December 2009
November 2009
“Let me put it this way. I started broke and I’m now a billionaire. And I never...”
– Liberty Media’s Malone To Heckler (via rickyv)
gbattle sez:
John Malone is probably one of the savviest businessmen in media, period. When my former boss, Bob Johnson, had the idea in the late 70’s to start Black Entertainment Television and shopped the idea, John Malone loaned him the $250K he...
Gang Tweets Of New York →
nudawn:
newsweek:
tanya77:
soupsoup:
The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.
Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.
It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted - and thwarted - 140 characters at a time.
One investigator recently warned parents and teens that the bastion of...
“We built server capacity for the day before Thanksgiving, then use only 50...”
– Image by spike55151 via Flickr
Butterballs or Cheese Balls, an Online Barometer - NYTimes.com Also: “How to” is the second-largest category on YouTube. (via jryu)
Rafer sez: This is “How Not To” provision server capacity in 2008, never mind 2009. Double the number of your instances in the cloud...
Thanksgiving plan.
Do what I did today: hit the gym early and hard. That way you can consume all the turkey (“I need the protein.”) stuffing (“Restoring the glycogen in my muscles!”) wine (“Red wine is good for muscle and cardiovascular recovery, scientists say so!”) and cranberry sauce (“Seriously, my glycogen stores are really depleted…”) that you were planning...
Miles are BACK!
mdfsmash:
I know it seems like yesterday, but it wasn’t! And the time has come for me to start training for my second triathlon and fundraising for my third event with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training. Over the last 18 months I’ve raised $8500 in the hopes that we can find a cure for cancer. Please help me continue my mission by signing up to BUY A MILE! You guys know the...
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7 →
evangotlib:
biteofpythias:
We’re the NSA. And windows 7 was our idea.
Fuck man…I almost can’t even get angry anymore. Of course this happened, and the reasons behind why the NSA would want what I’m immediately interpreting as “backdoor access” to Windows 7 are too numerous to count here. Could it be a generous move by the NSA to help Windows 7 enhance security?...
“Taylor” - n. The name apparently given to a number of semi-indistinguishable teenage pop-culture icons that I will find myself simply unable to give a shit about.
My mom's voicemail this evening
elizabayne:
I love my Mom more than anything. She leaves pretty much the EXACT same message for me every time she calls and I think it’s really cute. Here is what she left me about an hour ago.
(taken aback by the beep) Oh, hi Eliza….it’s your mother calling. It’s November 19th, 2009 at…(looks at clock) what time does the microwave say…? Oh! 6:13 p.m. on November 19th, 2009. Oh...
“TV makers, with the exception of Vizio, had opposed the measure on the grounds...”
– California Approves Energy Efficiency Measures for TVs
I love Vizio.
(via ericmortensen)
I appreciate their stance here, I just wish they made better TVs. Every time I see one, even their new high-end models, the picture quality is just…well it’s just bad. I get that they’re the...
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On Beth and cooking.
When Beth cooks…um…
Well, there’s no other way to say this: When Beth cooks…she swears like a drunken sailor at a whorehouse.
“Stop doing that!” she’ll shout at garlic, minced and browning in oil. “Why are…wh…WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT!”
The garlic generally refuses to answer, mocking her in its overly slow or too quick browning...
Sometime when I’m not working on a project I’m going to take a day, get pissed drunk, and snarkily reply to every tweet in my stream. My assumption is that I’ll probably lose half of my followers, but it’ll be the half without a sense of humor anyway.
“Let me get this straight: we kept KSM and his buddies in Gitmo for eight years,...”
– via
You know I have nothing but love for you guys,...
lialia:
Do you get money for having more followers or something? Is there some type of fun blogging compensation game that I didn’t sign up for?
Groupies. Band-Aids.
FDA Declares War on Fruity Cigarettes -... →
rickwebb:
GOD. Clove cigarettes. Flavored cigarettes. Caffeinated Alcoholic beverages. JUST STOP. HEY FDA WHY DON’T YOU CRACK DOWN ON THE ONE THING PEOPLE WANT YOU TO CRACK DOWN ON - PHARMA ADS.
Every time I see a pharmaceutical ad now, I can’t help but think of this.
evangotlib:
mikehudack:
evangotlib:
I just had a 15 second conversation with my 6am wake-up call before I realized it was a pre-recorded message. Win.
Good morning sir.
And to you…up early as well I see.
Well, he had to be up early enough to pretend to be your 6am wakeup call. You don’t really think the hotel uses phrases like “or so help me God, I will come up there and...
LiLoWriMo
lialia:
I wrote 1,169 words tonight. On a scale of one to shitty, I rate them 75% shitty. But they are written.
My dad once told me of photography, that if you take 5 rolls worth of shots, and get one usable photo, then you’ve had a good day. I believe the same applies to writing.
“Remind me never to date a German dude. I dont need him getting pissed and start...”
– AntiKris (while watching a doc on Hitler and realizing how scary sounding the German language is) (via antikris)
seriously, German and Chinese are two foul sounding languages.
(via nudawn)
I always get German and Klingon mixed up. If someone’s yelling something guttural at me, I check for...
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Irony
I find it ironic that the same person cursing “the Muslims” for their “backwards” view of womens rights, can then complain about gay marriage.
Not to go all “logical” on you, but in both circumstances you’re falling back on written scripture and “my religion forbids it” as your reasoning. So you can either have one or the other, but not both. ...
“This is all very cute. I would ask you to name one conservative leader from the...”
– complicatedshoes
Jeff Miller here on tumblr is a smart conservative. I passionately disagree with him, but he’s intelligent, and he has reasoned arguments. I have known others, too, in my personal life. There are plenty of smart conservative business leaders. I think many of them lack consciences...
Literally out of nowhere. And yes, she was spot...
Me: Who was that guy who was in that cowboy movie that-
Beth: Billy Crystal.
Me: Yes. WHOA!
In which Google Voice thinks the people that call...
This was the Google Voice translation of the message my coffee supplier left me today about me picking up 5 pounds of green (unroasted) Kenyan coffee beans.
Hi Barrett. This is Jesse calling upon the mail. Just want to let you know you because I just arrived. Supreme Being. The talking about boy green bean. I just arrived when you get a chance. And you’re welcome to stop by anytime....
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You Know What?
evangotlib:
When I’m in a taxi don’t ask me “what way do you want to go” every few minutes. That’s your job. I am taking this taxi so I can get where I need to be without thinking. It’s 15 - 20 minutes of quiet time for me.
Assume that I want to arrive as quickly as possible and as safely as possible.
Okay. I’m a little grumpy this morning. Once I get coffee I will be in a better place.
...
Call or email a veteran you know today and thank them. If you don’t know one, I’m sure the internet can provide.
Online in an airplane.
lizlet:
So it’s painfully early, and I’m winging my way up to San Francisco, simultaneously my hometown and a stranger to me. (Ah, the strangeness of growing up in Silicon Valley, the quasi-suburbs, where there were just enough arthouse movie theaters to keep me from venturing to the big bad city all that often. It means that I know what BART stands for, but barely know how to use it. It means...