February 2012
jcherup asked: Let's see this nickname magic.
tj asked: Ahem. Pretty please.
lindstifa asked: Am I too late?
damselesque asked: Me too! I want one!
dielaughing asked: What's my safe word name?
rsmallbone asked: What's my dickname? Dickface. Nickface. Nickname. Whatever. Shut up.
redcloud asked: I humbly request the benefit of your nicknaming services.
atsween asked: Hit me.
thememegeneration asked: Now me!
beeborg asked: ooh, what's my nickname?
incorrigiblerobot asked: One more like Ryan's and less like Ben's, please.
copycatr asked: mememememe nickname please
monkeyfrog asked: Please to nickname me?
everythinginthesky asked: Nickname me, red.
mattonfire asked: Are you giving out nicknames? Because I would like one, too. Please.
rartastic asked: Yes, please!
lefauxfrog asked: "I'd like a nickname," asked the stranger from Boston.
treets asked: Ooh, me!
yodelmachine asked: I WANT A NICKNAME!
Send a request to my askbox and I’ll make up a nickname for you, based on really nothing.
10-year-old student accidentally discovers... →
greaterthanlapsed:
[Lazen’s] class assignment was to build a molecule using one of those modeling kits with the colorful balls and plastic connectors. Many kids would probably throw together a little H2O and call it a day — but not Clara. She randomly pieced together a combination of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon atoms to create a molecule her chemistry teacher, Kenneth Boehr, had never seen...
COWORKER 1: I need to leave so I can drive to x. COWORKER 2: That’s close enough to bike, you know. COWORKER 1: I haven’t ridden a bike in a loooong time. COWORKER 2: Well… it’s like riding a bicycle!
Sooo Facebook just told me that my dad is engaged.
“Such a move would make Cincinnati the largest city in the United States to have...”
– Cincinnati may soon be powered by 100% renewable energy — UrbanCincy
Uh, cool.
My Symphony Education
COWORKER: Oh, are you listening to L’Arlesienne?! ME: [glance at iTunes] …Apparently.
everythinginthesky:
Sometimes being someone who gets a terrible, fierce joy out of solving obtuse technical problems while working among people who don’t enjoy their jobs feels like being the only guy in the mining camp who actually knows what gold looks like.
January 2012
Watch(via Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | the Queen City Project)
If you love me, you’ll watch this!
It means so much to me!!
“Following his performance at the televised opening ceremonies of the Olympic...”
– Pianist Lang Lang sizzles with symphony | cincinnati.com
…Cool.
ME: I love you. DAN: [smile] ME: I don’t tell you that enough. DAN: Aw. [offering] …Popsicle?
When does my life start feeling like it’s mine, instead of some coat I keep putting on?
This stuff with the symphony. And wine. And Beethoven on vinyl and expensive bicycles and walks around downtown.
When do they become me, and not just someone I’m working toward becoming?
okay i’m watching downton abbey now guyyyys
Vignette
It’s 6pm and I’m making scrambled eggs because nothing dinner-y sounded right. He’s barefoot but I’m breaking in new rain boots. He flips a piece of sausage but stops when I hold out my arms— this is a good part of this song, maybe the best part, and he dances with me for a couple of measures.
