A heart full of plans

nprfreshair: Devon, England via @Earth_Pics I should probably...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:50:39 -0400

nprfreshair:

Devon, England

via @Earth_Pics

I should probably go there someday.

culturallyanachronistic: Flag and a cow hide in the bathroom?...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:48:02 -0400

culturallyanachronistic:

Flag and a cow hide in the bathroom? Feeling it.

You do not want wet cow hide in your home.

spacejam: alexandra-ewing: I still occasionally sign off an...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:46:44 -0400

spacejam:

alexandra-ewing:

I still occasionally sign off an email with “missYn you girl” and it’s been so long I forgot where that came from.

The best part of this, however, is either:

Brendan randomly saying “DANCE” midway through the song

the video description, which reads

In an effort to cross promote both “The Brendan Leonard Show” and “Switched” ABC Family sent a girl from Godley, Texas to Winnetka for a weekend. Naturally we decided to make a BOYling Point video featuring her.

SWITCHED.

1. I just got hot flashes. Am I defining “hot flashes” correctly?

2. I asked my dad if we could go on vacation to Winetka, Illinois once. He said, “Why? There’s nothing there.” I was silent, but dying.

3. In freshman year health, Ms. Mariani asked us to talk to a partner about the “best day of our life” once - Hannah Kligman said it was going on an Outward Bound trip, and I said it was 09/5/2003 because I got to talk to Brendan Leonard. “He’s a cable access star? But he’s on ABC Family now. Him and his friends are really funny? You had to be there.”

4. UGH

AH IT’S BEEN SO LONG

lambs cows lambs.

alexandra-ewing: femilogue: On April 26, 1777 16-year-old...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:08:16 -0400

alexandra-ewing:

femilogue:

On April 26, 1777 16-year-old SYBIL LUDINGTON (1761–1839) became a hero of the American Revolution by riding 40 miles in the dark to muster the New York militia after the British attacked nearby Danbury, Connecticut. She rode twice the distance of Paul Revere and, unlike Revere, was not apprehended.

Today in history!

Awesome lady hero!

thingsofinterest: homedesigning: Floor Plans Of Homes From...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:06:52 -0400

thingsofinterest:

homedesigning:

Floor Plans Of Homes From Famous TV Shows - Click on for apartments from Friends, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two And A Half Men, Frasier, Senfield and a lot more…

so good

A cabin by a lake with an entire wall built out of reclaimed...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:53:00 -0400

A cabin by a lake with an entire wall built out of reclaimed windows. Gorgeous, wonderful. http://oldworldgrange.tumblr.com/

"If you had told me when I was struggling that one day I would be successful at ANYTHING other than..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:21:00 -0400

“If you had told me when I was struggling that one day I would be successful at ANYTHING other than being head waitress—I would have never believed I would be successful in the career I am [successful in]. I would have never believed I’d have a beautiful child. I would never believe I’d ever even BE in Paris, much less buy a place here. I don’t know what that thing is except you have to be your own hero. You have to be the star in your own movie. It’s all within. All your answers are within and here I am.”

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The Katherine Fugate episode of House Hunters International was on again after I got home from work tonight and I so felt her on the head waitress bit (even though I am a cashier) that I sat there and transcribed this on my phone. (via alexandra-ewing)

Well I’m going to transcribe this on my fridge. Or wall.

Audio

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:19:11 -0400

nprfreshair: Sebastian Junger on the trauma of losing his...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:55:34 -0400

nprfreshair:

Sebastian Junger on the trauma of losing his friend and collaborator, Tim Hetherington:

Within an hour I decided not to cover combat again. I didn’t want to risk traumatizing everyone I loved by getting killed myself. I mean, you go to war, you think you’re gambling with your own life and then I realized that what you’re really doing is gambling with everyone else’s lives, everyone who cares about you. You’re dead. You don’t matter. It’s over. It’s everyone else who has to deal with it. I hadn’t really gotten that either and, when Tim died, I did and I also just ran headlong into the central tragedy of war which is that good people get killed and I sort of didn’t want anything to do with it anymore.

