So I don’t quite know how this came up the other day, but I hate Lolcats.
What the hell does that even mean?
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Beauteous sentence in an essay I read:
“Buoyant! Disarticulated. Tongue the more untied.”
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Right now, I’m c-r-a-z-y-i-n-l-o-v-e with
BUBBLE CHAMBERS
A bubble chamber is a “vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid [most often liquid hydrogen] used to [...]
Let’s talk about… oh-I-don’t-know the US Airways Airbus A320 Hudson River water-landing aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
There are many, many things to marvel at–not least among them the name of the pilot,
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]
–but better, even, much, are the stories of plain old ferries and boats rushing to the downed plane from wherever they were to [...]
Just so everyone knows–just so everyone is on the same page, learning and growing together–the storm system currently battering the greater Chicagoland area is called, hilariously:
Alberta Clipper
Yayayayayayyaayayayayayayayayayayayay names-of-things!
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This is a picture of the Milky Way’s galactic core, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, or “Old Bessy” [not really].
If you go [...]
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Let me tell you what misery is. Misery is watching the Colts and Chargers in overtime on a television at Diversey Bowl, because you are there for your friend’s birthday party, and you are wearing–for the love of the Archangel Gabriel–you are wearing your Joseph Addai jersey; and as you watch, your heart making [...]
