June 2010
2 posts
American Drink: Rules for My Born Son. And You. →
1) Be polite and smile your brains out, but let the bartender flirt first. Always provide a number, never ask for one. 2) Decide what you will order on the drive to the bar. Eye contact is key, never wave money to get attention. 3) Vodka and Coke? That better be a joke. 4) If a song is longer…
As a rule, I dislike Internet lists. This list of rules trumps that rule. Wish I had this 10,...
May 2010
2 posts
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See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.”
– Ninja Bear Spins Tree Branch is Today’s BIG Thing - MAY 27, 2010
Man it pisses me off when stupid animals can do badass shit that I cannot.
April 2010
1 post
“Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay...”
– Clay Shirky
It’s like Clay gets in our heads, takes the stuff we know, but don’t know we know, and then turns around and makes us know it. Damn, that dude gets it.
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
4 posts
Watch
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
(via Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go)
The good people of OK Go explain the music industry and why you can’t embed their YouTube videos. Aside from making good music and - as stated above - being good people, this kind of stuff really makes me want to buy their album, but then I wind up giving more money to their label than to the band...
“I actually joked about rotating the dishes because I didn’t want the...”
– greg.org: the making of: On Rotating The Dishes (via Kottke)
This mindset - wherein items owned may feel lonely or neglected because of favoritism toward other items or out of mere convenience - is the bane of my existence. It affects many many parts of my life from the simple list that of albums...
December 2009
6 posts
“the spread of electronic commerce for everything from music to groceries is part...”
– Clay Shirky
The plague of empty commercial spaces in Indianapolis is a testament to our cavalier attitude towards our seemingly endless local geography. It is sickening to see every empty retail spot that isn’t sitting empty be filled by the banking industry that itself is waning and due to...
November 2009
9 posts
“Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying...”
– The End Of The CrunchPad
Nice analogy. Except the Apple is an actual computing product design and production company and near as I can tell TechCrunch is a blog. At the end of the day, they produced exactly what they should have: a lot of hype and overexposure, but alas no final product. Perhaps...
1 tag
October 2009
11 posts
“Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. (via Kottke)
Windows 7 FAQ...or Else
What happened to the Quick Launch toolbar?
Can I recover files that I have accidentally deleted?
How were quartz crystals used for healing in Atlantis?
How do I open a file if I get an access denied message?
How should I cook my wild boar meat?
What’s the difference between sleep, hibernate, and hybrid sleep?
IT HAS BEEN QUITE A WHILE SINCE YOU LAST ATE HARD-BOILED EGGS IN...
Dear The Spider Who Lives On My Car
fireland:
Why did you decide to live on a car? To make your web? We have a garage and eaves and whatnot seriously like six feet away and there’s plenty of space for spiders to hang out there and just do their thing. Other spiders have done this successfully. But instead you decide to “kick it” in my side mirror and make webs all over the driver’s side door. And so a) your whole construction gets...
September 2009
5 posts
10 Things The Cranky Product Manager Has Learned... →
Pretty much nails my previous experience as a product manager. Which is a thankless job that for some reason everyone wants to do. Oh, and God forbid you want to actually interface with a customer. I mean those people know <i>nothing!!!</i>
Watch“I have a girlfriend…she looks a little bit like you…and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter.”
August 2009
2 posts
Daring Fireball: So Dan Lyons Called →
Gruber turns the tables on Fake Steve. Awesome. Just Awesome.
The Ass Pennies
My friend Chris introduced me to the concept of the ass penny on the first day that we worked together. Come to think of it, he always did seem to have some kind of unfounded superiority complex. You really don’t want to touch most of the stuff that has been in Chris’s possession. I am not suggesting that he sticks stuff in is posterior, but there is a good likelihood that it has...
July 2009
2 posts
911 call from baby and other adventures →
Quaint and yet awesome small town newspaper recounting of police dispatch.
June 2009
1 post
“Whether it’s Robert Caro on LBJ, or What to Expect When You’re...”
– This Is Your Wake-up Call: 12 Steps to Better Book Publishing - 4/20/2009 - Publishers Weekly
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
2 posts
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
February 2009
2 posts
WatchJust thinking about this makes me laugh to the point of crying. I am five.