Nerdtastic

tastefullyoffensive: Headline of the year.[latimes] I HAVE...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:30:32 -0400

Headline of the year.

[latimes]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY PUNS IN ONE ARTICLE

fishingboatproceeds: bbc-bestbromancecompany: Nerdfighter...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:26:08 -0400

bbc-bestbromancecompany:

Nerdfighter Benedict? Or just failed Vulcan?

As far as I can tell, there are eight possibilities here. (I’ve spent a fair bit of time thinking about this.)

1. Benedict Cumberbatch is a hardcore nerdfighter and when Martin Freeman threw up a gang sign, Cumberbatch was like, “I have one of those.”

2. Cumberbatch, who obviously has a relationship with Star Trek, just naturally changed the Vulcan sign (pulling in the thumbs, turning the palms inward, crossing the arms) in precisely the same way that I happened to change the Vulcan sign when I first made the nerdfighter sign in the halcyon days of 2007.

3. One of the interns on set who has gained the trust of Benedict Cumberbatch was like, “If you do your hands like this, the Internet will get really excited.” And so he did.

4. BBC, in their infinite wisdom, staged the entire photo and Cumberbatch was taught the nerdfighter sign (I MEAN LOOK AT THE PERFECTION OF HIS NERDFIGHTER SIGN! He seems so comfortable and confident in it, almost as if it is muscle memory, almost as if he has flashed it to his laptop screen on hundreds of occasions in the past, but I digress) and this photograph was staged to get people psyched for Sherlock, although what tiny segment of nerdfighteria is not already psyched for Sherlock? Also, if this is the case, who is Martin Freeman trying to advertise to? Residents of the West Side?

5. Benedict Cumberbatch has a relative or a friend who is a nerdfighter and so he is passingly familiar with nerdfighteria and liked what he has seen and wanted to make us all very happy.

6. The nerdfighter sign also happens to be the hand sign of some obscure English gang with which I am unfamiliar called like The East London Wanderers or The Slightly Intimidating Liverpudlians or whatever.

7. Nerdfighteria actually figures in the plot of the new season of Sherlock. Perhaps a nerdfighter has been (wrongly no doubt!) accused of a murder.

8. Benedict Cumberbatch was playing some kind of British version of Rock Paper Scissors against two invisible opponents, and he went double scissors (as any smart person would).

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Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:00 -0400

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wantonforwontons: So my mom and I have been working the same...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:01:04 -0400

wantonforwontons:

So my mom and I have been working the same waitress job for 5-6 years now. She had been waitressing years before, but this is recently. Anyway, about… 15 minutes ago this guy she waited on left and told her to take care. Just that. Prior to this she had talked to him about Italy. Her people are from Florence, this and that, and she said she’s never been. She’s got 8 years of art education and she’s working a waitress job. It’s pretty… Sad and disappointing, I guess. Her and my father divorced 6 years ago and she hasn’t had a real job ever. Just been stuck in a small town she’s not from.

This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word.

Why does’t this have more notes

theboywhofangirled: falkner: someone bought an entire page of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:59:08 -0400

theboywhofangirled:

falkner:

someone bought an entire page of ad space in my school’s yearbook and just put the word ahloo on it

#THERE IS NO WAY THAT PERSON DOES NOT SPEAK HINDI OR URDU #AND IM LAUGHING MY HEAD OFF BECAUSE THATS LITERALLY JUST POTATO #WHO WRITES POTATO IN HINDI IN A YEARBOOK

pokketmowse: http://pokemon.alexonsager.net/

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:55:14 -0400

pokketmowse:

http://pokemon.alexonsager.net/

jaclcfrost: egggcorn: jaclcfrost: if i was in a fictional universe i wouldn’t be the main...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:02 -0400

jaclcfrost:

egggcorn:

jaclcfrost:

if i was in a fictional universe i wouldn’t be the main character i’d probably be that friend of the main character who lacks supernatural powers or special abilities but makes up for it with sarcasm and really lame one-liners

but that’s also usually the character that gets their own sub-fandom with dedicated fans and pretty cool fanart

however, that’s also usually the one character that dies

i was just like “oh yay”

but then

“not so much yay”

thebirdsandthebuckets: beatnikgarbageartist: nightlifemingus: beatnikgarbageartist: nightlifeming...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:50:25 -0400

thebirdsandthebuckets:

beatnikgarbageartist:

nightlifemingus:

beatnikgarbageartist:

nightlifemingus:

beatnikgarbageartist:

nightlifemingus:

beatnikgarbageartist:

nightlifemingus:

thanks bro, you’re

too

thanks dude, you know

dang man this post just got really

yr right we should have set the rules to one joke

you realize this means

oh it’s

this time you’ve gone too

, too far

sorry, didn’t realize you weren’t having fun, bro

cause i’m having a

Im so done with this website

piercethesleepingcarlile: chxshire: i’m that friend that has to walk behind the others when the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:49:06 -0400

piercethesleepingcarlile:

chxshire:

i’m that friend that has to walk behind the others when the sidewalk doesn’t fit a group of three