Image of Tim Hetherington in Afghanistan courtesy of Norget

nprfreshair: Art about art and the people who make it: These...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:57:24 -0400

nprfreshair:

Art about art and the people who make it: These tiny sculptures of artists in their studios by Joe Fig (found over at Beautiful Decay) are pretty rad.

Above, Chuck Close (interview here)

escapekit: Chromatic Typewriter Prints Tyree Callahan has...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:38:12 -0400

escapekit:

Chromatic Typewriter Prints

Tyree Callahan has recycled (or upcycled, perhaps) a classic 1937 Underwood typewriter by replacing letters with sponges soaked across the spectrum with bright yellows, reds, blues and combinations thereof.

This would be alright.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:13:07 -0400

This would be alright.

spacejam: Enough people tagged “you tried” in tandem with...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:19:35 -0400

spacejam:

Enough people tagged “you tried” in tandem with “women in science.”

Leveling the playing field may be something people feel they support on an individual basis, but as a larger entity, even the tumblr society sure doesn’t.

Well tumblr knows nothing. Be relieved to hear that ~80% of the employees in my natural resource / science program at work are women.

That looks like my bike.

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:36:45 -0500

That looks like my bike.

nprfreshair: A few days ago, my father — a retired professor of...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:15:20 -0500

nprfreshair:

A few days ago, my father — a retired professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Virginia — forwarded me this map that Rachel Nelson, a master’s student in Urban and Environmental Planning at UVA, made for an Intro to GIS class. Nelson’s map shows dangerous places in the United States based on natural disaster data. Given that the end of the world is scheduled for sometime tomorrow, I figured the map was worth sharing, both for its informational and its visual interest. Writes Nelson via email:

As a dedicated worrier, I wanted to use GIS to investigate where the most dangerous places to live in the US might be based on natural disaster data. I narrowed the criteria down to volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and storms with hail bigger than tennis balls (2.4”) or softballs (4”). The tornado and hail data tracks all storms over the past 60 years to get a visual for general patterns. Earthquake contour lines show predicted hazard zones based off of past activity and fault locations at 10% probability of exeedance in 50 years. Triangles map active US volcanoes, which are all presently at “low” risk.

- Nell

Well, this puts my intro GIS project to shame.

Well, this is the cutest fucking thing to appear on my tumblr...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:32:36 -0500

Well, this is the cutest fucking thing to appear on my tumblr feed , maybe ever.

The Weepies should be prescribed as blood pressure medication.

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:23:18 -0500

The Weepies should be prescribed as blood pressure medication.

"I’m just a single guy. I’m not married, I don’t have kids or anything like that. All of my friends..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:49:01 -0500

“I’m just a single guy. I’m not married, I don’t have kids or anything like that. All of my friends are getting married and stuff which is, uh, kinda strange. I don’t know, I feel like I see people my age getting married to people and it’s not people they know that well sometimes. It’s like people they’ve known for a year and a half. A year and a half? Is that enough time to get to know someone to know you want to spend the rest of your life with them? I’ve had sweaters for a year and a half and been like what the fuck am I doing with this sweater? It’s stupid-looking.”

- Aziz Ansari (via justsaysomethingperfect)

wamiv-: I’m her No joke I listened to Duffy for the first time...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:18:19 -0500

wamiv-:

I’m her

No joke I listened to Duffy for the first time in YEARS this morning. Had completely forgotten she existed. Is this a SIGN?

samaritrophic: wannagetlost: OH MY GOD WHY IS IT SO SAD STOP...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:04:37 -0500

samaritrophic:

wannagetlost:

OH MY GOD

WHY IS IT SO SAD

STOP IT

let me make you happy, lil pug

It’s because his owner put him in a fucking sweater.