May 2009
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The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom has the exuberance of an Oceans’ 11 movie and the stylish nonsense of Wes Anderson. The best thing about it is Rinko Kikuchi (on the right). The film is Rian Johnson’s next directorial effort after Brick, which I also loved to pieces.
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I put my senior thesis online: Media Infringements on Informational Privacy in a Digital Age. This thesis destroyed my previously held belief that the law is rational.
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It makes me crazy that I can’t see a list of reblog notifications without clicking through days and days on the Dashboard. Another thing that makes me crazy: Tumblarity. Tumblarity has ruined everything.
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your free, online dead man's switch →
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Russia is best at everything
My Swatch watch came irreparably apart recently. I had gotten very attached to this watch and even resorted to repairing the band with paperclips last summer in Spain. Scouring the interwebs for a replacement, I came upon this interesting-looking Russian 24-hour watch. The Soviet Union and this particular company, Raketa, meaning rocket, have a long history of making military-style 24-hour...
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maritorious →
adjective: Excessively fond of one’s husband.
The word maritorious is rare, while uxorious is fairly well known. What does that say about the relative fondness of husbands and wives to each other? (from a.w.a.d.)
And what does it say about the recrimination associated with excessive fondness of one’s wife, as opposed to excessive fondness of one’s husband?
I like that Yahoo Answers are sometimes little microcosms of the human experience.