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420 weeks and 2 days ago: Welcome to COHOP 2007!!! Inbox x COÖP Coordinators   < coop@columbia.edu > 8/8/07 to  coop Congratulations on being admitted into the COHOP 2007 orientation trip! Get ready for four days of hiking through the gorgeous Catskills Mountains of upstate New York. Your coordinators, Kate and Lauren, are busy planning your trip this summer. You will be placed into a small group depending on what level of difficulty you signed up for and your personality.  (yay personality!) IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER 1. Move-in Wednesday August 22, 7AM-3PM At 3PM, all three COÖP programs will meet on South Lawn for fun times with your upperclassman leaders, and that is when you will bid adieu to your parents. 2.  Leave for the trip! Thursday August 23, EARLY 3.  Gloriously return to the city Sunday August 26, Afternoon We're going to have food and...

Mother. Of. God. We can all die happy now, because I finally located Meryl Streep in an Italian Renaissance painting.  She walks!

Haven't read the full article, because I got stuck on a few nice parts at the beginning, but: http://nymag.com/guides/everything/spending-time-alone/ Notable include [emphasis mine]: Walking Alone I once brought the conversation at a dinner party to a halt by saying that if everyone I knew died tomorrow, I wouldn’t be undone, because I’d still have the streets of New York, where, sooner or later, almost every form of human expressiveness is on display and I am free to look it right in the face, or avert my eyes if I wish, let my jaw drop, offer it an ice cream, or call the cops—as the mood takes me. Here, alone in the street, I feel free as I do nowhere else , except perhaps at my desk. There is no one to bore, embarrass, or threaten me. No one to whom I owe attention or from whom I need attention. I am free to stop, dawdle, or move on as I will, respond or recede, observe or participate. If I we...

obvi that's a green screen behind her because obvi she's in St. Tropez

This ones for you @lohanthony it was Kate's idea! A video posted by Marc Jacobs (@themarcjacobs) on May 28, 2015 at 6:34pm PDT

Last night I caught part of a Seinfeld episode that I had never seen before. TBS was airing "The Apology" and specifically I turned it on at the segment where Jerry and George are in the coffee shop and Elaine enters... and out of nowhere come the highlighted lines below. Elaine's delivery is magnificent, and copypasta doesn't do it justice, but here you go anyways (plus prior scenes for context): Melissa, [naked on the couch]: "What are you doing?" Jerry, [naked, carrying a belt sander]: "I found a rough spot on the kitchen floor, I thought I'd polish it up with this belt sander I have here." Melissa: "No, not that. Why are you naked?" Jerry: "I thought naked is good." Melissa, [eyeing him]: "This isn't good naked." Sponsor, [seeing George at the meeting]: "George, here, have a seat." George, [sitting down]: "Where's Hanke?" Sponsor, [motioning to the leader]: "Shhhhh." ...

Jill Dillard (née Duggar) recently birthed her first child, a boy named Israel David Duggar. Emma conscientiously shared the happy news and requested my opinion on this name choice. I really had no comment on the matter. My only form of response was to begin speculation on what Israel's little brothers and sisters will be called; in the course of making my list of name possibilities, it struck me that such content truly ought to be housed on vospymies rather than hidden in an email thread... predicted + suggested given names for future babies of the Dillard variety [  f   m n  ] : predicted: suggested: irish ;  ireland innuit indiana imagine infinity identity independence isabella isaac isaiah/isaias ian ida ivy; ivory isadora iris ice-cream i nferno india immigrant icon impulse irregardless implication itchy iGod ...

There's a good chance you saw this on Gothamist, but I wanted to put it here anyway for like Posterity 'n' Stuff, Inc. History of the New York City Subway system: an animated GIF starts with a blank subway map and draws each line in the sequence in which it was built. [source: very-appealing.com ]

What follows is an impressive catalog of departure sounds and next-station announcements of subway systems around the world.  Courtesy: mic-ro.com/metro/table.html © 2004-2015 metrobits.org Amsterdam An electronic "ding-dong" signal. There is also a "ding" and in a pre-recorded voice the next station name. At the terminus, the voice says "Endpunt". Ankara "Booop! Ding-dang" sound when the doors close. Athens There is a series of beeps that starts when the doors start closing and stops when they are closed. Then when a train reaches the next station there is a ding-dong and a station announcement in both Greek and English (English added for the 2004 Olympics). Lines 2 and 3: There is a continuous beep when the doors start closing until they are closed. Atlanta The MARTA subway in Atlanta has a 1 kHz beep going off four times on the newer trains, like: "boop-BOOP-BOOP-BOOP". The old trains have a loud "PONG". ...