May 2012
33 posts
Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit... →
NBA TV Celebrating 20th Anniversary of Dream Team...
NBA TV is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the greatest basketball team ever assembled, the 1992 “Dream Team,” with a documentary produced, written and directed by Ed Burns. The documentary will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at all aspects of what it was like to work with, be around, and from the players themselves, be on the team the team that had 11 Hall of Famers and three Hall of...
Hip-Hop Exhibiting Punk Characteristics: What Does...
by Elijah Watson
“There has always been this rebellious connection between hip-hop and punk music,” once said iconic hip-hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy, in an interview with radio host Davey-D, back in 2010. It’s true–nestled in the downtrodden streets of a 1980s Manhattan, a new relationship between two of music’s most unlikeliest candidates, began to develop.
Fast-forward to the alternative...
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Quantum Computing
Current Technology “Classical” computers all follow a similar design. They are based on the von Neumann architecture, and all exhibit what is known as the “von Neumann Bottleneck”. This basically means that current computers, without the use of the parallel programming, can only perform one action at a time. With current processors, this is works fine for most tasks. Processors can currently...
For a minute I’ve been really feeling that yuppie 90’s stee: round ray bans, loose tucked dress shirts and washed levis, maybe gold rolex.
Also old school lacoste polos with the long tails, neon-ass northface jackets, tribal-ass patagonia fleeces, eddie bauer 80s/90s down and jordan 6, 7 & 8s.
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
By JENNIFER KAHN
One day last summer, Anne and her husband, Miguel, took their 9-year-old son, Michael, to a Florida elementary school for the first day of what the family chose to call “summer camp.” For years, Anne and Miguel have struggled to understand their eldest son, an elegant boy with high-planed cheeks, wide eyes and curly light brown hair, whose periodic rages alternate with moments...
thepeoplesrecord:
Why isn’t closing 40 Philadelphia public schools national news?
In what should be the biggest story of the week, the city of Philadelphia’s school system announced Tuesday that it expects to close 40 public schools next year and 64 by 2017. The school district expects to lose 40% of current enrollment to charter schools, the streets or wherever, and put thousands of...
“In 1995 Jordan had a “Love of the Game” clause built into his...”
youmightfindyourself:
What Your IQ Means
116+ 17 percent of the world population; superior I.Q.; appropriate average for individuals in professional occupations.
121+ 10 percent; potentially gifted; average for college graduates
132+ 2 percent; borderline genius; average I.Q. of most Ph.D. recipients
143+ 1 percent; genius level; about average for Ph.D.’s in physics
158+ 1 in 10,000;...
Nba team swag ranks
netscapeshawty:
here go the swag rankings for the nba teams in the playoffs currently make sure u read this information and process it into ur cranial
swagless
bulls - they swagless af man just look at joakim noah no punchline needed. derrick rose cant even talk trash cuz he remedial and his leg fell off. loul deng got bbs in the hair no lineup and he the most boring all star ever. carlos...
youmightfindyourself:
Kidnapped at Sea? Here’s how Economics can save you
By: Megan Mcardle for The Atlantic Economists would describe hostage negotiation as a bilateral monopoly price negotiation that is structurally just a special case of chicken. That is, unlike a barrel of oil or a freight car full of soybeans which can trade on an extremely liquid market with innumerable buyers and...
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An Amazon Review for "The Secret"
The Secret Saved My Life
by Ari Brouillette
Please allow me to share with you how “The Secret” changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of “The Secret” is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those...
April 2012
36 posts
The L Magazine interviews Whit Stillman →
NAKED WITH PAINT →
Criterion Movies Streaming on Netflix
2 SEVEN SAMURAI
3 THE LADY VANISHES
5 THE 400 BLOWS
10 WALKABOUT
12 THIS IS SPINAL TAP
20 SID & NANCY
22 SUMMERTIME
23 ROBOCOP
24 HIGH AND LOW
25 ALPHAVILLE
27 FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
28 BLOOD FOR DRACULA
29 PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
30 M
31 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
32 OLIVER TWIST
36 THE WAGES OF FEAR
37 TIME BANDITS
39 TOKYO DRIFTER
41 HENRY V
44 THE RED SHOES
49 NIGHTS OF CABIRIA
52 YOJIMBO
56 THE 39...
Looking for jeans in the 200ish range. I’ve been buying APCs for 7 years now, not looking for a change but their current price doesn’t make them the bargain they used to be, not opposed to getting another pair though. Most of Self-Edge’s offerings are out of my price range. I’m currently looking at Tellason, Baldwin. Thoughts? Where should I be looking?
