November 2011
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“Most of them probably won’t even have Timeline enabled!!”
– paraphrase of a friend’s FB status re: his high school classmates. I get what he means, but I think I’m a *little* more lenient when it comes to drawing the line between Us vs. Them.
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clueless references will never get old
E: How do you say that word you just wrote? SUperfluous?
me: SuPERfluous…I think.
E: You know how some words, you say them one way in your head but you realize you’ve never heard them out loud and you don’t know how they’re actually pronounced?
me: I know exactly what you mean.
E: I’m going to use…that word…in a sentence today.
me: Just don’t do...
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The Year Of Crazy Growth That Led To HowAboutWe's... →
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no, YOU did the Macarena in the shower this...
And that’s all I’m going to say about that.
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"Pulling a Perry": 5 Ways to Fix a First Date... →
howaboutwe:
AKA what to do if you’re on a first date and you happen to temporarily forget what you do for a living (or if you accidentally say “I like your breasts” instead of “I like your dress”). For example.
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“A week ago, I received a “Happy Halloween!” text at 10:30 p.m. from...”
– Today on HowAboutWe, I explain why Group Messaging features on newer phones are getting some mass-texters in trouble (and why you’ve probably been getting copied on annoying reply-all texts from people you don’t know, whether it’s “I can’t come to your picnic” or...
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“This weekend, when the bell tolls 2:00 am (come on, somewhere in America an...”
– The 25th Hour Date: 6 Ideas For This Weekend’s Extra-Long Saturday Night (via howaboutwe)
I remember always getting really excited about the 25th hour in college…but I don’t think we did much more than spend that hour shouting “25TH HOUR!!! WOOOO!!!”
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gometacomet:
6 days, 23 hours later, we have power.
There’s a lesson in here somewhere.
With a 6-month-old, no less! Crazy how hard the storm hit my western MA friends.
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crowdsourcey
Hey you! Yes, you. Have you ever sent a text to multiple people that resulted in an unintended group text / reply-all thread? Have you ever been on the receiving end of one of these threads, puzzled why you keep getting “congrats, the baby is adorable!” or “no, I don’t want to hook up with you tonight” followup texts from random numbers? Looking for anecdotes for a...
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Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.
parislemon:
Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply...
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Anonymous asked: re: the bystander effect. i too live on a side street in the east village. i'm generally used to loud screaming of bar hoppers. years ago, i was woken up by screaming. real deal screaming. i couldn't tell where it was coming from. and i didn't want to go looking. i paused thinking, "someone else probably called." then thought, "but what if no one has." i called....
