Grant Shellen

emptyage: @RickSantorum Well then I look forward to being...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:24:38 -0800

@RickSantorum Well then I look forward to being reimbursed for any of my tax dollars that funded the Iraq War.
— Gina Marie (@ginambakkun) February 17, 2012

These albums all came out in the same year (1970):

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:56:00 -0800

Stevie Wonder - “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”
The Beatles - “Let It Be”
The Who - “Live at Leeds”
Led Zeppelin - “Led Zeppelin III”
Black Sabbath - “Paranoid”
Nick Drake - “Five Leaves Left”
Chicago - “Chicago II”
Carole King - “Tapestry”
David Bowie - “The Man Who Sold The World”

And here I’d been romanticizing 1977 in my head all this time.

Christ, what a list.

This may have broken my mind a little bit. khuyi: The Lions...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:36:29 -0800

This may have broken my mind a little bit.

khuyi:

The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.

The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.

They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it.

That is terrifying.

never ever.

This kind of dumb (sorry) (not really) Quora thread about...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:47:14 -0800

This kind of dumb (sorry) (not really) Quora thread about “epic” (please stop using that word) guitar solos reminded me of this epic (dammit) guitar solo that turned a very ignorant me into a very Prince fan.

I’m not one to geek out over guitar solos (I totally am), but this is pretty incredible. Looks effortless and sexy and now I’m going to quit guitar.

The whole thing is great, but the badassery really starts around 3’30”.

I've definitely eaten there

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:39:05 -0800

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 things or moments and blows them way out of proportion. Which I think is a principle Portland was founded on (I kid!)

Anyway. TiVo it. Or whatever you internetty kids do these days to watch television programs on your computing devices and/or telephones.

"Police Officer: [trying to describe the Batmobile] It’s a black…tank!"

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:35:17 -0800

“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 you don’t yet..."

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:14:00 -0800

“

Insulate yourself…

from anonymous angry people

Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand

Precisely measure the results that are important to you

Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter

Fail often

Ship

Lead, don’t manage so much

Seek out uncomfortable situations

Make an impact on the people who matter to you

Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else

Copyedit less, invent more

Give more speeches

Ignore unsolicited advice

”

- Good advice from Seth Godin.

(via Seth’s Blog)

"She could go on in this way for extended periods of time without mentioning any actual people,..."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:18:31 -0800

“She could go on in this way for extended periods of time without mentioning any actual people, actions, or thoughts. There’s a business version of this illness. It involves the use of words such as “space,” “around,” “synergy,” and “value-add” with a healthy dose of equivocators like “sort of” and “kind of” to ensure that there is no commitment to anything being said: “I’m in the sort of sustainability space around kind of bringing synergistic value-add to other people’s work around this kind of space.” Oh, OK, that explains it.”

- 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."

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:18:38 -0800

“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 so…both are..."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:11:00 -0800

“Some coma patients are being awoken by Ativan and Ambien and paradoxically so…both are sedative drugs used for treating insomnia.”

- Wow. Family, friends and doctors reading this: remember this, just in case.

Insomnia drugs waking people from comas (via kottke.com)

“Oh my goodness. This is Kenny G and Miles Davis. I cannot...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:42:39 -0800

“Oh my goodness. This is Kenny G and Miles Davis. I cannot imagine a better picture than this. I love this so much.” -@pennjillette

Fancy Grilled Cheese 9 Ways - A Beautiful Mess

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:14:02 -0800

Fancy Grilled Cheese 9 Ways - A Beautiful Mess

chainsawsuit by kris straub - first-timer massage

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:41:04 -0800

chainsawsuit by kris straub - first-timer massage

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from..."

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:08:50 -0700

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them…Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.”

- Charles Bukowski’s apt take on censorship.

Letters of Note: Charles Bukowski on Censorship

Her mom was either Indian or cruel

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:57:53 -0700

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

Oh no! (by Grant Shellen) He was doing this for a couple of...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:18:16 -0700

Oh 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 permission to say “oh no penis nose.”

"My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person can be reached by..."

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:48:29 -0700

“My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person can be reached by every book. Literature is supposed to be beautiful and/or necessary—so if at a given time you don’t either enjoy or need a certain book, then you should read something else, and not feel guilty about it.”

- 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 “great books” that aren’t great. - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine (via housingworksbookstore)

Looking through old xkcd comics. I like this one. (via xkcd:...

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:02:26 -0700

Looking through old xkcd comics. I like this one. (via xkcd: Found)

nickdouglas: Jimmy voices his opinion on Netflix. I just wish...

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:33:01 -0700

nickdouglas:

Jimmy voices his opinion on Netflix.

I just wish I knew how he felt about the TechCrunch redesign and Promoted Tweets in the main stream.

Oaklandish to open downtown retail shop on Wednesday

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:54:24 -0700

Oaklandish to open downtown retail shop on Wednesday:

Love it. East Bay pride.