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tangentialism: (Surprise Twist: There were no consultants. @lazysundae, your scheme to plant fake consultants was weak. Take your lotion samples and jet.)

tangentialism: Since we were in a meeting, three of you must go. Consultants, you think much more highly of yourselves than we do. Please pack your things.

tangentialism: Cafeteria: Your architecture is beautiful, but your food is pedestrian. What is a "cranberry festival"? We expected more of you. Goodbye.

tangentialism: My knuckles: you did well this summer but you failed to rise to the challenge of winter. You are flaky and raw. I'm sorry, knuckles.

tangentialism: John Dingell, the House Energy Panel challenge needed something more progressive than the auto industry. I'm sorry, but you're off my day.

tangentialism: every hour on the hour, i am voting somebody off the reality show of this day.

tangentialism: the valiant arm exercises i performed at the gym on monday have come back to haunt me. it didn't occur to me that typing involved the arms.

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tangentialism: discovered: roasted gingko nuts smell like Grimaldi's.

tangentialism: watching naked lunch and striking out on all possible dinner arrangements.

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tangentialism: waiting for the train, a Hasidic woman asks a stylish hipster black girl about her braids. thirty minutes layter, they're still talking.

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tangentialism: obama makes requisite mutt-as-dog-vs-mutt-as-mixed joke! he's just like me! http://tinyurl.com/6d8bwt

tangentialism: economic arguments with my politically-opposed friend, long dormant, are seeing a sudden, vigorous resurgence. they're a lot more fun now.

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tangentialism: feels like I just woke up. excited to see what the day brings.

tangentialism: Just voted for the first mixed-race President of the United States: http://do.thatthing.org/post/57952476/vote

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Last night, I watched as Barack Obama--who I hope will be the first black President of the United States--shed tears onstage as he talked about the death of his grandmother, who is white. On the eve of the election, it was incredibly hard for me to see; I lost both my Chinese grandparents last winter, and my mother's mother, who was Irish-American, died a few years ago. We heard a lot in the last year about whether or not Obama is or isn't "black enough", assuming that a prominent figure NEEDS that sort of racial quorum--to be black, or white--to win the presidency. He has to fall on one side or another of that fence, but what would that have meant to his grandmother? Read more about why I voted today, and if you're in the U.S., go vote yourself.

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Last night, I watched as Barack Obama—who I hope will be the first black President of the United States—shed tears onstage as he talked about the death of his grandmother, who is white. On the eve of the election, it was incredibly hard for me to see; I lost both my Chinese grandparents last winter, and my mother’s mother, who was Irish-American, died a few years ago. We heard a lot in the last year about whether or not Obama is or isn’t “black enough”, assuming that a prominent figure NEEDS that sort of racial quorum—to be black, or white—to win the presidency. He has to fall on one side or another of that fence, but what would that have meant to his grandmother?

As an American of mixed race, I’ve floated between two cultures my entire life. Ostensibly, it’s what America is about, but you couldn’t tell by watching this election. Barack Obama is black, to be sure, and it’s amazing that we could have our first black president by tomorrow; but he’s incredibly special to me, not just because He’s Mixed Like Me, but also because I treasure the complicated road that a leader of mixed race will have walked. Obama is black, white, Indonesian, Kansan, Hawaiian; and while he’s not quite any of those things completely, he has had to synthesize an identity from all of that—a consensus identity. Being mixed race doesn’t give you the confidence of being any one thing, which can be hard, but it also frees you from some of the dogma and prejudice; you have to figure out the best things to take away from your cultures and embody those things in your life. Rather that being part of any ethnic group, those groups become part of you.

At my wedding last month, all but one of the five babies running around the venue were of mixed race—Korean, Egyptian, Texan, Mexican, Indonesian, Jewish. It’s not nearly as rare as it seemed to be when I was a kid; rather, it’s become a common expression of what it means to be American. America looks like this now—we all look like this now, to a certain extent—and the look comes with a deeper understanding of diversity—of race, religion, politics and opinions. Barack Obama grew up thinking about these things, and he brings them—for the first time—to the front door of the White House. That’s why, a few minutes ago, I walked into an elementary school (Puerto Rican, Jewish, Dominican) and voted for him.

