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You know you’re in Jersey when dudes are pumping their fists at the Radiohead concert. Zoom

You know you’re in Jersey when dudes are pumping their fists at the Radiohead concert.

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I am reblogging this solely because it is the first gifset of Ewan McGregor to come across my dash.

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It’s this most recent picture set that’s convinced me I really need to do something with his hair. What that will be, I do not know, but his head just looks too…fluffy right now. Before you have kids it never even occurs to you that you might agonize over whether to cut your baby’s ridiculously beautiful, soft hair. But I’ve been thinking about it for two months and I still haven’t done anything about it. Zoom

It’s this most recent picture set that’s convinced me I really need to do something with his hair. What that will be, I do not know, but his head just looks too…fluffy right now.

Before you have kids it never even occurs to you that you might agonize over whether to cut your baby’s ridiculously beautiful, soft hair. But I’ve been thinking about it for two months and I still haven’t done anything about it.

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theatlantic: Music to Our Ears: How Headphones Changed Our World If you are reading this on a computer, there is a 50% chance that you are wearing, or are within arm’s reach of, a pair of headphones or earbuds. To visit a modern office place is to walk into a room with a dozen songs playing simultaneously but to hear none of them. Up to half of workers listen to music on their headphones, and the vast majority thinks it makes us better at our jobs. In survey after survey, we report with confidence that music makes us happier, better at concentrating, and more productive. Science says we’re full of it. Listening to music hurts our ability to recall other stimuli, and any pop song — loud or soft — reduces overall performance for both extraverts and introverts. A Taiwanese study linked music with lyrics to lower scores on concentration tests for college students, and other research have shown music with words scrambles our brains’ verbal-processing skills. “As silence had the best overall performance it would still be advisable that people work in silence,” one report dryly concluded. If headphones are so bad for productivity, why do so many people at work have headphones? And why are our bosses letting us drive ourselves to distraction? Read more. The people who did this study clearly never worked in my former office, where we worked in a completely open area with not even cubes to give us privacy. The salesmen reacted to this by screaming into their phones on every. single. phone. call they made. To the point that when I talked to clients on the phone, they couldn’t hear me, I couldn’t hear them, and they would ask what on earth was going on in our office. I would say my headphones saved my sanity, but really, they just barely made it tolerable. Zoom

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Music to Our Ears: How Headphones Changed Our World

If you are reading this on a computer, there is a 50% chance that you are wearing, or are within arm’s reach of, a pair of headphones or earbuds.

To visit a modern office place is to walk into a room with a dozen songs playing simultaneously but to hear none of them. Up to half of workers listen to music on their headphones, and the vast majority thinks it makes us better at our jobs. In survey after survey, we report with confidence that music makes us happier, better at concentrating, and more productive.

Science says we’re full of it. Listening to music hurts our ability to recall other stimuli, and any pop song — loud or soft — reduces overall performance for both extraverts and introverts. A Taiwanese study linked music with lyrics to lower scores on concentration tests for college students, and other research have shown music with words scrambles our brains’ verbal-processing skills. “As silence had the best overall performance it would still be advisable that people work in silence,” one report dryly concluded.

If headphones are so bad for productivity, why do so many people at work have headphones? And why are our bosses letting us drive ourselves to distraction?

Read more.

The people who did this study clearly never worked in my former office, where we worked in a completely open area with not even cubes to give us privacy. The salesmen reacted to this by screaming into their phones on every. single. phone. call they made. To the point that when I talked to clients on the phone, they couldn’t hear me, I couldn’t hear them, and they would ask what on earth was going on in our office.

I would say my headphones saved my sanity, but really, they just barely made it tolerable.

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plenty-o-heathen: Just another day in the office Mr. Marmot and I have been together eight years now and we still do this pretty much every day. We’re very mature and classy in this house.

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Just another day in the office

Mr. Marmot and I have been together eight years now and we still do this pretty much every day. We’re very mature and classy in this house.

