2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!! Two things: a.) I could have sworn I was following markbean and was shocked...

Well why not? Ever since my Powerbook’s power supply...

fetherston: sarcasm is the easiest comedy
nstrich: right
nstrich: that's why everyone is so adept at sarcasm

Classy heading, Amazon. I’m sure that’s just...

A subtle and seldom documented East Coast/West Coast...

MySQL performance tip: Prefetch using...

Let’s say you’re iterating through a list of items to display, each of which requires a separate...

“When you’re a kid you sign your papers on the top right hand...”
— Dawn (via dawnowar)

“That’s also the basic idea behind pHome.us. Take you to the...”
— Jacob BijaniThat’s...

2008 Web Design Trends

Here's an idea...

actually go into the tumblrs of a few of the favorites you follow, instead of hanging in the...

TED has some cool (and appropriate) new* ways to sort talks....

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats # 862 Ha!

“Why do people fall for this? There’s no rocket science...”
— Good Math, Bad Math :...

“I knew that the [AP] was going to take a picture, and they...

"You have to treat your employees like...

First, They Came for Michael Medved. And I...

morrismaven ← Apartment Therapy: Remembering How Many Cups...

Dear Lazy Tumblr,

If I change my tumblelog’s URL, what updates automagically and what...

A brilliant new scheme for measuring the...

Picking Warren Buffett’s Brain: Notes from...

Curious after reading Mark’s question, I searched for...

My Ding-a-Ling

“[Obama] is focused not only on the policy, but also on the...”
— Squashed: Principles vs....

Nice Guy Eddie - Reservoir Dogs 12-inch Action Figure by...

Miss Amy, my daughter, new to the world (via...

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is...”
— A A Milne (via enquotations)...

See Mike Draw

“Bottom line: The days of cheap energy are over, folks. Gas...”
— Robert Reich’s Blog: Why...

via swissmiss Please tell me this is available for purchase...

“We like our animals to appear smarter than they really are...”
— Alt Text: Secrets of the 7...

Maybe children’s books shouldn’t be...

Dropping Feeds

The Last.fm top five was amusing (to me) for a while, but my typical playlist is too random to give...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8)

Kangaroo

Nice to see Colonel Sanders made it to Hill’s speech. No wait, that’s Ted Danson.

I’m going to go ahead and throw “noncession speech” out there as a term for...

Theory: Bezos paid Twitter to tank this afternoon so the inevitable “Twitter Out Uptimed...

Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing...

New favorite Edgar Allen Poe title: Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences

Bet those _Easy Crosswords_ proliferating at the newsstand wouldn’t sell as well if titled...

Asking to interrupt South Park to record Everybody Loves Raymond? Damn, Tivo. It’s like we...

Lunch with HRC. I had the patty melt, and she had a buffet of blown opportunities to show grace in...

Remember: A shank is metal and a shiv is anything *but* metal. Mnemonic: “If it clanks,...

Whenever it’s clear that a person chose phone over email to avoid a paper trail, I send a full...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-1)

June 1st 2008 - National Regular Expression Day!

i've been away

Amazon rocks, and is also likely to get that $40 refund...

“You have turned out to be quite a disappointment. A year...”
— The Feminist Pessimist:...

Earl of Wigtown

travors: Wait a minute… where did he go?!  No kidding!  How very strange. Here’s a good...

Keep Your Journal On Your Kindle

This might be obvious, but it took me a while to realize and doesn’t seem to already be out...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-25)

Washington: Mr Safire, please answer: Is it correct to say “I’ll have three Whopper...

The Wichita Eagle better not see any of you just driving.

“‘time is a gentle deity,’ said Sophocles....”
— James Gleick

“the purpose of a system is the target of a project” -I think this Skillsoft course was...

Book club forcing me to read Koontz. I’d strike back by selecting Gravity’s Rainbow for...

Now THAT Is What I’m Talking About (via rodknowlton)

FInally saw Iron Man, and I gotta admit nothing says “billionaire playboy” like a...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-18)

Strength Train Your Mind

At least three times a week, read something slightly over your head in a topic that interests you....

