January 2010
I've successfully repressed the urge for years,...
reagank:
piscesinpurple:
Something’s getting pierced.
Hell, yeah! It’s seriously cathartic.
It seems like every now and then I just HAVE to either have a hole poked in my or be jabbed with needles for hours. What does that say about my upbringing?
Woke up with vague upper-resperitory distress this morning.
Does that mean I smoked less?
That would assume I don’t hate my body.
The morning (as imagined by Emily)
Emily: Jamie, it's 7 a.m., you have half an hour to leave the house.
Jamie: MMmmmpf. I'm up.
Emily: Jamie, it's 7:15. You have 15 minutes before you have to leave the house.
Jamie: Oh, balls!
Opinion: How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote |... →
From 2007, presented without comment.
Excuse me while I go all English major
reagank:
jamiek:
Salinger hasn’t published in more than 40 years. In the few interviews he gave, he said that’s because once you publish something, readers feel that you owe them, but when you write only for yourself, it always belongs to you.
He’s right, of course. Once it’s out there for people to buy, someone else can interpret the work how they want (see Chapman, Mark David). But to steal...
Paul Reubens looks EXACTLY the same now as he did 25 years ago. Is that proof that occasionally masturbating in public is good for keeping you looking young?
Excuse me while I go all English major
Salinger hasn’t published in more than 40 years. In the few interviews he gave, he said that’s because once you publish something, readers feel that you owe them, but when you write only for yourself, it always belongs to you.
He’s right, of course. Once it’s out there for people to buy, someone else can interpret the work how they want (see Chapman, Mark David). But to...
I am neither anti-Salinger nor anti-“Catcher in the Rye,” however there are a portion of Holden Caufield wannabes who are so damn irritating it’s hard to take.
Kinda like how Cure fans feel about “Love Song” after that terrible 311 cover.
I am thinking but not tweeting
Man, you just thought “Catcher in the Rye” fans were insufferable before Salinger was dead.
nostrich:
Ok, one more thing.
I’m amazed at how arrogant geeks are sometimes. Here’s what happened yesterday: Apple launched a device that is a first of its kind (don’t try and tell me it isn’t, it is), and the collective response was: doesn’t do anything I need, this thing is going to be a total failure. Ok, the collective response was a deluge of terrible jokes about tampons, but after that.
...
Daring Fireball Linked List: McGraw-Hill CEO Says... →
I wonder about all these leaks. Anyone who really knows about the tablet is DEFINITELY under an NDA. Why would the CEO of a huge company break that on national TV and risk the liability?
Raise Your Hand If You Are Taking The East Coast...
officialunofficial:
because I am! HOLLER.
I’m going to take the CST one tomorrow night.
Wait, isn’t Newsday the paper that had people arrested for inflating circulation numbers?
Oh, that’s right, it is!
I’ll drink a toast to the first over the cliff. Hopefully other newspapers learn from their idiocy and decide not to follow them.
“He argued that the web was not intended to be a revenue generator, but rather to...”
– After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday’s Web Site | The New York Observer
And this, ladies and gents, is why newspapers are going to continue to fail. I honestly welcome it. Maybe if four or five BIG papers close their doors it’ll have an effect on the executives.
“An automobile is both much more physically capable and dangerous than a...”
– Why computers should be more like toasters. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
An interesting premise, and the iPhone HAS done a great job of simplifying smartphones, but 1) is it really that intuitive for a novice computer user? and 2) computers can’t be like cars or toasters because cars...
On the Fishstick
Emily: So it's not a real dance?
Me: No, it's made up
Emily: All dances are made up.
“1. You really don’t want to engage directly with customers, employees,...”
– The 5 Reasons You’re Failing In Social Media
This could be re-titled “Why Newspapers are Failing in Social Media.”
“A Jacksonville judge who earlier restricted blogging at a murder trial told...”
– Jacksonville judge puts new limits on blogging, again | Jacksonville.com
False. If he were holding court inside his home, he MIGHT have a point. I would disagree with it, but still.
A courthouse is a public building, built and maintained with public money. The staff are paid with public money. A...
