November 2009
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What am I not grateful for this Thanksgiving? Being the guy who “knows stuff about computers”.
So far in the 24 hours I’ve been at my parents’ house I have:
come very nearly to the point of tears after being dispatched to figure out why their PCs couldn’t get on their new wireless network (I USE A MAC YOU GUYS WHAT THE FUCK IS A “WORKGROUP” I DON’T...
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DOORBUSTERS
So I don’t know about you guys but I spent my day traveling seven hours to lovely New Jersey, my old home place, the “Garden State”, where the Jägerbombs are always ice-cold and the license plates are the same color as the local water supply (yellow).
Now, despite getting fucked by Amtrak to the tune of nearly $400 this morning I somehow still experienced the holiday cheer...
2012
Sarah Palin has hinted at tapping Glenn Beck for a 2012 ticket, and now even Lou Dobbs is putting a finger in the wind.
The only logical way this ends is for Adam Lambert to challenge Obama from the left.
Jesse: We're probably going to need Damon's help on the FLA.
Langer: What kind of noob shit is that?
Jesse: What?
Langer: "F-L-A."
Jesse: What?
Langer: Just say "flah", dude.
Jesse: That's stupid.
Langer: No, just say "flah".
Jesse: Really?
Langer: Yeah.
Jesse: Do you say "jaypeg" instead of JPG?
Langer: Definitely.
Jesse: Do you say "ping" instead of PNG?
Langer: Totally.
Damon: ... do you say "pissed" instead of PSD?
Built to Spill, “Girl”
still...
meaghano:
You know, and burn me at the stake and call me Joan of the antifeminist narrative arc for saying this, but, I talk to so many men about a similar horror. That cringe factor you get when calling to mind a self-righteous teenage self or a college self who found the clitoris and thought they knew all there was to know— it seems men, or it seems a masculine characteristic, a proclivity I...
So I’m sitting on the can, distracting myself with the fine print on the packaging of an unopened roll of SCOTT® 1000 Tissue (“Giving you five times more sheets than most other brands’ regular rolls. It lasts and lasts, making it a value that you and your family can count on.”), when I start obsessing over the data points for these one thousand 4.5”x3.7” squares...
“The stupendous productive power developing under the capitalist mode of...”
– Karl Marx, Capital, volume III, chapter XV.
I hope that someday all these polls asking “who is to blame for the current recession?” will offer multiple choice options that extend beyond simply “Democrats? Republicans? Or both?”.
“City resident Mark Little said he’s so genuinely tantalized with Palin and her...”
– Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: Palin makes connection with ‘common folk’ during visit
Palin stops through my hometown. ;(
(via zachklein)
This reminds me of the time I was working at a small indy bookstore back in Princeton when Anna Karenina ended up on Oprah’s book list and wave upon wave of...
Jamison Foser hit a home run in today’s MediaMatters with regard to the massive orgy the media are having over Sarah Palin right now, and one part stood out for me in particular. In an exchange between MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Meet the Press host David Gregory, the latter said:
It’s extraordinary, and, I mean, she’s extraordinary from that point of view of not just the...
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Hypothesis.
I suspect there is probably a strong correlation between those people who are hating on today’s Tumblr marriage proposal and those people who will go to sleep tonight in an empty bed.
“I did not see Didion’s style as belonging to Didion; I saw it simply as the way...”
– VL Hartmann in The Morning News, beautifully illustrating the delicate relationship our generation has with one of my favorite writers. Didion’s is a seemingly timeless voice, with cadences as resonant in 2009 as in 1969, a resonance which inspires us to tell ourselves her stories in order to...
One of the downsides for assholes like me when documentaries come out about trendy philosophers—like when the eponymous Jacques and his silver lamé suits were paraded across the big screen in “Derrida”, or when Jean Baudrillard was profiled in “The Matrix” (ha?)—is the sinking feeling that all these bitches get to buy their philosophy on the cheap while the rest...
“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly...”
– Cormac McCarthy in the WSJ, via ★DF.
In the startup business we’ve got all these...
In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice:... →
We’re so fucked:
WASHINGTON — In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
E-mail messages...
Good ideas on paper: Leninism, the Crusades, adding spammy followers to a Twitter list entitled “fucking spammers”.
Unforeseen consequences: Famine, pogroms, angry @-replies from social media experts.
Startup Diary, 11/12/09
I have spent 63 of the last 65 days in the office.
This morning I noticed a particularly foul smell in my apartment after getting out of the shower. My first instinct was to investigate the garbage can, but it hosted a rather pleasant odor seeing as I had just discarded a Morning Walk™ & Cleansing Rain™ Febreze® NOTICEable™.
I then checked under the bed for any unfinished containers of Thai...
I’m pretty certain all I need to do to stop seeing these “30 and still single?” ads on Facebook is just list myself as “in a relationship”.
And if I stick to just buying books from Amazon they might stop pushing more Rihanna on me.
But it will probably take a serious lifestyle adjustment to do something about all these Netflix recommendations for “Witty...
The weight on my shoulders.
Devil: Make eye contact with her, you idiot!
Angel: But if I make eye contact with her she'll think I'm creepy!
Devil: How do you expect to ever have sex again if you can't even make eye contact with a woman?
Angel: Because then she'll think I'm a creep who's trying to have sex with her!
Devil: You are!
Angel: Am what? A creep? Or trying to have sex with her?
Devil: I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU.
My older sister and I had one of those classically contentious sibling rivalries growing up, which I attribute to what I believe was a perfectly reasonable resentment of her for being four years older than me and a total nerd who always did all her homework and played in the orchestra and the marching band and left me with absolutely no fucking coattails to ride into high school, leaving me...
“I voted for George W Bush, and I’m proud of it!”
– Matt Langer (via nudawn)
This Matt Langer guy sounds like a real asshole.
See also.
See also.
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Point of order.
A quote I posted earlier today made it’s way around Tumblr in a truncated form, sourced from one user who had stripped my criticism of the quote in question. This is a small matter, but it bothers me nonetheless.
We have various methods at our disposal both in the English language and on the web to indicate that more awaits the reader at the source than what we have excerpted from it. An...
“Let’s be honest. The goal isn’t to see whether I can pass this...”
– Rahm Emanuel on healthcare reform.
Let’s be honest. The goal isn’t to see whether we can write good policy instructed by good scholarship. We’re passing this bill through the United States Congress with people who face reelection next November. I’m sure there are a lot of...
“Ok, so try to imagine that the English language is written from left-to-right,...”
– Fareed tries to explain endianness to his wife.
“The richest three people in the world possess a combined fortune greater than...”
– Alain Badiou, The Century
(via unburyingthelead)
“I’ve been sitting here now, and do you know what I was saying to myself?...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.
Thirtieth birthday wishes on Facebook take on a whole new form when they come from comrades from your nerdy liberal arts alma mater.
Thank you, Jen.