September 2009
26 posts
giantrobotlasers:
I’m about to hit the hay, but just had a thought. There are more people actively playing Farmville on Facebook than are on Twitter. That blows my mind, for a few reasons. The $1B valuation / uber hype around twitter is one part of it. But coming from the other direction, that so many people would try out something so frivolous and un-fun as farmville is really quite amazing. I...
Maverick, star of the the cinematic classic “Top Gun”, man of this airborne bildungsroman, suffers the loss of Goose, his best friend and RIO (Radar Intercept Officer), after slipping into a “flat spin” induced by steering his F-14 through the “jetwash” of another jet during a training exercise.
“Jetwash”—more accurately referred to as...
En Vogue, “My Lovin’ (You’re...
Better (a corollary)
I was in the office late last night when I ran across something from one of the more prominent business bloggers that nearly made my head explode. I went tearing through the office and barged through my founder’s door.
“I just have to say,” I announced, “____ _____ is a fucking idiot.”
He hadn’t yet turned away from his computer, but I could see him smiling....
Things Roland Barthes Likes¹
via Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, p. 120:
cinnamon
lettuce
cheese
spices
frangipan
newly mown hay (he’d like some ‘taster’ to make a scent out of it)
roses
peonies
lavender
champagne
political désinvolture
Glenn Gould
ice-cold beer
flat pillows
toast
Havana cigars
Handel
measured walks
pears
white peaches
cherries
colors
pocket watches
ball-point...
Toots & The Maytals, “Take Me Home,...
Save for Web & Devices... ⌥⇧⌘S
All the requisite manual dexterity of a game of Twister but none of the fun sexual tension.
What the fuck Adobe.
“What was once before you—an exciting, mysterious future—is now...”
– Synecdoche, New York
“That doesn’t say much about the regular Christ if the anti-Christ just...”
– Billy, on the recent polling results showing 17% of New Jersey conservatives believe Obama to be the anti-Christ.
There’s a classic moment in the third season of “The West Wing” when Bartlet goes off the record to field a question about his opponent, in which he says that Governor Ritchie might be a “.22 caliber mind in a .357 magnum world”. Toby notices the green light on the camera and tells the President, “You were hot. When you said that just now. You were hot....
“Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole,
And at the wyndow out she putte hir...”
– Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller’s Tale.
Butt jokes sound so distinguished in middle English.
“All of my life, I have been told that the Beatles are the best band ever. They...”
– Hipster Runoff, on Pitchfork’s recent review of the Beatles, in which “Yellow Submarine” is deemed “a mediocre bust, sort of like a lackluster Of Montreal album”, and “Let it Be” is judged to be “slightly worse than AnCo but slightly better than...
Pets are what allow us to talk to ourselves without feeling like we’re talking to ourselves.
Briefly noted:
I worked my way through college as a waiter, yet I’ve never felt the need while out dining to correct my server when he or she poured my wine from the left
I’ve had a lifelong interest in performance driving, yet I’ve never flagged down another driver to correct them for not accelerating through the apex
I’m employed as a software engineer who specializes...
Amtrak #2159
On a train to the city. It’s a familiar route, and one I take regularly. I need these long weekends every so often: they remind me that Boston is only temporary, that what sometimes seems like an oppressive permanence can be remedied with just a train ticket, and—most importantly, for me—that I am still a New Yorker.
As accustomed as I’ve become to this route something...
