April 2008
“It’s living up to being happy that’s the difficult part.”
– Audrey Niffenegger
Sorry about that, cleaning lady, but in a post-iPod world you really need a better strategy than “knock lightly, then charge in”.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
Huffamoose
Todd Rundgren
Guns N’ Roses
Boston
OKC Metro Works
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
No One Is To Blame
Howard Jones Joe...
“There’s never been a better time than now to buy or sell a home in Tulsa”
– The Greater Tulsa Association of REALTORS® have apparently suspended reality. It’s both a buyer’s market and a sellers’ market!
Tautologies for Work Sanity
For quite a while, I’ve used the phrase “All I can do is all I can do” to remind myself (and occasionally others) that we each have a finite capacity for production and that getting stressed over that fact is pointless.
Yesterday I realized there’s another tautology that can help when dealing with an overwhelming to-do list.
If it doesn’t have to be done today, it...
Baby’s swing repurposed as “incredibly fancy chair” after inducing motion sickness in all family members, except baby, who saw it in action.
Internet commenters consistently tell me that I’m an idiot, I’m a moron, I suck, I can’t write, I suck at my job, I should be fired, and I’m a loser.
They’re internet commenters. That’s what they do.
You should see some of the “feedback” I’ve received for having the nerve to post a simple voluntary code for posting on the web. Actually, you shouldn’t—and...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
Eve Selis
Pink Floyd
moe.
Karen Ires
London Symphony Orchestra
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Playing around with Emacs org-mode, because learning to use an organizational tool is so much more fun than actually getting organized.
Fake Shemp →
AKA: Shemp
Anyone appearing on screen whose face is not seen (either because of heavy makeup or camera angles) and who has no lines; can include stand-ins and extras. The term originated with Sam Raimi and his colleagues, who borrowed it from Hollywood lore about a stand-in used to finish Three Stooges films after Shemp Howard’s death.
My new favorite fake scam email company: Solenoids Industrial Co, Ltd. It sounds so Jetsons.
“I think the lesson is clear: if you want to make interesting technology, be an...”
– Buzz Andersen
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of...”
– Thomas Jefferson
stereotypical tumblr user checklist
I, toldorknown …
use a mac: 17” Powerbook G4 purchased three months before the Macbook was introduced. Doh! (I also use various flavors of Linux, Unix and Windows)
are twenty something: Yes, for a very large value of “something”
take polaroids: nope, but digital’s more fun anyway
live in nyc: no
wish you lived in nyc: no, but I wouldn’t mind if it was more...
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 touristy, artsy craftsy place nestled (an oft misused word, but actually true of this town) in the Ozark Mountains. Not long after arriving at our cabin, we caught the trolley into town to do a little walking around (most people shop, but that’s not really our thing). The summer sun was shining...
Elvis Was A Narc
Pinkard and...
OK. The Tyler Durden mix of This Is Your Life wasn’t the way to get stoked for the meeting. Can we just focus on stopping the bleeding now?
“When a few days extra turns into a few weeks extra then there’s a problem, but...”
– Urgency is poisonous - (37signals) (via Bill Israel)
Anonymously trolling my post against anonymous trolling? Meta-larious!!1! Sure didn’t see that one coming. You, sir or madam, have bested me
“Male hourly wages began to drop in the early 1970s, adjusted for inflation. The...”
– Robert Reich (Go read the whole thing. This is just a representative quote)
Dear twitter-follow-spammer: What’s the business model? I’m already annoying, so if you tell me how to monetize that, I’ll be good to go.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13) →
Eve Selis
Emmylou Harris
Aimee Mann
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
The Kleptones
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
CBTs titled Web Development Fundamentals need expiration dates. Heavy use of <font> in examples. Half-expected <blink> coverage.
4/10 - first anniversary of http://asimplecode.com. 4/12 - visited more times than in entire first year. Thanks, whoever stumbleupon’d it.
If anyone else needs to feed their betaddiction, I’ve got a few Evernote beta invites to give away. http://evernote.com
CNN Compassion Forum == won’t be needing any Lunesta this evening.
“We’ve purged every permanent marker there is in this building”
– Harris Park Elementary School Principal Chris Benisch’s response, along with suspending the student, to a third grader smelling a Sharpie™. (via Heather Rivers)
Don’t think there’s a Sunday afternoon pastime better than kicking back in the recliner with a baby sleeping on your chest. </sappydadpost>
Tumblr Show Follower Count →
Shows Follower count and links to Followers instead of Followed in Tumblr Dashboard. (updated for latest Dashboard)
WatchRock Band Traffic. Streeter had this idea, and we gave it to our visual effects team, Ghostlight, to create. It isn’t funny, but my god is it cool.
Sweet.
“large public universities tend to attract people just looking for the easiest...”
– Chris Fetherston
Tumblr v3 Follow Mode – Userscripts.org →
Patched for new Dashboard layout.