today feels like friday. it is not friday. i have to work from work tomorrow so i need to keep reminding myself that it is not friday ( Read more... )

today is the anniversary of the boston molassacre great molasses flood which is probably my favorite tragedy, if one can have a favorite tragedy. it's so weird. also destructive but mostly weird. a storage tank of molasses burst in boston's north end, drowning people and horses and bending the girders of the elevated railway. the company that ( Read more... )

in 1873, four americans (well, three, but one of them had gone on his honeymoon) managed to steal the equivalent of $10m from the bank of england. this is a long article about it but it's really interesting. and ballsy.

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day 8: a song about drugs or alcohol - spirit of the west, home for a rest

there was a full moon last night and according to the news here, it was the snow moon. appropriate, since it snowed yesterday. :D once again, enough to be pretty but not enough to have to shovel. my favorite kind. (well, next to snow that gets you out of school/work....)

over the weekend i did some day drinking at a local cidery with tamalinn and ( Read more... )

it was sunny today when i left the house, so of course i wore my sunglasses, and by the time i was ready to go home it was dark, and of course i'd left my glasses-glasses at home. >.< it's amazing how much darker the world looks at night if sunglasses are your only eyewear option. >.< at least my forgetfulness got some fresh air because seriously ( Read more... )

on saturday i went to the peabody essex museum with the parental unit and their neighbor, and when i finally get all the pictures off my phone i can share some of them. there was a rodin exhibit. so much fabulous sculpture. also a lot of random plaster maquettes, and sculptures made from cannibalized parts of other sculptures. apparently rodin ( Read more... )

if you type "rereleased" enough times it ceases to look like an actual word. (if you e-file a tax return and it gets rejected, you have to fix it and re-file it. i did a lot of e-filing and re-e-filing today ( Read more... )

because i had a bit of a head cold last week, now i have a fucking annoying persistent cough. like, i hacked up a lung the entire time i was on the bus this morning - even around the cough drops - and i felt so bad for everyone else on the bus with me. i try really hard not to cough in anyone's direction, even with my face in my elbow. i got ( Read more... )

thirty examples of human kindness.

minimalist bible posters - rather, minimalist posters for the various bible chapters. i don't get most of them (my biblical knowledge is kind of sketchy) but they look really cool.

creepy-ass floating black ball that records and replays the ambient noise around it. undeniably cool, but also creepy as shit ( Read more... )