January 2012
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"Building a culture of empathy within the business... →
BTW I enjoy how Pinterest is even more thought-numbing than Tumblr is. The core Tumblr software allows you to reblog anything, but the context is that you are blogging it and YOU probably should have an opinion about it that is definite and nuanced. Tumblr allows you to share and have no opinion at all, of course, and the way the community is run suggests that it’s better for everyone if you...
Favorite fact of the day: A “Fab-Ab February” graphic is going viral right about now… it was originally posted to Tumblr, but if you Google it, all the search results on the first page are talking about how people found it on Pinterest.
HOW’S DAT WIRED COVER LOOKIN FOR YA BOY, EH?
Cuozzo in the New York Post writes this characteristically grumpy dispatch about a logistical issue at the new WTC site that has been already solved to the satisfaction of all involved parties. Quelle horreur! He demands an explanation.
Well, read a magazine sometime, moron. The engineering of the entire site is incredibly detailed… it’s a complex complex!
The problem is that neither...
Oh, hey, look: a group of police officers in the... →
It’s all on video, of course.
Another easy lawsuit against the city, another bunch of goons who will get away with their state-sanctioned violent tendencies.
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And now, here is a Brian Stelter-written dispatch... →
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End the Culture of Accepting Traffic Deaths
drummajorinst:
Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein
In December, a horrific elevator accident killed a young executive named Suzanne Hart in Midtown Manhattan. The city’s response was swift and firm: the Department of Buildings quickly inspected all 650 elevators owned or maintained by the company involved, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office also launched a criminal investigation into the botched...
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Unexpectedly and surprisingly
Tumblr is extra awesome tonight
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On Giving Up (In the Good Way!)
justsayjolie:
I didn’t have time yesterday to comment on Brian Lam’s fantastic piece about cutting out the consumption of online junk but I’ve just grabbed a 30-minute window of my life back to share a few things about some similar decisions I’ve made with regards to my internet use.
In the Fall, I made a choice to take a break from tumblr, both as a personal blogging platform and as a feed,...
Sasha Frere-Jones defends Lana Del Taco! Someone should have told me, I would have restocked the bomb shelter yesterday
Think Small
natashavc:
The most difficult thing, the most deafening thing, in conversations with strangers is what they don’t say. Especially attractive strangers. But the mood I often take on is chartiable, there are morsels to savor if you ask the right questions (right?).
We had spotted him in the first row and decided he was just too attractive and put together to be anything but gay or stupid. I...
It is funny to see when someone has clearly lost all of their Missing-E features recently, and that coincidentally this happened at about the same time they were hired by Tumblr.
Or maybe they never had Missing-E in the first place (as if anyone at Tumblr would be allowed to admit having used it), but now they will never be touched by the lips of God.
I guess we want to rail on the NYPD all day when someone’s accused of pepper spraying a white girl in her 20s, but there’s not much talk in public when the police commissioner’s son is accused of raping an unidentified woman. (Maybe we’re not sure if we care until she shows her face! Do we approve or not? 2/10? Or maybe it’s just too much of a buzzkill to be talking...
BTW, Tumblrs run by fourteen-year-olds can get WAAAYYYYY out of hand. I take a glance at the content of one of them and it’s all gore and porn and stark fashion shoots and I’m like, “Yeeeesh, future serial killer. Noted!” Now definitely afraid to have kids, because with my luck I’d end up with not one but two Lisbeth Salanders running around, making me sleep with one...
From The Inbox
“captaiincunt started following you”
::SALUTE::
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Holiday Cocktail Lounge closing Saturday
WORST.
PRO TIP: Never follow anyone on Twitter who has the word “social” in their handle/username. It means that
They think they are an “expert”
They are absolutely NOT an expert. Because no one is, really.
NYC Summer of Bikes: Registration Lottery for the... →
nycsummerofbikes:
I’m going to upgrade my prior sentiments on the 5BBT from “scornful” to “dubious” because in 2012, there have been significant changes to the course and the organization of the ride.
