2008

GMail Hack Needed

Anybody know how to keep GMail from disclosing the outcome of the sporting event I recorded at home...

“When I was twenty, I was a totally different kind of...”
— Ben Karlin, field testing The...

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Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends

M: http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
M: I liked watching Texas hold off the invasion, until I realized they just didn't have the data entered into the database properly.
H: That’s some scary stuff.
H: Except for I need to go to Walmart today and pick something up. Thank goodness there’s one close by.

Technical Support Question

I’ve looked in the Apple troubleshooting section and haven’t had any luck so I thought...

“Tens of thousands of years of inexorable evolutionary...”
— Brian Minter on strategies for...

New Incentive to Buy Monthly Pass

Number of ticket vending machines at the light-rail station I use: 6 Number that are out of order:...

When Little Jimmy said that the snail-racing scam both was foolproof and would avoid the threat of...

“The economy is doomed, the price of everything is going up:...”
— From the Editors, The Morning...

“If you have anything to take in a bottle, pass it around; a...”
— Stagecoach etiquette for...

—Stephanie Echols, “Scream”

“I have to ask myself, can I explain it to my 11-year-old...”
— Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.),...

Dear Liza, Dear Liza

Just got back to my desk and saw on the caller ID that the HR manager tried to call me. He also sent...

Slogan Seeking Sleeveless Shirt

You’re not trash to me.

“I can tell we live in a patriarchal society because in a...”
— Kevin Guilfoile, in Guilfoile...

Realty or Porn?

Phrases on yard signs in my neighborhood: I’m gorgeous inside! See my virtual tour online...

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Charles Grandison Finney “The structure of...

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—Paul Massicott (Haddam-Killingworth High School,...

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I Wanna Do Right But Not Right Now

kfan: “Look at Miss Ohio” by Gillian Welch For realz. You guys know about this song, right?...

Halfway There

At one point this afternoon, I was putting my nearly two-year-old daughter into the car without...

Office Fridge Internal Temp Is 59•F

Party in the break room at 4 PM Salmonella provided 

Giuliano Ferri - Ahab and the whale Ferri’s entire...

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“If you had 24 hours to live, a room with four walls, a chair...”
— Distorte, Is that...

Coworker Intimidation

R: I have noticed that she treats us like we have dengue fever. She's a skerred of us.
M: wouldn't you be? if i walked into a room with scorsese, spielberg, and soderbergh with a question about taking a polaroid picture, i'd be a little worried about how it would go down.

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Stephan Pyles Restaurant

X: we went there the other afternoon and r was with us
X: she asked: now, who is the chef here?
Me: think about mcdonald's
Me: ronald isn't actually the chef

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Pointed Commentary and Jaunty Rhyme

Nothing Says You're Hip

like that Huey Lewis & the News reference you used in the corporate newsletter to announce our...

Worst Mnemonic Device Ever?

Every Person That Curtseys Can Also Crochet A Shawl To Attract Courtiers

—Oliver Weber, lakes region west from Oamaru, New...

I Don't Normally Call in Sick to Consume...

but it also isn’t every day that includes the DVD release of Matlock: Season 1.

Nylabone Galileo “This nylon plastic bone-shaped chew...

“The ticketing system currently indicates that there are no...”
— Boston Red Sox Ticketing...

“Obama urges us not to reject [Jeremiah Wright’s] anger...”
— Mark Davis, “Obama...

Billy Dodson, Giraffe and Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Ndutu...

“I have to say, though, that Keira Knightley—once you...”
— Rob Davis, Errata: 2007 Year...

Leveraging the Synergistic Business...

Fred managed our relationships with printers. (I forget his title. Like everyone else’s, it...

I Don't Want to Jinx It

but I think I may get published on my favorite website. At least, Digg made it sound like my comment...

Lines from Songs My Four-Year-Old Likes

but that if I were a better parent, I wouldn’t let him listen to: You want to know if...

