I bought a travel monopod and head that will fit in my backpack

Wilson.

I thought serial killers took, rather than bought, these things, but perhaps a “monopod” is a steampunk accessory that requires purchase.

status: eff you

  • *zack gives his computer the middle finger*
  • jacqui: you just flipped off your computer
  • zack: i was flipping off this website
  • jacqui: you just flipped off a WEBSITE!
  • ...
  • jacqui: what status code is that?
  • zack: i don't know, i think they need to make one for it though
The disappointment with our old “friends” is great and people ask, did we really behave any worse than the others?
Our company is looking to do something major on the internet - namely provide an amazing consumer-based user experience.
— from a recruiter email I received this morning
The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not atempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, rather than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
— John Stuart Mill, as seen quoted on the F train heading towards Park Slope, Brooklyn, on a “Train of Thought” sign - a variant of “Poetry in Motion”?
  • jorge: the economy is fucked
  • jacqui: everything is fucked
  • jacqui: i give up :(
  • jorge: back to Tanzania?
  • jacqui: funny the thought did cross my mind
  • jorge: I am psychic