May 2012
11 posts
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“I’m not going to date you, but I’ll make out with you drunk at a...”
– Brunch at thistle hill tavern.
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“Companies die from not being eaten by their competitors, but from self-inflicted...”
– Drew Houston, Dropbox (via sequoiacapital)
I put this quote on a slide at today’s foursquare company meeting. This is the last thing any startup founder wants to be associated with. And I feel that being self-aware, honest and transparent as a company, with everyone in the company - and letting...
April 2012
11 posts
some guy is ranting on his cell outside my...
it's fucking goddamn easier to go to jail and murder someone than it is to get a goddamn fucking divorce.
clientsfromhell:
Client: Yeah, we’re not paying for this.
Me: Why not? I’ve spent three weeks on this.
Client: Because we can just use the sample you sent us. Think ahead next time.
Me: But it has the words ‘sample’ across it and it’s four times too small.
Client: Ah. Crap. We need you to send us the final version then.
Me: After I receive payment, sure.
Client: Is that really necessary?
Planet Earth screening outside in Manhattan
caterpillarcowboy:
sallydoodle:
jkottke:
Rooftop Films is screening the first episode of Planet Earth (the Attenborough-narrated version) outside along the East River this Saturday, followed by the premiere of The Making of Planet Earth. Check here for times, location, etc.
What a fantastic idea!
Going. Also, the day after my birthday (this Friday!)
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March 2012
9 posts
Attn New Yorkers::
antikris:
Please join me in boycotting Nowhere Bar in the East Village. My friend was sexually assaulted last night by an employee there. Charges are being filed, but the bar is backing this employee’s behavior.
Dude’s statement to police “she fell on my hand”
DISGUSTING
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Michael Bay will fix the implausibility of Teenage...
Michael Bay has time and again demonstrated that there is no story so set in stone that it cannot be blasted out like blaaaaaaaam, then remade to suit a revised, more contemporary interpretation like kaboooooom. And as reported by Stuff We Like, Bay’s willingness to reshape Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bows to no canonical authority—not even that inherent in its title—as Bay recently announced...
Please Stop Apologizing
THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology doesn’t make any difference, but then again, neither does Newt Gingrich.
Mr. De Niro was speaking at a fund-raiser with the first lady, Michelle Obama. Here’s the joke: “Callista Gingrich. Karen...
Caterpillar Cowboy: A Response to Julia Allison's... →
katespencer:
[Warning: TLDR]
Tonight on Twitter I stumbled upon Julia Allison’s NY Post op-ed titled “A warning to a new generation of women — don’t let ‘Sex and the City’ ruin your life.” (Co-written with her friend Julia Price.) At first I was like “huh,” and then I skimmed it and was…
“There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single...”
– Penn Jillette (via youmightfindyourself)
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said to a professional mover
“be careful with the wine glasses”
“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via whatisstoppingyou)
February 2012
13 posts
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Privilege: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
BOOM.
(via theoceanandthesky)
So we're all just going to ignore the fact that... →
caterpillarcowboy:
texnessa:
producermatthew:
Just wanted to be clear, since, you know, we’re firing ESPN headline writers for being insensitive and criticizing ESPN anchors for using the word during play-by-play.
At what point do we draw the line between “acceptable use” and “unacceptable use?” Do we further divide people by saying it’s okay for some people to use the word, while barring...
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Florida... →
motherjones:
The Florida state legislature sparked controversy recently when it struck down a bill that would have allowed U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rate like all other Florida residents.
Lawmakers voted to kill the bill despite emotional testimonies from several…
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I’m going to Korea in April for ultimate and a fairly long vacation with some people I really miss from Boise and I’m excited to see them.
But you're just trouble: I am an atheist →
iaregeri:
I haven’t always been an atheist, but I also have never really been religious.
Growing up in a country torn apart by political and religious conflict has done nothing to endear religion to me.
I’ve seen a lot of that horrible, violent, intolerant side, which unfortunately is all too common…
“People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad, but paying $900 for a drug they...”
– Rick Santorum, speaking to the mother of a young boy in Colorado about the free market and prescription drug prices. She told Santorum her son’s medication could cost up to $1 million per year.
One drug her son is taking is Abilify, which is used in children to treat schizophrenia; aggression...
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January 2012
6 posts
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Also, how good is pizza?
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Finally
After years of prodding from friends and family I’m finally (with a ton of help) going to start a cooking blog.
For a while it’ll just be old pictures of delicious food I’ve made. Then hopefully more detailed descriptions of the food and how to make it. My good friend @keniehuber is a very talented video producer and we’re going to make some videos of me cooking....
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Douglas Coupland on coincidence and déja vu →
youmightfindyourself:
I take comfort in the fact that there are two human moments that seem to be doled out equally and democratically within the human condition—and that there is no satisfying ultimate explanation for either. One is coincidence, the other is déja vu. It doesn’t matter if you’re Queen Elizabeth, one of the thirty-three miners rescued in Chile, a South Korean housewife or a...
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Drake's Diary: Sixteen Stylish Maxims for the New... →
drakes-london:
Style and taste are a particular sort of intelligence, and vice versa.
Aesthetic judgments rarely transcend the culture of the judge.
The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Which is why Fashion is shallow, but taste is deep.
There’s no right or wrong about style. Like a poem, it...