April 2010
33 posts
You know, sometimes you repeal Glass-Steagall and then get caught trying to use your old-boy network to prevent the downgrade of Enron’s debt and then you run Citi into the ground and then you help bring the entire American economy to its knees and all you get is a golden parachute and a spot on the Obama transition team.
And sometimes you make one Brooklyn-area blogger pee his Aeron upon...
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“If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same,...”
– Emily Gould.
What she said.
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Pursuant to this, I present a hot-off-the-press...
“Nursing homes are hotbeds of ass. Room after totally private room of willing...”
– The Misanthropologist: Old People Sex is the Best Sex
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“The perceptions of the nude and the deformed both manifest out of a concept of...”
– Excerpted from a Tisch writing assignment entitled “Reckoning of Evidence”, c. 2004, submitted by one Stefani Germanotta.
i.e. the theoretical origin of Lady Gaga’s monsters.
Rescued from the Sunday memory hole
In case you missed it: Thomas Friedman went meta this weekend.
Friedman, the somehow, mind-bogglingly, inexplicably celebrated New York Times columnist, a man whose grasp of metaphor is so notoriously daft and addled that he once said of US foreign policy in Iraq that “it’s OK to throw out your steering wheel as long as you remember you’re driving without one,” only to later pile on with...
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Engineers are from Mars, artists are from Venus.
langer: i feel so heroic right now
jace: oh?
langer: so i'm in the office
langer: and mike left for l.a.
langer: and he has control of the airfoil speakers
langer: and his computer is passwd protected
langer: and i'm freaking out
langer: because i really need some gaga up in this shit
langer: so i ssh into the mini
langer: ps|grep, kill, find . -name, sudo, ctrl+z, bg, BOOM.
langer: NOW I HAVE CONTROL
jace: i also have a hack for that
jace: i turn his computer off
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Morning routine
pick up iPhone
slide to unlock
enter passcode
notice n unread emails
read email
open Tweetie
get linked to some random article
open Tumblr
zoom zoom “♥” pinch pinch
put down iPhone
pace around for a minute
scratch head
remember why I initially picked up iPhone
pick up iPhone
slide to unlock
enter passcode
check weather
Just sayin'
A few weeks back we let an embarrassing bug out on our production servers that resulted in the accidental delivery of a dozen or so duplicate emails to each of our registered users (friend requests, reminders, etc). The script started running at 6am, and within minutes Saadiq had every iPhone in our company ringing off the hook. Within an hour we were all in the office trying to rollback the bug,...
Belles lettres
langer: it has been brought to my attention that "the national" is synonymous with "girlfriends".
langer: is this correct [y/n]
meaghano: you mean like, the national gets you gfs?
langer: the national gets you gfs [y/n]
meaghano: if you like them it belies some sort of melancholic depth accompanied by a refusal to change, etc. so yeah a sort of familiar problematic brooklynite ennui-ish bs. white boy problems, etc.
meaghano: it's very attractive.
langer: so what you're saying is they're my new favorite band.
langer: and that i'm hot.
meaghano: if:then
Fact: Van Morrison was twenty-two—or...
Where the ladies at?
For a brief moment there from about 5pm on Sunday until 10am Monday morning it looked like our entire week would be consumed by chatter about Doree’s tech startup cover story—then Gizmodo disassembled an iPhone and the internet found something else to freak out about (a windfall for me, frankly, because the fewer people who read Zach Klein’s quote about how “the skill set...
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Gawker: "general hero Matt Langer" →
Ha. Put that on your fridge, mom.
No Squares →
I made you something, internet: a handy mobile web app for finding nearby bars that aren’t overrun with undesirables jockeying on their iPhones to become the next mayor.
You’re welcome.
[ed. note: you can blame the New York Times for this.]
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DEAD AGAIN.
So some TechCrunch guest columnist says books are dead: “I’m 21, I can say with a lot of confidence that the ‘books’ that come to define my generation will be impossible to print. This is great.”
[tl;dr: BULLSHIT.]
If all you saw of this article was this one excerpted pull-quote making the reblog rounds then you may have thought he was on to something, since he at...
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The books on my bookshelf, by imprint (a Sunday...
Penguin: 46 titles (8.8% of total)
Vintage: 30 (5.7%)
Oxford: 21 (4.1%)
Verso: 18 (3.5%)
Harvard, Routledge: 16 (3.1%)
Chicago, Norton: 14 (2.7%)
Modern Library, Princeton, Yale: 13 (2.5%)
Dover: 12 (2.3%)
Mariner: 11 (2.1%)
Cambridge, Continuum: 10 (1.9%)
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LIVEBLOGGING.
So I’m walking down Bedford Ave. just now and I step on a loose concrete slab in the sidewalk probably about three feet wide and it seesaws and drops me down like an inch and the other side of the slab springs up right in front of a woman walking the other way who’s like 6’0” tall and 6’6” in heels and the slab catches her stiletto and she goes down like a...
So after Tiger got outed yesterday for getting it...
...a song came through the speakers that we and... →
This opus from Martin Seay (via Autobhan) is well worth the thirty minutes it will take to read it (and I’d highly recommend listening as I did to Ke$ha’s masterpiece on repeat while reading, a might I say heroic feat requiring repeatedly bludgeoning oneself with stimuli at once intellectual and vulgar, culminating in roughly eleven consecutive listens that at around the ninth time...
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the...”
– Fmr. MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti, The Green Fields of the Mind.
Morning recap.
Today I awoke without a hangover.
After a light breakfast of half a grapefruit and a bowl of steel-cut oats I stepped out on my balcony for a mug of organic green tea and the morning’s Financial Times. I finished the paper, made my bed, and went to the bathroom to clean myself up. I flossed vigorously.
When I was in the shower I found myself mesmerized by the patterns being traced by the...