September 2008
38 posts
“Be part of something bigger than yourself.”
– MAJ Doug Zembiec USMC (via rulesformyunbornson)
The Internet should only work from 9am to 8pm
superamit:
Over beer tonight, Fabian was talking about how stores used to close at 6pm everyday, and are still closed on Sundays in Germany, but that things are changing. Now grocery stores are open until 10, so people are there at 9:30 at night.
So people need to work late to staff the store into the night, and you’re shopping when you could be doing something more enjoyable. Overall, maybe...
“These areas kick sustainable commercial and receational fishermen off the water...”
– Dan Bacher, in an editorial on Schwarzenegger’s $3.1 million line item veto of DFG funds. The quote refers to Marine Protected Areas, and is the best written summary of their inability to do what they are supposed to do (increase/maintain ocean health and fish populations) that I have come...
“i am wary of a few good aquaculture operations giving the rest of the industry a...”
– nate
i am not entirely anti-aquaculture, ftr
Spoon - Chicago at Night
homesickness not...
Watchsuperamit:
A little segment CNET taped yesterday about the Flickr bike I’m riding around. I went over around 11am to tape with Heather Champ from Flickr.
p.s. I told them keeker came up with the name for my bike, but it was edited out. :(
kkr’s photo is in it too!! kkr you’re CNET famous! well, so are you, amit.
“Maybe we should go to OMB (the White House budget office) and withhold over 30...”
– US Rep. Mike Thompson, (D-St. Helena), on the National Marine Fisheries Service withholding (or “delaying” as they like to put it), $70 million out of $170 million authorized for the salmon fishery disaster relief.
Watcha wonderful new drug hits the market.
199. Limit your time in California.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
in 9 days, i will have lived here for 2 years.
“To put it all in perspective, former PCFFA President Pietro Parravano (and...”
– my boss, in an email about Sarah Palin’s stance on Bush’s offshore aquaculture policy.
“What’s an iPhone?”
– my mom, after I told her I switched my phone to an iPhone.
Watchi am at the precipice, about to fall in to this black hole.
(-sigh-)
175. Never leave a job without securing your next...
rulesformyunbornson:
But when it’s time to go, don’t hesitate.
my father has always advocated this position. now, the beauty of a second job in serving = security for those empty months.
176. Do laundry often. You won't need as many...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Welcome to the Hotel 747 →
superamit:
dailymeh:
When a jumbo jet dies (and plenty of them do these days), it’s usually sold for scrap or sent to bake in the desert until the end of time. But Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios has a better idea for the 30-year-old junker he bought — turn it into a hostel.
Turning an old plane into a place to spend the night is cool. But turning it into a place where we can afford to spend...
breast cancer walk camping outside my office
crissy field currently looks like what i imagine the camps for the AIDS lifecycle looked like, minus all the bikes and plus hot pink tents.
i need a working camera, i would’ve taken a picture of the van with pink writing (a la high school pep squad style): “traveling for tatas!”
“Take a drink if, re: his v.p. choice, John McCain politely asks for a mulligan.”
– The New Republic’s Republican National Convention drinking game.
Drink Up, My Friends.
(via Nate)
