Res Ipsa Loquitur

This is pretty great.

alexbalk:

It might not always show

Via Alex Balk

4pm

The Sundays, Wild Horses

Few songs capture a feeling like this one.  Also, OMG Buffy!

3pm

I’m here because of so many horrible mistakes and reckless decision making.

12pm

NYTimes.com: Opposites on Ice Make ‘Battle of the Blades’ a Hit Show in Canada

My total guilty pleasure.

justsayjolie:

Toepick.

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11am

Fitting

Better than just a like.

natashavc:

*Actual events*

I.

Lauren is an elementary schoolteacher for ‘disadvantged’ children. She is white and the student body is not. They are mostly poor and illiterate. Many are eager to learn. There are a boisterous few who fidget and scream and refuse to conform to any sort classroom civility.

Lauren, who has a womanly figure and big pillowy mouth, purposefully dresses dumpy for her job. The idea is that she does not want to pose a threat to the young girls of the class or as a distraction to the jostling boys.

II.

Diamond is a student of Lauren’s; a  dazzling 7th grade extorvert,  who writes her own plays and startles the adults with her frank humor. She was chosen to speak at a school assembly commerating the anniversary of the school. This was a big deal. Diamond was told that this was a big deal and dress for its bigness.

Diamond wore the most expensive shoes she owned: a loud two-toned pair of Nike dunks that her mother bought her for her 12th birthday. Another teacher chastised Diamond for wearing sneakers to such a hallowed event. Diamond was weeping. Refusing to go on out of shame. Lauren listened from her desk, unsure of how to help. A co-worker was trying to rebuild Diamond’s confidence.

“You’re going to cry? That’s not the Diamond I know!” the teacher insisted.

Lauren had brought a spiked pair of heels to wear to the ceremony that were tucked away in a plastic bag. Lauren asked Diamond what size she wore. Sniffling, Diamond tried on the shoes and moments later catwalked onto the auditorium’s stage in tall, burgundy, stilettos.

III.

Lauren knows that she looks like a teenager. The students know it too. It’s often used aganist her when there’s tension in the class room. For some children Lauren is just a few years younger than their mother.

In the front row of the class Lauren is substituting for (a hateful and strident affair since the teacher left verbose instructions that actually told Lauren nothing of what was to be done in a subject area she has little background in: science.) two boys openly mock her.

They are speaking in a stage whisper loud enough for the entire class to hear. They are making fun of Lauren’s rubber, square toed, brown clogs.

Lauren doesn’t know what to do. They are dressing her down. Acknowledging it, she worries, would mean handing over the last shred of respect she’s fought for that afternoon. She also wants to scare the children into silence by making fun of their untied, fetid, sloppy shoes.

She hates the shoes she’s wearing too, they make her feel ugly and oafy. Feeling her throat tighten, Lauren makes the quick decision that she should toil in some other career for the next 5 years and wait until her face has the lines in it that would command respect.

Under her breath she shyly asks them to stop talking about her, they laugh her off. The shame has her paralyzed, and she devotes the rest of the lesson to silent reading. She sits down looking blankly science textbook, keeping her feet hidden underneath her teacher’s desk.

The next time she sees the boys in the hall she avoids there eyes and wishes them ill.

Via my internet is where i want you to touch

4pm

Well, that’s a hell yes.

hortenseg:

Madonna- “Dress You Up”

Via *h

4pm

Google working with airports to provide free wi-fi through the holidays

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it is working with airports across the country as well as Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others to provide free Wi-Fi as a holiday gift now through January 15, 2010. The gift currently includes 47 airports, including Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Baltimore, Burbank, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, St. Louis and Charlotte. Additionally, as a result of this project, Burbank and Seattle airports will begin offering airport-wide free Wi-Fi indefinitely.

1pm

Just in case you were wondering if you would ever be Rick-rolled by Pearl Jam, Stone Gossard has you covered.

1pm