie Char.
January 2012
32 posts
PAUSE: Finally. Raving Rabbids in BDSM as French...
killscreendaily:
French toy retail Artoyz opened their new exhibition yesterday dedicated to Raving Rabbids of, well, Raving Rabbids fame. Geek Art has more photos.
Fight Space
Has anyone ever noticed that Fight Club and Office Space have remarkably similar plots?
Both are about a crisis of masculinity.
Both feature a protagonist in a dead-end office job with a heroic and anarchic other.
And both end with the destruction of the establishment.
“We accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child...”
– Rachelle Trujillo, vice president for communications of the Colorado Girl Scouts, responding to a story about a transgender girl who was allowed to join the Brownies.
Looks like I’ll be buying a ton of cookies this year.
(via Shakesville article on various bigoted attacks on the GSA by religious...
Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother, →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
This week in “asshole parents and awesome supportive older siblings”
The Confusatory: Informal Foursquare Rules →
cbowns:
Places you shouldn’t check in: Where you sleep. It’s no fun being mayor of your own flat: you live there. Let your friend that visits all the time earn it. (Important note: this includes the house of your significant other/fling/one night stand. It’s weird to be at a friend’s house and have…
Why I don't want rockstars, ninjas, or wizards
Rockstars are arrogant messes who steal the spotlight, trash hotel rooms, and leave the rest of the band to apologize and clean up.
Ninjas are dishonorable and would sooner stab their enemies in the back than face them in battle.
Wizards are fictional; they’re an impossible promise.
I want a game designer.
Game designers know when to talk and when to act. Game designers look at...
“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the...”
– Andy Warhol, via Gruber
December 2011
17 posts
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
If I was a designer in that meeting, I’d probably quit right then and there.
Words with Assistants
Her: Have you seen Titanic?
Me: No, but I saw the movie.
Her: Shut up. Did you know that Jack and Rose weren't real people?
Me: ...yes.
Her: I didn't know that.
Me: You thought you were watching a NatGeo documentary?
Her: Shut up. I thought they were real people.
Me: They are. But their names are Leonardo and Kate. They are actors.
Her: Shut up.
Me: They didn't even have color movies back then, how could you not know it was fake?
Her: Shut up.
Me: I hate to continue this day of disappointment for you, but you should also know that Star Wars was totally made up.
Her: Shut up.
Me: Except Darth Vader was a real person. He was a passenger on the Titanic.
Her: Shut up.
Me: Sorry you're having such a rough day.
Her: Thanks.
Me: Your heart will go on.
Her: Shut up.
Levarina’s Diary:
Dear Diary,
So, Lydia’s dead. She failed to grab the concept of “stealth,” and ran in to a bandit hideout bows a’blazin.
And I was just beginning to hate her, too.
My Skyrim character has her own diary.
