Jason Permenter

Mar 3rd

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Happy Birthday, Anna Rascouët-Paz.

Bon anniversaire, nos vœux les plus sincères
Que ces quelques fleurs vous apportent le bonheur
Que l’année entière vous soit douce et légère
Et que l’an fini, nous soyons tous réunis
Pour chanter en chœur : “Bon Anniversaire !”

Happy birthday, our best wishes
That these flowers bring you happiness
That whole year you will be sweet and light
And that year ended, we all gathered
To sing in chorus: “Happy Birthday!”

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Happy Birthday, Bailey!

Turns out it’s Bailey’s (@baileygenine) birthday today. Sam (@samhey) and I thought it might be nice if we gathered up a bunch of people to make her a group video card, with this little fill-in-the-blank script as the only direction:

“Hi Bailey! I think that you are [adjective]. For your birthday, I got you a(n) [adverb adjective noun]. Have a(n) [adjective] day - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”

Happy birthday, Bailey. Your wonderfully strange friends love you.

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Mar 2nd

Just found a dumb image I cobbled together a few years ago in a drunken haze. Obviously, it’s one of my finest masterpieces, so I thought I’d share it with you.

Cywookgon? Wooklinglon?

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Mar 1st

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My wife-to-be, unable to breathe from laughing because a good friend point-blank said to me the story I was telling was as boring as crap. They were SO right, is the thing. It’s my favorite smack-down ever. (Still, Anna’s laugh is amazing SHUT UP.)

UPDATE: The Story I Was Telling That Was So Boring

FRIEND, at dinner: “How old is Anna again?”

ME, not realizing I’m an idiot: “Well this is interesting, because she’s actually 29, but we realized we’ve both been thinking of her as already 30 for several months now.”

FRIEND, laying it out for me: “Yeah, you might want to shelve that one, Jason.”

And that’s when, as I told her this, Anna started laughing her ass off for about 5 minutes straight. I caught the last minute ot it, surreptitiously, for posterity.

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winandtonic:

OH COME ON.

Okay, fair enough. A bit of clarification, though: this particular track was of Anna laughing AT me. No, it really was pure, howling mockery. Audio track to follow.

UPDATE: the audio, and the boring-ass story.

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The yield on the two-year Greek note fell 38 basis points to 5.73 percent as of 5 p.m. in London, after sliding 69 basis points, the biggest drop since Feb. 10. It rose as much as 75 basis points on Feb. 25, the most since Jan. 20. The 10-year Greek yield, which dropped as much as 19 basis points, slid 9 basis points to 6.26 percent.

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(source: Greek Bonds Rise as Rehn Stokes Speculation EU to Agree on Aid - BusinessWeek; by Anna Rascouet, Bloomberg)

I never actually understand what it is my wife-to-be’s saying to me in these articles she writes, but I bet if I could just crack the code it’s probably something really sexy.

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Feb 26th