Facebook you suck at searches now. I seriously typed in "John Smith" into your search-for-people box and the top hit you gave me is some guy named "Tim Bowen." I couldn't even find a "John Smith" on the page you found for me. How the hell does that happen? How does that type software failure get out of your beta room? How are you ok having that type of blunder on your books? I can find a John Smith by spitting out my window and you can find a single one in your vast network of online profiles? Seriously facebook, are you cool?
I hate saying this, but Jeeves runs better searches than you do right now.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
You know you're a professional dc intern when...
...You’ve got a pair of loafers for every occasion.
...You realize you could really use another string of pearls.
...hating tourists is an acceptable form of racism.
...You could take the metro or walk.. it doesn’t really matter.
...There are more polo shirts in your closet than undershirts.
...Ugly people start looking attractive because they understand politics.
...You hate a person for liking any kind of news television personality.
...You don’t think being a politician would be any fun at all.
...Someone from outside dc starts talking to you and it immediately becomes annoying.
...You can organize your facebook friends by their ideology.
...Sports suddenly become interesting because they’re not politics.
...You hate going anywhere near the national mall.
...Your dreams involve outlook.
...You know which taxis can take you across state lines and which can’t.
...You think a beer that’s not free isn’t worth the bother.
...Getting stopped by a motorcade makes you want to drive a nail into your eyeball.
...You think everyone outside dc is politically a moron.
...You start thinking about how expensive it is to keep up national monuments.
...You think the metro system is more incompetent than the KGB.
...An invitation to a party off the metro line is an invitation to a party that will be ignored.
...You think kickball can totally supplement going to the gym.
...Your local news is everyone else's national news.
...Your main source of news is a blog. (and the onion)
...Your main source of news your blog. (and the onion)
...Your blog gives you better news than any news station around. (except the onion)
...The only way you can get drunk is with hard liquor.
...You don't know if any of your friends work at a for-profit company.
...You carry an umbrella in June.
...You carry an umbrella in June to hold over someone more important than yourself.
...Someone significantly older than you has hit on you in the past week and you put up with it because your respect their writing.
...Your Facebook profile picture is with Ron Paul.
...You celebrate Repeal Day.
...You make everyone else in the bar celebrate Repeal Day.
...You look like your thirty, but your actually 23.
...You can pencil sketch a bar crawl of happy hours in 30 seconds that'll get you trashed under $15 and put mardi gras to shame.
...Your family has absolutely no idea what you do on a day to day basis.
...The last thing you want in the world is for your family to know what you do on a day to day basis.
(this blog post came out of a conversation with a coworker, thanks coworker!)
...You realize you could really use another string of pearls.
...hating tourists is an acceptable form of racism.
...You could take the metro or walk.. it doesn’t really matter.
...There are more polo shirts in your closet than undershirts.
...Ugly people start looking attractive because they understand politics.
...You hate a person for liking any kind of news television personality.
...You don’t think being a politician would be any fun at all.
...Someone from outside dc starts talking to you and it immediately becomes annoying.
...You can organize your facebook friends by their ideology.
...Sports suddenly become interesting because they’re not politics.
...You hate going anywhere near the national mall.
...Your dreams involve outlook.
...You know which taxis can take you across state lines and which can’t.
...You think a beer that’s not free isn’t worth the bother.
...Getting stopped by a motorcade makes you want to drive a nail into your eyeball.
...You think everyone outside dc is politically a moron.
...You start thinking about how expensive it is to keep up national monuments.
...You think the metro system is more incompetent than the KGB.
...An invitation to a party off the metro line is an invitation to a party that will be ignored.
...You think kickball can totally supplement going to the gym.
...Your local news is everyone else's national news.
...Your main source of news is a blog. (and the onion)
...Your main source of news your blog. (and the onion)
...Your blog gives you better news than any news station around. (except the onion)
...The only way you can get drunk is with hard liquor.
...You don't know if any of your friends work at a for-profit company.
...You carry an umbrella in June.
...You carry an umbrella in June to hold over someone more important than yourself.
...Someone significantly older than you has hit on you in the past week and you put up with it because your respect their writing.
...Your Facebook profile picture is with Ron Paul.
...You celebrate Repeal Day.
...You make everyone else in the bar celebrate Repeal Day.
...You look like your thirty, but your actually 23.
...You can pencil sketch a bar crawl of happy hours in 30 seconds that'll get you trashed under $15 and put mardi gras to shame.
...Your family has absolutely no idea what you do on a day to day basis.
...The last thing you want in the world is for your family to know what you do on a day to day basis.
(this blog post came out of a conversation with a coworker, thanks coworker!)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Animals are Sexist
I was just reading Gordon Tullock's "The Economics of Non-Human Societies" and he talked about the relationships between queen ants and the worker ants. It dawned on me that sexism was ramped in the animal kingdom. Is this immoral?
Based upon the assumption that if animals have rights, and those rights are based off of our sentient understanding for how the world works and how humans should interact with humans, then is it possible to make a transitive statement about morality and say that the totalitarian sexist nature of an ant hill is also immoral?
I believe it is not. Does this analogy show a flaw in the animal rights argument? A certain excessive anthropocentric superimposed moral onto species that, by their nature, are not human. I surely don't want to beat a dog to death but, how does "rights" fit into the animal kingdom, and what about other morals we hold among humans? Why is one moral better than another? Should we be applying morals outside our species? I don't know.
Based upon the assumption that if animals have rights, and those rights are based off of our sentient understanding for how the world works and how humans should interact with humans, then is it possible to make a transitive statement about morality and say that the totalitarian sexist nature of an ant hill is also immoral?
I believe it is not. Does this analogy show a flaw in the animal rights argument? A certain excessive anthropocentric superimposed moral onto species that, by their nature, are not human. I surely don't want to beat a dog to death but, how does "rights" fit into the animal kingdom, and what about other morals we hold among humans? Why is one moral better than another? Should we be applying morals outside our species? I don't know.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Food Insurance
Is food a right? is a bed a right?
Maybe I should start selling food insurance. If you stumble into a restaurant and the bill is too much and you're starving than I'll cover everything at a percentage above a deductible. That way you can make sure you get food coverage no matter what happens. In fact, eating is a right! You should be able to walk into any restaurant you want and if you are legitimately hungry they should be forced to give you service. Everyone should have food insurance, after all a fed population is a productive population and we all want to pull out of this recession, don't we?
Maybe I should start selling food insurance. If you stumble into a restaurant and the bill is too much and you're starving than I'll cover everything at a percentage above a deductible. That way you can make sure you get food coverage no matter what happens. In fact, eating is a right! You should be able to walk into any restaurant you want and if you are legitimately hungry they should be forced to give you service. Everyone should have food insurance, after all a fed population is a productive population and we all want to pull out of this recession, don't we?
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