7:30PM ET, showing off her vape pen on the E! Red Carpet special: "This is my pot. It's liquid pot."
9:40PM ET, accepting the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (for her HBO standup special We are Miracles): "We're all just made of molecules and we're hurling through space right now."
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Dating Tip #246: Compare him to a human girl.
Dating Tip #245: Compare her to a Sontaran.
The Wall Street Journal has published a fascinating look at the post-Microsoft life of former CEO Steve Ballmer, who spent 34 years at the company before stepping down in February and later buying the LA Clippers basketball team. Ballmer reportedly watched 100 episodes of The Good Wife at home in an "atypical glum mood" before deciding what to do with his life.
"Steve is my favorite. I would have considered a lower bid to get him as the owner."
But once he'd settled on buying the Clippers following the fallout from racist remarks made by previous owner Donald Sterling, Ballmer was by no means confident he'd get his team. "Oprah? How do I compete with her?" he reportedly asked his advisers after finding out that the TV personality was also interested. Donald Sterling's estranged wife Shelly wasn't sure either, asking a girlfriend "Who is Steve Ballmer?" but finding herself won over by the Microsoft man's passion and pledge to keep the Clippers in LA. "Steve is my favorite. I would have considered a lower bid to get him as the owner," she told her lawyer.
Before Ballmer's exuberant, amazing introduction as the Clippers' owner (set to Eminem's "Lose Yourself"), he was nervous for his first meeting with the players over dinner, and asked team coach Doc Rivers to tell him how he did later. Rivers received texts from most of the players, according to the Journal, with one saying "Thanks for tonight. Been here a long time. Never had such a meaningful dinner with the owner before."
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The gyroscopes are sensitive enough to pick up acoustic vibrations. It's crude, but it works. Paper. Wired article. Hacker News thread.
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firehosesadly, not _exactly_ "an article you hateread for unpleasure". but close
'A stumbling block; something that causes spiritual stumbling; a cause of offence; an occasion of sin or spiritual difficulty.'
firehosemy mild dyslexia is the only thing that makes me a half-decent editor
that and how I end up editing everything I write (that isn't a blog comment or share) out of necessity about 20 times before I submit/post/send it
sure as fuck isn't my tenuous grasp of the english language
Scientific American published a story about some of the cognitive advantages of those diagnosed with dyslexia:
Dyslexia is often called a “learning disability.” And it can indeed present learning challenges. Although its effects vary widely, children with dyslexia read so slowly that it would typically take them a half a year to read the same number of words other children might read in a day. Therefore, the fact that people who read so slowly were so adept at picking out the impossible figures was a big surprise to the researchers. After all, why would people who are slow in reading be fast at responding to visual representations of causal reasoning?
Though the psychologists may have been surprised, many of the people with dyslexia I speak with are not. In our laboratory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics we have carried out studies funded by the National Science Foundation to investigate talents for science among those with dyslexia. The dyslexic scientist Christopher Tonkin described to me his sense of this as a sensitivity to “things out of place.” He’s easily bothered by the weeds among the flowers in his garden, and he felt that this sensitivity for visual anomalies was something he built on in his career as a professional scientist. Such differences in sensitivity for causal perception may explain why people like Carole Greider and Baruj Benacerraf have been able to perform Nobel prize-winning science despite lifelong challenges with dyslexia.
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firehosevia multitasksuicide
#shredding
Exquisite…
The foundations of English-watchmaker John Arnold’s reputation were laid when he presented his elaborately ornamented half-quarter repeater ring to George III over two-centuries ago. Among Arnold’s work were pocket watches with hand-engraved movements and champlevé enamel cases; even his marine chronometers had hand-engraved balance cocks with the floral motifs typical of the English style. True to its founder (though associated by name only), Arnold & Son today carefully preserves and cultivates the skilled creative craftsmanship in the form of hand-finished engravings and miniature paintings that have been characteristic of the brand throughout its history. These pieces are embodied in the “Métiers d’Art” or decorative arts pieces issued by Arnold & Son.
Here now we look at Arnold & Son’s TE8 Tourbillon Métiers d’Art I, a beautiful hand-engraved watch with tourbillon, limited to only eight pieces. And I will concluede with a look at the latest, the TE8 Tourbillon Métiers d’Art I.
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firehoseeven the robots who will crush our bones into paste are #teamcake
so perk up kids, look at your afterlife. your crushed corpses will become robot cake
We’re suddenly very hungry! Via Core77.
We think of factories producing iPhones, IKEA flatpacks and Infinitis, and as ID’ers we have an idea of what those production lines look like. But chances are you’ve never been inside a factory that makes cakes and desserts. Unifiller Systems, Inc. is a company that creates cake-decorating machines and food processing equipment, and their “sizzle reel” is pretty fascinating:
Once you’ve seen those machines above in action, it makes sense that circular cakes would be filled and iced on a turntable. But how do they get the filling into rectangular cakes, which don’t have rotational symmetry? Surprisingly, for sheet cakes they use a “split and fill” technology that slices the cake horizontally while simultaneously injecting the filling (see it in action around 0:28):
In that vid you probably caught a glimpse of that tablet the guy was scrawling on, with the robot arm copying his lines onto a cake. That machine’s called the Unibot, and it’s how they achieve that handwritten look with icing:
firehose'reaping the tens of millions of “unique” and highly valuable young male visitors'
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Amazon announced today that it will buy Twitch, the Internet’s most popular place to watch people broadcast themselves playing video games. The company will be shelling out “more than $1 billion,” according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported the news before Amazon and Twitch officially confirmed the deal. (UPDATE: Amazon now says the official purchase price is $970 million in cash. So maybe The Wall Street Journal isn’t very good at math.)
