this is a day of perfection. this is a day where i refuse to go to sleep because i don’t want the day to end. this is one of the best days in memory. this is bliss. this is perfection. this is true happiness. :)

yes yes yes

thedailywhat:

Hazard Scale of the Day: After a particularly nasty natural disaster, there is one reliable metric that FEMA turns to in order to determine the severity of the damage: The “Waffle House Index.”

Green indicates that Waffle Houses in the affected area are serving a full menu, meaning that the damage is limited. Yellow signals more extensive damage, resulting in a limited menu (the generators are on and food supplies are low).

Finally, red means severe damage has forced the restaurant to close its doors — something the Waffle House prides itself on doing very rarely. In fact, all but one of the 22 Waffle Houses that lost power during Hurricane Irene were up and running by Wednesday evening.

“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed?,” says FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, “that’s really bad. That’s where you go to work.”

[wsj / image: toim.]

love

fuckyeaharchaeologymajordog:

Fun Fact: The creator of this blog has never seen any of the original Indiana Jones movies.

despicablealexis:

(by Richard Ives)

Roll the Dice
by Charles Bukowski

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the
way. this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or
4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the
worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the
gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight
there is.

kjsdckjsvdb:

the longest exposure ever recorded, using a pinhole camera. It showing the destruction and re-building of the MoMa in New York over 34 months in a single frame. It would be amazing to see this blown up in a large print to view all the details..

hahaha. so true.

(Source: skreenkaps)

therealkatiewest:

Zoë Washburne from Firefly

One of my all-time favourites: ass-kicking, gun-weilding, loyal-to-the-end Zoë Washburne. Zoë Washburne was a brilliant character, probably Joss Whedon’s best female character—which, I know, is saying a lot—and I’m so glad he cast Gina Torres to play her. Gina played her with a ferocity and a vulnerability that was so perfectly real. So even though she was flying through the galaxy kicking ass and taking names, you could imagine this actually happening, somewhere, in some other galaxy; a luckier one than ours.

I always liked how Zoë was the only person who could stand up to Mal and he would listen; that she could be tough as nails, and still romantic and feminine; that she was married and loved her husband with the same fierceness she brought to everything she did. It’s so rare to see great married couples in sci-fi (or television in general) so I was glad Joss decided to create Zoë and Wash as this powerful couple who depend on each other and push each other; so refreshing.

i just fully realized what it means that i’m a senior. wahhh.