April 2008
toldorknown.muxtape.com →
Jumping on the bandwagon. This mux started out as random selections, but by the time I finished it was half blues, so I went ahead and made it all blues. Ok, the first and last ones might be more properly referred to as R & B, but they’re so good (and you know what the “B” stands for, don’t you?).
March 2008
Innufriendo (n): Seemingly harmless statements that imply that there’s a cattle stunner or silenced shotgun in the listener’s near future.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →
Jim Boggia
Queen
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Rutles
Pink Floyd
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
snpsht →
This is a collection of pieces of advice to make your everyday photos more enjoyable to look at; a little more with every post. These are only bits which do not claim to be complete, but are rather all you need to know at that moment.
Having spent the day picking out shots for a Blurb book of Emerson’s first month, I’m excited and grateful that Mareen’s taking the time to share...
Shut the Front Door
This afternoon, I was watching a bit of The Big Lebowski on TV, and right when Walter is smashing up the brand new car which he thinks was bought with Mr. Lebowski’s ransom money, he shouts “See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!”
Only it was edited for TV: “See what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps”
Remember Die Hard with a Vengeance:
”Yippe Kay-yay Mr. Falcon”
...
Last.fm ‘Average Age Calculator’ →
The Average Age Calculator is a simple script that calculates the average age of any Last.fm user’s ‘neighbours’ (people who listen to similar music) or fans of any artist.
The average age of my neighbours is 21. I’m 19.
I suspect this is more a function of the average last.fm user’s age than anything else. The average age of my neighbors is also 21. I’m … not 19.
Dear Mr. Fantasy Big Sugar
From their 1995 album...
“If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t...”
– Dorothy Parker
“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
– George Bernard Shaw
In$truction manual
What if money had instructions on the back? Basic economic facts, wise slogans, etc? I think it would be useful.
An interesting idea, but the devil is in the details. What constitutes a basic economic fact or wise slogan? Such things aren’t formed ex nihilo, but rather must be agreed upon. Agreeing on things is not exactly the strong suit of economists.
Emerson has started smiling, but only in her sleep. Four weeks old and already her inner world is more entertaining than stark reality.
Unskilled and Unaware of It →
The original paper by Dunning and Kruger, the researchers behind the article that led to the Dilbert post that Marco quoted. I love that title. (Note: PDF file)
Note to CNN re Sarkozy’s wife: Professional photos of a supermodel can hardly be said to have “surfaced”.
“EMAIL is EFAIL. Pass it on.”
– Tantek Çelik
I CAN HAZ BETA INVITE TO SCRYBE? →
Scrybe is temporarily not accepting more direct beta invitation requests. Existing users can invite more users to Scrybe by sharing their Calendars, To-Do lists and Thoughtstreams.
I would love to have a beta invite. Is anyone in and willing to hook me up?
I don’t know if Marcy’s been hooked up yet, but I’d really like an invite, too.
“look at the air logs to see why the server crashed” - looks like Cert Mag needs a better transcription service. Not that I’m volunteering.
“In a world where people who make bad decisions are spared the full consequences,...”
– Does Bear Stearns Bailout Set a Bad Precedent? : NPR (also relevant to the sub-prime mortgage debacle. via Hit & Run)
Looks like I picked the wrong week to make peace with my soulless corporate job. Thxalot Paul, Bill http://xrl.us/bh92m http://xrl.us/bh92o
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23) →
Big Hello
The Nat King Cole Trio
Cecilia Noel and The Wild Clam
The Kleptones
Waldon Reed, Jr.
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Tip: Make Cancellation Easy
If you run an online service that charges monthly, you should always allow customers to immediately cancel their account through a simple web interface. There’s nothing more frustrating to potential customers than knowing they might be stuck in some sort of customer service hell trying to cancel a service they no longer want.
Also be sure to mention before they...
Equinox dieters’ tip: set that (non-balance) scale on top of Mount Chimborazo. Reduce g instead of m for a change. http://xrl.us/bh23m
Good Friday: Why Good?
And this isn’t called “sad Friday” or “bad Friday,” It’s Good Friday. Shouldn’t this be a bit disturbing?
I believe it’s simply an archaic use of “Good” as a synonym of “Holy”. Someone with stronger etymological chops than me (Richard, maybe?) can probably either back me up or shoot me down.
“The restrictiveness of big company jobs is particularly hard on programmers,...”
– Paul Graham — You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss (via shawnblog)
Turns out the “new” reading glasses are the same strength as the old. Psychosomatic motion sickness FTL.
“Then I saw what people are calling Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union” speech. I...”
– Mike Lee
Tumblr NCAA Bracket Competition →
mattlehrer:
Good luck! Please re-blog if you are entering.
Without a doubt, my most uninformed bracket picking ever. I’m in.
Reasons not to put comments on your tumblr blog:
People who read your blog from the dashboard will never comment.
Most people read your blog from the dashboard.
To non tumblr users your blog looks very unpopular. (Even though it might be.)
To me, these are the reasons not to have comment links and counts on your post list pages. I agree, yet I do have comments. I just keep them backstage,...
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile…in which case you’re *way* to distracted by that cell phone. Put it down.
“I’m the only person in America that couldn’t be bothered to hear or...”
– Hillary Clinton, on Obama’s More Perfect Union speech. (Paraphrased)
Beyond beyond beyond "Beyond embiggens and... →
Category: Recursive possesives Barney (speaking up after Lisa’s impassioned speech at the trial): Homer’s son’s sister is right! Fourth annual Simpsons linguistic joke collection (via Fritinancy)
what I learned at work today
With the exception of Fargo, no movie that takes place entirely in a snowy venue or even has the word “snow” in the title has ever done well at the box office.
I challenge the tumblr community to prove this statement wrong.
As long as everyone’s piling on, how about Misery? $61M gross with a $20M budget is almost as good a return as Fargo’s $24M with a $7M budget.
“I much prefer a potluck to a bar. I hate shouting to make myself heard. I will...”
– dalas verdugo
In between reading spec magnifications, so I have a choice of headaches (too weak) or motion sickness (too strong). Phase changes suck.
“There’s a huge lack of good, practical, useful financial advice for regular...”
– Marco.org Tumblelog: Personal finance… Here’s a good start, if you don’t already have it.(Not visible in Dashboard)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-16) →
Muse
Diamond Porn Queen
Prince
Pete Francis
Cannonball
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The likelihood of a web page placing focus in a text input on loading appears inversely proportional to the likelihood that I want it to.
Hey there, Frangry
Given the unknown level of fictionality of your very existence, I can’t know if your current medical saga is actually happening to a real live human being. If it is, you are rapidly approaching (if not past) the point where you should seek medical attention. If not, I don’t mind looking foolish with this post. Better than seeing someone die from ignoring something like this. Again.
Had to trick Lotus Notes 6.5 to check links in an email before sending. This thing’s FAIL knows no bounds. Epic? No. Fractal is more like it
Looks like neckbeards were seriously underrepresented at the Tumblr NYC meetup.