May 2009
54 posts
Me: Uh, my vodka is frozen?
Jace: It's just backwash.
TLC, “No Scrubs”
April 2009
58 posts
Penance.
meaghano: Can you tell me, in three sentences, why I should delete Disqus?
meaghano: I’M KIDDING. No but really.
me: What's funny is that I deleted my Disqus in frustration the other day after you were called a 'cuntwit', and then I was going to draft a post explaining that I'd deleted comments and why comments suck and how NOBODY CALLS MEAGHAN A CUNTWIT AND GETS AWAY WITH IT, but then I forgot.
meaghano: Did you just use Disqus to indict Disqus?
meaghano: And, ahem.
me: Wait, are you calling me out on having an inconsistent sense of morality, despite the fact that I was chivalrously rushing to your defense in the process?
me: GAH, GIRLS ARE SO DIFFICULT.
meaghano: By chivalrously rushing to my defense, you mean telling me how you meant to, but then forgot, right?
meaghano: MAN I AM SO WRITING A MODERN LOVE COLUMN RIGHT THIS SECOND.
“Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would...”
– BLDGBLOG: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter
New outgoing voicemail recording. Inspired by...
Itinerary: Brooklyn, May 1-10
Hold onto your butts.
For all this talk about how the internet is bringing the world closer together there are times when it only serves to remind you how far away you are from the people you care about.
bedbathandbeyond.com customer service: Did you just say 'OMG'?
Me: Yeah, it's just a thing I do. I probably shouldn't talk like that IRL.
Her: --as in 'oh my God'?
Me: Yes.
Her: You know, even if you abbreviate it you're still taking the lord's name in vain.
Me: Sorry.
This one’s for the kids—and the...
“The message to the most vulnerable, to the victims of today’s poisonous boy...”
– Judith Warner, NYTimes: Dude, You’ve Got Problems
Orcinus
On the occasion of yesterday’s farcical “tea parties”—and the disturbing photographs that have been floating around since then—this seems as good a time as any to spend some time at Orcinus. Dave Neiwert and Sara Robinson do a bang-up job over there. Their commentary on the Ron Paul candidacy, as well as this longer series on The Minutemen, goes a long way towards...
It’s a very good question.
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith (via everybodycares) (via julyshewillfly)
It's been a good year
Hard to believe it was one year ago today that I was finally rejected from all six of the doctoral programs I’d applied to. Harder to believe that one year later I’d feel like this was the best thing that could have happened to me.
Cake or death?
Bill Murray, “More Than This”
We’ve got this new on-call setup at work to...
Support Massachusetts House Bill 1794
bijan:
If you live here in Massachusetts then I encourage you to write and call your local state representative and tell them you support Massachusetts House Bill 1794.
This is the bill that would end employee non compete agreements (it would not impact non-disclosure agreements or non solicitation agreements. those are quite different and should be protected).
Our firm, Spark Capital,...
Thank you, Republicans.
We’re all a little distracted by a global economic meltdown right now, and if it weren’t for your friendly reminders we’d probably all forget that our biggest threats are actually homosexuals and Mexicans.
Listen
“I’ve managed to not cheat, have meth-infused masseuse sex or get underage girls...”
– Jesse Taylor, pandagon.
Deep thought
Drug decriminalization should be rebranded “penal system reform” so that people can comfortably throw their political support behind a cause that sounds bigger than just helping wookies pack a bowl.
BREAKING: David Brooks sees "The End of... →
Fourteen column-inches of prototypically inane, meandering, and intellectually half-assed Brooksian bullshit, worthy of mention only because philosophy has somehow outlasted history by twenty years.
Our building just got buzzed by fighter jets headed to Fenway Park for the Red Sox home opener.
I fucking hate that shit.
Help/poll.
I’ve got a side-project I’ve been prototyping for the last six months or so. The application logic is more or less together and now I’m trying to settle on the right data store. The data will be non-relational, text-based, and vastly enormous, so I’ve got no interest in running on top of MySQL or Postgres. Maybe I’m guilty of premature optimization but my cup of tea...
“Phish at Fenway? This is bigger than the Beatles at Shea!”
– Me, trolling.
Because it’s Monday morning. And because...
“The new, post-print literary media are certainly amenable to brevity. The blog...”
– A.O. Scott, Brevity’s Pull: In Praise of the American Short Story
Have calculator, will hyperliterally read Genesis
Based on the data provided by the word of God (“all the high hills [Mt. Everest: 8,848 m], that were under the whole heaven, were covered”, ”fifteen cubits [6.858m] upward did the waters prevail”), 3,391,797,434,660,000,000 km3 of rainfall accumulated over the forty days and forty nights of Noah’s flood.
This breaks down to roughly 1.92 inches/sec of rainfall,...
“As more people start realizing that there are better reasons to write blogs...”
– Marco Arment, Avoiding the blogger trap
Wherein BoingBoing mainstreams Marx →
And this is why you don't watch Howie Kurtz on...
I die a little on the inside when I try to imagine where we’d be if the build-up to the Iraq invasion had received as much media scrutiny as Michelle and Carla’s fashion sense or the contents of the Queen’s new iPod.
Study: workers 9% more productive when up to 20%... →
I’m printing this out and pinning it over my desk so I can finally stop reading Tumblr in lynx just to make it look like I’m hacking away at “work” on the command line.
(Oh shit, my coworkers read my blog. Just kidding about the lynx part you guys, it was vi, I swear!)
TechCrunch
When I was very young I loved the “Star Wars” films. But since there were only three of them I had to go elsewhere for a fix, and eventually made my way to the novelizations. But these fictionalized appendages never quite lived up to the original. I was always left wanting.
Nowadays I don’t really care for “Star Wars”. These days I devote my energy to the web and...
debauchette:
Holy shit. Iowa just legalized gay marriage.
“Odd to see anarchists trying to burn and loot while some are text messaging and...”
– RealClearPolitics: G-20 Outtakes (via somethingchanged)
I call bullshit.
I’m certainly no unabashed fan of the G-n protesters (no small contingent of which has demonstrated time and again since the WTO in Seattle in ‘99 that it derives a great, unadulterated joy from simply getting...
I got dialectics sick like Plato.
Aaron: Toyotas really aren't that pricey.
Me: Toyota 4Runner MSRP $28,640 - $39,360 / Kia Soul MSRP $13,300 - $16,950
Aaron: Ok, Mr. Beacon Hill: Lexus SUV $40k - $80k
Me: Pshaw. Only a plebe would lust over a Lexus.
Aaron: Exactly. The rich just happen to have them and think nothing of it.
Me: So we're in agreement that only bitches buy Lexuses?
Aaron: Goes w/o saying.
Me: Good, so we agree that rich people are bitches.