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What the hell, BabyCenter? Your emails are always a combination of mildly helpful and slightly alarming, and now you mock my aching bones? Are you trying to imply I’m 50? Because while that is not exactly offensive, per se, it’s not really adding to your fan points if you know what I mean. Zoom

What the hell, BabyCenter? Your emails are always a combination of mildly helpful and slightly alarming, and now you mock my aching bones? Are you trying to imply I’m 50? Because while that is not exactly offensive, per se, it’s not really adding to your fan points if you know what I mean.

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Ugh…ugh.

New York summers are the WORST. I can’t even let the poor kid play outside, the pavement’s hot enough to fry an egg. You walk outside and you’re just…coated, head to toe, in this disgusting, stank moisture. It’s like someone poured a bucket of hobo spit on you.

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Thanks, helpful Craigslist anon!

I was trawling for Radiohead tickets for this week’s show over in Newark when I noticed that some kindly person had posted that tickets were still available on Ticketmaster. Sure enough, I found better tickets on Ticketmaster than I had in a week of looking at CL.

The larger question of why Ticketmaster feels the need to pretend shows sell out in fifteen milliseconds when they’re obviously nowhere near sold out remains a mystery..

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We may have been on Fire Island all weekend, but the baby’s goals remain the same : find other people’s stuff. Steal. Repeat. Zoom

We may have been on Fire Island all weekend, but the baby’s goals remain the same : find other people’s stuff. Steal. Repeat.

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Okay seriously, this is twice in three days. WHAT THE HELL. Also I have no nail polish out here so I’m going to be living with some raggedy-ass nails until Tuesday. Zoom

Okay seriously, this is twice in three days. WHAT THE HELL. Also I have no nail polish out here so I’m going to be living with some raggedy-ass nails until Tuesday.

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Fuck you, weather.

I’ve gone about doing things in the wrong order. This time last year I was what felt like nineteen months pregnant and it was 90 degrees out, which made me feel like I was being broiled in the oven. This year I’m about to go out to Fire Island and it’s colder than an ice sculpture at a divorce party. Clearly I should have done Fire Island last year and the baby this year.

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So at some point during the baby’s bedtime routine this happened. I didn’t notice until afterwards. Um. No idea where my nail polish went. Or, you know, how it all slid off my finger in one piece. Hopefully it didn’t land on the baby. Zoom

So at some point during the baby’s bedtime routine this happened. I didn’t notice until afterwards.

Um. No idea where my nail polish went. Or, you know, how it all slid off my finger in one piece. Hopefully it didn’t land on the baby.

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iTunes.

A year ago I switched from an iPhone to an Android phone (the Samsung Infuse) and never looked back. The Android phone is superior in almost every way, no regrets whatsoever. I could complain that the Android phone has firmware issues - which it does - but so did my iPhone, and the Android phone is still more functional than the iPhone, even if I had to format the goddamned thing a few weeks ago. I have an iPod speaker set, though, so I still use my iPhone to play music. Today I’m trying to make a playlist for Fire Island since the season starts tomorrow.

Now I am filled with enormous irritation and a great reminder of why I switched. iTunes has to be the most godforsakenly awful piece of software known to mankind. It’s glitchy. It is completely incapable of properly finding, displaying or playing music. When it copies music onto your player, you better pray every single word of every single artist and album is capitalized the same way, or it will organize them as different. And God forbid you bought a new computer. iTunes will throw a shit fit.

The world would be a better place if iTunes’ very existence was wiped from the face of the earth. I use a mediocre free app to manage my music now, and it’s still a thousand times better than iTunes. I especially don’t feel like I’m about to have an apoplectic fit every time I open it. There is absolutely no reason Apple could not improve iTunes, yet with each update I find it’s no better, and often worse, than the previous update. And I know why - because they rule the hardware market, so they can get away with sitting on their software.

This has been your Apple-hating rant for the day.

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