Amazon’s sudden addition to the mix of potential Twitch suitors comes as a bit of a surprise. A couple of months ago, a rumor circulated about Google buying up Twitch for the measly sum of just $1 billion, and The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo was also interested. But in the end, it’s Amazon that stands victorious, reaping the tens of millions of “unique” and highly valuable young male visitors who frequent ...
firehose"The Thorns are the only team that averaged more than 4,000 and no team other than the Thorns averaged even 5,000. Basically, what Riley is saying, is that regardless of how they played during the regular season, the Thorns should be the only team allowed to host playoff games."
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Paul Riley was not happy to lose in front of a crowd of fewer than 3,000.
The Portland Thorns were knocked out of the playoffs on Saturday, meaning they won't be repeating as NWSL champions. Their 2-0 loss to FC Kansas City was played at a college soccer stadium, on a blazing hot pitch and in front of a crowd of about 3,000. None of this sat well with Thorns head coach Paul Riley.
"Who wants to play in this stadium in a semifinal?" Riley told the Oregonian. "It's terrible conditions for the players. To bring in 14 national team players [including American star Alex Morgan and Canadian star Christine Sinclair] and have them play under conditions like this in the semifinal, doesn't make any sense...you can't play football at this place. It's impossible."
The conditions were so bad, at least from Riley's perspective, that he apparently suggested FCKC should not have even been allowed to to host the match. In fact, Riley feels as though NWSL teams should have to meet a certain attendance standard in order to host playoff games.
Riley's suggestion for that cut off?
"The requirements should be an attendance level, whether it be 8,000, whether it be 10,000," Riley said, according to ESPNW. "It should be proper seating. It should be proper stadium facilities. What else do you need? It's a semifinal, and it looks like nobody is here, I'm sure, from the TV perspective. How are you selling the league when it looks like nobody is at the game? How do you sell a league when it doesn't look like there's any sponsors? How do you sell a league when, you know, people look at it and say 'Oh, it's not that good.' When you see Portland is 18,000, you want to get involved in this league. The fans are behind us."
Reasonable enough, right? Well, there's only one problem: The Thorns are the only team that averaged more than 4,000 and no team other than the Thorns averaged even 5,000. The Houston Dash were the only other NWSL team to pull in a crowd of even 8,000 on any occasion without needing to play a double-header with a MLS team. Basically, what Riley is saying, is that regardless of how they played during the regular season, the Thorns should be the only team allowed to host playoff games. That's a little ... convenient.
firehoseFlorida #nevergo
Florida Polytechnic University in Tampa has just opened, with over 300 students attending the first day of classes this week. The newly-built campus has a gorgeous library building, but no plans to stock it with books. Instead, it will be the nation's first all-digital college library. But it gets weirder than that.
firehose“Good on MTV for doing its part to reduce the negative stereotypes it promotes.”
firehoseno god only shiba
firehosewh... what
Like most family vacations, New Line’s reboot of the Vacation series has always seemed like more of a threat than a fun getaway. Sure, everybody will have some laughs, but do we really need to spend that much time with Chevy Chase and/or our real families? We see them all the time anyway—or we did 20 years ago, at least.
When we last heard about the Vacation reboot—or sequel, or remake, or whatever it is—New Line had apparently made good on its threat to turn the car around if everybody didn’t start behaving themselves by putting the project on an indefinite hiatus. Now, though, it sounds like dad has calmed down and is putting the suitcases back in the trunk, so the Vacation reboot is back on. Ed Helms is still set to star as a grown-up Rusty Griswold—who, by our count, is ...
firehose'Jura's Master Distiller, Mr. Willie Tait, traveled across the Atlantic to the streets of Williamsburg, Park Slope, Bushwick'
'the collaborators tasted different whisky marriages paired with fried chicken, artisanal cheese and fine chocolates, finally arriving at a whisky by Brooklyn, for Brooklyn'
because nothing says Brooklyn like fried chicken off a Southern recipe, artisanal cheese probably from France, and scotch made in Scotland, designed by Park Slopers
Jura introduces Brooklyn Single Malt
In 2013, Jura brought together 12 Brooklyn artisans to co-collaborate on Kings County's first single malt Scotch whisky.
Jura Brooklyn has been aged up to 16 years in American White Oak Bourbon, Amoroso Sherry and Pinot Noir casks. Jura Brooklyn retails for a suggested price of $79.99.
Jura's Master Distiller, Mr. Willie Tait, traveled across the Atlantic to the streets of Williamsburg, Park Slope, Bushwick and every neighborhood in between, with one objective: to craft a world-class single malt Scotch, chosen by and for the people of Brooklyn.
Tait met with his hand-picked team (Bedford Cheese Shop, Brooklyn Winery, The Richardson, Post Office, Fine & Raw, New York City Food Truck Association, BAM, Brooklyn Brewery, Noorman's Kil, Vimbly, Buttermilk Channel and Brooklyn Magazine) in New York's famed borough, armed with six different cask samples each reflecting the distinctive flavors of Brooklyn's heritage (such as BBQ, Egg Cream and Artisanal Chocolate). During a series of blending sessions held in Brooklyn, the collaborators tasted different whisky marriages paired with fried chicken, artisanal cheese and fine chocolates, finally arriving at a whisky by Brooklyn, for Brooklyn.
About Jura:
The Isle of Jura is nestled off the West Coast of Scotland. It's only 60 miles as the crow flies from Glasgow, but takes a wee while to get there. It's just one road, one pub, one distillery and one community. Jura whisky is a part of the Whyte & Mackay single malt portfolio.
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