Whoa. That is some seriously major traffic there.2.9 million pageviews for VW in the last week. Not bad.
Ur(sitting)ine bedbugs
Dude I wish I would have never read that Gawker article. I’m now paranoid every time I step into a subway car thinking my booty will catch all sorts of germs and bed bugs. It makes perfect sense though, with the massive amounts of people who use the trains.When Mahnaz first moved here last year, she insisted that the wooden subway benches were teeming with germs and other unthinkables. I didn’t think much more of it until this came out last week about bedbugs in two stations.
The MTA ick factor was further heightened today as I stepped into the M60 bus behind a woman who had clearly soiled herself. She proceeded to sit down on one of the bus seats (which are cloth and absorbent) for just one stop. Before she had even exited the bus, a guy sat down in the seat where she had been sitting.
Though it’s pretty gross, I’ll continue to sit in these seats. The 10-second-rule for snacks that fall on any seats, however, is officially retired.
You should have seen Jenny and me while getting on the train the other day. We kept trying to analyze every angle of the seat while receiving very confused looks from everyone. I guess I’ll have to find myself a booty spray disinfectant to use after a long NYC day.
This very rarely happens but it happens.
Sometimes a Bob Dylan song will come up on my Last.fm station that I honestly don’t like and I feel too guilty to click the “Don’t ever play me this track again” icon. I just can’t. I feel like I’m betraying him.Mississippi Fred McDowell - Goin’ Down to the River
Damn it
Why can’t I get to at least a third of that level? Listening to this sweet sugary stuff is incredibly humbling.
Not to mention what a treat it is to hear some acoustic stuff by Freddie which is very rare. Yea I call him that. Him and I go way back.
No added-value needed for this already good post. I just very much agree with Marco on this one.Great article challenging why it’s taboo to discuss the specifics of your income. Via zachlinder:
Well, tumblr, how much money do you make?
To the best of my knowledge, Tumblr made $0 last year. There, that was easy.
But I won’t reveal my income. Sorry. And I don’t want to know yours. There are too many good reasons: most notably, I know people who work a lot harder than me but make much less, and I’d feel like a complete asshole if they discovered that.
Sure, you can argue all you want about how it’s “the market” and my skills are valuable and I’ve worked my way here from nothing, blah blah blah. And that’s all correct. But there was a significant component of luck:
- I’m lucky that I enjoy what I do.
- I’m lucky that I’m capable of doing it well.
- I’m lucky that what I do happens to be a well-paying career.
- I’m lucky that I found a great employer out of the sea of bad ones.
Bragging about the results of that would be like bragging about physical traits that people can’t control. “I’m taller than you.” “My eyesight is better than yours.”
And if nothing else, I don’t like revealing my salary because I think most hard-working people are grossly underpaid. It would be like pigging out on chartered jet to Africa, then visiting a starving village and complaining about how full I am.
my favorite! I’m spoiled.And magic bars! I’m on a roll today.
Note: They look a lil funny b/c I’m not yet used to our Fisher Price oven.
eating Domino’s right now
way better than Mr. Pizza Nazi’s, better known as Mussolini by his employees.
The OS X desktop as music video.
A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s lovely song “Again & Again”. The set? His Mac desktop.
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“Few states use gas tax revenue for mass transit.”
As with any activity that needs to be discouraged, increasing taxes on that activity is the best way to go. I hope the taxing of gas (to better fund mass transit around the country) becomes more and more common.
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