Anna Lee T.

thepinesaredancing:

Baaaahahahahha. 

But, seriously, Houston, you are a piece of shit. 

So true. Sometimes I think about considering Dallas or Houston as an option to get back to the Great State… but that usually ends quickly. It’s got to be Austin. 

Or maybe Terlingua. 

(Source: texashumor)

This is crazy, I know, but I still kind of want it. I’ve been trying to find someone who can taxidermy a goat to look like a unicorn for years. Anyway. 

Designed for anyone who has far too much money and loose change, this is the piggy bank of all piggy banks. Its a real piglet that has been taxidermied and inserted with what all piglets probably dream of as babies, a coin storage unit and a cork plug. Make your plush overpriced apartment complete with this little guy.

The piglet bank will take up to 12 months to produce from the time of order. We expect half the money up front and half when the piglet had been completed. Just so you know that we don’t actually kill the Piglets, they die of natural causes and these are the ones that we use.

Price $4000

I totally had this guy when I was a kid. 

(via toysofthe80s)

Shit the Dowager Countess Says

thedailywhat:

Teaser Poster of the Day: The first official one-sheet for the highly anticipated return of Mad Men to the airwaves offers a minimalist take on the show’s Saul Bass-inspired title sequence.

Mad Men’s two-hour season 5 premiere airs Sunday, March 25th on AMC.

[insidetv.]

Party? Yes. 

These are Frank Hurley’s famous early colour photographs of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ‘Endurance’ voyage, as part of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Hurley was the official photographer on the expedition.

Early in 1915, their ship ‘Endurance’ became inexorably trapped in the Antarctic ice. Hurley managed to salvage the photographic plates by diving into mushy ice-water inside the sinking ship in October 1915.

- State Library of New South Wales

Despite hearing it all the time from designers and executives alike, the notion that tech-savvy users will be more amenable to difficult interfaces is, in a word, crazy. Yes, some users, when asked, would prioritize user control over ease of use (and vice versa: unconfident users would prioritize ease of use over control), but does this mean that the tech-addicted among us will more readily understand an unclear message, tolerate a poor task flow, or swear by a product that they themselves have trouble using? Heck no. 

This is so relevant. I’m planning my ten-year high school reunion right now and we’re supposed to meet up for the Homecoming football game in 2012.  Yet since we all know what everyone is up to, what’s the point? 

I suppose it’s to connect on another level. Since we already know the superficial side of things (married, two kids, works at an office in Austin), maybe the conversations we’ll have will be less like checking off a form and closer to something more meaningful. 

Probably not, though. We’ll likely just drink and gossip. I’m okay with that. 

hg-:

Is The High School Reunion Obsolete? Time, Dec. 20, 2011

Social Media Reduces Allure of High School Reunions, NYTimes, Dec. 16, 2011

Facebook Helps, Hinders High School Reunions, ESchool News, Dec. 6, 2011

Facebook Puts A Damper On High School Reunions, The (Nashville) Tennessean,…

Hey so my high school football team won state today. Congrats, Texans!

(via Perfect finish for Wimberley | kxan.com)