Carey Lives Here

Forgive Me Father For I Have Sinned

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:41:00 -0400

I am virtualizing Windows to run OneNote. I feel dirty.

hunterwalker: The First Rule of J-School Is You Don’t Talk About J-School Debt Everyone I know in...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:33:00 -0400

The First Rule of J-School Is You Don’t Talk About J-School Debt

Everyone I know in media keeps telling me I’m crazy for doing this. Though I remain confident in my decision to go to j-school, it’s hard not to get cold feet. I showed up to orientation today hoping to hear something that would ease my fears.

[via Gawker]

Don’t worry, Hunter - you’re not alone. Law school? Law school? I’m hearing it too.

What else is there? Doctors are doing great these days, right alongside journalists and lawyers. It’s a great time to be a teacher, too. Guess there’s no place in America for professionals anymore.

At least if you go the entrepreneurial route, you’ll have one cheap lawyer to help out.

I'm Technically "In Between Things"

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:35:53 -0400

At least until Monday. -sigh- Hard to believe I’m leaving Consumerist. Guess I’ll have to update here more often?

Consumerist Deactivating Anonymous Comments/Facebook Connect

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:47:15 -0400

Consumerist Deactivating Anonymous Comments/Facebook Connect:

hortenseg:

A commenter in the threads brings up an interesting point: some of the most racist, sexist, and obnoxious comments come from FB Connect users who post these things using their real names, with a picture of their face and a link to their FB page attached to their profile. I often hear it argued that anonymity makes it easier for people to be assholes on line—and this is true, to a certain extent—but the FB connect experiment shows that sometimes, assholes are just assholes, and they don’t care if you know it.

And it is nice to occasionally know who’s panning your work. Several of my government posts were plagued by a Facebook commenter who would rile up everyone with his vile extremist bullshit. Thanks to Facebook, I know he’s a high school senior from Missouri.

We expect our commenters to audition, not just show up. This is the only way to make the kiddies line up for their turn in the pool.

I bought a basil plant last December to keep me company. I named...

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:11:23 -0400

I bought a basil plant last December to keep me company. I named him Basily, but what I lacked in creative naming I made up for with meticulous care. This is Basily today, still happy and healthy down in Wellington. Keep reaching, little friend!

The Big Picture had fun with the eclipse.

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:13:01 -0400

The Big Picture had fun with the eclipse.

No business for NZ's largest council

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:26:00 -0400

No business for NZ's largest council:

The Auckland City Council has cancelled its monthly meeting because it has nothing to talk about.
In an email to media, a democracy coordinator said the meeting had been cancelled “due to a lack of business”.

It’s like a headline out of Sim City. (Also, Dominion Post, punctuation goes inside the quotation marks. Yes, inside.)

The new issue of The Onion is terrific.

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:43:00 -0400

andrearosen:

Go read the Sold Out to China issue now, especially this opinion piece from Jimmy MacDonalds, “American Children Like Me Are Lazy And Insolent And Must Try Harder:”

It’s even full of exciting fish-sponsored mythology!

Yao Ming, who at 28 will soon be the only active player ever to be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame, learned to play basketball when he was 3 years old after finding an untamed cobra in the mountains, a cobra of ancient legend whose very breath was poisonous. The cobra was taller than a full-grown tree, and beat Yao in one-on-one basketball competition every day for 19 straight years. Then, the very night before their final game, Yao prayed deeply to his ancestors and ingested more than 20 pounds of Yu Wan Mei fish by-products, and behold! Yao grew three feet while he slept.
Yao beat the cobra 11-0 the following morning, beheaded it with a great spear, fashioned a graceful sailing vessel from its colossal body, and rode this vessel across the Pacific Ocean to play professional basketball in the United States. There, Yao Ming became leader of the Rockets after receiving the Mandate of Heaven from previous team captain Hakeem Olajuwon.

"On April 3, 1956, according to news reports, a Mrs. Julia Chase of Hagerstown, Maryland, while on a..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:39:42 -0400

“On April 3, 1956, according to news reports, a Mrs. Julia Chase of Hagerstown, Maryland, while on a tour of the White House, slipped away from her tour group and vanished into the heart of the building. For four and a half hours, Mrs. Chase, who was described later as “disheveled, vague and not quite lucid,” wandered through the White House, setting small fires - five in all. That’s how tight security was in those days: a not-quite-lucid woman was able to roam unnoticed through the executive mansion for more than half a working day. You can imagine the response if anyone tried anything like that now: the instantaneous alarms, the scrambled Air Force jets, the SWAT teams dropping from panels in the ceiling, the tanks rolling across the lawns, the ninety minutes of sustained gunfire pouring into the target area, the lavish awarding of medals of bravery afterward, including posthumously to the seventy-six people in Virginia and eastern Maryland killed by friendly fire. In 1956, Mrs. Chase, when found, was taken to the staff kitchen, given a cup of tea, and released into the custody of her family, and no one ever heard from her again.”

- Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

"The headlands and broken bays, with the rough, steep mountains coming sheer down into the blue..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:54:43 -0400

“The headlands and broken bays, with the rough, steep mountains coming sheer down into the blue waters. The closeness of the land, and the narrowness of the passages, all tend to create a mysterious charm, which he who gazes at them finds himself unable to analyze. He feels tempted to land at every gully which runs up among the mountains and to investigate the strange wild world which must be beyond them. He knows, in truth, that there is nothing there,-that one brown hill would lead only to another, that there is no life among the hills, and that the very spots on which his eyes rest really contain whatever there may be of loveliness in the place. But though he knows this as fact, his imagination will not allow him to trust his knowledge. There is always present to him a vague longing to investigate the mysteries of the valleys, and to penetrate into the bosoms of the distant hills. The sweetest charms of landscape are as those of Iife ;-they consist of the anticipations of something beyond which never can be reached. I never felt this more strongly than when I was passing from one land-Iocked channel to another along the coast of Cook’s Straight.”

- From Australia and New Zealand, in which Anthony Trollope describes with haunting accuracy what it’s like to sail near Queen Charlotte Sound. Flickr’s description isn’t half as good.

Fighting Kiwi will spear your guard dog.

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:10:46 -0400

Fighting Kiwi will spear your guard dog.

"Hoping you could help me with something. I have a book here that’s called “War Before..."

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:47:16 -0400

“Hoping you could help me with something. I have a book here that’s called “War Before Civilization.” It was thrown out of a moving vehicle (I guess the reader didn’t agree with the sentiments) and I’m thinking to myself, who would like a book like that? Want it?”

- I really hope Ariel meant I’m the sort of person who would like a book thrown from a vehicle, and not that I’m warmonger.

Pigdependence day in Vermont was a tasty success!

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:28:00 -0400

Pigdependence day in Vermont was a tasty success!

"From the Declaration of Independence: “laying its foundations on such..."

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:50:00 -0400

“From the Declaration of Independence: “laying its foundations on such principles…”

Google Voice hears: “sunday schnitzels cripples.

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- Pushing the Limits of Google’s Speech Recognition [The New York Times]

evillageidiot: It’s official. The National Weather Service in...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:09:28 -0400

evillageidiot:

It’s official. The National Weather Service in Central Park has recorded rainfall. No beard shaving tonight. And according to many last night, I may have to be sacrificed to the Gods to get this rain to stop.

Ok everyone, Chris has angered the Gods. He’s a witch or worse, and must be sacrificed for the sake of our ailing, um, crops! Yes, crops… Anyway! Gather up your weapons and Things That Burn, and meet outside his apartment at midnight. It’s the only path to a sunny 4th. Sorry, Chris!

Here's photos of my lovely attempt to climb a glacier in New Zealand.

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:43:00 -0400

Here's photos of my lovely attempt to climb a glacier in New Zealand.:

foureleven:

I wrote a guest post on my friend Annemarie’s blog about climbing Franz Josef Glacier. Two months later I still have a scar on my hand from dropping my walking stick on my hand and then watching it fall down an ice cave. I hope it eventually fades away, but if it doesn’t I’ll just think of it as a battle scar.

Annemarie was one of my first friends in the city; we met when I was a not-yet-jaded 21-year-old. Ah, those were the days.

Edit: These are pictures of the glacier, not me. That’s for the best. Also, Carey was out, um, trying to, um, do something with Jeff so he’s not in any of these pictures either. To be honest, I completely forgot what Carey was doing that day.

Ahh, I remember that day, the day Jeff and I sent everyone up the glacier for a heli-hike and then went to the hot pools. One of Jeff’s friends got us in for free, so while Stephanie was off dropping her ice pick on the glacier, we were enjoying exquisite silence and relaxing in 40 degree pools. Good day!

"It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for..."

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:58:51 -0400

“It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”

- Nixon. Nixon, Nixon, Nixon…

"At the upper reaches of society, we litigate ever more readily and accept misfortune with ever less..."

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:06:49 -0400

“At the upper reaches of society, we litigate ever more readily and accept misfortune with ever less stoicism. Being fired from a job becomes the beginning of a negotiation, while a routine school suspension instantly goes to appeal. In part, this is probably the inevitable reckoning for a culture that gives trophies to every Little Leaguer because, as the saying goes, we’re all winners. Shouldering defeat is, after all, a skill that has to be learned early, like speaking Mandarin or sleeping through the night. A blown call on a home run hooking foul used to be part of the game, a generations-old lesson in the randomness of adversity. Now the crowd breaks for hot dogs while the instant replay delivers its verdict and the homer is revoked. There are no more bad breaks in life — only bad umps.”

- Matt Bai on The Lost Art of Conceding Defeat

This bird here’s alright. The name’s Pontif XI. Says...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:27:57 -0400

This bird here’s alright. The name’s Pontif XI. Says he used to be a cardinal.

Northwest flight maps have a cruel feature that lets you roam...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:47:00 -0400

Northwest flight maps have a cruel feature that lets you roam across the world and pretend you’re going where you want to be.