Yelping with Cormac: Starbucks
This here’s a latté.
A what?
A deluxe coffee, Wallace. Four dollars of brown gold.
Wallace leaned down and grabbed the cup from Madison’s hand and took a drink. He spat it out. Goddamn, he said. Tastes like a pregnant mare’s urine.
No it dont. Give it here.
Wallace wiped his face with his arm. Tastes like spent cartridges in a pickle jar.
Come on now. It aint that bad.
Wallace leaned and offered the cup to Tucker. You try it, he said.
Tucker let the bridlereins rest on the pommel and holding the cup two handed took a drink. He handed the cup back to Wallace and continued looking at the cattle and the shimmering grass and the mountains knifing into the blue canopy above. Wallace and Madison waited but the older man sat there for a while and said nothing.
Well go on, what’s it taste like, said Madison.
Tucker leaned from the saddle and spat in the tallgrass. Tastes like snake venom, he said.
This made my afternoon. Read the whole thing, twice.
Source: yelpingwithcormac
hardy worthlessness and worthless hardiness
Murmuration
“A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena”
Liberty Smith and Sophie Windsor Clive unexpectedly caught a rather large murmuration on video while canoeing on the River Shannon in Ireland. A collection of starlings is called a murmuration.There are stills for the first 20 seconds, then the video kicks in. An absolute must see!
Incredible.
Goodness gracious.
(via whatevernevermind)
Source: mikaelchoe
I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help.
A few ways to help:
- If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
- If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on.
- If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.
This dude means a lot to me. If you can help, please please do.
Source: jayparkinsonmd
Both the UK and the global economy are facing a familiar foe at present: policy defeatism. Throughout modern economic history, whether in Western Europe in the 1920s, in the US and elsewhere in the 1930s, or in Japan in the 1990s, every major financial crisis-driven downturn has been followed by premature abandonment—if not reversal—of the macroeconomic stimulus policies that are necessary to sustained recovery. Every time, this was due to unduly influential voices claiming some combination of the destructiveness of further policy stimulus, the ineffectiveness of further policy stimulus, or the political corruption from further policy stimulus. Every time those voices were wrong on each and every count. Those voices are being heard again today, much too loudly. It is the duty of economic policymakers including central bankers to rebut these false claims head on. It is even more important that we do the right thing for the economy rather than be slowed, confused, or intimidated by such false claims.
Play Spent - try and make it through the month as a low income American.
Impressed that this got created at all.
Source: rickwebb
Overridden
- Me: By default, it's on every page I think but that can be overridden.
- Me: It's kinda kludgy.
- Nicole: how so?
- Me: how can I be overridden?
- Nicole: that's deep.
- Nicole: I don't know if I can answer that.
- Nicole: I mean, that kinda goes to the heart of the idea of self, doesn't it?
Since we completed our first season, folks have been begging us for a chance to fund a second season. We’ll be asking for your help, starting on Thursday.
Our goal is ambitious: we’re going to be traveling abroad this year, and hiring local crew to assist. We’re going to pay a producer to do producer stuff. In other words, we’re going to do it right. We’re also going to do it consistently. Added staff will allow us to avoid the long waits between episodes in season one.
We want to do a professional production, supported by you, the viewer. If you love our show, or if our show has touched your life, I hope you’ll pay for more.
Put This On Season Two: the Kickstarter begins September 1st.
This will be the first kickstarter I participate in.
Source: putthison
BRYCE DOT VC: What We Really Mean by Wanting to be the Next Silicon Valley
As I write this, Apple has passed Exxon to become the most valuable company in the world. The contrast of 20th vs. 21st century economies couldn’t be starker. On one hand you have Apple reinventing every industry it touches, with $75 billion dollars of cash in the bank and building a spaceship in Cupertino and on the other you have belching exhaust, depleting resources and government subsidies. As we collectively work our way through the present pains of this massive global transformation, Silicon Valley presents a living, breathing manifesto for what it means to be a 21st century economy.
Stark indeed.
Source: brycedotvc
I'm Nikolaus Bauman 