2008

Jul

GMail Hack Needed

Anybody know how to keep GMail from disclosing the outcome of the sporting event I recorded at home...
Jul 23rd
“When I was twenty, I was a totally different kind of...”
— Ben Karlin, field testing The...
Jul 16th
Listen Listen
Leotard’s gonna help you save faceWhen you just don’t wanna wanna wanna go to second...
Jul 13th

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.
Jul 11th

Technical Support Question

I’ve looked in the Apple troubleshooting section and haven’t had any luck so I thought...
Jul 9th
“Tens of thousands of years of inexorable evolutionary...”
— Brian Minter on strategies for...
Jul 7th

Jun

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:...
Jun 30th
When Little Jimmy said that the snail-racing scam both was foolproof and would avoid the threat of...
Jun 20th
“The economy is doomed, the price of everything is going up:...”
— From the Editors, The Morning...
Jun 18th
Jun 2nd
Jun 2nd
“If you have anything to take in a bottle, pass it around; a...”
— Stagecoach etiquette for...
Jun 2nd
—Stephanie Echols, “Scream”
Jun 1st

May

“I have to ask myself, can I explain it to my 11-year-old...”
— Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.),...
May 30th

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...
May 29th

Slogan Seeking Sleeveless Shirt

You’re not trash to me.
May 27th
“I can tell we live in a patriarchal society because in a...”
— Kevin Guilfoile, in Guilfoile...
May 23rd

Realty or Porn?

Phrases on yard signs in my neighborhood: I’m gorgeous inside! See my virtual tour online...
May 18th
Listen Listen
I know that for about 15 years, there was probably no one who wrote more great pop songs than you...
May 16th
Charles Grandison Finney “The structure of...
May 16th
May 15th
Listen Listen
—Robbie Robertson, “Breakin’ the Rules,” Storyville (1991); background vocals:...
May 13th
—Paul Massicott (Haddam-Killingworth High School,...
May 13th
Listen Listen
—David Byrne, “Desconocido Soy,” Look Into The Eyeball (2001); background vocals: Rubén...
May 12th

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?...
May 8th

Halfway There

At one point this afternoon, I was putting my nearly two-year-old daughter into the car without...
May 4th

Office Fridge Internal Temp Is 59•F

Party in the break room at 4 PM Salmonella provided 
May 2nd
Giuliano Ferri - Ahab and the whale Ferri’s entire...
May 2nd
Listen Listen
—Alison Moyet, “Find Me,” Hoodoo (1991); background vocals: George Chandler, Jimmy...
May 1st
“If you had 24 hours to live, a room with four walls, a chair...”
— Distorte, Is that...
May 1st

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.
May 1st

Apr

Listen Listen
—Don Henley, “I Will Not Go Quietly,” The End of the Innocence (1989); background...
Apr 30th
Warch Watch
—The Hosts, “Wake Up” The demo version of this song was one of my favorites of 2006, now...
Apr 29th
Listen Listen
—Marc Cohn, “She’s Becoming Gold,” The Rainy Season (1993); background vocals:...
Apr 29th
Listen Listen
—Rufus Wainwright and Chris Stills, “Harvest,” live on KCRW, 29 September 2003 An...
Apr 28th

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
Apr 25th
Listen Listen
—Peter Himmelman, “G-D Don’t Have To Teach You This Way,” From Strength to...
Apr 25th
Pointed Commentary and Jaunty Rhyme
Apr 25th

Nothing Says You're Hip

like that Huey Lewis & the News reference you used in the corporate newsletter to announce our...
Apr 23rd
Warch Watch
“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” by Andrew Fillippone, Jr. (via The...
Apr 22nd

Worst Mnemonic Device Ever?

Every Person That Curtseys Can Also Crochet A Shawl To Attract Courtiers
Apr 9th
—Oliver Weber, lakes region west from Oamaru, New...
Apr 8th

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.
Apr 7th

Mar

Nylabone Galileo “This nylon plastic bone-shaped chew...
Mar 31st
“The ticketing system currently indicates that there are no...”
— Boston Red Sox Ticketing...
Mar 27th
“Obama urges us not to reject [Jeremiah Wright’s] anger...”
— Mark Davis, “Obama...
Mar 25th
Warch Watch
Derren Brown on subliminal advertising (via Brogan & Partners)
Mar 25th
Billy Dodson, Giraffe and Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Ndutu...
Mar 20th
“I have to say, though, that Keira Knightley—once you...”
— Rob Davis, Errata: 2007 Year...
Mar 20th

Leveraging the Synergistic Business...

