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(via Nor’easter Nemo: Nasa photo shows winter storm from space.)
Welp. Nice knowing you.
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Top Ten Hair Metal Band Names for Ryan’s Pre-Shower Nether Region
- Wild Boyz
- Killer Dwarfs
- Vixen
- White Lion
- Beau Nasty
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Damn Yankees
- Faster Pussycat
- Enuff Z Nuff
- David Lee Roth
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Thank you, Internet, for reminding me I should have gone to bed 2 hours ago.
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Whoa, Facebook, enough with the hard sell.
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We could no longer tell dark from dark
So we had to park
over a hundred miles away
from our love
One Christmas when I was a little kid, someone tried to steal all of our Christmas candy and cookies. Luckily we were all terrified animals who did nothing but sit in the dark, oiling our guns. We heard a knock on the door and came out blazing, “…not till you pry them from our cold dead baby hands!” we screamed. But it was if we’d woken from a dream. We’d shot and killed Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, the ice cream man, and about 75,000 other people.
Thank God we were well with in our right. To stand our ground and fight any sumabitch who doesn’t love Jesus. Amen
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(via Dave Grohl Debuts Supergroup at ‘Sound City’ Sundance Premiere | Music News | Rolling Stone)
“It’s going to be a long fucking night – you know that, right?” Grohl said to the cheering crowd before bringing 17 musicians on stage for three-plus hours of performances from Rage Against the Machine’s Brad Wilk, Queens of the Stone Age’s Alain Johannes, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Masters of Reality’s Chris Goss, Lee Ving, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Slip Knot’s Corey Taylor, Rick Springfield, John Fogerty and Stevie Nicks.
Ho. Ly. Shit.
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If you think programming is fun, just wait until deprogramming!
(via indefensible)
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All Sonja wanted was to find her missing cat, Victuals, but when he washes up on the shore of her sleepy coastal town several days later with a head full of stitches and the startling ability to speak and no memory of how he got that way her quiet life is forever changed. Together they set out to solve the mystery of his disappearance, embarking on a journey that leads to a strange kingdom under the waves and into the heart of a royal power struggle, where the answer to Victual s true identity could save or doom them all! (via reMIND Vol. 1 - Comics by comiXology)
The artwork is beautiful, and the story is lots of fun. It’s available for free until January 27th, so you’ve got no excuse not to pick it up!
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In 15 seconds, everyone who opposes gun background checks.
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The Boston Globe reported that people “were picked up by a rush of air and hurled many feet.” Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air. A truck was picked up and hurled into Boston Harbor. Approximately 150 were injured; 21 people and several horses were killed — some were crushed and drowned by the molasses. The wounded included people, horses, and dogs; coughing fits became one of the most common ailments after the initial blast.
Boston Molasses Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
94 years ago today. Never forget.
(This is actually a good lesson in why businesses need to stick to the rules for things like equipment and safety inspections.)
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First time home buying.
How does this work?
I’m so, so sorry. It’s a horrible, soul-crushing experience. And the expenses don’t stop once you get the house. If you have disposable income, kiss it goodbye.
Every house you look at will have something wrong with it. Get a good inspector. Stay away from franchises like Tiger Inspection. If they walk through with a default checklist and spend less than an hour or so, the inspection is no good. I have an inspector that spends 3-4 hours checking around. He found an issue in one house that would have necessitated $100K in repairs JUST TO MAKE SURE THE HOUSE DIDN’T FALL DOWN. I had this confirmed with a second inspector, a specialist in structural inspections. Other inspectors for other buyers did not even find this. That house, which was bank owned and then bought sight-unseen at an auction, is now off the market while the winning bidder tries to figure out how to come up with $100K to fix what was supposed to be a quick $20K flip.
When you get the inspection report (ask about this beforehand—the one I get is 30-40 pages, whereas friends have received a 2-page summary), decide what you can live with, what you can’t, what you want the buyer to fix, and then, should you buy the house, use the rest of the report as a checklist of things to fix once you get in there.
Pay special attention to the heating system. If it’s oil and there’s a tank, get the age of the entire system. On our first house, I knew the age, and before winter came, the tank burst and spilled some of what was left of the oil onto the basement floor, which was dirt in that area (common with older houses in the northeast). Because the oil didn’t reach the water table, nor did it cross the property line, the insurance company wouldn’t pay a cent. We had to have a team come in to dig a hole in the basement, remove the contaminated dirt, fill in the hole, and cement over it. This cost $25,000 and added no value to the house. I could have literally thrown the money into the hole before they filled it and it would have had the same effect.
I have about a dozen other horror stories, including another like the oil spill that almost turned into an environmental disaster, so please ask if you want more. The point is, in short, be prepared for anything and be prepared to fix it all yourself.
My recommendation is to stay mobile and rent a yurt when needed.
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Get your pre-orders in now!
仕込みiPhone 3号機 (by morishowta)
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It took 59 minutes and 45 seconds longer than the instructional video said it would take to remove the top of the washer, and I had to use more tools than the single screwdriver they said it’d require, but I eventually succeeded in fucking everything up.