I think about this post a lot

"Love is a funny thing. You expect it to be easy. You expect it to be a world of roses and laughs and..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:46:31 -0400

“

Love is a funny thing. You expect it to be easy. You expect it to be a world of roses and laughs and perfect moments that you find only in movies. You expect her to always say the right thing, and always know exactly how you feel, or exactly how to react to it. You expect her to calm you down when you’re yelling or to chase you when you run away. You expect so much that you feel entirely, and utterly defeated when something doesn’t exactly match up with all your plans. But that’s the thing. Love isn’t a plan. It doesn’t have a certain beginning and it certainly has no end or visible finish line to those deeply in it.

Love happens; it is so incredibly messy. People around you can’t comprehend why you do the things you do, or why you fight so hard for something that seems to cause you so much pain, because simply, they can’t see. They can’t see the invisible ring of insanity that surrounds you when you’re in love. It’s inconvenient and painful and devastating at times, but we can’t live without it. What you don’t learn is how hard love is. How much work it takes. How much of ourselves we have to put into it. How it isn’t worth it until we are complete and utter idiots about it.

Love isn’t her calming you down when you yell. It’s her yelling, just as loud, just as hard, right back at you, right in your face to wake you up and to keep you grounded. It isn’t her/him bringing you roses everyday or cute things that make your relationship appear more presentable.

It’s after a long fight, that drains the life and bones right out of you both, and yet her showing up at your door the next morning anyway. It’s not her saying all the right things or knowing exactly how to handle you. So no, it’s not her caressing your hair and telling you everything is going to be alright. It’s her standing there, admitting she’s just as scared as you are. You have to remember that with love, you’re not the only one involved. You’ve unknowingly put your life, your heart into the palms of another persons hands and said, here. Do what you will. Mash it into mince meat. Or forget I ever handed it to you. As long as you have it.

It makes us crazy. It makes reality invisible and it erases all the lines that we shouldn’t cross. Because love isn’t about fencing ourselves in; feeling safe, feeling sure about the future. It’s about scaring the shit out of every nerve in our body, but pushing forward anyway. Because all the fighting and all the tears and all the uncertainty is worth it. And it’s a hell of a lot better, than being 100% happy without someone to show us that there is a world of a difference between feeling ‘happy’ and feeling whole

”

- Definition of Love - Andrew Landon (via 1112pm, redrumot) (via apastrom)

apiphile: does anyone else ever remember how fucking big space is when they’re halfway through...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:12 -0400

apiphile:

does anyone else ever remember how fucking big space is when they’re halfway through doing something and then have difficulty finishing that thing

"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences...."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:05 -0400

““Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.””

- Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)

I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.

(via notational)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:19 -0400

fishingboatproceeds: the-blog-of-anne-frank: I just realized that “pun intended” is a pun on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:38:10 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

the-blog-of-anne-frank:

I just realized that “pun intended” is a pun on “unintended” and I’m literally about to gouge my eyes out I’m so angry

This. Changes. Everything.

necromorph-slayinglovemachine: I’m not sure but I think I just...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:37:46 -0400

necromorph-slayinglovemachine:

I’m not sure but I think I just accidentally created a legendary Pokemon

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:37:20 -0400

saybyebyepond: I always see posts about people talking about how tampon and pads ads have girls on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:35:39 -0400

saybyebyepond:

I always see posts about people talking about how tampon and pads ads have girls on beaches and things like that.

And yet in Australia we have really ridiculous advertisements for sanitary products that have girls running around doing shit and this guy

pepsie: I THOUGHT IT WAS A GIANT BIRD AND I WAS REALLY...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:16:20 -0400

pepsie:

I THOUGHT IT WAS A GIANT BIRD AND I WAS REALLY CONFUSED

thisistheverge: NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it’ll...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:57:22 -0400

thisistheverge:

NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it’ll start with pizza

NASA is funding research into 3D-printed food. Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor received a $125,000 grant from the agency to build a prototype 3D printer with the aim of automating food creation. It’s hoped the system could provide astronauts food during long-distance space travel, but its creator has the loftier aim of solving the increasing food shortages around the world by cutting down on waste. The software for the printer will be open-source, while the hardware is based on the open-source RepRap Mendel 3D printer.

hakuna-freakin-matata: darrenpillowscriss: aesawinterfell: yod...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:53:23 -0400

hakuna-freakin-matata:

darrenpillowscriss:

aesawinterfell:

yodropthechampagne:

i wrote a poem

whoa

I almost scrolled past this but it’s actually really fucking deep…

Sums up our generation