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Viddler: Proper Snow Running Technique
With the horrible road conditions, this is how I got to my classes today.
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WEATHERMAN FREAKS OUT about this weekend’s Snowstorm
(Via HuffPo)
I’ve watched the video forecasts on AccuWeather.com before, and I’ve always wondered how the on-camera personalities stay entertained. They clearly just stand in front of a green screen and do a bajillion cities in a row. That has to get extremely boring after a few takes, right? Well, my friends, meteorologist Jim Kosek has found the cure for that boredom: pure insanity.
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The Rhyme-As-Reason Effect
Drake Bennett on “cognitive fluency”:Matthew McGlone, a psychologist at the University of Texas, has found that auditory cues can shape people’s perception of truth. McGlone did a study in which he presented subjects with a series of unfamiliar aphorisms either in rhyming or nonrhyming form: “Woes unite foes,” for example, versus “Woes unite enemies.” He found that people tended to see the rhyming ones as more accurate than the nonrhyming ones, despite the fact that, substantively, the two were identical.
(via Give Me Something To Read)
Oh, fun! Let me try:
Fallacy: People only liked E.T. because he ate Reese’s Pieces. If he was into eating poop, it’d be a totally different story.
Truth: E.T. had our sympathy because he liked our Reese’s Pieces. Things would happen differently if he liked to eat our feces.
I’m convinced.
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Sorry to ruin the surprise, sweetheart.
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Just for clarification, the following lyrics are the chorus, right?
Yo don’t eat up my burrito!
Yo don’t eat up my taquito!
Yo don’t eat up my Dorito!If I see a chubby little kid in the YouTube still frame, you best believe that shit is getting reblogged.
someone: hey nick, what would most likely make your brain explode?
me: oh, probably that Mini Daddy video.(via Robyn Von Swank)
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A friendly reminder to any of my friends who might be driving in the next few days. A reminder to bring a video camera, that is.
Oh and be careful. That too.
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Worst. Infographic. Ever. I swear this is real. For shame, AccuWeather.com
(click for “story”)
Thanks EffingBoring, I was actually just looking for the perfect map to add to my on-going snowpocalypse MMS thread.
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This made my week of finals a little brighter. Perfectly executed, too.
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This is my lady. I love her with all my heart. There are things about us that are different. Very different. But I love her for the person she is. We don’t love each other based on our respective tastes (I don’t mean actual, physical taste, I mean culture-wise, asshole), or because of each other’s accomplishments. We admire each other, we learn from each other, and we are constantly trying to make each other’s day brighter. That’s been the formula for my sanity and joviality for the past seven and a half years, and hopefully it will remain that way for a long time to come.
I’ve lucked out in so many ways, but all I want to say is this:
Don’t spend your life looking for a girl/guy that likes The Smiths as much as you do. Spend it finding a person whom you can make smile, and whose smile radiates waves that exterminate the suck in your life.
About
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I am a writer and new media producer based out of Downingtown, PA.
I currently hold the title of Video Wizard at Viddler, despite my inability to grow a beard.
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