A Room in the Roof:
An interesting showcase of how an attic space can be every bit as nice as a regular room.
Via Rafael Pinto.
Ahh so cute
B’s Barbeque, a staple in Pitt County! They are open for lunch and close when they run out of food.
(submitted by carolinasunsets)
The best BBQ ever.
Michael Solomon cast the GOP primaries for us and found some striking similarities. Ian McKellen as Ron Paul?! Yes. Ed Helms as Rick Santorum? Of course! And Cuba Gooding Jr. could play a mean Juan Williams. See the rest.
"It’s just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn’t get things right."
— Elliot Smith, Fond Farewell
"Newsflash: everyone is biased. The people who try to hide that bias are the ones you really have to worry about."
— Tech blogger (and general partner at CrunchFund) MG Siegler writing on the success of Apple (it’s Q4 earnings were…explosive) and noting how investing so much time in one company has finally paid off for Apple-focused bloggers the world over. (via newsweek)
Anonymous asked: i hear you. i generally agree. i do have a number friends in their early 20s either engaged or already married. i think their marriages will last though. only 1 of them ive thought was a mistake.
That’s awesome to hear. No one wants a sad ending to a love story that is supposed to be the ultimate “happily ever after.” I just hold my breath for the folks I know and I hope they prove my skeptical self wrong.
Anonymous asked: maybe they want their wife to be their life?
A lot of folks my age assume if they’ve been dating someone in college that the next step is to get married. They say, “Oh you know, it’s what comes next.” I have a hard time accepting it and I feel like marriage shouldn’t be about following what’s considered the next step just because someone received a degree, especially when right out of college most people don’t have a salaried job. There’s always an exception though, and I do believe in love. I’m just seeing a lot of reckless decisions right now and wanted to vent in a one-liner.
To all those people rushing to get engaged in their early 20s:
Get a life, not a wife.
Image: Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images
"Gen-Yers are using their personal networks and profiles as an extension of their professional personality. Even though they are using Facebook to mostly socialize with family and friends, they are inadvertently blending the two. Sixty-four percent of Gen-Y fails to list their employer on their profiles, yet they add an average of 16 co-workers each to their “friend” group."
— Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce (via thenextweb)
(via thenextweb)
State of the Union 2012: Breaking down the language
The National Post’s graphics team looks at key words and how many times they’ve been used in State of the Union addresses going back to 2001:
Obama, circa 2012: More American than Bush.
Heart Stop Beating by Jeremiah Zagar of Focus Forward Films.
Back in July of 2011, a reader asked me about my opinion on a pulseless pump. At the time, I had never heard of such a technology but was excited and intrigued. Drs. Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier saved the life of Craig Lewis with a pump design that was so far out of the box, that by all conventional metrics the patient was dead.
And yet he lives.
This is the story behind that amazing radiograph.
Incredible.
Livestreaming: The State of the Union