Fred managed our relationships with printers. (I forget his title. Like everyone else’s, it...
Mar 19th

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...
Mar 18th

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...
Mar 17th
Mister Rogers: What things are soporific for you?
G (whispering): When Daddy kisses me goodnight.
Mar 14th
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
Mar 14th

Editorial Note

When using the “Contains offensive language” warning, be sure to place it before the...
Mar 13th

My Favorite IM

So excited to get it two to three times a week.
Her: Hi.
Me:
Her:
Me:
Her:
Me:
Her:
Mar 13th
“It was much easier to spot satire in the days before the...”
— Kevin Guilfoile, Iweala v....
Mar 13th
—unknown, Barbara Sue Manire gravesite, Okemah, OK (via Find...
Mar 13th
“This machine is liquing.”
— Post-It Note on the...
Mar 13th
J Robert, untitled (“Matter of Time” by Richard Serra)
Mar 12th

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...
Mar 12th
Listen Listen
Suzanne Vega, “Book Of Dreams,” Days of Open Hand Kevin Fanning wrote: share a song by...
Mar 12th

The First Stelton Presentation, Part 1

Disclaimer: this was before my time and so the information is secondhand, thrice removed.Four years...
Mar 12th
“That one line…”some will win, some will...”
— ILikeGuamTheCountry on...
Mar 11th
How are there only five people clapping at...
Mar 11th
“Bush changed the way millions of white Americans think about...”
— Hendrik Hertzberg,...
Mar 11th
Room Eleven - Mmm…Gumbo Trying to decide how often I...
Mar 11th
Hair care product ad by Young & Rubicam (via Publication...
Mar 10th
“I saw Persepolis and I’m in love with it. The only...”
— McHan, “megadeth sez...
Mar 10th
Taking a joke the wrong way
Mar 10th

New Florida DOS Division of Elections...

Innovations in election botching
Mar 6th
SCAD1, “alta tensione”
Mar 6th
Taryn Simon, “Alhurra TV, Broadcast Studio...
Mar 3rd

Subjective vs. Estimated

When Vanessa walks out at the end of the day with that styrofoam cup in her hand, I worry. Even...
Mar 3rd

Khakis No Longer Uppity

Every silk twill tie Ray wore this week showed how excited he is about our new boss. Ray likes to...
Mar 2nd

Feb

“I’m not sure that the commander-in-chief proves his...”
— Michael Beirut, quoted by...
Feb 27th
Further adventures in bad acronyms
Feb 22nd
“Welcome to Obama for America Official site for the...”
— Google Search resultYou...
Feb 22nd
Peter Haakon Thompson, Blurry behind tree, Trondheim,...
Feb 22nd
“When you go out into the world, remember that you will...”
— Andrew Womack,...
Feb 22nd
Warch Watch
Adele - ‘Best for Last’ Live Not blown away by the album, but I am amazed by this song....
Feb 19th
Dan McCarthy,Gloaming
Feb 16th
_I Met The Walrus_ trailer
Feb 15th
“[M]aybe a good rule of thumb, when you have something...”
— Kevin Fanning, “I...
Feb 14th
Marcel van Eeden, 8 september 2005 [1534] (via Marcel van...
Feb 13th
They’ve mounted a plasma TV in the break room, so now there’s finally something at the...
Feb 13th
That shower head isn’t “low-flow,” it’s “broken.” Good thing I...
Feb 13th
Fjord to the Mutha.
Feb 12th

Function Nostalgia

Back in 1994, Lotus Notes v3 had a function I really liked: when you were scrolling through a long...
Feb 11th
“A new habit I have noticed, when I am explaining concepts...”
— Distorte, “Hand...
Feb 11th
Walking into Radio Shack always feels like stepping back in time a decade or more. But the effect is...
Feb 11th
“Conventional wisdom would suggest that boarding from the...”
— Jason H. Steffen,...
Feb 8th
“You’ll just have to see us to believe us. And you will not...”
— Todd Levin, “We Didn’t...
Feb 5th
“In a better world, people tell me, in theory, sure, having a...”
— Michael Chabon, “Obama...
Feb 4th

Jan

“The jingling of the [brass necklace?] around his neck is a...”
— Clara E. Whitcomb, 1899 (from...
Jan 28th
“If I could bottle my attitude, you could use it to strip...”
Jan 24th
Warch Watch
Lightspeed Champion, “Galaxy of the Lost,” from Falling Off the Lavender Bridge I dunno...
Jan 22nd
Nominee, Best Pet Name Ever
Jan 21st
Adrian Johnson, Slap Your Friends, 2005 from The Morning...
Jan 21st
“I wouldn’t say that I knew what to expect, but I knew...”
Jan 20th