January 2010
16 posts
The Revolution Will Be Distributed
andrewmuto:
There’s been much talk about the upcoming impact of the Apple tablet. Most speculation hinges on the gadget side… the design, the spec, the screen size… And while I find that interesting, I think it’s mostly a big distraction while a massive revolution is about to explode upon us.
The App store has been a huge, unprecedented success where iPhone users can immediately purchase and...
December 2009
44 posts
Woman's blood alcohol content topples state... →
“A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45, on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported stolen in Rapid City.
Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South Dakota’s legal limit of .08 percent….After she was found, Engle was hospitalized and freed on bond.
She failed to appear in court on Dec. 15, but Sturgis police located...
“United States Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover told a subordinate who used the...”
– Things I’m not allowed to say at work, #1009. (via Majestic plural - Wikipedia)
“People who have moved to Chicago, Dallas and London get to fewer local landmarks...”
– Bingo! Note to self: renew museum memberships. Actually use them in 2010. More than when people come to visit. (via The Psychology Behind Putting Off What Can Be Enjoyed Now)
“That’s the most pertinent lesson of the Great Depression: people waited, with...”
– (via Feeling Too Down to Rise Up)
“You would think that by now the universe might have run out of attractive people...”
– NYT, don’t act as though you’re not watching. (via 8 Strangers Shack Up in Washington, in MTV Series)
WatchHoly mother of GOD, I cannot wait.
“I wish for you a New Year with more to be proud of than ashamed.”
– Today I find myself thinking about my drive back yesterday, stuck with a “Best of the 90s” radio station and how diverse all those songs were, each one a serious memory point to a very specific year, even the terrible (and most of them, let’s be honest, were terrible) ones, and...
“The same critics have moved on to laud Nancy Meyers’s It’s Complicated, with its...”
– Thank you, Edelstein, for saying this. As crap a *film* as “The Proposal” was, and I’m stunned at how much better even “The Other Boleyn Girl” was! (via Reality Bites: Pipe Dreams and Wake-Up Calls of 2009)
“You can probably sort out for yourself many of the ways in which constantly...”
– — a grammar
This is something that’s always bothered me, but I’ve never been able to articulate it in a way that at all makes sense or doesn’t sound “reactionary.” — britticisms
ditto
(via itsnotforyou)
I don’t know you guys, but I sure love you.
“According to a new poll, nearly twice as many Americans have a negative...”
– (via People Are Ready for This Horrible Decade to End)
“Now, as his first year in office draws to a close, the man who campaigned on the...”
– I feel you, BHO. This is also known as the transition from, “I’m gonna do that tomorrow,” to “It’s gonna be a revolution on Monday,” to “Next year, I’m doing this a whole new way,” in teacher-speak. (via A President Who Loves Deadlines)
“We know more about Max Baucus than we do about Brad Pitt! That seems wrong, so...”
– Gail Collins couldn’t be more right, as ever.
“I remember walking up out of this underground place into what seemed to be Times...”
– Rue McClanahan, in response to the question, “What makes someone a New Yorker?”
“Deep reading — the kind that you engage in when you get lost in the syntax and...”
– Yikes. This means I am definitely, definitely really getting worse at this, and not imagining my decline. (via The Endless First Chapter)
“Now the tie is on the other neck. Today the well-off 55-year-old is likely to be...”
– No doubt!! Skinny that shit up, older sons, because your baggy suits and jeans are truly distressing. Get a GQ subscription already. (via Dressing for Success, Again)
“It’s Harry Reid calling, I guess health care will have to wait until we land,”...”
– Oh please, Chuck. Like you guys are really so close your 30 minute flight was hijacking progress. (via Asked to End Phone Call, Schumer Disparages Flight Attendant)
I Adore This Man. [Is that scary? Because I do not...
From the Desk of Griefbone:
I’ve also spent far too much time trying to figure out the Indians’ lineup in Major League, basically just from the last game against the Yankees. You have Willy (Mays) Hays leading off, of course, based on his speed and ability to steal bases. But you bat Jake Taylor after him? A catcher with bad knees who apparently isn’t much of a hitter anymore?...
“By downsizing what is most dangerous (and most essential) about our education,...”
– Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school—By Mark Slouka (Harper’s Magazine) was talking about this months-old Harper’s piece last night (via desnoise)
This is an utterly fantastic piece. I’m reminded of a conversation I had with one of my favorite professors, during my last semester of...
“Santa eats what he wants.”
– President Obama, re: Oprah asking him why they’re going to leave cookies and milk as opposed to the healthier option of apple slices (via mindgrapes)
When Bros Sign off their Emails with "Cheers"
tylercoates:natashavc:
This is something men in their twenties do and it reminds of the cuntish 5th grader who would say ‘present’ instead ‘here’ during roll call. Like, knock it the fuck off and say ‘best’, ‘thanks’ or ‘<3’ like an adult.
Uniquely,
Natasha
It must be in the water; I thought this same thing yesterday. At work. DUDES. <3 is more professional, k? xoxo, HR
“…before summarily deciding a case, “a judge engage in a sort of...”
– Perhaps not only judges should use this rule of thumb, but most of us. (via “Cognitive Illiberalism” from The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas)
“It’s weird when you realize your taste in guys changes from ‘twenty-something...”
– (via Bailey:merlin) I know. Truth of ‘09.
“He really is obsessed in a self-critical way in trying to make it both good and...”
– If only we could all be this obsessed. Or at least, me. If I could be… (via Howard Kurtz on New York Magazine’s Adam Moss)
“George Clooney, by the way, is just a year older than Tom Cruise.”
– Oh no. Really? Why does George seem so much… older in a good way than crazy Tom? (He’s still crazy. Just because time has passed & his reps have worked on image rehab doesn’t mean I don’t know crazy.) via Representative American Men
Definitely, totally, definitely NOT what I needed...
You’re the reason I got the Video Phone. Coming into NYC tomorrow night. Will find you.
