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bookish: figmentdotcom: justastrumpet: Reading nooks make me...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:48:40 -0500

figmentdotcom:

justastrumpet:

Reading nooks make me blissfully happy

If a house was made entirely of reading nooks, would they still be nooks? Follow-up question: If a house was made entirely of reading nooks, would anyone care what they were called, or would they be too busy having book-feels?

That bottom right nook has our name all over it!

eatsleepdraw: via deep-dark-fears

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:00:12 -0500

eatsleepdraw:

via deep-dark-fears

Finally have the minimal ninja turtles print available as...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:54:30 -0500

Finally have the minimal ninja turtles print available as t-shirts and hoodies over at RedBubble. If you’re interested, go check ‘em out!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/thekevbot/works/9725406-teenage-minimal-ninja-turtles

sirmitchell: I’ll admit, I don’t find Grumpy Cat to be very...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:21:41 -0500

sirmitchell:

I’ll admit, I don’t find Grumpy Cat to be very funny/entertaining, but this was excellent.

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:40:30 -0500

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

- Charles Bukowski

sirmitchell: I love this. As an artist who lives off his work,...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:54:58 -0500

sirmitchell:

I love this. As an artist who lives off his work, I hope one day I can make art purely for the sake of self fulfillment. (not that I don’t enjoy my work now, I do)

sirmitchell: Watch this real life Ron Swanson turn a saw blade...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:13:30 -0500

sirmitchell:

Watch this real life Ron Swanson turn a saw blade and some scrap wood into a meat cleaver. It is, the best.

99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:28:23 -0400

booooooom:

i never reblog this kind of stuff but so many of these are life-changing. this is more like a note to myself.

I don’t know who made these, but if you do, point me in...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:21:02 -0400

I don’t know who made these, but if you do, point me in their direction!

Reblogging to read about later… #notapsychopath

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:53:55 -0400

Reblogging to read about later… #notapsychopath

#truestorybro

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:07:48 -0400

#truestorybro

How much would you be willing to pay for a necktie?

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:02:03 -0400

I’m curious as to how much guys are willing to drop on their neckwear

Somebody - Charles Bukowski

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:55:20 -0400

god I got the sad blue blues,

this woman sat there and she
said
are you really Charles

Bukowski?

and I said

forget that

I do not feel good
I’ve got the sad sads
all I want to do is
fuck you
and she laughed
she thought I was being
clever
and O I just looked up her long slim legs of heaven
I saw her liver and her quivering intestine
I saw Christ in there
jumping to a folk-rock
all the long lines of starvation within me
rose
and I walked over
and grabbed her on the couch
ripped her dress up around her face
and I didn’t care
rape or the end of the earth
one more time
to be there
anywhere
real
yes
her panties were on the
floor
and my cock went in
my cock my god my cock went in
I was Charles
Somebody.

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:50:40 -0400

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Photo

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:28:47 -0400

Shameless

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:20:26 -0400

Shameless

expose-the-light: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Albert...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:50:11 -0400

expose-the-light:

10 Things You Don’t Know About Albert Einstein

Most people know that Albert Einstein was a famous scientist who came up with the formula E=mc². But do you know these ten things about this genius?

10. Loved to Sail

When Einstein attended college at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, he fell in love with sailing. He would often take a boat out onto a lake, pull out a notebook, relax, and think. Even though Einstein never learned to swim, he kept sailing as a hobby throughout his life.

9. Einstein’s Brain

When Einstein died in 1955, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered, as was his wish. However, before his body was cremated, pathologist Thomas Harvey at Princeton Hospital conducted an autopsy in which he removed Einstein’s brain. Rather than putting the brain back in the body, Harvey decided to keep it, ostensibly for study. Harvey did not have permission to keep Einstein’s brain, but days later, he convinced Einstein’s son that it would help science. Shortly thereafter, Harvey was fired from his position at Princeton because he refused to give up Einstein’s brain.

For the next four decades, Harvey kept Einstein’s chopped-up brain (Harvey had it cut into over 200 pieces) in two mason jars with him as he moved around the country. Every once in a while, Harvey would slice off a piece and send it to a researcher. Finally, in 1998, Harvey returned Einstein’s brain to the pathologist at Princeton Hospital.

