January 2010
19 posts
December 2009
32 posts
MaliDew
Ernie: Yeah, at work I'll drink two diet Mountain Dews a day. Not for the taste, but for the caffeine.
Jen: That's gross.
Ernie: It works.
Paris: People still drink Mountain Dew? I associate Mountain Dew with the college dorms.
Ari: I associate Mountain Dew with Ken Moodie.
Ernie: Ken? Why?
Ari: Because every time he would drink it, he would mix it with Malibu Rum.
Everyone: [looks in horror]
Ari: He called it "MaliDew."
Everyone: [looks in horror x 100]
(Ernie has been tasked to write an article for...
Laura: it's a little choppy
Laura: why don't you take your time
Ernie: i'm editing now
Ernie: ME NO LIKE BEING UNDER GUN!!11ONE
Laura: and if it can't be finished today
Laura: it's ok
Ernie: i'll work on this right now
Ernie: it'll suck less
Laura: REDO WITH LESS SUCK
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Pomplamoose (10)
Mayer Hawthorne (10)
SomethingALaMode (10)
Röyksopp (7)
The Bird and the Bee (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I’m helping onlinebootycall improve its performance.”
– Douglas Crockford, father of JSON, after adding an alert box after learning the online hook-up site was linking to a library file directly from json.org
Eleanor Rigby
Ernie: So when I listen to songs, I listen to the melody; I don't listen to the lyrics.
Laurie: Really? I'm the exact opposite. You wouldn't want to listen to Eleanor Rigby then. It's depressing.
Ernie: What are you talking about? That song is lovely; especially the part with the violins.
Laurie: Don't listen to the lyrics then.
Ernie: Huh? Really? That just makes me want to find the lyrics on Google.
Laurie: If you wish; you know that whole thing about not finding meaning in your life and eventually dying cold and alone? You know, what you've basically been having a small crisis over? That's what the song is about.
Ernie: Oh.
All the interactions I've ever had with Cubans
I realize that this could be a landmine of a post to write. Like, for all I know, Kareem could write a post about “All the Chinese people I’ve ever interacted with” and he could list me, the lady that does his alterations and the dude that serves him $1-a-dish Chinese buffet the next neighborhood over.
But to be honest, I’m from the Bay Area, and all the Latino people...
Dave White has a Brittany Murphy story →
I’m now connected indirectly to Dave White in two degrees in three VERY different ways, but I choose to read his books and LiveJournal posts from a distance. His memory of Brittany Murphy is really touching.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
SomethingALaMode (7)
Jason Mraz (5)
Drake (2)
London Elektricity (2)
The Bird and the Bee (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
El Cerrito school on edge after alleged rape →
And this would be where I went for Junior High school, ladies and gentlemen.
[sigh] It’s frustrating; this and the nationally covered gang rape of a 15 year old student during homecoming at the neighboring high school - is my home school district. It’s awful and embarrassing and terrible, and yet it’s definitely part of my past. A part of me wants to do something about it...
“Twitter was more fun when I could bitch about a company without them replying to...”
– Derek Powazek (via maniacalrage) (via glass)
How I Learned To Love You From So Far Away
kfan:
This is my new book. It is a collection of 21 stories about love & technology, and I am psyched to have finally finished it.
Details and ordering information for the print version are at whygodwhy.
Details on the Kindle version are at Amazon.
If you have a lit journal and are interested in review copies of this or my previous book, The Location Scout, just email me and we can hook...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Josh Rouse (5)
Candie Payne (4)
The Changes (4)
Jack Johnson (4)
Vienna Teng (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
How To Get A High Score on Bejeweled Blitz →
Yay, I get a cameo! (Albeit for an internet addition I’m totally ashamed of playing.)
As to why I play so much: I used to go play pinball with a friend of mine in my High School youth group every Sunday after church. Being in downtown Berkeley, we had a circuit of sorts: UC Berkeley’s ASUC had an active arcade, and two blocks away was Berkeley’s Silverball Arcade and the arcade...
“And then I took a hard look at the stats: the site was getting a million or so...”
– Dean Allen, on why he shut down Favrd, a place that automatically collected funny ha-ha tweets. That last sentence also applies to personal blogging.
Not that I would know.
(The setting: Ernie, Jen and Paris are in a car on the streets of San Francisco. A large, glassy-eyed Native American looking man with dreadlocks crosses in the middle of the street and stares us down as the car stops for him.)
Ernie: Whoa there, easy, Squanto McDreadlocks.
Jen: Oh, come on.
Paris: Clearly, he's staring us down for raping their land and giving them blankets full of smallpox.
Ernie: I guess the only thing he's hunting for now are bags of heroin.
Paris: "Or as I call it, 'the white stag.'"
