In the Mix

This, That and Everything Else That Comes Together in the Mixture That Is My Life

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JUMP

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Reminisce on “How I Met Your Mother” with our full ranking of the top running gags. It’s legen-wait-for-it-dary.

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I will never look at a curly fry the same way again.

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shots fired

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This is the most beautiful beach in Greece, which means it’s the prettiest beach in the world.

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High Line // NYC // Chelsea Market

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Looking forward to Conan’s antics on the MTV Movie Awards. 

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Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.

Simon Sinek (via imbruk)

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2014 Academy Award Winners

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<3 Ellen. 

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"To my buddy who said I’d never  host the Tonight Show. You owe me $100."

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Jimmy collects on his $100 bet with friends like Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Mike Tyson, and more.

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When, Exactly, Does Watching a Lot of Netflix Become a ‘Binge’?

On Friday, Netflix unleashed the entire second season of its political thriller House of Cards, encouraging fans to abandon any real-world weekend plans for some quality time with the morally bankrupt Frank and Claire Underwood. But when does a cozy night in with Washington’s favorite fictional power couple become a full-on “binge-watching” session?

The name for mainlining episode after episode has its roots in the 1990s with DVD sets and TV marathons, but the practice reached a new level of recognition in 2013 as Netflix and other video services experimented with original content (like Orange Is the New Black) and offered numerous catch-up opportunities for critics’ favorites (like Breaking Bad). Despite its increased prominence, though, there’s never really been a good, single working definition of what binge-watching actually is.

Previous attempts differ from each other in interesting ways when you read them closely. For 2013’s Word of the Year award—which ultimately went to “selfie”—the Oxford Dictionaries defined binge-watching as “watch[ing] multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming.” Dictionary.com takes a much broader stance on what types of entertainment can be binge-watched, and it suggests that it happens without ever getting up: “To watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.” Trend stories about binge-watching rarely get into precise numbers, but their anecdotes offer some clues: In a 2011 Washington Post article about binge-watching on college campuses, one student reported watching 49 episodes of Lost in two weeks—3.4 episodes per day on average—while another student watched 120 episodes of How I Met Your Mother in four weeks: about 4.3 episodes each day.

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