February 2010
60 posts
opinions are like assholes, or, what I think about...
I think Macmillan & Amazon each miss a critical point in their analysis.
I think Amazon, in its hurry to make ebook purchasing simple & easy, misses the point that customers are already comfortable figuring out for themselves whether they’re willing to pay more right away for a new release or whether they want to wait for the price to come down.
For example, before we had our...
From "The Tudors"
Anne Boleyn: "I wouldn't want you to stop loving me."
Henry VIII: "London would have to melt into the Thames first."
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When Henry VIII tells you London would melt into the Thames before he stops loving you... buy some water wings.
January 2010
54 posts
I'm just apologizing in advance for what's about...
gatsbylives:
But this is what happens when you’re single and on Tumblr on a Saturday night and other girls share the same crushes that you do…
I don’t even follow that many people, but the number of times I’ve had to look at cheesecake shots of flavor-of-the-week starlets on my Tumblr dashboard means that it’s time for A LI’L SOMETHIN’ FOR THA LADIES, AMIRITE?
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not reblogged just because I'm not trying to join...
mkhall:
You’ve been forty as long as I’ve known you, just as I’ve been fifty forever, it seems.
Gawd, I wonder how I’ll be when I actually AM 40?
I think 50 suits you. It’s nice when one’s years catch up to one’s level of adulthood.
not reblogged just because I'm not trying to join...
… FWIW, I always thought the photos from tweetups-people-travel-to looked more like the parties I spent all of college trying to avoid, only with people old enough to know better than to behave that way.
But that could just be because I was 40 when I was like, 16. I’ve always been an old fogey. In any case, I’m not that sorry to not be joining the Chicago tweetup.
In the Woods – Vertical Centering With CSS →
*sob* WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SO HARD?
I will say it one time only.
The iPad is for people who still think of a computer as that tool they sit in front of all day at work and then go home to get away from. It’s for people who know they CAN use their computer to manage their music and their photos and whatnot, but gawd, who wants to spend all that time in front of a computer? That’s too much like my JOB.
The iPad is for THEM.
The iPad is not designed...
This is another one of those times where I wonder...
…Because I HATED Catcher in the Rye. I guess I’m just genetically intolerant of all-that-fucking-whining.
Downcycle.
tbridge:
thetwistedspinster:
tbridge:
Stupid troll wrecked my mojo today.
WHERE WHERE WHERE?
Have you punched a troll today?
Posted it earlier. Not much to do about it, unfortunately. Just frustrating.
It’s at times like these I remember the wise words I learned at my father’s knee, a sage philosophy for dealing with the idiots and trolls walking the planet:
*shrug*...
How [not] to [not] consume
fedward:
But between the two extremes I guess I’m already closer to the latter than the former, at least in spirit. We’ve had our original reusable bags for so long I’m not even sure when we got them, and we’ve added a few more here and there through giveaways, so we’re already set on that front. The ones we paid for have more than paid for themselves in convenience, not to mention the bag...
“So today, we’re introducing a new plan. It’s called Stimulus 2GS,...”
– The iState of the Union: Steve Jobs delivers the annual presidential address. - By Christopher Beam and Josh Levin - Slate Magazine
“Academics often have a different experience of reading from that of regular...”
– Views: Kindle for the Academic - Inside Higher Ed
From my Googling today brought on by Tom’s question about citing from a Kindle edition.
“Official organs like my brain and, occasionally, my heart get full voting rights...”
– Helena Andrews, author of ‘Bitch is the New Black’, on relationships and the single life.
The article is a little weird (the number of sentences that start with “my uterus” is high), but this paragraph made me chuckle.
“The 17-year-old was wearing a Teffilin — a Jewish religious object that...”
– Plane Diverted to Philly International | NBC Philadelphia
In case anyone was wondering about the value of “diversity” and “learning about other cultures and faiths,” here’s a big fat one: So some idiot doesn’t get a flight diverted because...
Attention, sales weasels:
The problem is not that I demand excellence from your product. The problem is that you don’t.
ZOMG TUMBLR DRAMZ!!!
I’ll mix the Old Fashioneds. Who’s popping the popcorn?
Paraphrases from the meeting I had today
fedward:
tiffanyb:
“Hi, you’ve been our client for several years now. Won’t you tell us what your business problems are? Because we don’t know.”
“Oh, I see. The problem is that your business is more complicated than the software can accommodate. Have you tried reducing service to your customers?”
“You’d be a lot happier with what the product does if you didn’t expect it to do so much.”
...
Paraphrases from the meeting I had today
“Hi, you’ve been our client for several years now. Won’t you tell us what your business problems are? Because we don’t know.”
“Oh, I see. The problem is that your business is more complicated than the software can accommodate. Have you tried reducing service to your customers?”
“You’d be a lot happier with what the product does if you...
“…you and the ladies were up the stairs discussing Eat, Pray, Love — which...”
– Diane von Furstenberg Gladiator Love-Knot Sandals for the Tuesday » Manolo’s Shoe Blog
The Manolo captures my thoughts exactly on Eat, Pray, Love.
How To Make A Michael Cera Movie →
It’s funny because it’s true. But it does not diminish my love for the Cera.
“Col. Buck Elton, who was given the mission to open up airfield and assist with...”
– We’re Doing A Lot In Haiti With A Very Small Airport | Crooks and Liars
You know who else is a badass? This guy and his team, doing air traffic control in Port Au Prince.
“It’s tempting to imagine that women could be forceful and self-confident without...”
– A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky
“There wasn’t a light on in the place. It was as cold as a publisher’s heart, and...”
– You Don’t Say: Blast from the past
First Person Tetris →
mkhall:
Seriously, this made my brain hurt after one utter failure. Owie.
It made my eyes bug out by the third piece. Aiee.
The almost-great escape: Panda cub Wen Li makes a... →
If this doesn’t make you smile, I’m not sure you have a soul.
How do you play the “pick up the nearest book and turn to page 47” game when you do all your reading on the Kindle?
Slovakia Embarrassed By Security Test Gone Wrong :... →
The plan on Saturday was to plant plastic explosives in the luggage of passengers at Slovakian airports without their knowledge. Authorities then would test whether Slovakian sniffer dogs could find them.
What could possibly go wrong?
