Martha Jean's Blog

This site WAS going to be an online portfolio or resume, but now it is mostly a virtual display case for a few things I want to remember. However, if you get curious you can view my resume by clicking on the link to the left. One more thing - check out my vintage shop on Etsy if you like! It's always a delightful work in progress. :)

July 28, 2010 12:43 am
Physics major has a name for a really big number: "hella"
12:40 am
"Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument."

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Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
12:40 am
"One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another."

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Juvenal, poet (c. 60-140)
July 26, 2010 5:58 pm
When their four-week-old baby daughter Dana died from whooping cough Toni and David McCaffery sought love and healing to ease their grief. Instead, they say they were subjected to a campaign of harassment and abuse at the hands of anti-vaccination campaigners, a group who were yesterday labelled a serious threat to the public's health and safety.
5:55 pm
"The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings."

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John F. Kennedy
5:40 pm
somethingintellectual: robotindisguise: lookatthisfuckinghipster: “I can take off my shoes if I want to. I’m sheriff of this coffee shop on foursquare.” It’s not nice to make fun of the Amish.

somethingintellectual:

robotindisguise:

lookatthisfuckinghipster:

“I can take off my shoes if I want to. I’m sheriff of this coffee shop on foursquare.”

It’s not nice to make fun of the Amish.

12:42 am
Brazilian Indians take hostages at Amazon dam site
12:38 am
awritersruminations: It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It’s one damn thing over and over. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

awritersruminations:

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It’s one damn thing over and over.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

12:37 am
Raw-food raid highlights a hunger

Some people balk at restrictions on selling unprocessed milk and other foods. ‘How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?’ one says. Regulators say the rules exist for safety and fairness.

12:34 am
7 Jobs to Skip College For