jmendonsa

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• Commented on Write an iPhone disappointment Haiku in the comments, win a Mophie Juice Pack Air
  not the toilet, phone! after a week of drying i'm stuck just texting....
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  Come on, people. I don't like PETA. I think they go overboard. But the responses to this post have been asinine and irrational and completely without empathy. PETA doesn't see animals and human beings as terrifically different. Given that, of...
• Commented on Social Networking Make Trent Mad!
  oh my god. the human populace acts illogically and is filled with idiots. what a fucking revelation, trent, and only one discoverable through social networking and not wars, famine, equality... a childish response to change....
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  I think the mistake is in your premise - Economics is not trying to be math, it's a social science. It's the sociology of money, and it only says that humans are greedy because as a whole, that's how we're...
• Commented on Chunky crapgadget used to conduct the US census (kind of)
  So, would it be possible to, say, challenge someone to write an iPhone app that does this with Google Maps?...
• Commented on George Will: Steve Jobs is an infantile poser
  A great writer doesn't mean much when his facts are bullshit (see Will's excellent work on how TOTALLY NOT TRUE global warming is and see if your eyes can stay in your head despite their want to roll on out)....
• Commented on On the eighth day...
  Damn, that one was with one at-work chortle in front of your boss....
• Commented on Bike-powered businesses in Portland
  Bike delivery is used by a few places in Seattle. 'Zaw, the least fortunately named pizza place on earth, is a take-and-bake pizza place that delivers via bike. Pita Pit does it in Seattle as well, and another pizza place...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  Well I can't say much for the trip between there and up here, but once you're in the Pacific Northwest, I strongly suggest hitting Stumptown coffee in Portland and the Rogue Brewery. If you're up in Seattle (my town), I...
• Commented on Meet me at the gun show with your gold
  Let them buy up the guns so the hope-based rayguns are more readily available for us lefties....
• Commented on About US Airways Flight 1549
  Your post was the very first thing that came to mind when I read about the crash. What timing!...
• Commented on Dan Lyons: Steve Jobs is a "petulant narcissist."
  Come now, Steve may not be publicly grooming a successor, but I don't think any of the people that work close with Steve and are higher-up are really Ballmer-level. To assume that Apple and Microsoft would allow similar people to...
• Commented on Facts versus the lie of "liberal, out-of-touch Hollywood"
  Surely this couldn't be related to the fact that we just lived through the Iraq War? This is one of the first wars, if not the first war, that has had multiple movies about the subject come out while it...
• Commented on Apple dropping DRM from music in iTunes, keeping DRM for audiobooks, video
  While I agree with you, Cory, I think making the world's top online digital music store DRM-free is a bigger step than you've given Apple credit. Asking them to do the same for Hollywood (which has arguably been in the...
• Commented on Youngest Twitterer EVAR?
  Can this be the official coining of the term "twitrist" despite how much it sounds like "titty twist"?...
• Commented on Chart of UAW compensation compared to manufacturing average
  Yes, lets not bail out the few union jobs that we have actually been able to fight and maintain in America, and instead ALL be making 35k. The more obvious solution, of course, is that these workers get saved while...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  The murder mart, because of both the crackheads constantly surrounding it and the insane Korean lady who throws jars at the heads of those that try to steal anything. Her aim is incredible....
• Commented on Spooky CCTV captures pub ghost splotch
  I love that the article says that because the guy can't explain this one, it's spooky. What's spooky is the fact that he's overlooking the fact that GHOSTS AREN'T REAL and that the possibility of a piece of dust has...
• Commented on Economists: selfish bastards
  As an Economics major, I can pretty much confirm this. When you rationalize human behaviour so finely and find out that, in the real world, most of the theories are supported... it really does dehumanize the whole species, in a...
• Commented on Taking pictures on LA's Red Line violates the "9/11 Law"
  Someone really should start a website for photographing no-photography areas. Getting hundreds of people together to all take pictures at once out of protest. Seriously. Ignorance like this needs to be met with sarcastic, sarcastic non-force....