The Mechanical Spinster's Lair

Stuff I write. Stuff I do. Stuff that happens. Stuff I like.

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Me, at a job interview upon being told that I was “impressive”

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JavaScript code through the eyes of various authors.

Maybe Hemingway would’ve been too drunk to choose JS to write in but whatever.

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The Dilla Dimension

An interactive film inspired by J Dilla's DONUTS

Found on threejs.org

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQpiJkKxGpo)

Why can’t Keegan-Michael Key be the one to give me all my bad news?

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Me: I don't know how you survive under the conditions of Venezuela.

Friend: We're hungry and don't have the energy to kill.

[donutguts]

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White people

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“I don’t see color” literally just means I have to ignore the fact that you aren’t white to treat you like a person.

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Black and White painting  by Bob Ross

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2 Chainz // Watch Out

I’m probably enjoying this way more than I should.

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Math Question:

If I’m making a minimum of 80€/week, and the train is going 40kmh, will I have enough to pay my rent?

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OUR SCHOOL WENT ON A TRIP TO TO THE ZOO TODAY AND HAD TO STOP THE BUS BECAUSE SOMEONE SNEAKED A FREAKING PENGUIN ONTO THE BUS OMG MY CHEMISTRY TEACHER WAS CRYING WHEN SHE TOLD US OMG I ACTUALLY DIED

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YOU GUYS YOU DONT UNDERSTAND OUR SCHOOL IS ACTUALLY BANNED FROM AN ACTUAL ZOO BECAUSE SOMEONE DECIDED TO TRY AND STEAL AN ACTUAL REAL LIVING PENGUIN AND TAKE IT HOME

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Your Joke of the Day from Morgan Murphy. http://on.cc.com/2b2OmOe

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#literally me

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Stuff that happens:

I’m a regular participant in a local improv gym (that is people getting together who likely don’t know each other but will say yes and work on that). I’m also Latina AF. Today, I was in a situation where I was familiar with about 3% of the room and was open to the idea of meeting more people and going for drinks and such and finally we’re standing outside, waiting to all leave together, when a fellow member (white, Irish, female) discloses that she’s learning salsa and I ask why. 

This throws her off, she considers that she’s immersing herself in the culture when I point out that salsa isn’t a genre that belongs to the Spanish, and just when I’m getting ready to tell her that her choice can be best described as ordering steak at a seafood restaurant, a Spaniard gives us her two cents. 

“Well, but you can learn salsa anywhere.” This is true, but you don’t say you’re immersing yourself in Spanish culture by learning salsa because you’re perhaps ignorant non-European cultures. You can also learn about yoga anywhere around the world, but it’d be ridiculous to say that white chicks invented it and you most definitely don’t tell people you’re immersing yourself in white chick culture through it. “I understand that salsa isn’t ours but we’ve made it our own.”

I’m didn’t even respond, I was too blown away to form words from the shards of my absolute disappointment.