Remember desktop PCs? You might have thought they were extinct, possibly because in the 1990s they all had that kind of pale ivory look of bleached dinosaur bones.
One of these runs in herds. One of these runs Windows 3.11
Despite the rise of smartphones and tablets, the humble desktop PC is still thriving for all sorts of useful applications. In particular, there’s been a resurgence in PC gaming over the last few years thanks to the popularity of MMOs and online games platforms like Steam. A PC is still the most versatile and customisable device out there, plus it offers great bang-for-your-buck — especially if you build it yourself.
You pretty much have had to live under a well-ventilated rock for the last 70 years to not know who Wednesday Addams is. At the helm of all things cool and creepy, Wednesday Addams is the queen of outcasts and rebels, and she’s only 6 years old! Well, at least as her first incarnation, when her cartoonist, Charles Addams, created the single panel comic “The Addams Family” for The New Yorker in 1938. As a satirical view of the stereotypical American family, the Addams relished in the macabre and weird and consisted of parents Morticia and Gomez, their two young kids, Uncle Fester, Grandmama and Lurch the butler. Although she made several appearances for the almost 50 years of the Addams’ publication, she wasn’t officially named until 1964, when the characters were adapted into the cult classic television series. According to the Wiki rumors, Charles Addams gave her the name “Wednesday” based on the well-known nursery poem “Monday’s Child” from the line, “Wednesday’s child is full of woe.” Goodness knows where he found the inspiration for the name Pugsley, her younger brother with an affinity for horizontal striped shirts.
Tiny Nuts is a webseries created by and starring Taylor Barrett and Caroline Goldfarb. The two are trying to get life going post college. There’s good hair and a cute dog. Recently Taylor posted this tweet so I’m hoping her mom will come out with a webseries, too.
I start each day filled with the best of intentions. I will write in my journal! I will run three miles! I will probably also try a new whole grain and be kind to an emaciated puppy dog that will conveniently wander across my path!
But. I really like to sleep. So when ten o’clock in the evening starts to approach (I have to wake up early, okay?), I gravitate towards my pajamas and my toothbrush, leaving my trusty notebook stashed on my bedside table, tragically unopened for yet another day.
Hello, Huskies! I say this because apparently a big basketball victory happened this week and people are excited about it. But let’s be real, I’m just in it for the puppies. Here’s the news we missed while I was looking at pictures of baby huskies on the internet.
Kate Beaton, the writer and illustrator of one of the best webcomics of all time, Hark! A Vagrant, recently released in five parts a long form comic about her time spent working on the oil sands of Alberta. These vignettes tell about tragedies, loss, daily interactions and the lasting effect that working there had on her. If you’re unfamiliar with the Athabasca Oil Sands, they’re the largest known deposit of bitumen in the world, in the form of semi-solid crude bitumen, sand, clay and water. Beaton worked there for a while to pay off her college debt. These comics deal with Beaton’s memories of her time there and how she’s still trying to work out her feelings about it.
History buffs, get your Napoleon hats on, because this episode is for you and you can watch along right here!
Every time I hit “play” I feel like I’m hopping onto the Magic School Bus. I know that Captain Kirk aka Ms. Frizzle is about to school me on some aspect of tech, history, literature or philosophy.
Actual dinner can be such a production, I’m exhausted just THINKING ABOUT IT. And not only is it a production tonight, but it’ll be a production tomorrow night too. It happens practically every night! It’s redundant and takes forever and really, the dinner plates are just so big. I’d rather spend hours putting together a mess of food that I can eat with my hands, hot or cold, and from a tiny plate, than spend that time putting together a mess of food that has to be eaten immediately, piping hot, from full-size dinner plates using all the flatware.
Identity terms have really hard jobs. Seriously, think about all the things they have to do! There’s that private shine the right one is supposed to have when you call yourself it in your head. There’s the categorical meaning they’re supposed to take on when you use them to describe yourself to other people. And then there’s the baggage each drags along — the baggage of connotation and etymology, baggage that can be useful and positive (when it reminds us of shared community and shared history, for example) or negative (say, when it’s used to stereotype). At some point, privately or publicly, every well-examined word struggles under the pressure. And there’s no group better at thorough public examination than us QUILTBAGs.
“So what’s so wrong about ‘pussy’ — arguably one of the most fun, provocative, sensuous words to describe a woman’s down-there? The New York Observer approached the Times’ standards editor Phil Corbett about the controversial ‘p’ word the Paper of Record has been historically reluctant to reproduce. ‘We are making case-by-case judgments, based on newsworthiness, context and other factors,’ Corbett told the Observer. One of those judgments included deciding to dub the noise punk band Perfect Pussy comically ‘that band with the unprintable name.’”
I was so sad about bra week because I thought I’d already covered the only advanced bra out there— the bra that can detect cancer. Turns out, though, there’s a bunch of bra 2.0 out there. And they are as crazy as you imagine they would be.
So I’ve lived in NYC for a little over a year and a half now. There are about 5,000,000 things that annoy me about this city, but the redeeming factors are endless. The one constant thing that keeps me in love with New York is the food. I like to think I have quite a few signature spots now, and it’s rare that I even want to try hip new places anymore. I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite New York eats – both long term lovers and new discoveries.* Also, I needed a way out of doing a recipe post because it’s been a whole lotta Amy’s Organic frozen pizza over here as I try to save money for my Coachella trip in a couple weeks.
Kickass female protagonists are often skinny, if not fully emaciated, and that’s weird, and also a problem:
“Today’s strong female protagonists are overwhelmingly described as “small,” “skinny,” and “slender.” It seems literature only goes so far in its message of female empowerment, routinely granting its most kickass heroines classically masculine-levels of strength (physical or otherwise) only when cloaked within the trappings of a more delicate—and recognizable—femininity.
