July 2010
“Businesses shape the perceptions of the public in order to get the desired...”
– Perception management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So as long as you first create the need for your otherwise useless crap, it’s not manipulation? Got it.
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Blinkered
“See that motorcycle in front of us?”
Jack had made scarce with his words for most of the car ride. Mornings were like molasses for him. Rougher on him than on either of his brothers, and definitely rougher than for his rise-and-shine pops. It wasn’t unusual for Jack to keep monk silent for hours, slowly coming to the surface of the waking day, as if instinctively dodging the...
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WatchHello Geoff, This is, but not gonna. I was wondering how you’re doing today. This pressuring times, or, you know. Port-a-pots what they’re wearing after taxes. Are you wearing. Preference, and maybe thinking about going passage. I was wearing pants which were and maybe more intense knows what anyway. I hope you’re doing well and cell. Which.
BREAKING NEWS: Blogger derives formula for...
“Apple needs to come up with a permanent—and free—fix for the antenna problem...”
– Consumer Reports Electronics Blog: Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can’t recommend the iPhone 4
(via fscked.co.uk)
That does it. If Apple still won’t acknowledge and resolve this issue, I’m taking the matter all the way to the BBB.
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A mountain of updog
Jack: Is that updog? Oh, man, I think it's updog!!
Dad: Oh! I didn't realize! What's up, Updog?
Jack: Nuttin' what's up with... Daaad! You stink!
Dad: You know it, kiddo. Like a mountain of updog.
Why I stopped following Michele
It was personal. Here’s what happened:
I took a long, reflective look at whose blogs I had decided to follow and what those choices said about me. How, I asked, might they reflect upon the decency and class of my family, my children, and one day theirs? I wrung my hands wondering what signals I’d sent already, that I might one day grow to regret. I wrung my hands again as I fretted...
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WatchAfter the longest month, the kids are finally back from their June sojourn with their mom. Alex’s preparatory haircut & henna Angh tattoo commences in 15 minutes. T-6h to showtime.
“The first time the man and the dog simultaneously vomited, it was a coincidence,...”
– Say “what” again. - Simultaneity (via Instapaper)
Marco showed me some ninja Instapaper shit last weekend when I was in NYC. This particular trick was to select text in Instapaper, then choose share from the popup options. Instapaper is smart enough to know to post this as a quote on Tumblr, and...
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Exhibit A
Doing a server migration is all sorts of fun. I was redoing some redirects this morning when I came across this - a post I wrote least year upon waking up from a rough dream. It’s striking in a number of ways, but the main one is that I don’t recall remembering a single dream since this one. Hell, I’d even long since forgotten this one. What do they say about people who...
Faust's whatever
There’s a really great bar across the river from here. It’s called Embury and at Embury they make the most fantastic cocktails I ever drank. I’m not going to link to it, because there was no such thing as Internet during Prohibition so Embury doesn’t have a stupid website*, but you can search for Embury on today’s Internet and get some search results or whatever and...
“Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the...”
– Avertible catastrophe
Thanks, Paul. Articles like this and my otherwise enjoyable morning mix about as well as… you know what, actually, never mind.