April 2010
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My favorite cocktail and you can make it at home
Like me, you may find that you have disparate cocktail ingredients lying around the house, and maybe let’s say you start thinking you want to mix them up with one another and also with other ingredients into a tasty concoction befit for bragging about on the Internet! Well, as long as you have these here ingredients I’m about to list out, you’re in luck. Boy, howdy, are you...
March 2010
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WatchI have more derelict raw video than any sane person needs to admit. Occasionally, I lie to myself that I’ll get around to editing it into something interesting, or - that lacking - entertaining. Very occasionally.
So Vimeo’s 5 Vignettes thing is a welcome call in the night. I can see myself getting addicted to this. And honestly? I hope to see a lot of you getting addicted to it too.
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It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Jack: Dad, do you have a bell?
Me: Um... no, I don't think I do.
Jack: Congratulations! You win a no-bell prize!
WatchMetavari, “Loosen the Bands”
The latest thing stuck on infinite repeat inside of my iTunes is Metavari’s album, Be One of Us and Hear No Noise, which I just discovered today. (I’m sometimes late to parties, but I always bring a nice bottle of wine.) It is gorgeous - just gorgeous.
The particular song in this particular video isn’t on this particular album. But the...
S.I.S.O.*
Everyone’s always asking me, they say, “Geoff, what do you eat for breakfast?” I think it’s kind of personal, and I’m a really very private person who doesn’t like to disclose personal things like what I eat for breakfast, but something this morning told me it’s time to cast off the albatross of paranoia by finally answering this burning question...
“THE JOB OF THE DRAMATIST IS TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE WONDER WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. *NOT*...”
– - a letter David Mamet sent his writers on the TV series The Unit.
Also a pretty good credo for any creator whose audience, user, buyer, or whatthefuckever isn’t tied captive to his chair as if living inside A Clockwork Orange.
(via pretty much everyone by the time it reached me via...
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“It’s You I Like” by Fred M....
“But if something like this happens to you, the moment the retailer gives you the...”
– venomous porridge: How to get your money back, the easy way!
Dan’s no-nonsense solution for dealing with Gainsaver.com’s abhorrent handling of my botched computer purchase from them.
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How to get ripped off, the easy way! Like me!
Here’s how you do it:
After a bad eBay experience, you decide to go the route of purchasing your kids a used iMac from an “established” retailer. In this case, the company’s name is Gainsaver.com. Write that down. You’re going to want to refer back to it later.
So, this place gets good enough word-of-mouth from two sources - one anonymous online; another, a friend...
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“Nokia and Microsoft are two drowning men hugging each other.”
– a particularly astute dinner companion during SXSW.
Unbeknownst to us at the time, Nokia had just invited the world to design its next phone using nothing more than 5 simple sliders and that most abundant of design qualifications, our common sense.
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Happy Birthday, Neven! From Ross and Geoff in the...
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“If I own a coffee shop, and one of my loyal customers stops checking in, and...”
– Foursquare executive, Tristan Walker, on why I don’t use Foursquare.
(source via @newmediajim)
Ouch my head.
4. Outgrow the box metaphor.
If you guys are decent odds makers, I should feel pretty good about my chances with the whole to-do about the computer. The dude didn’t write me back after that last note, so I opened a case in eBay’s “Resolution Center,” where they promised me, “We’ve got you covered.”
So, fine. All’s well that ends the way I want it to, etc. But this leaves me...
3. Make him open the box.
Surely, he’ll listen to reason.
——- Joe, I think you should reconsider your position. I videotaped the unboxing, the start-up, and the OS reload failures because it was clear from the exterior packaging that it had been poorly packaged. If I have to dispute this and report you to eBay, I have a very clear case. Let’s not go down that road. The stated return policy allows...
2. Put your junk in the box.
Heard back from my seller. What a shame.
——- The computer was in perfect condition before i sent it so the return key came off during shipping the power cord was fine and so was the case and i said in the auction that the OS at to be upgraded and i took to it the apple store and the said they could do it so just take it up there and they will upgrade it for you
I am not accepting...
1. Cut a hole in the box.
So, yeah. That computer is going back, and I’m asking him to cover the cost of return shipping since he misrepresented the computer’s condition in his auction. Let’s follow along as the next chapter in this story unfolds…
——- Dear biggs9193, I received the computer yesterday. Unfortunately, upon opening it this morning, I found it to have significant defects...
Watch“It’s Microsoft tech, so we’ll see it like never.”
Until you’re incarcerated for a crime you’re about to commit, Ben.
WatchModest @sween is modest.
For @sween and @poeks’ inspired Criterion Collection project, I performed two tweets. One, by @fireland, was included in the project. The second, of a @sween tweet, was quietly discarded. The soft spot it left in my heart remains. Source: twitter.com/sween/status/4749907295
“Put your ideas and dreams in your mind and you will get in your hands. Show all...”
– @juanarce, “Netpreneur” (via toldorknown)
I’ll get in your hands.
WatchHere’s the entire 15 seconds Julie and I shot for Bailey’s Birthday video. It’s okay. You can admit to watching it over and over for the almost-boob shot. I mean I can admit.