November 2009
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Open for submission
I’m half tempted to make this an erotic fiction piece on bondage and dominance play in the bedroom, but that’s not why we’re here. That’s not what smooshes us together today, and I will not be distracted from my mission - from our purpose - by some flaccid double entendre of a title. No.
Friends, I come to you today with news of relief. Relief from the torture of...
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CNN WTF
Since CNN launched its redesigned site this past weekend, I’ve been struggling with something: Everyone seems to love the new design. Except me.
I’ll concede a certain lusciousness exists in the top 300 pixels of the home page. And some of the deeper, interior pages have been scrubbed clean of irrelevant nonsense and made more readable, more usable, in the process. And yeah, yeah,...
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Sensor Blocked
These things promised to replace human cashiers. We took this in any of numerous ways, depending on things like how we felt about such jobs, our level of mistrust for technology, our love or hatred for our local grocery store staff, etc. Regardless of where we came down in the ideological debate over self-checkout, however, everyone assumed the introduction of the machines heralded the eventual...
K2 is near the northernmost border of Kashmir....
WatchIt’s pretty simple: I came home from work today to find that the kids had turned the basement into a sound stage, complete with my camera mounted on my nice tripod, and they’d created a masterpiece. What’s that? George Lucas on line one? Make him wait 60 seconds, then patch him through.
What you're waiting for.
Look, about all the Godot jokes - I’m sorry. I’ll just come to the point. I’m going to put on a performance of the beloved Beckett play next week. A collaborative, internet performance. I’ve got the parts of Godot and the boy covered, but I’m still looking for people to play Estragon, Vladimir, Pozzo, and Lucky. Just meet me here next week and you can play whichever...
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Late Godot is late.
“If you don’t ask the right questions, then you’re never going get to the right...”
– Tim Brown, IDEO Chief, Values Questions Above Answers - NYTimes.com
(via John Dickerson)
Petsitting advice from a nine-year-old
Jack: Dad, how long are we dogsitting Hannah?
Me: Until Tuesday.
Jack: Dad, if our betta fish Penny dies before Tuesday, can we feed it to Hannah? I mean, would it be appropriate to let Hannah eat Penny if Penny dies while Hannah's staying with us?
Me: Emily Post is silent on that one, Jack. What do you think?
Jack: I think we should check and see if Penny's about to die.
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“I think of them as odes to the profound, often articulate thoughtfulness of...”
– someone else
The best part of my day so far is seeing the same...
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Life without Twitter, Day 2
Turns out people don’t talk as much as I thought they did. This is a revelation to me.
I am also surprised to learn that the battery on my iPhone 3G can, in fact, last well beyond the 3.5 hours to which I have become accustomed.
Finally, I’ve noticed there’s something weird about this summer. It’s become cooler than previous summers, and the trees are unseasonably...
“So many hammer reviews. So few tree houses.”
– Twitter / hotdogsladies
A star just isn’t enough.
“We never received a call from the City, the Police, or the Secret Service....”
– From Elliance CEO Abu Noaman’s fuller story behind the deeply disappointing, early termination of @HeyG20.
The Electronic Engagement Blog
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The vivid dreams are coming FROM INSIDE THE CIPRO.
Psychotropic antibiotics? Huh.
“Goddammit, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!”
– General Beringer exhausts ideas for restoring Twitter to normalcy.
WarGames (1983) - Memorable quotes
It stands for "Attention Deficit Disor
In my dream, I’d applied for a job and I’d made it to the last interview. The final stage was competitive, pitting me against the two other finalists in a series of tests designed to measure our responses to stress, disorientation, distractions, social awkwardness, and intellectual and task-related challenges.
The last in this series of tests packed the three of us into an elevator...
ALL THE SINGLE PARENTS (all the single parents)
luckyshirt:
Child leashes?
I WAS PREPARED TO IMPLEMENT A HAMSTER BALL 3 MINUTES INTO IKEA NAM.
Fanny packs?
I WOULD WEAR A TORSO PACK AT THIS POINT TO KEEP READILY AVAILABLE THINGS THAT CAN WIPE STUFF OFF OF STUFF OR HYDRATE A CHILD.
Life has become very much about function, and not at all about form.
You want I should send you the backpack that got me through early ventures such as these?...