Definition of the day

irony |ˈīrənē; ˈiərnē|

noun ( pl. -nies)

• a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result : [with clause ] the irony is that I thought he could help me.

example

• Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge reignite the muscle car wars with three of the most beautiful coupes in twenty years in a time when no one can afford to fuel them up, let alone purchase them.

marco:

“Here’s the thing: Your Tumblr, while clever, will not pay your bills. We want to fix that. So we’ve made the TypePad Journalist Bailout Program. While we can’t promise it’s going to replace having a full-time writing gig, it gets you up and running with your own site that you can start to benefit from.”

— TypePad: Journalist Bailout Program (via David Chartier, Bijan) Translation: “Here’s the thing: We keep bleeding customers to these other services that, while clever, do not pay our bills. We want to fix that. So we’ve made the TypePad Bailout Program. While we can’t promise that we’ll be any different from what you’ve fled from or ignored in the past, it will keep us up and running by hosting your site in a way that we can benefit from.”

Remember when you were a kid and you’d throw down in a staring contest? Remember how a little crowd would form and you knew that if you lost you’d be the laughing stock of the class?

Well, Typepad just blinked.

wesstobler:

Feeling good about Unpersons pilot. I know that the mics weren’t great, that’s what makes it a pilot!

I’m almost finished listening to it. Good job guys!

Hot mic!

Krang.

dremly:

what was the name of the brain thing?

TMNT clarification

Ok, our marriage is re-sanctified.

dremly:

• Leonardo (Blue) — Leonardo is courageous, decisive, and a devoted student of martial arts. As a strict adherent to Bushido, he has a very strong sense of honor and justice. He wears a blue mask and wields a pair of ninjaken. He is named after Leonardo Da Vinci.^[5]

• Raphael (Red) — The team’s anti-social bad boy, Raphael has an aggressive nature and seldom hesitates to throw the first punch. He is an intense fighter. His personality can be alternately fierce and sarcastic. Still, he is intensely loyal to his brothers and sensei. He is good friends with Casey Jones, after having met him one night on patrol and challenging him to a fight. The two have since frequently patrolled together. Raphael wears a red mask and wields a pair of sai. He is named after Raphael Santi.^[5]

• Michelangelo (Orange) — The easy-going and free-spirited Mikey provides much of the comic relief. While he loves to relax, this Turtle also has an adventurous and creative side. He wears an orange mask and wields a pair of nunchaku. He is named after Michelangelo Buonarroti. His name was originally misspelled “Michaelangelo” by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman — at the time they were using a typewriter and had no way to perform spell-check.^[5]

• Donatello (Purple) — The brilliant scientist, inventor, engineer, and technological genius. He is perhaps the least violent Turtle, preferring to use his intellect to solve conflicts. He wears a purple mask and wields the bō. He is named after the sculptor Donatello.^[5]

• Master Splinter — The Turtles’ sensei and adoptive father, Splinter is a mutant rat who learned the ways of ninjutsu from his own master, Hamato Yoshi. In the 1987 series, Splinter was Hamato Yoshi himself mutated into a rat.

• April O’Neil — A former lab assistant to the mad scientist Baxter Stockman, April is the plucky human companion of the Turtles. She embarks on many of the Turtles’ adventures and aids them by doing the work that the Turtles themselves cannot do in public. In the 1987 series, April was a television news reporter.

• Shredder — A villainous ninjutsu master called Oroku Saki. In every incarnation of the TMNT franchise, he has been the archenemy of Splinter and the Turtles. He is also the leader of the Foot Clan.

• Casey Jones — A vigilante who has become one of the Turtles’ closest allies, Casey fights crime with an assortment of sporting goods (baseball bats, golf clubs, hockey sticks, cricket bat etc.) while wearing a hockey mask to protect his identity.