October 2010
"I attended Harvard Business School, where I was...
“You want me to stand outside in a crowd… like an Italian?”
September 2010
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Curtis, a New Yorker born and raised, was married six times, including to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, and had six children.
Hmmm, I didn’t know he got down like that!
You know, with his daughter.
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One of the reasons that the “Segway Kills Segway Founder” story is so big is because of the hubris of the company, or at least its pitchmen, when it launched. Here you have this big machine with wheels, on which you’re supposed to stand… controlled in a manner best described as “Michael Jackson in the Smooth Criminal video”… and we had Dean Kamen on every...
This is writing that does not make my eyes roll. →
Follow this example.
I haven’t gone on my unfollowing spree yet, so today I checked Tumblr/Twitter and was predictably subjected to 10,000 RPM of eye-rolling.
Most of it is because some people post stuff devoid of quality logic/thinking, simultaneously while asserting that they’re great thinkers.
Maybe that’s why I hate all the “recaps”… here are a bunch of mid-20’s...
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From The Inbox
“Thanks to everyone for their input. I installed Ubuntu on a USB drive and got RoR working off it. I’m ready to start my startup!”
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My only regret about the time I spend using this blog to talk about how many people are not just idiots, but really dangerous idiots, is that it’s not enough. It’s never enough.
Now is a good time to check that you have emergency cash, a proper first aid kit, and a loaded gun ready. After all, people are out on the streets right now looking for whuffie. Shoot first, ask questions...
“Start by scheduling a few Internet-free hours each day, with your phone turned...”
– CHRISTINE!!!! (via doree)
She should get an honorary lifetime free pass on the L train. #DerridaisthenewVampireWeekend
Bringing an old favorite tag out of hibernation. Please ignore what the NY Football Giants did today, BTW.
dat’snotgood!
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On Recaps
countcenci:ohrohin:via dankois:
Look, I know recaps are “as ephemeral as a fart,” as Hank Stuever put it today on Facebook, and that Choire hates them, and that they’re traffic bait, and whatnot…
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Hey, what’s the chance that Tumblr will support Internet Explorer better in two weeks when they get a new programmer? Someone get out a graphing calculator; I can’t count that high!
Related: How do you congratulate someone for getting bored with their day-job and quitting, with no replacement job? I would like to be able to say, “So-and-so is moving on to an incredible...
Sorry, Paul, for arguing with you earlier… the lasagna will only cost $8, not $15. But I maintain my position that no restaurant should serve a slice of lasagna that costs $15… it’s hard to make an entire TRAY of lasagna with ingredients that cost more than that.
Come to think of it, even $8 is a lot… sell two of them, and the rest is profit. Urrrgh.
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At 10:30pm, I’m still seeing new links to recaps of Mad Men.
Is it too late for me to write “Sopranos” recaps? LET’S TALK ABOUT THE RUSSIAN. DID HE ESCAPE?
mzchristine replied to your post: I didn’t catch the first season of “Mad Men”. I…
“pure mental illness”… that’s pretty deep
Note that I’m watching Gossip Girl right now… Carolyn’s a fan and I find it alright enough to follow along. It’s a pure soap opera, the kind of show that doesn’t spark interest with me but wouldn’t compel me to unplug the TV within...
1. You know, sometimes all it takes for you not to be called an idiot is to stop doing things that are idiotic. Take it from the expert!
2. I’m not angry. People doing stupid things en masse actually makes me kinda smug. You might think this makes me antisocial, except I have a great social life full of people who feel the same way, and get the same joy out of being smug.
3. I’m...
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I didn’t catch the first season of “Mad Men”. I waited to watch the first until catching the second. And the third. And maybe I just needed a long weekend (one where, out of the entire constellation of people I know, people weren’t having a collision of MUST ATTEND events through the entire thing) to get started.
No way I’m doing that now. I already know everything...
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biteofpythias:
this new gurlgoestoafrica.tumblr.com is one of the funnier things i’ve ever seen.
golf clap for the creator of this. fantastic.
Well, the kids in Africa thing is not funny, but the things that rich white kids do… always fantastic.
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Village Voice Has a Child Prostitution Problem →
youngmanhattanite:
Shady.
FOSTER IS ONE EXAMPLE OF AN UNDERAGE WHORE
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bajillionhits:
It’s pretty simple: Just pick any commonly accepted belief, truism or plain fact, and declare it to be wrong. The more universally accepted the idea, the more effective your subversion will be. For example: everyone loves making money, right? Well, then you should loudly and boldly declare that your service takes the “Anti-Profit Approach”. This literally makes no sense in the...
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You know it’s time to clean out the Dashboard when the one thing that sticks out about catching up on posts is how badly you rolled your eyes at some of the stuff being posted. Always the same few offenders, too. It’s like putting your ear to a drinking glass set against the outer wall of Hell. The screams of the doomed will keep me awake at night if I don’t stop...
Actually, scratch that last post.
Tumblr, I have your business model. Make most of the site free to use as it is. But the catch is: you can’t see “likes” on posts, including likes on your own posts, unless you cough up $5 every three months. Everyone will pay for this.
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My mom always told me: If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say how Tumblr is yet one more unsustainable Internet toy that we’ll all surely abandon soon, like a plush toy that fell in the mud and can’t be machine washed.
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A picture of a cat is worth a 1,000 likes.
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When they finish the Second Avenue Subway, Krucoff will still take cabs to work.
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Why can’t I boil a pot of macaroni and toss it with a bottle of barbecue sauce? Is that so wrong?
Based on the downward trajectory of TIME Magazine, it’s going to look like an airline safety brochure in five years. And somehow Nancy Gibbs will still find a way to make my eyes bleed.
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The more you laugh at Rex, the harder his last laugh is.
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Somewhere, quietly, Hunch.com is burning through all its venture capital.