Mister Rogers: What things are soporific for you?
G (whispering): When Daddy kisses me goodnight.

J: this is from an av club interview with alex cox:
J: "Is it hard to rectify what punk stands for and also make movies that cost a lot of money?"
J: do you think he means reconcile?
M: prolly, although maybe the guy from the onion thinks that Alex Cox has the difficult job of fixing what's wrong with punk and making movies at the same time.
J: but WHAT'S WRONG WITH PUNK?
M: "yeah, i mean, i gotta go out and tell everyone that Green Day isn't really punk and then i gotta police the ethical manufacturing of stud collars—all while i'm trying to set up the next shot. it takes a village, man."
J: uneasy lies the head that wears the mohawk

Editorial Note

When using the “Contains offensive language” warning, be sure to place it before the...

My Favorite IM

So excited to get it two to three times a week.
Her: Hi.
Me:
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“It was much easier to spot satire in the days before the...”
— Kevin Guilfoile, Iweala v....

—unknown, Barbara Sue Manire gravesite, Okemah, OK (via Find...

“This machine is liquing.”
— Post-It Note on the...

J Robert, untitled (“Matter of Time” by Richard Serra)

Okay, "Netflix New Releases This Week"...

I get it. You really, really want me to rent L.A. Confidential. But sending me the same 100 movie...

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The First Stelton Presentation, Part 1

Disclaimer: this was before my time and so the information is secondhand, thrice removed.Four years...

“That one line…”some will win, some will...”
— ILikeGuamTheCountry on...

How are there only five people clapping at...

“Bush changed the way millions of white Americans think about...”
— Hendrik Hertzberg,...

Room Eleven - Mmm…Gumbo Trying to decide how often I...

Hair care product ad by Young & Rubicam (via Publication...

“I saw Persepolis and I’m in love with it. The only...”
— McHan, “megadeth sez...

Taking a joke the wrong way

New Florida DOS Division of Elections...

Innovations in election botching

SCAD1, “alta tensione”

Taryn Simon, “Alhurra TV, Broadcast Studio...

Subjective vs. Estimated

When Vanessa walks out at the end of the day with that styrofoam cup in her hand, I worry. Even...

Khakis No Longer Uppity

Every silk twill tie Ray wore this week showed how excited he is about our new boss. Ray likes to...

“I’m not sure that the commander-in-chief proves his...”
— Michael Beirut, quoted by...

Further adventures in bad acronyms

“Welcome to Obama for America Official site for the...”
— Google Search resultYou...

Peter Haakon Thompson, Blurry behind tree, Trondheim,...

“When you go out into the world, remember that you will...”
— Andrew Womack,...

Dan McCarthy,Gloaming

_I Met The Walrus_ trailer

“[M]aybe a good rule of thumb, when you have something...”
— Kevin Fanning, “I...

Marcel van Eeden, 8 september 2005 [1534] (via Marcel van...

They’ve mounted a plasma TV in the break room, so now there’s finally something at the...

That shower head isn’t “low-flow,” it’s “broken.” Good thing I...

Fjord to the Mutha.

Function Nostalgia

Back in 1994, Lotus Notes v3 had a function I really liked: when you were scrolling through a long...

“A new habit I have noticed, when I am explaining concepts...”
— Distorte, “Hand...

Walking into Radio Shack always feels like stepping back in time a decade or more. But the effect is...

“Conventional wisdom would suggest that boarding from the...”
— Jason H. Steffen,...

“You’ll just have to see us to believe us. And you will not...”
— Todd Levin, “We Didn’t...

“In a better world, people tell me, in theory, sure, having a...”
— Michael Chabon, “Obama...

“The jingling of the [brass necklace?] around his neck is a...”
— Clara E. Whitcomb, 1899 (from...

“If I could bottle my attitude, you could use it to strip...”

Nominee, Best Pet Name Ever

Adrian Johnson, Slap Your Friends, 2005 from The Morning...

“I wouldn’t say that I knew what to expect, but I knew...”