January 2011
Happy Birthday Jess!
I hope you’re enjoying the day as your birthday and nothing else.
♥
December 2010
betheboy asked: Since I have decided to not drink I need a new hobby, what do you suggest I try?
betheboy asked: Since I have decided to not drink I need a new hobby, what do you suggest I try?
turnabout asked: When was the last time you played mini-golf?
turnabout asked: When was the last time you played mini-golf?
betheboy asked: Glad to see you two are surviving the storms and driving safely. What are your plans for New Years Eve/Day?
betheboy asked: Glad to see you two are surviving the storms and driving safely. What are your plans for New Years Eve/Day?
In summary: ask me something.
My mom and I drove my grandmother’s Cadillac down from the mountains this afternoon since it doesn’t have halfway decent tires for winter weather (something we discovered only after my mom and dad drove it up into the mountains yesterday). There’s a blizzard in progress in the American West, if you haven’t heard.
The Caddy barely, barely made it into my grandmother’s...
“The ad business became an assembly line as predictable as Henry Ford’s....”
– The Future of Advertising | Fast Company
Get through the whining and this is a super fascinating article.
I'm too grumpy to make this choice alone.
My just-out-of-warranty MacBook Pro won’t boot. By the sounds it’s making I suspect hard drive failure, a situation I’m unfortunately familiar with. And I have a fairly recent backup on my Time Capsule so my concern isn’t about my data so much as it is about my computing future.
Basically: am I ready to switch to an iPad for my personal computing needs? Not only am I in a...
MIT OpenCourseWare →
apocalypseinsurance:
With tuition hikes, budget cuts, and corporate sponsorship being sought by schools, it’s important to remember there are some great educational resources that have begun to pop-up on the internet, such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare and book resource Project Gutenberg. For those personally motivated to learn, there’s a lot available these days to help them.
Self-guided learning,...
“Moreover, this is something that drives me insane when we talk about how illegal...”
– Mark Waid (via deadlyfredly)
Mmmm, complexity.
“Republicans, meanwhile, warn that the new rules would impose unnecessary...”
– FCC poised to adopt network neutrality rules
Because making a healthy return on investments has completely guaranteed superb AT&T service!
This is my anthem.
Emphasis mine. And don’t tell me anecdotal evidence doesn’t matter.
northerndownpour:
Saturday night I went to the Empty Bottle to see MNDR. I was pretty excited to be able to catch her set; “I Go Away” is one of my fave tracks of 2010, plus she’s kind of a badass singer/performer/dj/one-woman show. I arrived early enough to catch the second opener, Austra, who are a Toronto-based...
“But the biggest thing that thematically they missed is the concept that you...”
– Mark Zuckerberg about The Social Network, quoted by Lev Grossman in TIME’s Person of the Year cover story.
Ha! SO RIGHT. And that motivation really applies to creative/innovative work in any field, from finding the Higgs Boson to yarn-bombing. Where’s the utility? What’s the goal? Why are you doing...
your data is only worth as much as our ability to...
And shutting down del.icio.us is arguably a far bigger story because what it effectively says to everyone using a hosted data service is this: your data is only worth as much as our ability to monetize it. This, of course, makes sense to business. But the story that’s being sold to all of us on the user side, including the many businesses being pushed to move to the cloud and trust that Google,...
“In 1906—65 years before the Pentagon Papers and over a century before WikiLeaks—...”
– WikiLeaks as This Century’s Upton Sinclair by David A. Love
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” - Upton Sinclair
(via thenoobyorker)
“A spokeswoman for Warner Brothers said on Monday evening that the studio had...”
– Warner Brothers Won’t Fight ‘Yogi Bear’ Video Parody - NYTimes.com
Is it just me or is the subtext “YouTube wouldn’t take it down so I guess we’re respecting parody instead of filing expensive lawsuits!”?
“‘I regret that you have put us in this position, but there is no other course we...”
– from the New York Times article on the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art’s open letter to the Smithsonian threatening to cease its financial support ($100,000) in light of the Hide/Seek exhibition curators’ decision to take down David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire in My Belly.”
(via uchicagopress)
...
factsarenothing:
thenoobyorker:
From an insider source: Today I learned that Wal-Mart could have created 40,000 domestic jobs in the clothing industry, however they decided to ship those jobs to China because they agreed to make each article of clothing for $1 less. Disgusting.
Every time a customer tries to tell me that we charge too much for “a two minute job” (Pro tip: unless I already...
“A media analyst at Nomura, called [Netflix-Starz deal] “probably one of the...”
– From The NY Times’s “Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star”. I can’t help but wonder which junior bd guy Ted Sarandos (the chief content officer for Netflix who negotiates all the deals with Hollywood) negotiated with a Starz? (via siguy)
At least Starz took a chance. When this deal was struck...
2) What if I logged in using Facebook Connect? Was my password compromised? No. We never stored passwords of users who logged in using Facebook Connect.
3) What if I linked my Twitter account with my Gawker Media account? Was my Twitter password compromised? No. We never stored Twitter passwords from users who linked their Twitter accounts with their Gawker Media account.
What an argument for...
Is Bernie Sanders still talking? →
Beautiful.