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the usps must have been legally required to change their name because all i ever get from them is annoyed while receiving very little service. im waiting on a package which i was pleased to see had a fed ex tracking number but once it got to nyc they offloaded it to usps. i have only one time actually had a package delivered from them without having to go retrieve it from the post office. but now with my last two packages they arent even leaving me a slip in my mailbox so i can get it without an expected hassle. last time at least i had a usps tracking number and i scheduled a delivery which to my surprise they made but this one has only a fed ex tracking number so it doesnt work in the usps system. and me without decent id (i know, fuck off) makes it one degree more difficult. fuck you, post office for failing at the most basic level of competence.
 


- dave 5-15-2015 10:40 pm [link] [1 ref] [6 comments]

In a nearly unbelievable chapter of Oregon history, a guru from India gathered 2,000 followers to live on a remote eastern Oregon ranch. The dream collapsed 25 years ago amid attempted murders, criminal charges and deportations.


- steve 5-15-2015 10:21 am [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

History of billiards and plastics


- steve 5-13-2015 9:46 am [link] [add a comment]

just randomly exclaimed "priceline... negotiator!" for successfully aiming a stream of raid through the pans hanging on my wall killing a roach. lets just say the roach had it coming to him. i may need to lay down after all this excitement. (imagine im one of those people who would photoshop a can of raid into this photo, and sure, why not, a roach or two. its not like you imagining literally increases the amount of work i have to do.)

 


- dave 5-12-2015 8:38 pm [link] [add a comment]

vanishing Bowery
 


- bill 5-08-2015 3:14 pm [link] [2 comments]

looks to be an interesting multi-arts festival in detroit.


- Erin Boberg 5-04-2015 3:09 pm [link] [add a comment]

cutaway


- bill 5-01-2015 8:44 am [link] [1 comment]

i made the unfortunate error of being kind today. someones mail has been forwarded to my box for the last couple of days and i was able to track them down via google and twitter. now im sitting around waiting for a text and then ill have to deal with talking to someone for upwards to two minutes. that she is an attractive brasilian born actress only makes it more of an inconvenience. thankfully her imdb page only has one notable listing and that was as eye candy for a scene in an iron man movie. but really the worst part is that her spelling is atrocious which i guess can be forgiven considering her backround but misspelling instagram in your twitter header is just flat out negligent.


- dave 4-30-2015 7:48 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]

so experiencing some sort of aura at the moment. not nearly as vivid as the picture but im glad i was able to quickly identify it. it has mostly dissipated now but was a little discomfiting for about 15 minutes.


- dave 4-27-2015 6:12 pm [link] [1 ref] [7 comments]

portland's new baseball team announced their nickname today
the portland pickles
 


- Erin Boberg 4-21-2015 6:21 pm [link] [1 ref] [5 comments]

only one unique tree dweller....


- dave 4-20-2015 11:13 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]


- dave 4-10-2015 10:03 pm [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]

Hess Triangle


- steve 4-10-2015 6:37 am [link] [add a comment]

Emmett quickly became bored with the Mime Troupe and what he considered the "safety" of the stage. With his almost invisible companion, Billy Murcott, the one he called "the genius," Emmett began improvising activities on the streets which laid the groundwork for the Diggers, a group whose action-oriented philosophy and politics were based on autonomy, personal authenticity and freedom. The name itself was an homage to Gerard Winstanley, the millenarian heretic religious leader of seventeenth-century England who believed in the universal right of man to cultivate wastelands and common lands without paying tariffs to owners of the manors they adjoined. Winstanley's followers were nicknamed the Diggers because they dug and planted on these lands, only to be beaten and dispersed by vigilantes roused by local landowners.

- bill 3-29-2015 1:55 pm [link] [add a comment]

Building explodes and collapses in East Village: 2nd @ 7th street. At least 30 injured and more still trapped.


- jim 3-26-2015 5:23 pm [link] [1 comment]

Any advice on scanning docs with an IOS device? The built-in mail app, which Mom uses, seems to automagically destroy ... rescale ... images captured with the internal camera. "Hey, here's a handy thumbnail of that doc!" There are a few scanner apps that generate PDFs. But she doesn't do this often enough to make learning a new app very feasible, unless it's super simple.

Is there a way to tell the built-in app not to muck with the picture?

This is all because airprint isn't a two way app. Who woulda thunk that a tablet computer would need to be a computer?


- mark 3-25-2015 5:21 pm [link] [3 comments]

pretty funny tweet by some george rr martin looking wannabee...

i mean... what could go wrong?


- dave 3-25-2015 4:39 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

It wasn't as strange as it might seem for the author to coin OK as an abbreviation for "all correct." There was a fashion then for playful abbreviations like i.s.b.d (it shall be done), r.t.b.s (remains to be seen), and s.p. (small potatoes). They were the early ancestors of OMG, LOL, and tl;dr. A twist on the trend was to base the abbreviations on alternate spellings or misspellings, so "no go" was k.g. (know go) and "all right" was o.w. (oll write). So it wasn't so surprising for someone come up with o.k. for oll korrect. What is surprising is that it ended up sticking around for so long while the other abbreviations faded away.


- dave 3-23-2015 11:44 am [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]

 what could this mean for spring break?


- steve 3-23-2015 6:32 am [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]

took me a minute....


- dave 3-22-2015 7:08 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

time to break out those hannukah bush ornaments, people! winter is back!! or is this just one giant game of thrones promo? someone get a snowflake under a microscope, stat!!! damn you, jon snow. you know noothin'.


- dave 3-20-2015 4:12 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

48 state road trip


- bill 3-17-2015 2:35 am [link] [1 comment]


- dave 3-15-2015 12:25 am [link] [add a comment]

creepy Barbie


- steve 3-14-2015 5:25 pm [link] [add a comment]

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?


- dave 3-14-2015 3:47 pm [link] [1 ref] [9 comments]