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The magical thing about Jewish identity is that whatever your identity is, its Jewish! Is it your sense of humor? The food you like to eat? Your feelings of guilt? All of the above!

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posted by benbrown at 10:25:49 AM cst, May 8, 2008

I have no idea what it means to be Jewish.

I suppose we each have to figure it out for ourselves.

Reasons to buy the 1.75 liter rather than the 1 liter:

• signigicant cost savings
• less trips to the store

Reasons not to:

• funny looks from others in the liquor store
• harder to pour from
• many mistakes are less than 1.5 liters away

1998

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2008

[name] posted [stupid thing] on [centralized web service] [N seconds ago]

Keeping it simple isn't possible if it starts out complicated.

I need at least a week to prepare, but without it's not significantly worse.

"It's just odd when you're experiencing it and the cliche worst case scenario is being realized right in front of you. What would you do?"

"Take a picture."

Sometimes a sequel can be so bad that it manages to detract from the works that came before it that were previously liked.

How much happier would I be if The Phantom Matrix had never been released?

I mean, it hasn't because it doesn't exist. But the point is those sequels are so bad it's hard to even get their names right because of all the colons.

And yes, I know that Episode I was a prequel, technically, but let's not start talking about Jedi.

What I'm getting at is Hillary Clinton is fucking up the 90's retroactively.

It's jarring how different the consumer experience at Whole Foods is than the standard grocery stores.

Not just the product - but the lighting and atmosphere. It feels bright and lively. Every time I go into Safeway the flourescents and industrial tile remind me I'm killing myself with the prepackaged processed high fructose output of giant engines of commerce.

At Whole Foods the people don't seem as dead inside.

I don't know why I didn't shop at Whole Foods regularly until now.

I guess I didn't think I was worth it.

The thing that you probably don't realize is how much sun there is in that picture, and that's the unexpected part - the lack of rain.

Do you know any of these people?

Add people you know as friends to make these results even better for you.

K
No.

F
Yes. Just to be very clear - we are not friends. She is annoying.

J
Yes. Don't care.

N
No.

M
No.

J
I think that guy fucked my ex-girlfriend when we were in college.

J
No.

J
No.

D
No.

W
No.

K
No.

S
Yeah, I guess I know him, but I'd probably avoid him if I saw him in public.

Y
I know everyone on the current and soon to be ex-apm dashboard.

A
Kate and Noah and Mike have a lot of friends I don't know.

G
Ok actually I do know him and he's OK but I keep a policy of avoiding ex-coworkers, generally.

T
No.

D
Are you fucking trying to raise my blood pressure with this shit, Facebook? Seriously? Where's the "dead to me" link? I should fucking cancel my account.

W
Keep it up and this will be the ex-apm dashboard soon.

J
She apparently knows someone I slept with.

S
No.

R
We lived in the same dorm, I guess. I don't really remember him though.

J
Ok, fine, we did sort of go to college together and know each other and were maybe even "friends" to the extent I was friends with anybody that year but what's the point anymore?

Q
All right after that last one I'm done with this college nostalgia shit, ok? Fuck it. What do I have to talk about with any of these people? Nothing. Fucking nothing.

V
No. Oh we both know Bill Falsey. Oh cool, I totally forgot I was Facebook friends with Bill! Sort of cool! Not really. Why am I writing all this down.

M
We have five common friends from Stanford but I have no idea who this is because apparently my friends don't ever introduce me to their friends. Oh, also, I never fucking left my dorm room and when I did I didn't pay attention to people.

V
No.

There's no edit and delete, there's just post. By the time the RSS hits the wire it's too late - delete is an illusion.

It's just like there's no unsend. There is only send. There is no undo.

We could build systems where there is undo. Or delete. Or edit. But they're very hard. Too hard to enforce. Too much centralization. Too scary.

We could build systems where there is undo for a little while. But then we'd have to wait. There would be a delay.

I did build a system like that. Everything here goes into a queue. I can change my mind, at least for a little while.

But we all have to wait.

And that's not the point. Nobody wants you to edit. Just live in the now and post about the now and be in the moment and that's all that anybody wants. We are of this moment, we have to understand the moment and be right for the moment and post in the moment. Not post about the past into the future. Nobody wants to wait. Waiting is over.

I've forgotten reading.