the booth in the kitchen :(

(Looks at the article on the Watts/Shreiber apartment)

They didn’t file for a patent, they filed for a trademark. Different intellectual properties. This trademark does not exclude Blue Apron from doing anything they are already doing.

How could Amazon get a patent on something that already exists? Seriously, I know they “filed” for one, but there should be some kind of penalty for filing FRIVOLOUS PATENTS. Like if you file a patent on something that already exists, and it’s found frivolous, one of your patents randomly becomes invalid.  

For the customer, though, their customer service is typically a full replacement. Their buying power is so massive that taking those return hits mean nothing. It’s why people love Amazon. I feel like it should bother me, but I use them all the time.

This seems to be a common misconception. After the IPO, the price of stock has no direct effect on the company until it tries to raise more capital in the future. So it sucks for Blue Apron investors, but the company will live or die by their sales in the next couple years, not the stock price.

Amazon may need to up its customer service game if they’re going to start delivering prepared meals. I mean, I’m not sure Blue Apron has ever had this headline:

So, the real story here is that this episode confirmed that the season 7 script leak from months ago was almost 100% accurate. At least as far as this episode goes.

Congarats all ‘round!

The Field Medal is presented every four years, only to people under 40.

In other words, the high school class has been extremely lucky and almost no one has died. By comparison, when I was in the 9th grade, a kid drowned. Another was killed by his own mother—late at night, he was riding his motorcycle home from one party, she was driving her car home from another, neither were sober. The…

I am finally well enough (dealing with an insane amount of stress, anxiety, etc.) to take on full-time work. However, I am also dealing with taking my impending GRE which I’ve been procrastinating on for over a year.

So I’m having a really hard time. We just learned My poor little doggie has cancer and had about 6 weeks left. We’ve been together for over a decade, through 5 states, two marriages, and 8 homes. I can’t imagine my life without her. I’ve had her my entire adult life and it’s like the end of an era. :(

This might be weird, but I find this all sort of ... sad? Sad in the general feeling of “oh my god I was a dork and everything was awful and I was lame.” For one thing, I might just be legitimately lame because none of this was appallingly bad. For another ... be lame. Do your thing. I’m not that into self-mockery…

What are you talking about, this is totally how real people talk, and not, say, aliens trying to fit in on Earth who learned to speak exclusively from watching and listening to ads:

Another new Kesha video:

Someone should just create an interview bot to fill in for Kellyanne Conway and the not quite a Nazi, but wishes he were guy. Gorka’s could just repeat variations of “Donald Trump is an alpha male. I am an alpha male. Our penises are like locomotives made of gorillas”. It would save everyone a lot of time and energy.

Andy Murray is generally pretty great and had a woman coach for quite some time (which is just not done by men or even most women.)

Abby Lee Miller is a terrible vindictive person. As a result, people want her time in prison to suck and for her to not be given the Martha Stewart treatment.

He seems like a good egg. And a serious fan of the Williams sisters.