February 2010
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January 2010
75 posts
Imagine the world we would live in if consumers spent as much time thinking about where we buy our groceries or our clothing as we spend talking about the next Apple product.
BOS > NYC: T-minus one day
Langer: See you tomorrow!
Jace: cya!
Jace: it's like langermas
Jace: I can't wait to unwrap my present
Jace: will you be waiting under the tree when I wake up?
Jace: do you need batteries?
Jace: TICKLE ME LANGER?
Langer: GROSS.
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Now that every last one of my worldly possessions is packed in cardboard boxes, neatly stacked in one corner of my apartment in preparation for tomorrow’s sojourn to Brooklyn, I got to thinking about all my shit this morning, realizing how remarkably small it all looks when not all spread out and furnishing some space.
Then for whatever reason I began to wonder what among all of this shit...
“I just watched a gif of the Challenger explode over and over again and as I...”
– Brainland
J.D.
I came to Salinger very late, so I don’t have the same sort of attachment to the man that many of his admirers do. But revisiting Catcher a few months ago for the first time since grade school was a rare delight.
And it resulted in one of my favorite pieces of mine that I’ve ever written—and that sort of inspiration alone is enough to leave me grateful to the man.
So thanks,...
“It’s only on the internet that I’ve encountered criticism of the [Whole Foods]...”
– born exaggerator
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soupsoup:
No flash support and no multitasking are HUGE mistakes.
This device SCREAMS out for rich interactive flash-type content. I’m not saying Flash necessarily as a platform is the answer, but you need to allow people a way to develop the content this device was made for.
The lack of Flash support should probably be considered a feature, not a bug.
Flash came around a little over a...
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1968.
I think the eve of the President’s first State of the Union address is a fine time to compare his first-year accomplishments—a year which was marked both by overwhelming public support and by sizable majorities in both houses of Congress—with a similar year following a similar election of another Democratic president. That president was Lyndon Johnson, and the year was 1965, the...
“Using Omnigraffle feels like getting to second base for the first time. I have a...”
– Jace Cooke
Mills wins!
Something something Saints beat Vikings.
Awkward conversations with my doorman.
Jerome: Hello, Mr. Langer!
Me: Hi Jerome!
Jerome: You have a package, sir!
Me: I do?
Jerome: Yes, and it's quite... large.
Me: ...
Jerome: What's in here?
Me: Moving boxes.
Jerome: Oh, you're moving?
Me: I am. To New York.
Jerome: New York? Why's that?
Me: Boston's just not my city, Jerome. New York is home.
Jerome: Well that's too bad.
Me: It is.
Jerome: You should have told me sooner.
Me: Why's that?
Jerome: I could have made your time here a little bit better...
Me: ...
Jerome: ...
Me: Well, good night, Jerome.
Jerome: And goodnight, sir!
“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, via @parisreview.
And you aren't sure when Vampire Weekend is going... →
katiebakes, via balk.
“I’m a history buff. I love the Museum of Natural History.”
– Massachusetts senator-elect Scott Brown
He’s right, you know: the Hall of Paleobiology, the Insect Zoo, and the “Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution” exhibit are like flypaper for history buffs.
“What the hell kind of a name for a Massachusetts senator is “Scott Brown,”...”
– South 12th
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Correspondence.
I fired off an email last night to Tumblr’s resident curator of conjugal and conjugational curiosities, Raynor Ganan, to inquire after the following:
Do you know of the etymological origin of the phrase “eat a dick”, and/or any of its common variations, including “get a dick” and “eat a bag of dicks” (or, alternatively, “eat a whole bag of...
S. 12th
Several months back the venerable Raynor Ganan asked if I followed South Twelfth.
“Who?”, I asked.
“South Twelfth”, he said.
“Meh”, I thought, taking into consideration the fact that there are several billion people on Tumblr and that I needn’t be following this rando on the mere word of some sex-crazed armchair linguist.
But then, by some...
I give up.
TPM got its hands on the Democrats’ latest talking points. This one’s fifth:
It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own.
I want my money back.
“If Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress want to avoid getting...”
– Steve Almond, “The Sports Talk Radio Election”
Just wondering:
Any chance this country would ever elect a United States senator who had once posed nude in Cosmo if that candidate were a woman?
"Broad and balanced protection for all Americans" →
southtwelfth:
So guess who once cobbled together a better health care plan than the joke that is currently about to die an ignoble death in the Senate because a couple hundred thousand Massholes hopped up on Kurt Schilling and the collected works of House of Pain decided to send some waterboarding enthusiast to warm his buns in Ted Kennedy’s seat in the World’s Greatest Debating Society, instead...
Things that are awkward:
tweens
erections lasting longer than four hours
forgetting that you drunk dialed your blogging platform the night before only to arrive at the office the next morning to find a handful of your colleagues listening to your drunken peroration and laughing at you right as you walk in the door
Listen
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#Ugh.
You know, I’ve been obsessing over national politics for most of my life now, but tonight marks the first time I’ve ever had the pleasure of using Twitter realtime search to try to get precinct reports and exit polling data.
Now what’s that they say again? The best argument against democracy?
Healthcare stocks rise alongside GOP chances in... →
langerhasrageblackouts:
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As Massachusetts voters decide Tuesday whom to put into the late Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, shares of Aetna Inc. and other large insurance companies rallied, driven by the thinking that a close race signals a potential thwarting of the effort at federal health reform.
What he said.
A defense of old media
I’m no different from everyone else who often finds themselves dismayed by the current state of journalism. As a citizen I found myself enraged that the New York Times let Judith Miller get away with peddling Bush administration distortions in a regular above-the-fold column during the build-up to the Iraq War. As a technology professional I am regularly unimpressed by the superficial...
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret... →
Oh my god you guys this is just like that Barry Pepper character in Saving Private Ryan when he was hanging out up in that sniper perch and looking through his sights and he was all like “blessed be the Lord my strength which teaches my hands to the war and my fingers to fight” and then all like “my goodness and my fortress, my high tower and my Deliverer, my shield and he in...
“As long as I have served … I’ve never seen, as my uncle once said,...”
– Vice President Biden
Here’s what I don’t understand.
It was the introduction of Senate Rule XXII that paved the way for this new trimmed down “procedural” filibuster we’ve grown so accustomed to seeing lately (the “on paper” filibuster as opposed to good...
Semi-Complete List of Recurring O.D.B Aliases
bornexaggerator:
I’ve compiled a nicely-bulleted list of aliases belonging to a one Russell Tyrone Jones (1968 - 2004) beloved member of the Wu-Tang Clan and unhinged genius behind screwball classic, Return to the 36 Chambers. Variations in spelling are marked with (/). This took forever.
Ason Jones
Ason Unique (/Asun Unique)
The Bebop Specialist
Big Baby Jesus
Big Box o’ Chili
The BZA
...
Louie.
Louie is the honorary doorman of the Supreme Liquors in Cambridge’s illustrious Central Square, and, by virtue of proximity, the honorary doorman of our new office space. I met Louie today, and while I’ll only be in town for another two weeks—and thus rather limited in the time I can appreciate Louie’s fine services—it seemed only proper to share my experiences so...
“I ain’t that particular. Between scotch and nothing, I’ll take...”
– William Faulkner, spirit animal. (via @parisreview)
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Marco, to Nostrich: as you can see, since this is probably the largest chunk of my PHP code I've ever shared with you, I write PHP stylistically as if it were K&R C.
Langer: #swoon
“The novel is an inexhaustible form, and no matter what the pessimists say,...”
– Paul Auster, via @parisreview.
Amen.