8. Einstein and the Violin

Einstein’s mother, Pauline, was an accomplished pianist and wanted her son to love music too, so she started him on violin lessons when he was six years old. Unfortunately, at first, Einstein hated playing the violin. He would much rather build houses of cards, which he was really good at (he once built one 14 stories high!), or do just about anything else. When Einstein was 13-years old, he suddenly changed his mind about the violin when he heard the music of Mozart. With a new passion for playing, Einstein continued to play the violin until the last few years of his life. For nearly seven decades, Einstein would not only use the violin to relax when he became stuck in his thinking process, he would play socially at local recitals or join in impromptu groups such as Christmas carolers who stopped at his home.

7. Presidency of Israel

A few days after Zionist leader and first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann died on November 9, 1952, Einstein was asked if he would accept the position of being the second president of Israel. Einstein, age 73, declined the offer. In his official letter of refusal, Einstein stated that he not only lacked the “natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people,” but also, he was getting old.

6. No Socks

Part of Einstein’s charm was his disheveled look. In addition to his uncombed hair, one of Einstein’s peculiar habits was to never wear socks. Whether it was while out sailing or to a formal dinner at the White House, Einstein went without socks everywhere. To Einstein, socks were a pain because they often would get holes in them. Plus, why wear both socks and shoes when one of them would do just fine?

5. A Simple Compass

When Albert Einstein was five years old and sick in bed, his father showed him a simple pocket compass. Einstein was mesmerized. What force exerted itself on the little needle to make it point in a single direction? This question haunted Einstein for many years and has been noted as the beginning of his fascination with science.

4. Designed a Refrigerator

Twenty-one years after writing his Special Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein invented a refrigerator that operated on alcohol gas. The refrigerator was patented in 1926 but never went into production because new technology made it unnecessary. Einstein invented the refrigerator because he read about a family that was poisoned by a sulphur dioxide-emitting refrigerator.

3. Obsessed Smoker

Einstein loved to smoke. As he walked between his house and his office at Princeton, one could often see him followed by a trail of smoke. Nearly as part of his image as his wild hair and baggy clothes was Einstein clutching his trusty briar pipe. In 1950, Einstein is noted as saying, “I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs,” Although he favored pipes, Einstein was not one to turn down a cigar or even a cigarette.

2. Married His Cousin

After Einstein divorced his first wife, Mileva Maric, in 1919, he married his cousin, Elsa Loewenthal (nee Einstein). How closely were they related? Quite close. Elsa was actually related to Albert on both sides of his family. Albert’s mother and Elsa’s mother were sisters, plus Albert’s father and Elsa’s father were cousins. When they were both little, Elsa and Albert had played together; however, their romance only began once Elsa had married and divorced Max Loewenthal.

1. An Illegitimate Daughter

In 1901, before Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric were married, the college sweethearts took a romantic getaway to Lake Como in Italy. After the vacation, Mileva found herself pregnant. In that day and age, illegitimate children were not uncommon and yet they were also not accepted by society. Since Einstein did not have the money to marry Maric nor the ability to support a child, the two were not able to get married until Einstein got the patent job over a year later. So as not to besmirch Einstein’s reputation, Maric went back to her family and had the baby girl, whom she named Lieserl.

Although we know that Einstein knew about his daughter, we don’t actually know what happened to her. There are but just a few references of her in Einstein’s letters, with the last one in September 1903. It is believed that Lieserl either died after suffering from scarlet fever at an early age or she survived the scarlet fever and was given up for adoption. Both Albert and Mileva kept the existence of Lieserl so secret that Einstein scholars only discovered her existence in recent years.

No explanation necessary.

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:19:06 -0400

No explanation necessary.

jaredtomas: 31 things every man should own: Cast iron skilletValid passportMultipurpose...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:45:16 -0400

jaredtomas:

31 things every man should own:

Cast iron skillet
Valid passport
Multipurpose tool
Waiter’s corkscrew/bottle opener/knife:
Axe
WD-40
Cordless drill
Weekend shoulder bag
Wool blanket
Chainsaw
Work gloves
Carpenter’s level
Work boots
Boots for everywhere else
Jack
Claw hammer
Lantern
Chefs knife
Flying disc
Road atlas
Air pump
Jumper cables
Charcoal grill
Card holder
Pocket knife
Grease
Lucky charm
$1,000 hidden in your house
LED flashlight
Money clip
“The Joy of Cooking”

My pal, Mat put out his first trance song finally. Show him some...

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:18:17 -0400

My pal, Mat put out his first trance song finally. Show him some love!