February 2012
“While finding a tiny coconut in a whale’s stomach is enchanting, there’s nothing...”
– Swallowed by a whale — a true tale? - Salon.com
There’s an Xzibit meme in there somewhere.
“Sure, Elmo loves you, but when’s the last time Elmo held anyone’s...”
– scott_lynch: Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain
We had this on VHS, recorded from the broadcast, but I never remember watching it. Now I think I have to find it.
(via beep)
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sbergus replied to your photo: Lexar 128GB SDXC Memory Card Professional Class …
I’ll buy you one in a couple of years, when they’re $5 on woot.
By then I’ll be sick of lowly 128gb cards and will take nothing less than 10tb cards!
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RSVP for CHSH Friday night
girl-detective:
chshtweetup:
The CHSH kickoff event is here.
Please RSVP so we can get a head count, because we’re looking for a space that can contain all of our awesome for afterward.
Please spread the word. Thanks!
RSVPing=making my life much easier! TIA!
I was pretty sure I was going to be there. I RSVP’d and everything. But now it looks like I won’t make it. Which makes...
“KFC’s Famous Jelly Belly Bowl:
I seriously don’t know what else we can do...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: New Food Mashups.
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Am I the only one who kinda likes the new dash...
They’re more legible and modern than the old ones, and I think they fit with the aesthetic of the site better, too.
There are plenty of things that need fixing, but this seems like low-hanging fruit to me, and we all know what I think of Tumblr’s coders and management.
“Patients come in with their iPhones and show me how they look on [Apple’s video...”
– The “FaceTime Facelift”: Plastic Surgeons See iPhones Increase Demand for Cosmetic Procedures
Procedures like what? Holding the phone differently? Not being so damn vain?
Oh, you mean procedures like surgery.
(via kottke, who makes the apt reference to DFW’s rant on videophones in...
Breaking the law of large numbers
Here is the rub: Apple is so big, it’s running up against the law of large numbers.
Also known as the golden theorem, with a proof attributed to the 17th-century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the law states that a variable will revert to a mean over a large sample of results. In the case of the largest companies, it suggests that high earnings growth and a rapid rise in share price...
“A quick search of several neighborhoods of the United States revealed that while...”
– Breaking Good: how to synthesize Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) From N-Methylamphetamine (crystal meth) - Boing Boing
I seriously doubt anyone is extracting pseudoephedrine from meth, but if they do, talk about unintended consequences.
“Have you actually tried to set up a Facebook page for a company lately? It’s...”
– Lay off the Social Media Experts | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
Wow. If we’re at the point in our society where setting up a Facebook page for a business, which requires nothing more than FOLLOWING PROMPTS and exploring analytics is considered “comically,...
46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
These are an excellent reminder of what we lost when we lost DFW.
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Re my Moleskine problem
That photo was of moleskine pocket notebooks that 1) are laying around my house and 2) are mostly or entirely empty. So that doesn’t include the four or five at my office, nor the hardcover ones.
I told Emily that the next time I try to buy notebooks she needs to slap my nose with a rolled up newspaper and say, “Bad Jamie! Baaaaad!”
How Forbes Stole A New York Times Article And Got... →
nostrich:
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how much is a title worth? If the story that proceeds is any indicator, a title is worth over 6700 words and months of research. It all began Friday when the New York Times published an article “How Companies Learn Your Secrets“. It was an extremely long article which discussed how large companies like WalMart and Target collect data...
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Things I learned yesterday
Practice helps.
Sewing aggravates my carpal tunnel.
Sewing corners is hard.
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So I've been thinking
thingamonth:
I might stop using this sub-Tumblr and move my thingamonth posts over to my main site and just tag them with thingamonth. I feel like I’m not paying much attention to this site as I’m wrapped up in actually doing the things rather than writing about them. Thoughts?
Man tries to evict his 98-year-old mother from... →
The money graf comes near the end:
Another son, Jack Kantorowski, tells WTNH-TV that his brother is a “scumbag.”
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Reduce visual clutter in Microsoft Word [TUAW.com] →
tj:
In response to Ron’s post yesterday, I wrote up a HOWTO for making Microsoft Word look less “brutally ugly.”
The instructions are for Mac, but I presume most of the changes can easily be made in Office:Windows too.
I’m not saying that I would ever choose Word over something else, but if you have to use it (as I’ve had to for my thesis), then at least you can make more enjoyable.
TJ is a...
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Thank you to everyone for the advice re sewing last night. I’m (very, very, very) slowly getting the hang of it.
So I spent most of my evening trying to get a...
Only to realize it was the operator and not the machine that was the problem. Can any of you crafty-types recommend a very good basic tutorial on machine sewing? Preferably one that idiots could follow?
Job title meme?
Is someone trying to steal my identity again?
Good luck with that.
Anyway. I’m a media relations director, but really I’m the guy who posts news releases, shoots photos and video, writes magazine articles, edits freelance work and mucks about with the website at a college in scenic eastern Iowa.
Dammit
I didn’t notice that the headline didn’t come in correctly on my last post. One of many things I’ve failed at today.
Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames →
This is pretty interesting: Kodak is going to focus printing, both home and commercial, instead of cameras.
Kodak gets the most recognition for bring cameras to the masses, but don’t forget that most of their revenue always came from film, processing and printing, whether by selling materials to print at home or supplying commercial labs. So really, this is a return to that model, and I...
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girl-non-grata answered your question: Serious question time
TBH, this pisses me off. It’s just more trivialization of Fibromyalgia. Constant nerve pain can’t be fixed with a protein shake.
Completely agreed. It’s insanity to think that it would, but the people who sell these shakes actually believe this.
The consensus seems to be unsubscribing
Thank you for your wisdom, Tumbl-folks. I can now go on Facebook with a light heart.
Serious question time
So say you have someone who keeps trying to sell you health shakes and constantly talks about the benefits of said shakes on Facebook.
So far, the shakes help with:
being overweight
diabetes
migraines
fibromyalgia
EXCZEMA eczema
It, of course, helps with none of these (well, actually, it might help with the first two, but only because you’d be eating fewer calories and less sugar).
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