June 2009
28 posts
“Instead of shooting the dais during a congressional hearing on health care...”
– NPR Gettin’ All Edgy Now | TPM
Nice. Kudos to NPR.
(via moltz) I’ll try to pick ‘em out of the crowd this afternoon!
As I listen.
To the radio.
I think I may have spotted a flaw in their plan.
Jobs' Liver and Local Journalism
seoulbrother:
Coincidentally, I was in Memphis with a bunch of current and former journalists when the Wall Street Journal’s iLiver story broke. John Gruber quickly started digging at the questionable nature of the story, WSJ’s sources and the editorial policy that allows this story to even run. Meanwhile the home town paper, The Commercial Appeal, finally ran what basically amounts to a...
It was full of goo goo g'joob.
Mowing the lawn yesterday afternoon I ran over an egg that had been abandoned in the yard, slicing the top third off of it with the mower blade. What was inside was, at the very least, comepletely disgusting—whatever animal was in there (I’m assuming a duck, based on the size of the egg and the fact that it was in my yard, and we don’t have much in terms of wild migratory...
Is the Catholic indulgences money-per-sin thing per occurrence? ‘Cause I’m pretty sure I’m pushing $100,000 here.
Complaining on the internet about customer service...
Divorce has curtailed my income somewhat. A few months ago I asked Citi Mortgage for a loan modification to extend the current terms and drag the payments out some, which would lower my payment by an affordable amount and give them several thousand dollars in additional interest—something I’d consider a win-win scenario, but they apparently call a laughable, pathetic attempt at...
Hurricane Priscilla
Last night a Derecho ripped through Memphis with enough power (via straight-line winds) to snap trees off. Needless to say, there are probably still tens of thousands of people without power, including yours truly. The last time we had this occur (an event coloquially referred to as “Hurricane Elvis”) 300,000 folks were without power—many for over a week. Power company estimates...
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People with solid, easily recognizable avatars on...
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Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
In which our intrepid reporter does a little...
The next iteration of Windows is being marketed as “Windows 7.” Clearly the good folks at Microsoft are terrible at counting, or kinda bad at lying. To wit:
The last iteration of Windows prior to 1995 was Windows 3.1, correct?
That would make Windows 95, “Windows 4”
Windows 98, “Windows 5”
Windows 2000, “Windows 6”
Windows Me, “Windows...
Oh, drat.
Just today the top half inch of my iPhone screen is no longer sensitive to my fingertips. Gosh darn the luck!
My Tiananmen Square Story
A couple of years ago I took a business trip to China for a couple of weeks¹, and part of the Beijing segment involved a visit to Tiananmen Square (it’s just outside the Forbidden City).
We were travelling with our hosts, who, in addition to being workers at an engineering company, were official representatives of the Chinese Government, when the following exchange occurred:
Dramatis...
“I can’t […] make you a picture of Nick Lowe giving Morrissey a piggyback ride,...”
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—From an email I received from @fancycwabs. I’d like to have that embroidered on a throw pillow. I’d also like to see that piggyback ride. (via gordonshumway)
Thanks for cutting out the stream of lewd suggestions that was behind that ellipsis—sometimes I get carried away in my...
