August 2008
92 posts
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve intermittently gotten the black screen of death, and earlier today the first 5 of my function keys temporarily stopped working, until I restarted after 3 failed attempts as Mail refused to let me restart. My warranty expired not 15 days ago. Were you to peek into my boudoir over the past few days, you might see a little angry German kid coming out.
And just as we waited for the headline "Biden: His...
soupsoup:
frangry:
theoriginaljoefisher:
We shall now wait for the headline “Palin: In Comparison”. -Joe Fisher
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Well if this isn't the best animated gif I've ever... →
jstn:
Peter Baker: now they need one of mccain and romney and bush spraying each other with gasoline
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Best. Cha. Cha. Answer. EVAR.
paulwathen:
You’re welcome, Mike. The internet loves you.
Is ChaCha-ing yourself the new Googling yourself?
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Just bought a ticket for the New York Mag 40th anniversary party. Are you going?
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“I asked some of my acquaintances, people I know only casually, if with their permission and under their supervision I could break into their online banking accounts.”
Interesting article on breaking into online bank accounts using nothing more than Google.
it's coming
birthday. birthday? birthday!
hannahfidell:
a new kind of doctor
i’m very intrigued by his business model.
I’m guessing Hannah saw this from the Block Magazine site (from this post), and I was mildly intrigued by it, until I visited his site, and now it’s kind of a full-blown fascination. I should probably meet the Hipster Doctor, if only for this, taken from Jay Parkinson’s site:
Talking on the phone is so out
“Text your location to 767222 at anytime, 24/7, and SMS Cab will respond to your request within three minutes on the status of your car. You’ll receive your driver’s information, including car number and cellphone. You will be sent a text message when your driver has arrived.” (via, third item)
(Williamsburg-only right now, but all of Brooklyn by summer’s end)
“Word. Book your reservations right now. Vancouver is the bomb.”
– Commentator after a video montage for the winter Olympics.
Discovery - Osaka Loop Line 2008
Claymation Velociraptor - Raptor Love
Just a tiny...
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In which I avoid the word altogether
The other night at Tasti D-Lite (I was buying gelato, fool), the counter-guy made fun of me for pronouncing it “ann-is” (annoyingly close to anus), but I know I’ve heard it pronounced this way before! I’m excessively wary of mispronouncing words, after an embarrassing scene wherein my confusion of the appropriate stress marks on the phrase “hash browns” was...
Asia Wong wrote 400 love letters to people she knows, and then mailed them to strangers. The manner of indexing them is pretty neat. You knew I’d love this.
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Speaking of mail, my little address book has been missing for over a month now, and I just found it, still in the scanner. My apologies to Larry, whose letter has been sitting, unaddressed and unsent, on my dresser for 3 weeks now. He’s certainly no stranger to the waiting game, though.
