February 2011
January 2011
ABC 7:
Supporters of mayoral hopeful Watkins were not about to let Moseley Braun off the hook for a heated exchange that took place earlier at a South Side candidates forum.
Watkins fired the first shot accusing Moseley Braun of leaving public life for several years. “I did not even know the woman lived in the city of Chicago because I haven’t heard her voice on the street,” Watkins said.
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WatchWith ten hours remaining, Cards Against Humanity is 358% funded after raising $14,339.
The Onion A.V. Club called Cards Against Humanity “pretty amazing,” The Chicago Tribune Puzzler described it as “simple, yet well-executed,” and Dice Hate Me said that the cards were “brilliantly crafted.”
This will be my last “buy Cards Against Humanity” post -...
So I finally convinced my younger brother to start a cooking blog, and it’s off an a solid start. Here’s his recipe for Crispy Honey Asian Chicken (click through for pictures):
After Culinary School I wanted to make a bunch of recipes. Here is one that I took pictures of…but in typical Ross fashion there’s no recipe that can be found nor logical picture-by-picture steps on how to...
Daily Legalese
aterrex:
Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum et ad infernos. To whomsoever the soil belongs, he owns also to the sky and to the depths.
“Aren’t you ashamed to say that?”
– Wittgenstein’s response to Metaphysical solipsism (Only I exist) as opposed to Epistemological solipsism (I can know only that I exist). (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“[Philosopher A.J. Ayer] taught or lectured several times in the United States,...”
– Wikipedia
Humans vs. Zombies helps residence hall win...
Utah Statesman:
The organizers of the “Humans vs. Zombies” game last semester raised the bar for residence halls everywhere. The game helped Utah State University’s Residence Hall Association (RHA) on their way to being awarded “School of the Year” for the 2009-10 academic year.
The nod for “School of the Year” was voted upon by members of the...
"Cookies," by Douglas Adams
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong.
I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table.
I want you to picture the scene. It’s very...
WatchHey Tumblr friends - there’s still eight days left to back my game, Cards Against Humanity, on Kickstarter.
The Onion A.V. Club recently interviewed me and called the game “pretty amazing.”
Cards Against Humanity is a free party game for horrible people.
Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and...
bensgrabbag asked: A friend of a friend is trying to start Humans vs. Zombies on campus but running into difficulties. Can I give her your contact info so she can ask you for advice?
The College Bubble
Peter Thiel, in the National Review:
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it. Housing was a classic bubble, as were tech stocks in the ’90s, because they were both very overvalued, but there was an incredibly widespread belief that almost could not be questioned — you had to own a house in 2005, and you...
Someone just sent their APUSH homework to my...
Under your definition for “Land-grant Colleges,” don’t forget to cite the second Morrill Act from 1890, arguably the least boring of all the land grant acts, which expanded the Morrill act to the Confederate states and prevented those states from considering race when admitting students.
irrationalignorance asked: How many things have been printed so far? I just sent the narwal looking thing, by the way. This immensely brightened up my night.
i-have-nightmares asked: Attachments work?
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