I'm a very busy woman and I haven't got all day

Helps?

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:24:22 -0500

I am having major problems with Gmail in Chrome. Which is strange, since THEY’RE BOTH GOOGLE. When I open Gmail, it takes forever, and then it gives me this error message. Then it’s fine. Alternatively, it opens, but when I click on a message it takes a good 45 seconds to open and then gives me the message. And then lets me read the message, and everything is fine. Right now I’ve just had Gmail open in a different window for a couple of days, but it’s pretty frustrating.

The problem started after I went to Chrome beta to investigate the extensions. I decided I wasn’t interested in any of them, or at least not interested enough to have a buggy Gmail, so I went back to the stable version, but the problem persists. I am up-to-date. I’m not having any other problems (except with Google Docs, but that’s just been buggy as shit lately anyway), and I don’t know what the hell is wrong or how to fix it. I dearly love Chrome otherwise. Please help. Love, Abby.

iPhone users are delusional, consultants say

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:32:41 -0500

iPhone users are delusional, consultants say:

Via cnet.

Fun and hilarious fact:

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:53:09 -0500

stacey727:

clapifyoulikeme:

So far, the person who has gotten the best coverage in my town-that-won’t-allow-cell-towers has not Verizon, not AT&T, not T-Mobile, but US Cellular. Other fun fact: They don’t actually sell US Cellular phones here. Hers is from Oklahoma.

Shoot me now.

I love (aka hate) driving through your/our town while on a call:

“Hello, oh shit,…hello..okay talk quick I’m gonna lose ya…oh shit! Oh you’re back, okay what was that…goddammit. Oh you’re there Grandma! SORRY ABOUT THAT. BAD RECEPTION HERE! I’LL CALL YOU LATER! LATER! LATER! I’LL CALL—-GOD MOTHER F—ER DAMMIT!”

Look, it’s not like Slingerlands/New Scotland is four minutes away from the state capital—oh. Well, it’s not like it’s the capital of a big state or anything—oh.

The latest is that parents don’t want a tower too close to the school—i.e. NOT VERY CLOSE ACTUALLY—because it might rot their kids’ brains.

Fun and hilarious fact:

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:41:39 -0500

So far, the person who has gotten the best coverage in my town-that-won’t-allow-cell-towers has not Verizon, not AT&T, not T-Mobile, but US Cellular. Other fun fact: They don’t actually sell US Cellular phones here. Hers is from Oklahoma.

Shoot me now.

I Hate Everyone And Everything.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:34 -0500

allcreatures: spendingtimewithyou: OMG LION KING IN REAL...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:47:12 -0500

allcreatures:

spendingtimewithyou:

OMG LION KING IN REAL LIFE

Democratic Loving People, We Need Your Vote at Fox News

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:27:00 -0500

Democratic Loving People, We Need Your Vote at Fox News:

Via Debunking Christianity:

Vote on whether an atheist councilman in N. Carolina should step down.

Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell doesn’t believe in God, and his political opponents are taking aim, citing a little-noticed 140-year-old quirk in North Carolina’s Constitution that disqualifies officeholders “who shall deny the being of Almighty God.” Should Bothwell be required to step aside until the issue is resolved either by the state legislature or the courts?

Vote Here. *Ahem* You know which way I think democratic loving people should vote.

"Why, do some people think it is not moral to eat chicken eggs, but it is to abort a baby?"

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:48:19 -0500

“Why, do some people think it is not moral to eat chicken eggs, but it is to abort a baby?”

- Facebook status of a girl I went to high school with. I don’t even know how to begin to answer that. She later in the comment thread adds, bafflingly: “Ha yea, I’m not judging, I’m just curious. I mean technically they are both a fetus.”

My hands smell like vinegar.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:23:20 -0500

lisarahmat: Octopus snatches coconut and runs. This creature...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:19:06 -0500

lisarahmat:

Octopus snatches coconut and runs.

This creature here is so full of awesome, I wish it were my best friend. We would go to parties and bring our coconuts and have a blast. Sure, other people like octopuses with gardens, but I’d like to be under the sea, in my best friend’s coconut shell. My best friend is amazing and hilarious at the same time. Watch my best friend in action.

I shall call him tentacley and he shall be mine and he shall be my tentacley.

WATCH THE VIDEO. ALL OF IT.

Good news! There are currently only 54 SXSW panels I would like to attend!