Whatever drives your decision, please take the opportunity today and vote.

tangentialism: nice IM to start the day: "cool we have an openin for a gnome illusionist"

tangentialism: talking about our ideal cookie ice cream sandwiches while speeding down 95 in frigid clear weather.

tangentialism: just found out we get election day off this year. figuring out how to spend the entire day in the voting booth.

tangentialism: until about five minutes ago, i was pretty cocky about beating this whole jet-lag thing. now i feel like a hungover tollbooth worker.

tangentialism: have arrived in Singapore after a week in east Bali. it is like night and day--not even the same universe, much less the same continent.

Finding something inspiring to talk about at our wedding. Noted:...

Finding something inspiring to talk about at our wedding. Noted: writers generally bearish on marriage.

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Attacca

Attacca:

The Attacca Quartet’s front page is done, and I’m working on a backend for the rest. Consider it karmic payment for them playing my wedding for free this October. Also, they’re family.

It’s the very least I can do for my brother and his amazing quartet. I couldn’t pick a more inspiring group of musicians through which to live vicariously. I’m a little steamed that he beat me to the punch on a New York Times mention, but I’ll gladly suffer that. In the meantime, I’m glad to be able to contribute. The Attacca String Quartet, plus one musically-trained Rails developer.

Why You Should Buy a Home From a Realtor, Quoted From That Realtor's Site

I have lived and traveled across the country, but I have settled in Pittsburgh’s up-and-coming North Side.
During college, I was national recognized for my participation in public speaking competitions while at George Mason University.
I understand the challenges of shopping for a home from a distant location and the difficulties of marketing a home online.
I have Shih Tzus.

"Q: How do you know if you are on a Mongolian train? A: Is the lady car attendant shoveling coal in..."

“Q: How do you know if you are on a Mongolian train? A: Is the lady car attendant shoveling coal in thigh-high black leather boots with stiletto heels? You are on a Mongolian train.”

- a very small array

Ziggy Cartoon in an Elevator

Me: Happy Birthday.
Z: ...in April?
Me: Oh.
Me: Congratulations about something. You got a dog?
Z: No.
Me: You swam in the Hudson River?
Z: I swam in the Hudson, yes.
Me: How sad is it that all my social interactions are based on Facebook statuses?

"It is only by making them live in hell that we’ll get drivers to renounce their cars."

“It is only by making them live in hell that we’ll get drivers to renounce their cars.”

- Yves Contassot, former Deputy Mayor of Paris

"The irony is that you have to be somebody before anybody listens to you,” he said. “I wasn’t an..."

““The irony is that you have to be somebody before anybody listens to you,” he said. “I wasn’t an expert when I was an expert, and now that I’m not an expert, I’m an expert. It’s kind of curious.””

- “After ‘The Wire’, Moving On to Battles Beyond the Street”, Michael Wilson, the New York Times

"Back then, hoes didn’t want me / Now I’m hot, hoes all on me."

“Back then, hoes didn’t want me / Now I’m hot, hoes all on me.”

- Mike Jones, “Back Then”

"The motion that appears in a lot of the photographs, for me, emphasized the breaking up of a world,..."

“The motion that appears in a lot of the photographs, for me, emphasized the breaking up of a world, the breaking up of society, emotionally. Everyone was there. America came out to mourn, to weep, to show their respect and love for a leader—someone they believed in, someone who promised a better future—and they saw hope pass by in a train.”

- Paul Fusco, The Fallen, nytimes.com

Four Things That Happened in the New York City Metropolitan Area on April 4, 1876

a daily briefing from the archives of the New York Times:

“Some boys were annoying August Levin on St Paul’s avenue, Jersey City Heights yesterday, when he picked up a stone and, throwing it with great force, struck James Gorman, aged ten years, in the mouth, knocking out several teeth and badly disfiguring him. Levin, how had just completed a term in the Penitentiary, was committed for trial.”
“Charles Jackson, a colored man, accidentally shot and killed himself at Englewood, Bergen County, yesterday, while carelessly handling a gun.”
“Coroner Ellinger held an inquest yesterday in the case of Hezekiah Stephenson, who died at the Chambers Street Hospital from the effects of a pistol-shot wound accidentally received at the hands of Thomas Connors. The jury rendered a verdict of accidental death, and censured Connors for ‘going into the room where Stephenson was, as he had no business there.’”
“Charles Gilbert, an Orange newsdealer, stole $500 from his wife’s trunk yesterday, and, it is supposed, has gone to Europe.”

