The Japan Syndrome →

China’s teetering on the verge of its own lost decade, and a meltdown in Beijing would make Japan’s economic malaise look like child’s play.

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dailyseinfeld: KRAMER: What’re you doing. (fetching the bottle from the trash) Don’t throw that away.NEWMAN: Well, I’m not paying the five cents for that stupid recycling thing.KRAMER: You don’t pay five cents, you get five cents back. Here, read the label here. (reads from bottle) Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York. Refund, (brings bottle up close to Newman’s eyes) vrrup, five cents.NEWMAN: (taking bottle) Refund?KRAMER: Yes.JERRY: Well, what d’you think the hoboes are doing?NEWMAN: I don’t know, they’re deranged. (via The Bottle Deposit1)

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KRAMER: What’re you doing. (fetching the bottle from the trash) Don’t throw that away.
NEWMAN: Well, I’m not paying the five cents for that stupid recycling thing.
KRAMER: You don’t pay five cents, you get five cents back. Here, read the label here. (reads from bottle) Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York. Refund, (brings bottle up close to Newman’s eyes) vrrup, five cents.
NEWMAN: (taking bottle) Refund?
KRAMER: Yes.
JERRY: Well, what d’you think the hoboes are doing?
NEWMAN: I don’t know, they’re deranged.

(via The Bottle Deposit1)

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“ The thing that’s depressing about tennis is, no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall. I played a wall once… they’re fucking relentless!
— Mitch Hedberg
Jul 14 2010
Annual Waterbury Corruption Story →
Jul 6 2010
theworldwelivein: Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada © Anne Strickland Been there.

theworldwelivein:

Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
© Anne Strickland

Been there.

Oct 3 2010
Why We're Teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard →

In our course on urban inequality at Harvard this semester, we want our students to understand the roots of the social conditions in America’s inner cities. To that end, we get some help from Bodie, Stringer Bell, Bubbles and others from HBO’s “The Wire.”

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44 notes - Via the-feature - Sep 16 2010
hipsterpuppies: don’t even talk to ruby until she’s had her coffee—as well as two bong rips, a wheatgrass shot and half an ecstasy pill. [photo via samantha l]

hipsterpuppies:

don’t even talk to ruby until she’s had her coffee—as well as two bong rips, a wheatgrass shot and half an ecstasy pill.

[photo via samantha l]

238 notes - Via hipsterpuppies - Aug 20 2010
“ Yeah, I’ll do it. It’s what I do for a living. Hit bombs.
— Red Sox All-Star slugger David Ortiz, saying he would participate in the Home Run Derby if invited. (via redsoxthoughts)
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dailyseinfeld: NEWMAN: (peering at bottle label) What is this ‘MI, ten cents’?KRAMER: That’s Michigan. In Michigan you get ten cents.NEWMAN: Ten cents!?KRAMER: Yeah.NEWMAN: Wait a minute. You mean you get five cents here, and ten cents there. You could round up bottles here and run ‘em out to Michigan for the difference.KRAMER: No, it doesn’t work.NEWMAN: What d’you mean it doesn’t work? You get enough bottles together…KRAMER: Yeah, you overload your inventory and you blow your margins on gasoline. Trust me, it doesn’t work.JERRY: (re-entering) Hey, you’re not talking that Michigan deposit bottle scam again, are you?KRAMER: No, no, I’m off that.NEWMAN: You tried it?KRAMER: Oh yeah. Every which way. Couldn’t crunch the numbers. It drove me crazy.JERRY: (leaving) You two keep an eye on each other?NEWMAN/KRAMER: (simultaneous) No problem. You bet.Jerry exits, shaking his head. (via The Bottle Deposit 1)

dailyseinfeld:

NEWMAN: (peering at bottle label) What is this ‘MI, ten cents’?
KRAMER: That’s Michigan. In Michigan you get ten cents.
NEWMAN: Ten cents!?
KRAMER: Yeah.
NEWMAN: Wait a minute. You mean you get five cents here, and ten cents there. You could round up bottles here and run ‘em out to Michigan for the difference.
KRAMER: No, it doesn’t work.
NEWMAN: What d’you mean it doesn’t work? You get enough bottles together…
KRAMER: Yeah, you overload your inventory and you blow your margins on gasoline. Trust me, it doesn’t work.
JERRY: (re-entering) Hey, you’re not talking that Michigan deposit bottle scam again, are you?
KRAMER: No, no, I’m off that.
NEWMAN: You tried it?
KRAMER: Oh yeah. Every which way. Couldn’t crunch the numbers. It drove me crazy.
JERRY: (leaving) You two keep an eye on each other?
NEWMAN/KRAMER: (simultaneous) No problem. You bet.
Jerry exits, shaking his head.

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108 notes - Via dailyseinfeld - Jun 29 2010