June 2011
nicky36 asked: I am still on the old OS and the same thing happened to me. It wouldn't work until I uninstalled and re-installed it.
“Tumblr’s iPhone view doesn’t work in very recent builds of WebKit, including...”
– Guillee is right, of course. But come on, Tumblr guys! Why do a long-anticipated, sorely needed, major update to your app, yet make it incompatible with the OS you’re about to need to support far more than the current one? It’s lunacy.
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Hang on, that horse ain't dead yet.
To the extent that we were raised to reject discomfort while awaiting rescue from without, we can hardly develop patience for the elusive or the indirect. We struggle to develop tolerance for delayed gratification - let alone the idea that gratification may, from time to time, evade our pursuit entirely. And we don’t get to learn that such elusiveness might actually be healthy for us. This...
“Happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing,” Barry Schwartz,...”
– How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic
DUH? And moreover? Living in the stepwise USA, teaching - and operating from - increasingly one-dimensional understandings of words like “happiness,” is it any surprise that so many of us end up unfulfilled by our ceaselessly...
Yeah but what cities have you visited in your home...
Actually, what neighborhoods in your home city? Scratch that. You can’t really visit an entire neighborhood either. Really the only way to make sense of this is for you to tell me what bathrooms you’ve visited. Just in your zip code, though. Is there a website where we can make that map?
“People start a business, then they think it’s the best geo-locator mobile dating...”
– Freakonomics » Nine Ways to Guarantee Success (And Failure)
(via @rands)
“Amelia Bedelia” was based on a maid in Cameroon, where the author spent...”
– Amelia Bedelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So you see, I apparently need to learn to bake.
Amelia Bedelia is not my real name
Amelia Bedelia: Excuse me, ma'am, do you have a restroom?
Ma'am: No. We don't have one. You have to go over to the BP.
Amelia Bedelia: (concerned) Oh my gosh! Are you serious? They make you go over to the gas station to use the restroom!!
Ma'am: Oh, no, dear. Not us. Just customers. Just you.
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tbridge asked: Pittsburgh has just three 4-star hotels on Priceline, and we're rarely shutout with a bid of $100-140/night. The three hotels are the Renaissance, the Wm. Penn Omni, and the Westin. They're all phenomenal.
Uh oh, the Marriott Residence Inn is rumored not...
twootenanny:
Other nearby hotels include The Marriott Renaissance Hotel (across the river, downtown), The Priory Hotel (in Deutchtown on the North Side), and even the Marriott Spring Hill Suites just down the street from SoHo.
Get booking!
Anyone else have a good suggestion for where to stay when you’re in Pittsburgh in July?
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#longrants
langer:
Way back in the stone age when we all still subscribed to home delivery of newspapers and magazines (and you’ll just have to bear with me here if you’re under the age of 20), all that content we’d get delivered to our doorstep—whether it came from the Times or the New Yorker or Sports Illustrated or US Weekly or National Geographic or Highlights (Highlights!)—was really only part of what...
"Boss Media"
Well, hot damn.
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Ways to order a list
Alphabetically
By item length
Numerically
Thematically
Part of speech
Thoughtfully
By date
Hilarious cucumbers
Hallucinogens
“More than four years after he stopped taking anti-retroviral therapy, there is...”
– The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not
Reread those last three words, then go read the whole article. Amazing.
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