January 2012
11 posts
Vague notes-to-self on my desk
One pot/anhydrous ammonia method (but modified to use ammonia nitrate fertilizer)
David Maguire CSC case RIP
Bryan’s contact solution
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It is like the Walden of rat books!
– Robert Hendricks, on this book, which he lent to me for, like, a year, and I never read it
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Conversations with my mother
Me: Wait, S or X?
Mom: X. As in. ... Fox.
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate,...
– Eve Arnold (April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012) the first woman photographer to join Magnum Photos (via graycard)
December 2011
8 posts
Things that happened that made today awful
In order:
Miss eight consecutive phone calls from my editor re: breaking news because phone was left on vibrate
Husband says, “What’s the big deal? Does editor think this is some kind of internet news show?”
Think to self, “WHAT IS IT YOU THINK I DO FOR A LIVING?”
Husband says, “Oh that? Yeah, I saw it on the 11 o’clock news last night. You were...
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November 2011
16 posts
Sixty-one percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job...
– That’s Jean Chatzky, writing in Newsweek, on why students shouldn’t take unpaid internships. (via newsweek)
I”m gonna call my new car the Hatermobile because it will be bought with...
– a friend, on being bought out
She told me she wasn’t making an apple pie this year and I was like,...
– a friend on his mother’s Thanksgiving plans
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Cheryl Pell came to visit us today to help us with some redesign stuff. She brought all these lovely papers from all around the world, which I could’ve pored over for hours, except I wasn’t in on the meeting. Swoon!
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Saying a prayer for all my friends at Michigan's...
Sounds like tomorrow is doomsday. Once again. Good luck, guys.
October 2011
16 posts
A Confession
georgiaarhodes:
I have been addicted to buying books since the age of seven. This is becoming an increasing financial problem.
Word. You should see the stack sitting next to my bed. Most are half read, dog-earred or bookmarked. Others haven’t even been opened yet. And then there’s the bookshelf and the box in the closet….
tyleroakley:
Rihanna - “We Found Love”
FLAWLESS.
I don’t always reblog things on Tumblr, but when I do, I reblog Rihanna.
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I just want to say I’m proud of you, proud of the person you are, and I...
– a voicemail from my mom, which came on a particularly shitty Thursday. Love you too, mom.
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else...
– George Orwell (via philphys)