January 2012
3 posts
I've definitely eaten there
Heather and I watched the Portlandia Season 2 premiere last night, and was relieved that it did not disappoint. A sketch about a fake restaurant called Around the World in 80 Plates (third video down in this post) had us literally dying with laughter. We literally had to call 911 we were laughing so hard.
What I love about this show is it sometimes takes everyday frustrations with stupid little...
December 2011
5 posts
“Police Officer: [trying to describe the Batmobile] It’s a black…tank!”
– I forgot that Christopher Nolan, despite the dark, dramatic take on the Batman story, maintained some of the canonical corniness of the superhero genre. Not that it doesn’t work.
Batman Begins - Wikiquote
“Insulate yourself…
from anonymous angry people
Expose yourself to art...”
– Good advice from Seth Godin.
(via Seth’s Blog)
“She could go on in this way for extended periods of time without mentioning any...”
– I’ve sort of noticed this kind of speechification patternizing in the kind of online applications e-biz.
I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review (via Mark Hurst)
“Let me break it down for you. Everyone loves bacon.”
– It’s Time for Everyone to Shut Up About Bacon (via Hodgman)
“Some coma patients are being awoken by Ativan and Ambien and paradoxically...”
– Wow. Family, friends and doctors reading this: remember this, just in case.
Insomnia drugs waking people from comas (via kottke.com)
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
2 posts
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from...”
– Charles Bukowski’s apt take on censorship.
Letters of Note: Charles Bukowski on Censorship
Her mom was either Indian or cruel
Female coworker: she keeps trying to be best friends
Me: who is she?
Female coworker: Kavita or Samitha or Vagina or some name like that
September 2011
1 post
WatchOh no! (by Grant Shellen)
He was doing this for a couple of minutes before I even started recording. Broccoli goes in the bowl, gets dumped out with an exclamation.
Also, we think the other things he’s saying are maybe “penis” and “nose.” No idea why, other than the fact that these are words he knows and he’s 17 months old and doesn’t need your...
August 2011
2 posts
“My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person...”
– I say this all the time! Not this whole statement! But the general sentiment! Don’t like that book? Stop reading it! Don’t like wine? Go back to margaritas! Don’t like periods? Replace them all with exclamation points!
Elif Baufman in Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on...
July 2011
2 posts
Oaklandish to open downtown retail shop on... →
Love it. East Bay pride.
June 2011
2 posts
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
3 posts
AOL Tries for Some Silicon Valley Cred -... →
HEY THAT’S WHERE I WORK.
Couple of notes/corrections about this piece, which generally otherwise paints an accurate picture:
The “AOL is cool” scrawled on a whiteboard that the writer makes a snarky comment about later in the story was written by one of my coworkers’ visiting elementary-school-age children. It was accompanied by drawings of dinosaurs.
The “170...
Missing: One '80s Pop Star [PIC] →
February 2011
4 posts
I just ate a piece of plastic fork
I didn’t mean to, of course. But there I was, eating my lunch, and I bit too hard into the fucking thing. It made a terrible SNAP noise, and the tip of one of the tines landed, presumably, inside my mouth. Thing is, it was sharing that space with a bite full of chicken shawarma and hummus. I couldn’t tell where the tip of said tine went, so I tried to chew up all of the food...
January 2011
2 posts
tpdsaa:
“Being late shows that you believe your time to be more valuable than the time of...”
– Word. I say this all the time.
This whole piece is a great read, whether you’re a man (the target audience) or woman. I already try to do all of these things, but it’s a good reminder.
How to Get the Respect You Deserve at Work | The Art of Manliness
December 2010
3 posts
Is there a phenomenon of French spam users on Tumblr? Some of my posts have been suddenly liked or reblogged by similar-looking French usernames. It could just be that I’m the Jerry Lewis of Tumblr.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
“There are virtually no jokes; the show is simply for people who say, ‘Hey,...”
– Great piece on “false nostalgia”—a phenomenon I wish would go away but probably won’t.
False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation | The Awl
“Whatever. Fucking Apple.”
– The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote | Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers’ blog is great kick-in-the-ass reading for any musician, software developer, artist, beekeeper, etc. This is a great story, with a great moral, but this quote in particular cracked me up. It summarizes the sentiment...
November 2010
6 posts
“These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for...”
– Words that Nixon didn’t have to read, since the whole “moon landing” thing took place on a soundstage in Los Angeles.
Letters of Note: IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER
October 2010
7 posts
Watch(via bradelterman, mullofkintyre, jlaaaburrito, lucyhuang, katastrphee, etc.)
September 2010
9 posts
Thing Labs "the blog": Big news! Thing Labs is... →
Hey, look at that—I have a new boss. This is going to be fun.
thinglabs:
We are pleased to announce that as of today, Thing Labs is merging with AOL. This deal has been in the works for a little while, and we’ve been dying to tell you all, but today it’s official!
First things first: Brizzly is sticking around. Of course anything can happen in the…
“I eventually asked a local outcast (the inevitable companion of the foreign...”
– The Difficulty of Understanding Hipsters - The Awl
