December 2008
64 posts
dream date
My new mission: set up Anderson Cooper and Nate Berkus. I think they would be a match made in [my] heaven.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Sufjan Stevens (22)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (11)
MGMT (9)
Girl Talk (9)
Bing Crosby (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Rules for Dating Me #2
Must hate Comic Sans
What I want for 2009: more services like Yahoo! Shortcuts, especially one that integrates with Tumblr.
“Snow Leopard will have little in the way of visual changes and most of the...”
– Snow Leopard Screenshots Show Little New - Mac Rumors
I hope Apple will be able to convince the laysumer that these “under the hood” improvements are worth the price to upgrade.
Gift Card Exchange, Buy Gift Card, Discount Gift... →
This is a really interesting idea. They buy your unwanted gift cards at a slight discount (hey, it wasn’t your money to begin with!), and you can then purchase other gift cards at a discount. A sale on currency! Except that you’re locked into one store.
“Anxious individuals who were more avoidant of relationships tended to choose...”
– News from the Herd: Those jeans are my best friend in the whole wide world
I love this kind of stuff.
Rules for Dating Me #1
When scooping ice cream, an ice cream scoop is required. Always.
“Last month, the number of college graduates who were working fell by 282,000,...”
– The Job Market for College Graduates - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
MoMA Store - Icon Watch →
I’m obsessed with this watch. I’ve decided that my soulmate would buy it for me in my dreams.
“Colds are not caused by insufficiently warm clothes or by going outside with wet...”
– The Flu Prevention - The Flu Health Information - NY Times Health
I wish my students would believe me when I tell them this and stop complaining that I’m trying to make them sick by forcing them to change classes in the cold (we’re in trailers, so they don’t have hallways).
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“The slogan? “Invest in the U.S.” By that I mean we should stop squandering the...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Stop Being Stupid - NYTimes.com
“In this case, however, Dell is the problem. They knowingly sell this particular...”
– The Problem with Dell
True story.
Bacon-ify Any Webpage with Bacolicio.us | Serious... →
People have a lot of time on their hands.
Kissing With Ross .com →
Best website of the year!!! OMG this is so good. And I didn’t google “how to kiss”! I found it on an ad blog. I swear!!
Complaint #336
whitewhine:
“‘Mary is can’t wait for the party this weekend!’ Seriously? Newsflash: You can delete the ‘is’ when updating your facebook profile.”
-Whine by Ethan
They really should televise this as a PSA.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Sufjan Stevens (22)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (11)
Girl Talk (9)
MGMT (9)
Bing Crosby (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Chrysler said on Wednesday that it would close all of its factories for at least...”
– Chrysler to Shut Factories for a Month - NYTimes.com
Is it wrong that part of me wants the Big Three to collapse? I mean, be more efficiently-run and make better cars. Then people will buy them, and you won’t squander all of your revenue. Screw the American worker!!!!!
I don’t really...
“The WHOPPER® sandwich is America’s Favorite burger. FLAME™ by BK® captures the...”
– FLAME™ Body Spray
Um, What. The. Hell. Why can you actually buy this? Why is it only $3.99 (or is that too much?)?
Though I have heard that Americans tend to smell like meat to non-Westerners.
“The most powerful signal Mr. Obama could send would be to name a reformer to a...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’? - NYTimes.com
Having a Department of Agriculture that stops subsidizing shitty foods is a wet dream of mine. I personally blame the department for my woes as a teacher, because their subsidies have cause my students’ to receive unhealthy...
2008: The year in business | The swimming naked... →
Funny and depressing!
“This is one of the most cliché cliffhangers in the history of EVER, but it is...”
– ‘Gossip Girl’ Takes Us Through the First Two Stages of Grief — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine
I LOVELOVELOVE their recaps.
“Improves the performance and reliability of Chess.”
– Mac OS X 10.5.6 now available via Software Update - Engadget
Thank YHWH. I’m so sick of that buggy piece! It seems that every time I’m about to beat the computer I get a mysterious kernal panic.
Just kidding. I play chess with real people, because I have friends. Just kidding. I...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Sufjan Stevens (46)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (3)
The Beach Boys (2)
Louis Armstrong (2)
Elvis Presley (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The paradigm has shifted. Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay.”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Demise of Dating - NYTimes.com
Thanks, Bimbz
WatchThis video is absurd. Also, why didn’t the main male character call in gay? I mean, he’s really not fooling anyone. Nice one about the ‘buck though.
“403 Sorry, you aren’t allowed here!”
– Verboten
Computer-generated error messages shouldn’t be worded as personal attacks. Why am I not allowed here? What is it about me that you want to keep out of your site?
As I write on almost all of my students’ papers: next time avoid using the second person. It sounds overly...
“The Shrinking Bear “Behold one of nature’s strangest curiosities,...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Nineteenth-Century Magic Secrets Revealed.
19th Cent Magicians had really hard jobs. So much to coordinate!!
“Ten years ago, you had a shot of at least being aware of everything that...”
– Seth’s Blog: Warning: The internet is almost full
I know, Seth. I struggle with this daily. Articulatling it just stresses me out more.
“Kaoani can take the form of animals, foodstuffs such as rice balls, colorful...”
– Kaoani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, Wikipedia! So FUNNYYYYY!!!1!
Bloc Party “Signs” (MMMatthias Remix)
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“Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real...”
– What Should I Read Next?
This could be really dangerous for me.
I’m really glad Goog moved the “Add Subscription” button to the top left of the Reader page. I was always unsure as to why they used to locate such an important button in the middle of other crap.
Why can't everything just get along?
I’m frustrated. I uploaded my iCal calendars to my Google Calendar, synced those with iCal, and I was happy: every change I made in iCal was reflected (within 5 minutes) on my Google Calendar. Here’s the problem: these CalDAV calendars won’t talk to Mobile Me, so nothing gets pushed to my phone. Deal breaker. I reverted to my old ways.
Help?
