In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

Dylan O'Brien is guest starring in New Girl!!!!

[stileslovesderek]

… a flashback episode slated to air in late April will feature the stories of how each of the New Girl gang lost their virginity. In that episode, O’Brien will play Jess’ (Zooey Deschanel) prom date, a gorgeous, romantic, guitar-playing 18-year-old who promises a memorable “first time” for Jess, who wants to lose her virginity to someone special. But will he be able to actually seal the deal? (x)

[crookedwinding]

Did we all make this happen with our minds?

[nonnegative]

Hoo boy.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[moldykins]

SO APPARENTLY WHEN TWO LARGE WHALES DO THE NASTY THERE’S  SOMETIMES THIS ONE BRO WHO JUST SORT OF HOLDS THEM UP SO THEY DON’T FLOAT OFF

NATURE IS BEAUTIFUL

[nonnegative]

I like that helper whale is smiling like yeah this is an ok life.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[carsonphillips]

I love dresses because they’re so lazy and require such little effort yet when you wear them people think you actually attempted to look nice 

[jetblacknewyears]

My life.

[wasoncedelight]

aka how I dress for work 3-4 days a week.

[ziusik]

G P O Y

[angryonabus]

my lady colleagues and I straight up blew our dude colleague’s MIND with this fact - three of us wore dresses on the same day, and he complimented us one after the other on how snazzy we looked, and we pretty much CACKLED with laughter as we explained to him how much easier the dress+tights combo is than any other option available to ladies who have to dress “professionally.”

[nonnegative]

tbf, the nice pullover sweater + dress pants combo is equally easy and professional. you just don’t get as many snazzy dresser comments. :D

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

Hey family, my obit better be this good when I die.

Harry Weathersby Stamps

December 19, 1932 – March 9, 2013

Long Beach

Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, foodie, natty dresser, and accomplished traveler, died on Saturday, March 9, 2013.

Harry was locally sourcing his food years before chefs in California starting using cilantro and arugula (both of which he hated). For his signature bacon and tomato sandwich, he procured 100% all white Bunny Bread from Georgia, Blue Plate mayonnaise from New Orleans, Sauer’s black pepper from Virginia, home grown tomatoes from outside Oxford, and Tennessee’s Benton bacon from his bacon-of-the-month subscription. As a point of pride, he purported to remember every meal he had eaten in his 80 years of life. 

The women in his life were numerous. He particularly fancied smart women. He loved his mom Wilma Hartzog (deceased), who with the help of her sisters and cousins in New Hebron reared Harry after his father Walter’s death when Harry was 12. He worshipped his older sister Lynn Stamps Garner (deceased), a character in her own right, and her daughter Lynda Lightsey of Hattiesburg. He married his main squeeze Ann Moore, a home economics teacher, almost 50 years ago, with whom they had two girls Amanda Lewis of Dallas, and Alison of Starkville. He taught them to fish, to select a quality hammer, to love nature, and to just be thankful. He took great pride in stocking their tool boxes. One of his regrets was not seeing his girl, Hillary Clinton, elected President.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

• Question: Does Aubrey Plaza give a fuck about anything in real life?
• Adam Scott: ... I can read you a text. I hope this embarrasses her. She's in Austin for SXSW so she texted me asking "hey are you in Austin? We should hang", and I said "no, I'm not. Sorry", and she said, "fuck you".

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

It is unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss feminist issues in the abstract. You are discussing the stuff of her life. Asking her to “not make it personal” is to ask her to wrench her womanhood from her personhood. Don’t play Devil’s advocate. Seriously. Just don’t.

Shakesville: I Am Not a Political Football (via veruca-assault)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[dcu]

Great find!