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:54:07 -0500

Does anyone have a Time-Turner?

So this is a thing.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:12:20 -0500

So this is a thing.

Nevada just legalized male prostitution

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:40:21 -0500

Via the Las Vegas Sun

allcreatures: jonathaneunice: Improbable animal stack! (via...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:23:26 -0500

allcreatures:

jonathaneunice:

Improbable animal stack!

(via nobodyplace : Фотоподборка ( 120 фото ) » ZizA.rU : All over the Internet; definitive source unclear)

For Bailey, obviously.

allcreatures: Help! A new study by the Wildlife Conservation...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:58:17 -0500

allcreatures:

Help! A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that western lowland gorillas living in a large swamp in the Republic of Congo — part of the “mother lode” of more than 125,000 gorillas discovered last year — are becoming increasingly threatened by growing human activity in the region. The study recommends protecting the swamp forests next to the southwest border of Lac Télé Community Reserve after recent surveys confirmed that high densities of the animals still existed in the remote location.

Photo: Thomas Breuer/Wildlife Conservation Society—Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (via Science in Pictures - The New York Times)

What are you looking at? I’m just stretching, mon!

Maybe I'm just less funny?

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:56:00 -0500

But since Favrd went away, I’m not getting as many stars. I was never a rockstar, but I was pretty good at guessing how many stars any given tweet would get, even if it wasn’t many. And since, like, the day Favrd went away, my predictions have been way off. I’ve been getting RTs but not stars. I’m not a big horn-tooter, at least not my own. I usually shrug it off if I’m wrong about how well I’ll do. And no, I don’t measure my self-worth with stars. But I do try to use them to see what’s funny, and honestly, my previous experience indicates that this is more than three stars funny. Maybe not *much* more, but a little more.

So I’m just going to ask. Are people giving out fewer stars, am I less funny, or is Favstar buggy?

The tweet in question, by the way. Politics, insulting Joe Lieberman, reference to lefty global warming movie, all the things you guys usually love:

Who killed the electric car? I haven’t actually seen the movie, but I’m pretty sure it was Joe Lieberman.

What gives?

jaydensmommie: Tiny Thing Conversion Factory: Pandas to Gnomes...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:42:11 -0500

jaydensmommie:

Tiny Thing Conversion Factory: Pandas to Gnomes (via Mochimochi Land)

This reminds me of the movie version of The Sneetches. Which PS is the best movie ever.

Drinking a tiny tiny glass of the last bottle of Scotch my grandpa bought with my mom.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:13:00 -0500

Third night Chanukah present to myself. Why yes it is a...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:55:00 -0500

Third night Chanukah present to myself. Why yes it is a whimsical clam with charming eyes!

Artist is Carol Bell, who does even more awesome fish and seahorses. From the seriously cool Mostly Clay, Pittsford, NY. Right next door to The Best Restaurant Ever.

I try to drop a line to the appropriate agencies/people when I hear about shit like this in the...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:20:31 -0500

I try to drop a line to the appropriate agencies/people when I hear about shit like this in the States. Somehow I doubt the Victoria DHS cares what I have to say (I mean, I don’t pay taxes or vote, so my opinion is *worthless*), so I’m passing this along…I don’t know if any of my Aussie Tumblr buddies are even in Victoria, but it’s the best I can do.

I really am sappy and giving and caring lately. Gross.

“SMH: Girl living in care raped by five men. “Rose” is 12 years old.

The magistrate said Rose (not her real name), who was under DHS care, was raped by five men on one day in October. Since then, she had ”absconded from the unit and was unaccounted for” seven times.

A secure welfare order was finally made after Rose was found to be living at a house with three men, aged between 45 and 50, who the magistrate said were “providing her with bongs and cigarettes and one wonders what else”. At least one of the men is known to police, the court was told.
[…]
Rose’s case comes weeks after Victorian Ombudsman George Brouwer released a damning report on child protection that found children in state care had been seriously injured and permitted to have contact with sex offenders.

The report found that the DHS sometimes took a dangerously long time to intervene to protect children, leaving them exposed to continuing abuse.”

Victoria’s in the spotlight because of the recent Ombudsman’s report, but do any of the other Australian states do substantially better when it comes to child protection? Do any other nations do substantially better?

Why are we as social animals so easily able to shrug off the needs of these children for a more secure and supportive environment? What the hell is wrong with us?

Via Hoyden About Town