February 2012
5 posts
Is the phrase "shuck and jive" inherently racist?
I’ve been using it in terms of pitching projects…
“Gotta go do the shuck and jive for these people.”
And thinking of in terms of “the ol’ song and dance”. But urban dictionary says it has a racist connotation. I mean, that’s what I get for listening to urban dictionary. But still…is it?
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
world-shaker:
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can...
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But you? You are not Steve Jobs.
meganwest:
The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young “incubator twerps” strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, young twerp.
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
The Emancipator V. The Killer
This is Little Richard in, probably, the mid 1960’s (64-65 from the looks).
http://youtu.be/opTM1pH154Q
This is Jerry Lee Lewis from about 10 years earlier.
http://youtu.be/8cgKIGu1QqY
As much as I absolutely love both Jerry Lee and Little Richard, I feel compelled to point out how much harder JLL has to work to pull out a similar amount of Rock (or rather “RAWK”).
January 2012
11 posts
How I Imagine Congress Works
A: Hey, we need a new shovel.
B: Okay, let's buy a new shovel.
A: Cool.
B: I'm just gonna put this bag of candy on there too.
A: What?
B: well...i want candy. You're buying the shovel. Now you can't buy the shovel unless you buy me my candy too! Moo hoo hah hah hah!
A: That was some lackadaisical evil laughter.
B: Just buy the shovel.
A: But I don't want candy.
B: But, don't you need the shovel? Don't you want the people to have their holes dug? Why are you standing against progress?
A: Your candy is an abomination!
B: Your MOM is an abomination.
A: You suck!
B: YOU suck!
A: You suck!
B: YOU suck!
A: You're the reason we can't have nice things.
(I kept going past this but it went from silly to depressing).
i have a gorilla suit now
macydrox:
i hope my roommate realizes that means she is always ALWAYS at risk for a gorilla attack. the pets better watch their steps too.
It was all my fault.
We were out of coffee so I hopped in the car to head to the Plaid Pantry. I misjudged the distance and speed of the car that was coming up on the street that I was turning on, and he roared up behind me. I felt bad and did the whole “hand wave in the rearview mirror plus contrite face” thing hoping he’d see me.
Well…he was going to the plaid pantry too. He hopped out...
I'm doing live foley again!
While it’s no 10,000 cue Kid Simple extravaganza, it’s fixin’ to be awesome.
If you’re in San Fransisco january 21st, come see!
http://bit.ly/tJ5E2W
December 2011
18 posts
I call people who have to work today and tomorrow...
world-shaker:
They’ve been checked out for awhile, and there’s no chance of them getting back to where they’re supposed to be.
“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had...”
– A Statement From Louis CK on the success of distributing his latest comedy special online for $5.
Good job, internet.
(via ryeisenberg)
hello hello books: The Amazon Kerfuffle; or, Rule... →
hellohellobooks:
But sometimes you can’t look away. It happened to me with the Gawker article that started the recent Amazon hubub.
Since I’m busy running my very own small bookstore, it’s hard to find the time to long-form respond to this flagrant eff-you-and-all-the-hard-work-you-do message Amazon is…
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November 2011
11 posts
“HAHAHAHAHA NEIL GAIMAN YOU’RE SO FUNNY AND SELF-DEPRECATING EVEN THOUGH IT’S...”
– This week, I told Frank about the recent Simpsons episode featuring the voice talents of Neil Gaiman, and in the process probably told him more than I needed to about my feelings about Neil Gaiman. (via lizlet)
One way to get Megyn Kelly to take a dose of...
So, in response to this assertion from Megyn Kelly, there’s this petition.
Which is a nice idea and all, but we all know that petitions have all the effectiveness of a letter to the editor.
SO!
According to this site, Fox has some advertisers that would be absolutely perfect for a sponsored pepper spraying:
On The Border Mexican Restaurant presents, “Megyn Kelly’s...
Things I've Read in the Past 2 hours
On what the XBLA needs to do to remain competitive:
http://2dboy.com/2011/10/03/xbla/
On video games, value and meaning:
http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/well-played-3
On theatre artists making a living:
http://www.artsjournal.com/jumper/2011/11/on-artists-making-a-living-and-artistic-directors-that-could-make-a-difference-but-dont/
On Kristen Wiig, sexiness, funniness and 4th wave...
#corporatescotty update
So, for this new, still somewhat secret, project I did a test session with a couple little girls that live in my neighborhood. They’re the adorable moppets I’ve mentioned before. They loved the characters, laughed at a couple of the jokes, and loved playing the game. There’s still a lot of work to do, but it was so thrilling to see the older one (3rd grader) start to understand...
There are many nude pictures of me out in the...
I was fortunate enough to go to school JUUUUUUUUST prior to the widespread advent of digital cameras. So for parties, events, vacations etc, you would take your pictures, finish the roll of film, take that film to the walgreens (or whatever) and then 4 days later you would have hard copy prints of the photos you took.
Rolls of film being what they are, you’d probably take 12 pictures...
October 2011
9 posts
Apartheid > Jo Calderone
Liddy and I were talking about Paul Simon’s Graceland album, which had some controversy when it came out as Paul Simon broke the cultural boycott of the South African Apartheid government to record with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
This fact makes me feel like all my pop cultural opinions on things are just flat out silly.
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world's cutest breaking and entering
Adorable Neighborhood Moppet: What kind of candy are you guys going to have on halloween?
Scotty: I dunno. What kind of candy do you like?
ANM: The big tootsie rolls.
S: you got it. Anything else?
ANM: Ketchup!
S: We'll see. We're going to be out of town on saturday but we're back on sunday.
ANM: Well, you just told me what kind of candy you have so we'll just come over and get it while you're out of town.
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“To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies that have come...”
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