January 2009
57 posts
“I tend to take things hyper-literally. For example, my wife was annoyed when she...”
– A programmer, when asked “What real life bad habits has programming given you?”
I’ve never had this issue; I’m wondering if I’m not the best programmer because of it. (Mind you, I’m not a lousy programmer, but I’m finding it’s something passionate...
What was in the lettle
My Dear Ernie:
Backy Chen told me this afternoon: Your rental property talent may want to move. Is this a chance to move back from San Francisco and gradually to have simple and fresh life style.
For current economic situation to reduce high rent spending in S.F. is also necessary. The possible plan to go to east coast for continuous education is a very good plan. We may need to look for...
Help fighting isolation for a shut-in. →
This is heartbreaking. Not only because of the situation, because I am 99.99% sure, without a shadow of a doubt, that I know who this person is. I had no idea his husband died, but I’m not really sure how to reach out to him if he doesn’t want to be reached out to.
“You are the Alanis of early A-list gaybloggers.”
– The publically anonymous whiskeytangofoxtrot
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Alice Russell (13)
mas4 (12)
Craig David (12)
Dragonette (7)
Jane Lui (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
sIFRvault →
This link is probably only useful for Web Developers, who are intrigued by the idea of sIFR but don’t know enough about design or typography to really do anything about it.
Note to self, use http://sifrvault.com/library/arial_rounded for 8Asians.
Mark Bittman logs what he eats for a week →
I’m kind of a secret fan of Mark Bittman, who writes How to Cook Everything and the Minimalists Guide to Cooking. He’s like the anti-Rachel Ray, but he doesn’t seem to be a douchebag food snob either. For health reasons he had to lose 35lbs and did so by going as vegan as possible the first two meals of the day and having a sensible dinner the last meal. Hmm.
fireland:
There are some sentences that you never expect to read, and some sentences that don’t make a lick of sense, and some sentences that could only exist today. This one, which just appeared in my inbox, is all three:
“Fran Drescher (frandrescher) is now following your updates on Twitter.”
You too? Now I feel cheap and used; somehow I had this fantasy that Fran Drescher was scouring the...
Taproot Foundation - do it pro bono. →
maliwi:
I wish they had a Detroit office.
I’m actually a part of this; I’m trying to tap into my WebDev roots and I’m in the process of doing IA and Web Development for SOMCAN. (No, the site isn’t done yet, and that’s not the finished product. C’mon now.)
While it’s good and noble, a fair warning for everyone who does this - there are a lot of PMs that...
Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter... →
elea:
(via dutchashell)
This is exactly what I use my ‘block’ button for.
Amen to that. Not that I would ever look for other jobs, but should the worst happen and I do end up doing some kind of, ohgodfuckme, social media consulting to supplement dealing drugs some sort of web development or community management job, I’m going to have to do my best to differentiate myself without being...
“At noon on the dot, WhiteHouse.gov cut over from George W. Bush’s legacy...”
– Low blow, Valleywag. (The correct response to this quote is, of course, “that’s because we all die a little bit every day reading comments from YouTube, Yahoo! OMG or Oprah.com. WhiteHouse.gov would be that times, oh, ten trillion.”)
UPDATE #2: What do you mean you don’t...
I also do not want to eat a brace of birds
Ernie: for no other reason because i think you're the only person in this room that won't be like "wtf ernie": http://inaugural.senate.gov/luncheon/
Laura: that's... weird
Laura: i do not want to eat a brace of birds
Ernie: what IS a brace of birds? are those like birds getting it on as they get cooked to deliciousness?
Ernie: also, why does the presidential luncheon sound so goddamn unappetizing?
Ernie: if i were obama i'd be all, "fuck this"
Ernie: "kfc, anyone?" [NOTE, I AM NOT SAYING KFC BECAUSE HE IS BLACK, BUT BECAUSE KFC IS DELICIOUS]
Laura: thanks for the clarification on that one
Ernie: in this age of copying & pasting to tumblrs, i try
“not to be a killjoy or anything, but I’ve been taking a nap. I understand...”
– patricking, via twitter. I have a feeling that both he and Su will be one of my personal highlights at SXSW this year.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Jazzanova (4)
The Bird and the Bee (3)
Jane Lui (2)
Santogold (1)
Minimatic (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I honestly have no idea in hell what this game is even about. Ok, I’ll...”
– My friend Tim plays video game ROMs and reviews them. This one is for a game called, aptly enough, “Porky.”
WatchDustan goes to work. This is like a non-scary version of MTV’s Fear.
In Japan, you can Rent-a-Friend (or a pet, or a... →
This is equal parts ingenious and heartbreaking.
“STUPIDLY I THOUGHT ITS YAHOO & ITS GENUIN SO I ANS BUT THEN AFTER THOUGHT I...”
– Lavanya almost got conned by an e-mail saying she won the Yahoo! Lottery. Oh, Lavanya.
Since U Been Gone (DJ Earworm Mash-Up) →
Grrr, the video disabled embedding by request.
That said, go see the video — I forgot how good the song is. And it’s fun to see Kelly Clarkson slowly go crazy destroying her house, which turns out to be her ex-boyfriends new girlfriends house, which turns out to be her wholesome image on American Idol. It works on multiple levels.
I’m actually looking forward to her new album....
Free Download: The Bird & The Bee's "Don't Stop... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Dragonette (8)
Alice Russell (7)
Jonathan Coulton (6)
The Bird and the Bee (5)
Kylie Minogue (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The web would be more interesting if...
distorte:
The web would be more interesting if people were willing to undertake real projects for no money. Creative people will waste umpteen hours letting us know what they think about cats or uploading their muesli to Flickr but as soon as the idea of making something real from scratch comes into play suddenly everyone has to have an earning model and salaries. That is probably the...
