May 2012
2 posts
E: Why does it say my colon cancer screening is up to date? No one's ever taken a stool sample or looked at my butt.
J: You're not old enough.
E: I'm not old enough to have things growing in my butt?
God damn it Tumblr stop fucking up
Tumblr refuses to post this image for some reason, so I’m resorting to HTML:
=D
From Reddit.
April 2012
6 posts
D: You know, start with a bang.
E: Why can't we do that now?
D: That's later. Right now we're meeting T.
E: Why can't we do that now?
D: Oh you.
A: I finally sit down to finish my taxes and now everyone IMs me.
E: And therefore you're solving it by IMing me?
Dating Manual →
Or, “How to get your game on like it’s 1185 with a middle class lady”.
Ending: burn!
iMessage and instant messages deserve different... →
Oh god yes: iMessage vs IM vs text. A well written exposition that exactly mirrors my feelings, and articulates the unease I feel about the whole system.
From Macworld via DF.
March 2012
11 posts
The Digital↔Physical: On building Flipboard for... →
Beautiful. DF.
A: Have you ever played Cards Against Humanity? There's a game tonight at my friend's place in the Haight if you're interested.
E: I would, but I promised someone I'd help them out with JavaScript tonight.
A: Hahaha. The Silicon Valley equivalent of washing your hair. =D
New Hobby →
I got “Everybody Touch”.
John Crotteau on The Moth →
Starts arond 6:40. What happens when you try to steal a pen from CVS. I love it.
(Weirdly, I can’t find this story on The Moth’s website anywhere.)
The Briefcase Technique →
All I could think about when I watched this video was its application to dating:
“Well, it was a pleasure to meet you. Would you like to get dinner again some time?”
“Oh actually, before we get to that, let me just show you something I put together. [reaches in purse, pulls out printed 3 page proposal document] Here’s a list of things I found out about you while Google...
The Incident Report. Or, The Time I Broke It →
Read it all the way through. Via Longform.
“The Tablet P’s most glaring flaw is its main point of differentiation:...”
– Oh, Gizmodo. Sony Tablet P Review, via Daring Fireball.
Curator's Code →
Saw this pop up in multiple places, didn’t actually read it until Marco Arment’s discussion of it.
I vehemently disagree with their definitions. “Via” means “by way of”, as in “indirectly through”, but they’re redefining it to mean “original source”. That’s wrong. You don’t get things via their source, you get them...
“‘Come down for the evening,’ he’d said when he called one night around that...”
– The Afterlife of Intimacy, by Alastair Gee
Buying This Thing Will Make Me Happy. →
I like them, but I don't believe in their idea enough to make it a full time thing. I just want to do it part time as a distraction. And I'm not going to quit my job over it.
Yeah, well, that's how it always starts. Nothing serious and then it turns into a thing.
Are we still talking about startups here or are we back to relationships?
February 2012
13 posts
L: I want McDonald's.
E: You should go for it. We're adults now, and if that means we want candy and cupcakes for dinner, there's no one there to tell us no.
L: Are you happy with your life?
E: Yes. I enjoy my job, I enjoy my side project, I'm healthy, I don't have to worry about money, I'm attractive, and I live in a valley full of lonely single guys.
L: I feel like you should aim higher than lonely single guys.
E: What's higher than that? ...happily married guys?
Conversations I can have with DJ
Me: I need to muck around with nginx config files to restructure our git repo and I don't have root =(
DJ: Can you do local config overrides? And what's up with you and [that boy]? And did you take care of [that girl with the drama and the things]?
Me: Nope, I don't have nginx installed locally and all the dev stuff happens on the server anyway. I don't think anything is happening with me and [that boy]. I haven't talked to [that girl] in like a week.
Nerdy and girly in the same breath. ♥
“…refuse to sleep alone for two weeks. Lure friends over and realize that...”
– The Lifespan of a Lesbian Heartbreak. Works the same for straight heartbreak.
Barbie is a Product of Her Environment →
Fascinated by the utter girliness of it all.
Dater’s Index →
I can’t look away.
The 27 Levels of Compatibility I’m Looking For →
Oh, McSweeney’s. <3
Also, hearts to Zite for finding this article.
“Reading is that heroic and dignified effort of the raccoon resisting the shiny...”
– I contemplated the irony of posting this on Twitter.
Listening to Books.
“That’s how it starts, an affair with a woman you already know: First you...”
– 46 Women Who Were Not My Wife
23 Apr 98 →
After six years of being sexually active, I’m still not sure if I’ve ever given a woman an orgasm.
Oh god women terrify me. 23 Apr 98 by Ftrain.com.
January 2012
7 posts
Someone
It must have been second nature to him, this veering attention. But for her it was both devastating and thrilling, so that by the time they’d finished their sodas and slipped from their stools she was unsteady on her feet from the dizzying turns that her hopes, her heart, had been taking. Her pumps caught, somehow, against his built-up shoe, and in the tangle as she fell into him he slipped...
“…but what kept with me was the statement, “I’m just really stupid.”...”
– Colgate Money Shot by Paul Ford.
“Negotiations with the carriers:
Android handset makers: Here are our phones....”
– From Daring Fireball.
Don't be a dick during meals with friends
lil-b:
Introducing our new game called:
“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
Rules:
1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.
2) Everybody places their phone on the table face...
December 2011
2 posts
Sunrise →
It’s hard to breathe or feel much of anything when the world is so large and you are literally above it all.
An Allegory of Two Valleys →
I think I found someone new to read daily.
November 2011
2 posts
20111125 →
Today I had planned on staying in bed, watching TV shows, and generally being a vegetable. But then M said he was going to go out and get some stroopwafel. After I found out what it was, I decided…
“I’ve thought of her every day since, one of the most wonderful things...”
– “We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts”.
I read good writing so rarely these days. Words that arouse an indescribable ecstacy. I have fleeting fantasies of pursuing a different life, but it always comes back to this: the best of all possible worlds...
“She does interesting things with her hair. She pulls it back and sets it with...”
– I want to put my hands there too (idea), the first thing that C ever sent me from e2. The first that meant anything, anyway.
Written January 20, 2001.
Sent June 25, 2004.
Last viewed December 19, 2008.
I am thinking of Don Draper’s pitch to Kodak at the end of Season 1. “A twinge...
October 2011
10 posts
Lindy West's Guide to Sex and Dating
How to Get with a Girl if You Are a Boy
Here’s the main thing: Don’t be creepy. Girls can smell your weird, insecure, predatory creepin’ from a mile away (hint: It smells like DiGiorno and Axe body spray!). Groom yourself, don’t try too hard, don’t use pick-up lines, don’t stare, and try to visibly have fun. People (women are people!) like to be around people...
Keeping Up
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. A gorilla pleasures himself while eating a head of iceberg lettuce, and it’s much more entertaining than the forty-something-year-old man who dashes around talking to himself. For me, that talk is always the same, a rehearsal of my farewell speech:...
This American Life - Episode 279: Auto Show - Act... →
It’s exactly like speed cubing.
“I’ve been to a couple of these now and I’m always stuck with the same question: why? Why oh why oh why? It’s not prize money - there’s hardly any in it. And it’s not women - there aren’t any at these things. There aren’t even spectators, unless you count other competitors, plus the few glum relatives who...
