October 2009
24 posts
rchel:
illustrator win
I drew this for Rachel to illustrate a rather elegant display of my driving ability a few weeks ago. My car is not pink, and surprisingly it was winched (I’m assuming because I left before the actual extraction occurred) out with nothing but a lost hubcap, broken headlight, and flat tire. It was approximately $75 worth of damage (which then turned into $135,...
justsayjolie:
Your Daily 90s: No Doubt,...
We have standardized every other unit in commerce except the most important and universal unit of all, the unit of purchasing power. What business man would consent for a moment to make a contract in terms of yards of cloth or tons of coal, and leave the size of the yard or the ton to chance? … We have standardized even our new units of electricity, the ohm, the kilowatt, the ampere, and the...
“Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to...”
– Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More
I watched (and then rewatched and then rewatched again…and again) the preview clips for this week’s episode of Glee, which I don’t normally do because they are rather spoilery, and also because it is usually more exciting to have the songs surprise you with their energy…and stuff (I don’t know where that’s going, but the essential point is exciting! fun! music!...
How data architecture is like the ballet.
jmatthew:
Full disclosure: I’ve watched two documentaries tonight — Planet B-Boy, about the “Battle of the Year” break dancing world championships, and Ballerina, about the Kirov Ballet. For the record: Ballerina was better. That’s one dialectic, this is another.
Ballet is an art that is so technical and has had so much time to mature that the limitation — human physical potential for movement...
More on Tina Brown and The Daily Beast
Because the name of The Daily Beast was inspired by The Daily Beast in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop (which is terrifically fantastic!), I think it can be inferred that Tina Brown sees herself—at least to some extent—as a modern day realization of Lord Cooper.
If that’s the case, Aloysius wishes for me to mention that he takes serious issue with that, and that he sees her far more as Julia...
Yet something else I’m late to reading, but!
Because how can you be impatient when everything happens right now, instantly? No more waiting around for factories to print magazines on dead trees and fueling up trucks to deliver them. (Tina Brown - The Daily Beast Turns 1)
Thank god Tina Brown no longer has to stay up all night pumping gas (or petrol?) into her delivery trucks after...
List of emoticons - Wikipedia, the free... →
ericnelson:
Eastern > Western
A few years ago, Carnegie Mellon had some sort of celebration for the 25th anniversary of the emoticon. I didn’t go, but it was bizarre seeing posters around campus celebrating that particular contribution to the world.
Tumblr is not livejournal
rendit:
executiveproducerdickwolf:
So stop treating it like it is
Tumblr is more livejournal than livejournal.
On Glee
I’m half expecting that it isn’t going to be revealed that Puck is Quinn’s baby-daddy until the baby comes out with a mohawk and a nipple ring. It continues to astound me that Finn isn’t the least bit suspicious, and that he hasn’t even casually mentioned the supposed hot tub conception to anyone with enough sense to set him right. We probably shouldn’t expect...
“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon, cried Daisy, and the day after...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via caryrandolph) (via jessicachu) (via rachellehruska)