Chrissie Brodigan
UX designer. HuffPost Writer. @carsonfied's Think Vitamin Editor. DIY-enthusiast. Changemaker. Dog Walker. Love Addict. Best Friend. Sister. Daughter. New Yorker. Brooklynite. Trips over cordless phones.
“Drop me at the nearest busy intersection, I feel like playing Frogger.”
Wringo from Rochelle in beautiful Los Angeles
Remember when hit counters were all the rage? I do. I remember putting them at the bottom of my web pages to see how many people were reading and then reloading them incessantly to watch the number go up. It was a newbie mistake to think that the number was reflecting others’ activity every…
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Long-Sleeve Tee of the Day: “Elephant” hand-puppet T-shirt from Ubang.
Summed up rather nicely by Redditor flossdaily:
This is the sort of shirt that will get you ridiculed in high school, but get you laid in college.
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Long-Sleeve Tee of the Day: “Elephant” hand-puppet T-shirt from Ubang.
Summed up rather nicely by Redditor flossdaily:
This is the sort of shirt that will get you ridiculed in high school, but get you laid in college.[reddit.]
David Barnard posted the left screenshot, saying, “This is why I haven’t complained about AT&T in a while.”
The right screenshot is why I’m still going to complain, why I’ve never cared about iPhone tethering, why I’d rather pair my iPad with a Verizon MiFi, and why I’ve always been happy with the Verizon stick-modem that the MiFi will replace for my laptop.
Biographer Gerald Martin describes Gabriel García Márquez’s epiphany like this:
“He had realized, in a lightning flash of inspiration, that instead of a book about his childhood he should write a book about his memories of his childhood. Instead of a book about reality, it should be a book about the representation of reality.”
In other words, he should ditch realism and employ magical realism.
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