Episode #355 of This American Life does a great job explaining the subprime mortgage crisis.

Episode #355 of This American Life does a great job explaining the subprime mortgage crisis.:

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Listen to the episode for free online.

Besides the fantastic, narrative way it breaks down the mortgage crisis, one of the things I love about this episode (which I’m still finishing) is its focus on how nobody believed housing prices could possibly go down.

You have people whose entire income was built on the idea that since houses would always increase in value, the people at the center of the transaction didn’t matter, their money didn’t matter, and their behavior didn’t matter. forget about greed or fraud or denial; the economy rested incidentally on the thimble-sized assumption that home values will always rise because they just do.

The question I have is, if the appetite of the market hadn’t driven local brokers to such ridiculously fradulent depths—if for some impossible reason, income still mattered—how long would we have continued to operate under that false presumption that the bottom line always goes up, and that individual cases of greed and denial can’t really affect that bottom line?

"DO NOT open bottles with your teeth! You will chip your teeth! Many of my molars are rounded off..."

“DO NOT open bottles with your teeth! You will chip your teeth! Many of my molars are rounded off from being chipped by beer caps. As a result I can’t even do this trick anymore. As a substitute, I recommend using your eye socket. I can’t do it, but I saw it once and it’s pretty crazy. JK - DONT USE YOUR EYE SOCKET!”

- comment from How To Open A Beer Without An Opener

I like this better than their Ghetto Big Mac piece. True that...

I like this better than their Ghetto Big Mac piece. True that being poor gets you poorer.

"Schaap puts his frenzied memory and his obsessive attention to the arcane in the service of..."

“Schaap puts his frenzied memory and his obsessive attention to the arcane in the service of something important: the struggle of memory against forgetting—not just the forgetting of a sublime music but forgetting in general.”

- David Remnick, “Bird-Watcher”, the New Yorker

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From: [redacted] Subject: Timesheets Tell me about this week … the more dramatic, the better… I have a sort of love/hate relationship with autumn. Good summers make depressing autumns, and I had a great summer. I expected Monday to be a fiercely...

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Pre-Manhattan Manhattan

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He Was Pretty Great

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At his best, he was amazing.

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QotD: I Turn My Camera On

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What kind of camera(s) do you own? Well, well, well... I own a lot more than I use. Functional, in use: Canon 20D Olympus Stylus Epic Broken, in order of purchase: Olympus D-600L Canon S40 Canon Digital RebelSitting on a shelf, because they ...

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Chris Onstad is Slaying.

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Today at Achewood is Ray's flowchart. One particular segment I love: IS IT BREAKFAST? EGGS B. AND A BLOODY, DOGG I AM AT A GAS STATION IS THE CASHIER HOT? IT'S SOME DUDE NAMED NAPIL HOW'S HE LOOKIN' HE IS UGLY HILARIOUSAchewood is a perfect ex...

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Am I craving Chinese food because I'm dying?

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Best Train Preacher Testimonial of 2007

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On the A train this morning, from five feet away: Bible says through Christ I can do all things! Including crack!

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Pre-Launch Anxiety Dreams

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I am running, lost, through a Cleveland hotel to deliver James Brown's guitar to him onstage, mid-performance. I am a fireman, stuffed into a booth at the back of a fire truck with a stack of shovels. I am in charge of burying burning embers at...

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Well Captioned

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Psst, come here, I wanna tell you something. Closer. Closer. Closer still. I eat eyes. Thank you, Stacey Nightmare.

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How Broke?

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Today's quote, courtesy of my unnamed, temporarily impoverished friend: I can't even afford a crotch wig.

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