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American Drink: Rules for My Born Son. And You.

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:52:42 -0400

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, 15, 20 years ago.

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com Tragic.

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:57:13 -0400

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Tragic.

" See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing."

Thu, 27 May 2010 18:14:16 -0400

“

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.

Best. Error Message. Ever. You’re kidding me, right? What...

Tue, 18 May 2010 12:08:00 -0400

Best. Error Message. Ever.

You’re kidding me, right? What you’re saying is, this:

A) You saved my document
B) You can’t re-open the document
C) To fix this, I should close and re-open the document

I think this means that the solution to my problem is precisely the problem itself. This seems like a trap.

note: Just in case you can’t read the awkwardly stout dialog it says “The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please close the document and try to open it again.”

"Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay them—but this fact is..."

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:02:29 -0400

“Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay them—but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this: “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that.””

- 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.

Colorful India - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:41:12 -0500

Colorful India - The Big Picture - Boston.com

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. (via Open...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:00:31 -0500

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 and perpetuating the industry belief that their current model doesn’t need to change or evolve. ..and the world goes ‘round.

"I actually joked about rotating the dishes because I didn’t want the dishes underneath, or in..."

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:42:43 -0500

“I actually joked about rotating the dishes because I didn’t want the dishes underneath, or in the back, to be lonely.”

- 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 that I maintain assuring that I don’t listen to an album twice without listening to a number of other albums as well (whether I like them or not). You can forget about listening to single songs altogether; It is album or nothing. Only recently have I allowed back catalog items to slip off the playlist (with significant internal justification and debate) and yet there is a dark almost dirty desire in the back of my mind to start at ‘a.k.a I-D-I-O-T’ and move all the way through to ‘Zero’. This would of course mean that I couldn’t purchase any albums for the 52.2 days iTunes asserts that it would take me to listen to the almost 1800 albums in my collection. I also have no idea where albums that employ numerals at the beginning of their title would fall in this system. Do I put them at the beginning or the end? Or perhaps where they would appear if the name were spelled out as opposed to being numeric.

The music thing is on the mild side of the spectrum. At the other end of things, I have crafted a very complicated system of dressing and even purchasing clothes such that they rotate in an asynchronous fashion constantly getting assembled in what seems arbitrary and yet is very very intentional. The majority of my clothes are monochromatic and of fairly neutral tones. Shoes are black or brown as are belts. Socks are gray or brown. Everything rotates in rows or stacks of varying quantity such that the odds of any outfit recurring in short order is very low. In fact, I would guess that it is on the scale of maybe annually. Again, this doesn’t take into account items that get washed and any new purchases adding additional variation into the system. I suppose that to someone not in my head, this would seem to be very chaotic and disorderly. In fact it is all very well ordered and strictly regulated. This system of creating what is essentially the anti-outfit is all crafted with the ultimate goal of assuring that no item is neglected or ignored for too long and that no single article of clothing gets more than its fair share of attention or wear.

At the end of the day, friend, rest assured that I think this is crazy. I have sacrificed a little bit of my sanity to the point of obsession, in order to save the feelings of inanimate objects. I have no idea if this is some kind of innate thing within humans, as others clearly share this odd behavior to some degree or another, but it is certainly some kind of disability or evolutionary disorder, one that is deeply ingrained within the psyche and which overcoming is a significant struggle on the scale of conquering alcoholism or smoking.

Animal Collective - Reverend Green (via dusterdb88) I have no...

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:12:38 -0500

Animal Collective - Reverend Green (via dusterdb88)

I have no idea why, but this has to be my favorite song ever in the history of the world right now. I love it when songs that I heard two, three, more years ago just drill their way into my brain and just stay there. I am now going to listen to it many many more times on repeat.

Amazon.com: Priva Waterproof Mealtime Protector, Blue Terry:...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:15:31 -0500

Amazon.com: Priva Waterproof Mealtime Protector, Blue Terry: Health & Personal Care

Sometimes I wish I had never looked at the “People who bought this also bought…” on Amazon.

pseudomeaningful: One Day to Live (via perfect-tragedy) No...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:28:55 -0500

pseudomeaningful:

One Day to Live (via perfect-tragedy)

No offense to whoever you wrote this about, but this is a stupid waste of your last day on earth. I can think of many other things you could do, most of which could involve the eyeball person, that wouldn’t feel like you were just sitting still, staring creepily until you dropped dead. You could go to the batting cages, or have a nice dinner, or you could play scrabble or make a pie. Basically, anything but literally standing still, staring at someone for 24 hours straight.

Free Shipping from Wine Library » Blog Archive » 2006...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:09:26 -0500

Free Shipping from Wine Library » Blog Archive » 2006 Merkin Chupacabra 750ML - Holy crap. Not only is there a Merkin (think: Fur Donut) Vineyards, but they have a Chupacabra blend. I have found my new house wine.

The nepotism in Brazillian football must be stopped. These...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:58:17 -0500

The nepotism in Brazillian football must be stopped. These ‘Silva’s can’t hope to compete with the Xavi’s of the world.

Grizzly Bear totally wins my band of the year award. Not,...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:03:40 -0500

Grizzly Bear totally wins my band of the year award. Not, necessarily, because I think Veckatimest was the best album of the year, but because it made me want to devour everything that they have ever done. It just feel slike I should have been listening to them all along. They are a band that you can simply hear in the background on repeat for hours or lock-in on rapt by the delicate yet overwhelming intricacy of their craft. To think, I totally missed them opening for Radiohead last summer. Probably would have made that my double-favorite show ever. Oh, and there was that whole Michael McDonald thing:

merlin:

alisonagosti:

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - When We Swam (via...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:38:16 -0500

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - When We Swam (via KillRockStars)

This would be my latest latest guilty pleasure. When I put one song on loop, I know I have a problem.

Oh, and I am so happy that it is so dorky.

"the spread of electronic commerce for everything from music to groceries is part of the increase in..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:53:45 -0500

“the spread of electronic commerce for everything from music to groceries is part of the increase in empty store fronts on shopping streets, leaving a series of Citi branches, ATT outlets, and Starbucks that repeat at regular intervals, like scenery in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Even when the current recession ends, it’s hard to imagine vibrant re-population of most of the empty commercial spaces, and it’s easy to imagine scenarios in which commercial districts suffer more: consolidation among pharmacy chains, an uptick in electronic banking, the end of our love affair with frozen yogurt, any of these could keep many street level spaces empty, whatever happens to the larger economy.”

- 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 be replaced. All the while, new structures and strip malls pop-up a block away, because it was that block that caused those businesses to fail.

"Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of..."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:33 -0500

“Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.”

- 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 they should have worked with a company that is actually capable of executing on this type of thing or even better left it to those companies to produce and design. This seems like the kind of thing TechCrunch is quite adept at pointing out to others.

Related Items So that thing on the left is a laptop stand that...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:56:32 -0500

It pains me to watch tv shows, movies, whatnot more than once. ...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:08:06 -0500

It pains me to watch tv shows, movies, whatnot more than once. It seems like I should be able to get it the first go around or it really wasn’t worth watching. Pretty sure I could watch the Wire on repeat for eternity.

merlin:

THE WIRE - 100 Greatest Quotes

Music.

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via yepyep.gibbs12.com for the trifecta.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:12:07 -0500

via yepyep.gibbs12.com for the trifecta.