Seriously. She could show up in freakin sackcloth and ashes and I'd still offer to carry her jock.
Buffy, Battlestar, Torchwood, Once Upon a Time. Girlfriend can do no wrong, as far as I'm concerned.
Agreed. I've posted this video about six times since the whole kerfuffle started. This IS about abortion, and I really don't care who I alienate by saying it.
Two things.
One, SGK's pink washing has always annoyed the shit out of me, and after years of being tut-tutted for daring to question how they're spending donations, I can't help but feel a little vindicated by this PR shitbomb.
Two, I'm annoyed as hell by the people on FB saying that they didn't know PP did anything besides abortions, and now that they know, they support the non-abortion things they do, and why doesn't PP have better marketing to reassure the nice midwestern church ladies that they do more than kill babies? And the people who respond reassuringly about how many other things PP does – just shut up.
Fuck those dumbshit assholes. They are not our ALLIES. They are willfully ignorant Fox News watchers who will turn on PP and anyone else as soon as some closeted stuffed shirt tells them to. This isn't about the "nice" things PP does. This IS about abortion – that's why SGK cut funding to PP. And pretending it's not about abortion is pandering to fair-weather "friends" who are a cunthair away from voting for some fucker who's going to make birth control pills illegal.
"Can you make another batch of kettle corn?"
"Ugh, I'm SO BLOATED."
"Oh, I TOTALLY need a steak right now?"
"Um, can I borrow a tampon?"*
"I'm sorry, I can't talk about it right now"
"I said SUPER PLUS, not SUPER. GOD."
"Ugh, I'm SO BLOATED."
"Oh, I TOTALLY need a steak right now?"
"Um, can I borrow a tampon?"*
"I'm sorry, I can't talk about it right now"
"I said SUPER PLUS, not SUPER. GOD."
*This one always grosses me out.
My first house was a Craftsman bungalow built in 1911 and had NO insulation. Like, none at all. Of course, being a new homeowner I couldn't afford to keep the place above 60 degrees when I was home. Two things:
One, buy and install a programmable thermostat. It's not that hard if you have control of the heat - obviously this doesn't apply if you're in a rental with radiator/steam heat - and will save you a ton of money but still let you wake up without seeing your breath.
Two - and this may sound shitty, but goddamn it worked - move around. If I had just sat on the couch or in front of the computer all night, I would have been FREEZING. Instead I had an old used stair-stepper thingy that I set up in front of the tv, and those floor pedally things for when I was working.
This isn't about a bubble. This is about how VCs invest in entrepreneurs with a successful exit, regardless of the idea (or lack thereof). In Lodwick's case, Vimeo. In Bill Nguyen's case, OneBox and Lala (Nguyen, for those of you following along at home, is the founder of Color - [gawker.com]).
It's always been the case that investors look at team, not idea or product, when making the decision of whether or not to invest. Unfortunately, it seems that they've become so risk averse that they'd rather throw money at the 1% (ahem) than take the time to perform due diligence and invest in teams who actually need money to build product.
For those of us without a big win already under our belts, the next best thing is to sell one of these guys on your idea, and get their headshot on the advisors slide in your pitch deck in exchange for 1-5% of your company. Pucker up, buttercup...
Go fuck yourself, Parker: [techcrunch.com]
You and Levchin are just bitter you have to pay your exploited engineers more. And criticizing startup founders for working on "small" ideas? Facebook was a derivative way to hook up with other college kids.
Seriously. Shoot yourself in the face.
You and Levchin are just bitter you have to pay your exploited engineers more. And criticizing startup founders for working on "small" ideas? Facebook was a derivative way to hook up with other college kids.
Seriously. Shoot yourself in the face.
Oh, I totally agree. It's ubiquitous, unfortunately, and Patti's business model is apparently based on catering to those standards. There's certainly no money to be made in trying to change or expand them.
Is she a hateful, insecure twatwaffle? Undoubtedly. Is she wrong? Not really.
The women and men who "audition" for her dating service are there because they want to trade looks and youth for financial security. It's pathetic that this is the currency of exchange, but it is, and these people are fully aware of that. They HAVE to know that they're punching above their weight.
Also, spending much of my professional life with the types of men who seem to make up most of her clients, I can attest that her aesthetic judgements are in line with her clients' preferences. Wealthy, successful men aren't attracted to 20-something big-tittied straight-haired "spinners" because she tells them to be. That's what they went to her to find.
The women and men who "audition" for her dating service are there because they want to trade looks and youth for financial security. It's pathetic that this is the currency of exchange, but it is, and these people are fully aware of that. They HAVE to know that they're punching above their weight.
Also, spending much of my professional life with the types of men who seem to make up most of her clients, I can attest that her aesthetic judgements are in line with her clients' preferences. Wealthy, successful men aren't attracted to 20-something big-tittied straight-haired "spinners" because she tells them to be. That's what they went to her to find.
What bugs me most about the singling-out you speak of is how self-congratulatory it is, at the same time that it puts women and minorities under the microscope. That kind of scrutiny has been linked to poorer outcomes for those singled-out.
Oh my God. He will always be Jake Cutter on Tales of the Gold Monkey to me.
We're also just now hitting that sweet spot where we become the "sandwich generation" - stuck taking care of our children AND our aging parents.
Watch this. You will love Anna Kendrick afterwards.
Dude! Jobs isn't dead! I'm getting so skeeved out by all the eulogizing. Yes, I know pancreatic cancer is an awful, incurable disease, but would it KILL everyone to maintain the polite fiction until the man actually shuffles off this mortal iCoil?
They also quit accepting recycling in communities that didn't have curbside recycling before Sam's corpse was even cold.
While what happened to EJ sucks like a big sucky thing, I'm kinda glad it's getting so much attention. The more services we use that smoosh together our online and offline lives - like Airbnb and Match.com - the more careful and considered we need to be as users. And the more aware and empathetic site owners need to be - [youruisucks.tumblr.com]
Can we PLEASE stop giving Chris Brown attention for his petulant brainfarts? PLEASE?!
There are a couple of dogs in my neighborhood with mohawks. I sense a trend coming on...
Next time don't be so FUCKING eager.
I've sent this to every boss I've had for the last two years: [www.paulgraham.com] Funny thing is, they never actually read it because it gets lost in their inboxes, which are full of meeting reminders.
