January 2012
6 posts
“…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...
September 2011
5 posts
WatchLesbian speed dating. This video encompasses everything I know about lesbians.
August 2011
3 posts
Eye-Tracking Study Shows Huge Similarities Between... →
You know how else I know there’s huge similarities between Google+ and Facebook? By looking at it. With my eyes. No study needed.
Google+ is a cheap Facebook knockoff. They copied the overall layout and design and uglied up the pixels. How is it news that they have the same eye fixation patterns?
July 2011
3 posts
One iOS user for every two Windows 7 users
Daring Fireball pointed out today that Microsoft has sold 400 million licenses of Windows 7. Apple mentioned a few days ago that they’re at 200 million iOS users. That’s one iOS user for every two Windows 7 users worldwide.
Of course the comparison makes no sense for a variety of reasons - one’s a desktop OS; one’s a mobile OS. One’s been out for 2 years;...
Woods+ →
By Paul Ford, via Hacker News.
I kind of heart Ftrain now. Paul Ford is quickly rocketing up my list of favorite writers, along with Joyce Carol Oates, John Gruber, and Joey Comeau.
Yes! →
From The Omni Group via Daniel Jalkut.
June 2011
7 posts
“Google: Thanks for looking at 100s of ads you hate.
Apple: Thanks for buying...”
– From hotdogsladies via Daring Fireball.
Keith Haring: Double Retrospect - 32,000 piece... →
Oh my god this puzzle is 32,256 pieces and ridiculous and I WANT IT. From the description: “…and is supplied with its own trolley.” It’s a puzzle that comes with a trolley as an accessory. To cart it around. Because it weighs 17kg. Who the fuck measures puzzles in kilograms? This is amazing.
Damn it! Why is life hard? I'm a girl, I'm hot, I work in the valley, and I'm smart at computers. Why do I not have like 10 boyfriends right now?
You did! You just dumped them all!
Oh yeah.
G: So I'm seeing this girl that has a boyfriend, but she's been pursuing me pretty hard.
E: It takes two to cheat!
L: ...it takes three to cheat.
May 2011
7 posts
"So you've been to orgies, right?"
"Orgy. I've been to one orgy."
Apple vs. Google ads: What are they selling? →
“Apple wants to sell you shiny things to make money… Google wants your data so they can sell it (aggregated and anonymized, of course) to others to make money.”
Exactly. You can make a product so good that people will pay you money to use it, or you can make a product that’s just good enough that people will use it for free. Guess which approach leads to better products.
How Miranda July, Richard Kern, and Agnès B. First... →
I like the second one.
Although the ad I’m getting next to it is kind of weirding me out: one of these people is not like in the other. In that he dated my old roommate. And now he’s staring at me while I read about how people lost their virginities.
Personal hotspot →
I’ve had tethering on my iPhone for almost a month now. It’s actually a lot better and a lot worse than I thought it would be. I thought reception would be kind of horrific, and it’s merely rather…
April 2011
7 posts
this is math →
A beat, and a gasp of air. I’ve been drowning in the valley for how long now? How long since I’ve read real writing? Writing for the sake of words. Wiriting for the sake of beauty. Writing that touches something deep inside you and reminds you: This is a world of endless possibility.
None of this masturbatory crap about Haskell and VC and whose service is full of fail today.
Ottawan - Hands Up (A&F remix) →
GIMME GIMME YOUR HEART
I heard this in the store the other day and it’s wormed its way into the very depths of my brain. And the crappy Flash player on their website is the only place that has it. And they switch up their playlist every month. So the only solution is to listen to this song on endless repeat until I’m completely sick of it, and then never think about it again.
I get...