“Dubious” because I have three better options for you. Click through to see.
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stryker replied to your post: Free Idea For The Motivated
jakefogelnest.com/post/…
Only 6 days behind! This means I need more time offline
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Free Idea For The Motivated
“Shit that Shit Says”
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The NYPL now has a bad-GIF-making program, eh?
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!
In a national survey conducted by The New York Times in November, 56 percent of respondents said they couldn’t think of anything negative about Apple.
COME TO THE BLARNEY COVE ON SATURDAY AND WE’LL FIX YA
richardrushfield:
James Gandolfini: What the fuck is that?
Me: It’s a video camera. James Gandolfini: That fucking thing is a video camera? Me: It is…they didn’t tell you this was going to be a video interview? James Gandolfini:Noooo. They didn’t tell us. Me: Oh, well that’s what we’re doing. Is that alright? James Gandolfini: Wait, I thought this was for the LA Times? Me: It is. James...
Grynbaum time again, but not a transportation article. (Want to see good transportation reporting? Streetsblog released a multi-part series today talking about how Governor Cuomo is mismanaging the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project.)
This article can be summarized as, “Mayor reads book”. It reads like an Onion piece. You start to wonder, after a couple of paragraphs, if the...
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I WAS GOING TO PLAY LAYER TENNIS BUT I SMASHED ALL MY RACQUETS IN ANGER
nedhepburn:
What, do you think you’re too good for Chipotle? It’s a thing. You put it in your mouth and eat it, goddamit.
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TODAY IN WHITE PEOPLE PROBLEMS →
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Ann Mara broke her shoulder in a fall at church Monday morning, just hours after she became an Internet sensation for confronting Terry Bradshaw following the Giants’ NFC Championship victory…
John Mara joked that his mother is “probable” for the Super Bowl in an e-mail to ESPNNewYork.com.
I don’t even know where to begin with this.
Just had to contemplate for a second whether or not I should create a GMail label for “Crazy Hipster Projects”. I have enough mail on this topic to qualify.
NSFS
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
hman:
I know about NSFW, and then it it took me a sec, but now I know that NSFS means “NOT SAFE FOR SCHOOL” and then I realized I’m on tumblr.
You totally made me spit up on my bib.
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artyucko:
btw BV did you know that Trader Joe’s sells prefab chopped mirepoix in little tubs. you know, for busy urban types on the go. New York’s heard of TJ’s, right?
Well, yes, but it’s not readily available on a weeknight because of the demand/lines at TJ’s. They are often cleaned out of basic popular items at 6pm.
The other thing is that it doesn’t solve the problem...
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artyucko replied to your post: THING THE INTERNET NEEDS TO FIX IMMEDIATELY
dude. who cares. it will still taste good, and not like celery.
IT’S A LOT OF WORK.
Remember, in NYC we don’t have countertops, we have to chop vegetables on the computer desk chairs.
THING THE INTERNET NEEDS TO FIX IMMEDIATELY
There is not a single recipe for chicken broth that does not contain a requirement for mirepoix. The problem is, so many of the recipes that include chicken stock as an ingredient also require mirepoix. So, that means you are double-seasoning everything. All of these recipes act like you must have mirepoix at that stage of cooking even if you include it in a past or future stage of cooking too.
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Note that I went somewhere else to discuss that thing, and not here.
Apologies to everyone who gave me a business card from 2004-2009… I just threw it out. Lotta good ones in there… basically, if I knew you 3-4 jobs ago, I just erased some more evidence of it.
You know how many of you had a business card with your name and a Blogspot URL on a 1-800-POSTCARDS template back in 2006? Oh the shame.
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I guess Gawker is turning around that "TOO BUTCH"... →
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theblueprint replied to your post: Dammit, I should have left a snide comment about…
seeing as twitter was shitting the bed around that time too, i’m wondering if “anonymous” tried attacking both? tumblr, it’s de riguer, but twitter’s been mad stable the past fifteen months.
Everyone keeps telling me that Tumblr is just going through the same phases that Twitter has gone through, and that...