[nonnegative]

Awkward.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

motherboard.vice.com

What Really Smart People Worry About At Night

[nevver]

1. The proliferation of Chinese eugenics. – Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist.
2. Black swan events, and the fact that we continue to rely on models that have been proven fraudulent. – Nassem Nicholas Taleb
3. That we will be unable to defeat viruses by learning to push them beyond the error catastrophe threshold. – William McEwan, molecular biology researcher
4. That pseudoscience will gain ground. – Helena Cronin, author, philospher
5. That the age of accelerating technology will overwhelm us with opportunities to be worried. – Dan Sperber, social and cognitive scientist
6. Genuine apocalyptic events. The growing number of low-probability events that could lead to the total devastation of human society. – Martin Rees, former president of the Royal Society
7. The decline in science coverage in newspapers. – Barbara Strauch, New York Times science editor
8. Exploding stars, the eventual collapse of the Sun, and the problems with the human id that prevent us from dealing with them. — John Tooby, founder of the field of evolutionary psychology
9. That the internet is ruining writing. – David Gelernter, Yale computer scientist
10. That smart people—like those who contribute to Edge—won’t do politics. –Brian Eno, musician
11. That there will be another supernova-like financial disaster. –Seth Lloyd, professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering at MIT
12. That search engines will become arbiters of truth. —W. Daniel Hillis, physicist

more

[warmbrightwings]

I disagree with the basic premises of ninety percent of these fears, as perhaps could have been predicted from the fact that two of the first ten people they chose to ask study evopsych.  (GOOD LORD, NUMBER NINE, GET A GRIP.)

- Hannah, self-certified really smart person

ETA Wait, I’m not done, this is too dumb.  We live in massively the most literate society in history, and we use writing with such enormous frequency and flexibility that it’s finally approaching speech; the idea that this will “ruin writing” is unbelievably absurd.  The “underpopulation bomb” and the “dearth of desirable mates” and the problem of Chinese eugenics are all racist and sexist concepts.  Every  theory that predicts the human race becoming stupider or somehow mentally “dulled” in any way is just flat-out not supported by the evidence.  Lord, these people.  There are a couple who are like “climate change!” and “people will stop dying!” and those are perfectly fair, and everyone else is like “being a successful well-educated white person stresses me out!  People might not want to fuck me!  People might not like what I like!  Technology!  Kids these days!!!!!!!!”

33. Men. –Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist

On the other hand, shout-out to my girl Helen Fisher.

[nonnegative]

lol evolutionary psychologists being considered smart people

OTOH, James O'Donnell of Georgetown and Robert Provine of UMBC (128 and 129) should be pals if they’re not already. They can found the No Worries Society.

eta: what drunky wrote this list?

‘72. “I worry we have yet to have a conversation about what seems to be a developing “new normal” about the presence of screens in the playroom and kindergarten” –Sherry Turkle, pshcyhologist, MIT’

oh ok

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[xenobites]

You definitely delivered the best female performance out of any movie I’ve seen this year, by far. (x)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[meepygirl]

Kid Loki and Miss America shenanigans at Emerald City Comic Con!! Photos by Cliff Nordman! Kid Loki is Jade!

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

Look, let’s be reasonable here

[zipitclark]

If this banner is not enough reason for you to go here starting tomorrow afternoon to vote for Dan Humphrey, the titular character in The CW’s Gossip Girl (2007 - 2012), nothing I say will be.

[nonnegative]

I’ve been laughing at this for about fifteen minutes straight.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[theworstthingsforsale]

Everyone likes the edge brownies. The caramelized crispness of the edges are a nice contrast to the soft, fudgy interior of the brownie. “But what,” your brain asks itself, in a quest for more serotonin, “what if every brownie was an edge brownie?”

Sure, you could buy this special pan for $35.99. Or you could just pour your brownie batter into muffin tins, which you already have, giving you more brownie-edge per unit of batter. (Muffin tins have a perimeter-to-area ratio of 1.6. This pan has a perimeter-to-area ratio of 0.55.)

Did I just change your brownie-baking life? Yes? Good, then we’re both ashamed, me for the brownie math, you for eating so many fucking brownies.

[stackedcrooked]

This is literally the opposite of what I want. I want every brownie and piece of cake to be a middle piece.

[acciocoolbeans]

GPOY. Middle pieces of cake, middle brownies, middle biscuits, MIDDLE EVERYTHING OR BUST. 

[watershoes]

middle middle middle middle

[nonnegative]

i like middle brownies, but cake end pieces. i’m a dynamic, complicated individual.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[nailure]

forever ot3

[nonnegative]

Still surprised this show didn’t end in a threesome.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[seacresthulk]

School of Thrones: Prom Night is Coming

[nonnegative]

The credit sequence on this!!!!

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[doctorkot]

“Jerry…”