Parallax Dementia - a difference of perspective
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Yahoo Buys Tumblr For $1.1 Billion, Promises "Not To Screw It Up" My biggest concern about this merger is that Yahoo is on shaky ground. They have been supported by Bing/Microsoft for 5 years now simply because their search advertising isn’t measuring up to expectations.
What’s nice about this transition of ownership is that Tumblr gets more exposure (like we need THAT) and greater support from Microsoft—I mean YAHOO!
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Great ideas come from the strangest of places.
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‘Cannon dial for latitude 49° North. Cannon dials (or ‘time guns’ as they were occasionally known) were popular in the 18th century. A burning glass mounted above the plate would receive the sun’s rays at noon, so providing the heat to light the fuse at the end of the miniature cannon, causing it to fire and thus provide a signal for midday. Engraved on the dial-plate is the maker’s signature, Victor Chevalier Ingr. Breveté quai l’horlage 77 à Paris.’ (via National Maritime Museum)
Hey! I’m near the 49th Parallel! I want this for my house!
(via wilwheaton)
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Magic Glasses I’ve never understood how movies continue to promote that glasses mean ugly. Seriously, why does this happen?
… *takes off glasses* …
Oh, that’s why! -
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(via fuckyeahdementia)
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If Earth were 100 Pixels Wide, how far would Mars be?
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Looks like I just found a weekend project!
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I Just Bought a House! I’m so nervous. I’ve not bought anything anywhere near as expensive as a house before, but I’m exhilarated. My husband and I get to stop paying rent and start charging rent!
We’ve just passed the first hurdle. Our offer has been accepted. This could still break down, but I’m incredibly optimistic based on what we saw.
The process was awesome. We’d been looking online for years just seeing what’s out there. It’s been too expensive and too many uncertainties with income kept us out for a long time. But we learned a lot looking online.
Then a friend of mine got a house. She referred her agent to me. We asked a lot of questions that just built our confidence that much more. But at some point, you just gotta start looking at places.
This was our third trip to see places. The first trip was just to test the waters. How accurately does the internet portray realty? Four houses, four significant projects, so it turned out, not very well. We saw two houses on our second trip. One house blew us away, but had a lot of competing offers in. We lost and it hurt. But at least we tried.
This third time was filled with simply amazing places. Only one was a bust, but out of 6 places, that’s an impressive and hard to decide on lot. We severely considered each house, ruling them out one at a time till it was just one. One that we couldn’t say ‘no’ to.
So here we are, two weeks since we first saw houses and we could be living in our own house in just two months!
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GET YO LYCOPENE ON!
