Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Nick, 20, Pennsylvania Lover of drum corps, fine wine, and good times. No need to introduce yourself, just pretend like we've always been friends.

[mysharona1987]

Hilarious book dedications. 

[kingwizardandthelizardgizza-blog]

Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters

[quasarkisses]

they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay

“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”

“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”

“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”

“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”

“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”

[nudityandnerdery]

And, of course: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

[assassinregrets]

the one that will always stay with me is “Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,” i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.

[marsdaydream]

I will reblog this every time I see it because these are some of my favorite sentences in the English language.

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

Disney peaked with the Emperor’s New Groove

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

Eartha Kitt’s performance as Yzma…the music…the comedy…the Kronk. It is a perfect film

[sandersstudies]

Additional reasons:

Every single character is a PoC

First Disney animated film to show a pregnant woman onscreen

Real relationship goals: Pacha and ChiCha

Really diverse body types on everybody!

Classic tropes and classic tropes subverted (enemies to friends, anyone?)

Kronk

[killer-snail-deactivated2019112]

Diverse body type: Llama

[iamtypinglike98madmen-deactivat]

Also Kuzko’s character arc is nice to see, instead of ‘be yourself’ it’s like ‘hey, don’t be an asshole’ and he actually learns it

[mens-rights-activia]

Also r*mance wasn’t at the center of the story, growth was, and that was really refreshing

[elucubrare]

i’m proud of it

[elucubrare]

update: 

[thenatsdorf]

Sweet cat rescued from the streets of Brooklyn, NY. (via flatbushcats)

[massejasse]

Oh, the differns in his eyes..

[beefandcorn]

are you worried

About what? But yeah

[anxietyproblem]

[theambassadorposts]

Yo get these guys off a subway & onto broadway cuz this is lit.

[hydro-homies]

How it do be

[myapogee]

[webpix-blog]

[gayboomhauer]

imagine the SOUND of someone walking down the street wearing those

[snugglebunchesofeyes]

click slap click slap clickslap

[art--felt]

I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed

[wishyroses]

SHIT WHAT

[teal-deer]

Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.

I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.

[freewillandphysics]

This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things. 

Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.

[samthe-onion-nigga]

I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..

[skyakafreckles]

Never would have known

[lemonlyman-dot-com]

Ah yes, the emotions: grief, change, onion, humor

[meangirlnurse]

after i move i really wanna get a used roomba

[meangirlnurse]

[strangehorse]

believe me when I say I get the frustration of people who say they’re gluten free ordering things that contain gluten and not caring, but I will always always always assume someone who orders gluten free is being deadly serious. if I’m wrong, the worst thing I’ve done is wasted a bit of my time; if I assume they aren’t serious and they are, then I’ve increased a stranger’s risk of colon cancer

[strangehorse]

“I bet they’re not even allergic to nuts!”

oh gee would i rather have the petty joy of proving a stranger ‘wrong’ or risk sending somebody into fucking anaphylaxis? it’s not hard folks

[killer-snail-deactivated2019112]

You should also do this for folks who say they’re vegan– egg and dairy allergies are some of the most common allergies and if you have both like me, the easiest way to find food to eat is look for stuff labeled vegan. Don’t be a shithead and slip eggs or dairy into something vegan (looking at you, baristas who think it’s hilarious to put regular cream instead of almond milk because you think almond milk is “pretentious”) because you never know if there’s a significant health reason behind being vegan. Also you shouldn’t do it anyway because you should like, actually respect people’s ability to choose what foods they eat, but yeah. Don’t lie about what you’re putting in food. I’ve had too many allergic reactions because of this.

[rentalskeleton]

also even if someone is vegan and DOESN’T have an allergy to dairy/eggs etc still DONT “TRICK” THEM INTO EATING MEAT OR DAIRY. If you haven’t eaten these things in a long time your body does not know how to process it anymore and will get very very VERY sick if you suddenly like eat beef or cheese. I’m talking hours on the toilet, or puking, etc. Just fucking respect people’s food choices also literally what does it matter to you.

[snowdayinthearchives]

Since I already brought up my university’s chaplain once today, I thought I’d share with you the best advice he ever gave me.

If someone is suffering and you want to help, instead of saying “let me know if there’s anything I can do,” offer a few options of things you know you can do.

“Can I do your dishes while you study for your exam?”

“Would it help if I came to the waiting room with you?”

“I can distract you if you like.”

When someone’s suffering, making them choose how to be helped can sometimes be an extra burden, especially if they don’t know how serious your offer is. By giving examples, they only need to say yes/no, and they know you wouldn’t offer anything too big for you to handle.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As

Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and everyone else is graded accordingly.

Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, “Computer System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted the exam, they’d all get As.

So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas to come and sit the exam.

Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by coming together, they can achieve something that individually they could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was possible.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/hang-together-or-hang-separate-2.html

[saysomethinghuman-deactivated20]

Who will ride or die with me this hard

[anexperimentallife]

I love that even the professor was like, “YES! They did good!”

[ferrous-princess]

He told a bunch of PROGRAMMING students that he was going to grade on a curve.

PROGRAMING.

Like half of programming is looking at sorting algorithms and asking “what could break this?” They looked at the grading algorithm (curve grading) and noticed “if every grade is the same, everything is at the top of the list” and “the easiest way to get all the grades to be the same is to set them all to zero.”

Of course the professor praised them. He may have taught them the exact type of logic that had them organize the boycott in the first place. They found a bug in his grading system and loudly exploited it.

[roughwaterwriting]

[rebelsong]

That is indeed vaguely threatening encouragement from a small octopus.

[johnfkennedyofficial]

reblog to save/threaten a life

[itschinyere-deactivated20200201]

Note to my ex.

Today my professor told me every cell in our entire body is destroyed and replaced every seven years. How comforting it is to know that one day I will have a body that you will have never touched.

[mieshasmoore-deactivated2021091]

This just made me feel so warm.

[iamfrenchfrie]

thank you.

[bronze-for-birdy]

Important especially for victims of abuse, remember your body is yours and it heals in more ways than you realize.

[punkpoemprose]

Okay, so I just want to say that this isn’t necessarily true. Most of your cells have died and regrown several times in seven years, but some haven’t, and some have died and won’t return. The seven year cell renewal is a myth perpetuated by popsci in magazines everywhere.

That being said, anywhere they may have touched you, your skin, your hair, your nails and so on, was changing the moment they departed your life, even before that. Your skin became skin they’ve never touched within 27 days. Your hair grows (on average) six inches per year, so depending on how long yours is, you were rid of their touch there within a few years tops. Your nails will completely regrow within six months tops. You were a body they never touched within three or four years. You will be a body they never touched within three or four years.

You have been rewriting your body, you are your own, you are constantly changing, and you are the only one who owns your body 100% of the time.

[lamiacea-deactivated20210106]

I’m here for correcting science myths in supportive ways.

[tiredscarfman]

i’ve only seen screenshots of this and it makes me feel even better knowing i already have a body he hasn’t touched.