My Office
- Coworker: You missed it this morning. I almost committed justifiable homicide this morning.
- Me: Haha, on who?
- Coworker: [redacted].
- Me: Why?
- Coworker: This person, in a completely silent office, while talking to no one, laughed as loud as they possibly could (while clapping for some weird reason) for 20 minutes straight
- Me: haha why?
- Coworker: Fuck if i know. I think it was a picture they got via email.
- Me: Sounds horrible.
- Coworker: Oh it got worse. As she's having this laughing fit (need I remind you she's f*cking 43 years old), she proceeds to call someone, god knows who, just to laugh EVEN LOUDER on the phone while speaking in single syllables... only to hang up... laugh some more... and call the same person back
- Me: Wow. Why is everyone still alive?
- Coworker: Because I am merciful and useless without coffee.
- Me: I would have put money on you verbally abusing her at least.
- Coworker: Had money been involved this would have had a much different ending.
Tap That (Tessa)
- Me: so... so when am i gonna tap that?
- Tessa: tap what?
- Tessa: haha
- Me: dat asss
- Tessa: tap my knee?
- Tessa: whos ass
- Tessa: ur ass?
- Me: haha don't act like you don't know
- Me: so quick what's it gonna be
- Tessa: oh i know, i know your not getting any
- Me: i'll take that as a maybe
- Tessa: ake it as a maybe not
- Me: pick you up at 9 then?
- Tessa: if only you were a 9er
- Me: since i don't know what that means i'm gonna assume you prefer doggy
- Me: so i need a hard answer... no more of these maybes
- Tessa: you need a hard answer hmm
- Tessa: hard?
- Me: only for you
- Me: ...and maybe your sister
- Tessa: im gonna go with no, sorry slick your moves just dont work here
- Me: sounds great, my place at 8 it is
- Me: haha and on and on...
Just watched this movie (Oldboy). Wow, it’s incredible. I feel like I need to watch it 10 more times before I can start to fully appreciate it.
The art direction is incredible, it never allows you to be fully comfortable with a scene. The cinematography is genious with it’s asyncrocy. The acting is gritty, dirty, imperfect but in a real way. The whole time though you feel suspended someplace between real and unreal. Like the plot is not real enough for me to believe it’s reality, but not crazy enough for me to brush it off as fantasy.
If you have the chance, go see this movie. And go with subtitles, not the english dubbing.
When we talk about innovation and global competitiveness, we tend to fall back on the easy metric of patents and Ph.D.s. It turns out the U.S. share of both has been in steady decline since peaking in the early ’70s. (In 1970, more than 50% of the world’s graduate degrees in science and engineering were issued by U.S. universities.) Since the mid-’80s, a long progression of doomsayers have warned that our declining market share in the patents-and-Ph.D.s business augurs dark times for American innovation. The specific threats have changed. It was the Japanese who would destroy us in the ’80s; now it’s China and India.
But what actually happened to American innovation during that period? We came up with America Online, Netscape, Amazon, Google, Blogger, Wikipedia, Craigslist, TiVo, Netflix, eBay, the iPod and iPhone, Xbox, Facebook and Twitter itself. Sure, we didn’t build the Prius or the Wii, but if you measure global innovation in terms of actual lifestyle-changing hit products and not just grad students, the U.S. has been lapping the field for the past 20 years.