Disconnecting Distraction

I’m actually looking forward to seeing this, but why...

Stoked.

Mixed Messages

How can you love books enough to compile a list of 100 must reads, yet be so indifferent to other...

“Instead of leaving a check under the doormat, why...”
— Amanda is less than pleased...

Judging by the vending machine stock, “Double Meat w/Cheese” must be a big seller. Not a...

A Quote Two-fer

I’m reading Mark Hurst’s Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail...

Kinda stings that Merson saves her biggest smiles for, and has her longest conversations with, the...

Sometimes I try to imagine the email that GMail thinks...

Having the “couldn’t be bothered to pack lunch” special today: shrink-wrapped ham...

Where Everybody Knows Your Name - Wikipedia,...

Sorry, spell check, I don’t know any other way to...

cakeface: Transparent Post-Its (Monoscope) If hope these...

Twitterfolk: how old can a tweet be before responding to it is like wanting to talk about a five...

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

“Vox populi is all too often vox boobus americanus.”
— Nancy Friedman

10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses...

Mother’s Day portrait of my ladies turned out pretty good. http://tinyurl.com/44gtzy

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)

Listen

empathy quotient quiz

Apparently Someone Does Put Baby In The Corner (via...

What is the most erotic word in the...

bunnynico: abscond (with friends and relatives offering smock, viral, and aplomb) johnbrissenden: ...

“Yeah…and?”
— Fake John Connor’s...

Your Humble Tumbler (via rodknowlton)

When Corporate Speak and City Governments Collide (via...

Two lessons that took a lot longer to...

There’s always somebody smarter/stronger/sexier/(fill in positive attribute)-er than you. If...

Have time-traveling robots or minions of future archvillians been trying to kill you and your...

“I believe I can state without the slightest hint of...”
— Stevey Yegge

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4)

“When asked this morning by ABC News’ George...”
— Robert Reich’s Blog:...

Hillary’s on This Week giving a tour de force demonstration of magical economic thinking.

Don’t believe in muscle memory? Come over here and deal with the garbage heap where my cubicle...

Sitting alone in a crowd, waiting to see Scott’s play.

“It’s living up to being happy that’s the...”
— Audrey Niffenegger

Sorry about that, cleaning lady, but in a post-iPod world you really need a better strategy than...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27)

Listen

“There’s never been a better time than now to buy or...”
— The Greater Tulsa Association...

Tautologies for Work Sanity

For quite a while, I’ve used the phrase “All I can do is all I can do” to remind...

Baby’s swing repurposed as “incredibly fancy chair” after inducing motion sickness...

Internet commenters consistently tell me that I’m an idiot, I’m a moron, I suck, I can’t write, I...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20)

Playing around with Emacs org-mode, because learning to use an organizational tool is so much more...

Fake Shemp

My new favorite fake scam email company: Solenoids Industrial Co, Ltd. It sounds so Jetsons.

I’m in Tulsa supposedly partying with the guy who was the...

“I think the lesson is clear: if you want to make interesting...”
— Buzz Andersen

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the...”
— Thomas Jefferson

stereotypical tumblr user checklist

I, toldorknown … use a mac: 17” Powerbook G4 purchased three months before the Macbook was...

Pope, polygamy, politics and plate tectonics. Quite the alliterative news cycle.

My Serendipity Hat

A while back Amanda and I spent a long weekend in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It’s a kinda...

The King Meets the Prez [via] This photo looks like...

Listen

A portion of the results of the aforepictured Smart...

This afternoon’s listening is going to be perfect.

OK. The Tyler Durden mix of This Is Your Life wasn’t the way to get stoked for the meeting....

Neat. Find XPath (bookmarklet) is handy. Very much so.

The Daily Batman (via Drawn!)

This is a refreshing example of Owning Your Mistakes. Tumblr...

“When a few days extra turns into a few weeks extra then...”
— Urgency is poisonous -...

Anonymously trolling my post against anonymous trolling? Meta-larious!!1! Sure didn’t see that...

“Male hourly wages began to drop in the early 1970s, adjusted...”
— Robert Reich (Go read the...