Fortune Favors The Bold

happycap: You know it’s dangerous for you to be here in the...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:28:26 -0500

happycap:

You know it’s dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section…

chrishughes: Tell me that they’re not actually using the word...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:56:16 -0500

chrishughes:

Tell me that they’re not actually using the word Siamese here in the way I think they are

They are.

Though this is not a good visual example of why this type of connection is called a Siamese. This is a much clearer example of the same type of connection.

A Siamese connection is typically a standpipe inlet with two heads. The reason to have two heads on the same pipe? Well, in the case of a fire, it’s not good to suddenly find out that one head has faulty/stripped threads. Here in NYC it is standard and required equipment for all buildings - often one each for the hose pressure standpipe and one for the sprinkler standpipe (which don’t come from the same water pressure supply).

It sucks that there’s no PC replacement word for this word when it means”two-headed” but I don’t think the Thais, the deformed babies or the cats are particularly up-in-arms about this. (I have never heard of anyone offended by the use of the term “Siamese Twins”, but anything is possible)

Things for which not to use Facebook

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:37:23 -0500

“Hey, what’s Mike’s last name again?”

OK, why did I think this was about startups until Mike mentioned his LGBTQ friends?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:36:19 -0500

I dunno. I just saw Hudack quoted and thought his quote was about the inevitability of success for Internet startups (though I give him more credit than that, I do not think of him as an endless fountain of tech industry evangelization), and then I saw Mike M. start disagreeing about “privilege” and I thought it had to do with financing.

Maybe I feel like every capable adult worker should have the right to find work for a living (and not be told, “Hey, go start your own business!” as a solution to national job erosion) as much as everyone should have the right to get married. Yeah, that’s it. Also, I’m still dead wrong on how I first read this post. But it makes sense (and is agreeable).

BTW, I saw a boy no older than 10 working FOH at an IHOP this weekend. (Maitre’d? Pancake’d?) What’s up with THAT? Be happy with your allowance, Timmy boy.

biteofpythias:

“This is a lesson in the inevitability of change. In other words: don’t worry about it too much. The laws will change soon enough, at least in the grand scheme of things. There are important and less inevitable issues for us to deal with.”

— Mike Hudack

While I agree with Mike in the grand scheme of things when it comes to social change taking time, it is important to recognize that this widely held view on this issue - “the laws will change soon enough” - comes from a position of extreme hetero privilege. When you aren’t in the group having the right denied, it is always easy to see the long term glacial change as the natural order of things. But the problem with privilege infused world views such as this is that it comes off of the backs of people who are not able to live their lives the way they deserve to NOW. I’m planning a wedding and it makes me sick to send my lgbtq friends and family members invitations to come celebrate my entry into an institution that they are locked out of. Yes change will happen in the next decade or two, but in the meantime we will have millions of people being sent a message that their love, their life, their being is not okay. All heteros who don’t lean hard on older family members and policy makers on an ongoing basis to change their views and speed up the shift in public perception will carry the scar of the denial of those rights for far too long.

Not a wild cat guy, also doesn’t care for tame dogs

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:47:45 -0500

Not a wild cat guy, also doesn’t care for tame dogs

Yeah.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:31:56 -0500

Yeah.

ninety9: So now I’ve heard a Lady GaGa song twice. I understand the appeal better now. I am...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:57:11 -0500

ninety9:

So now I’ve heard a Lady GaGa song twice. I understand the appeal better now.

I am howling in delight over that first link. Walken is such a good sport.

Things that may be worth the price of an Acela ticket

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:51:44 -0500

caro:

TastingTable:

The new ChurchKey in Washington, D.C., pours 555 kinds of beer (500 bottles, 50 drafts, five cask ales and not a single Bud in sight) alongside designer pizzas.

O’Leary?

Fung Wah bus for us unemployeds, please.

Talking Heads

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:36:23 -0500

Hey look, Carolyn!

poortaste:

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1979-03-15 The Agora Cleveland, OH.zip Uploaded 08/20/2008 | 80.2 MB
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1981-02-27 The Sun Palace Tokyo, Japan SBD (Disc 1).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 71.38 MB
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1981-02-27 The Sun Palace Tokyo, Japan SBD (Disc 2).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 91.23 MB
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1982-07-04 Rock Werchter Festival Werchter, Belgium (Tracks 1-6 + text file info).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 50.67 MB
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1982-07-04 Rock Werchter Festival Werchter, Belgium (Tracks 7-12).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 51.72 MB
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1982-07-09 Montreux Jazz Festival (Tracks 1-10 + text file info & inlays).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 82.49 MB
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1983-08-03 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY SBD(Tracks 11-15).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 60.11 MB
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1983-08-03 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY SBD(Tracks 16-20).zip Uploaded 08/19/2008 | 67.94 MB
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1983-08-23 Cape Cod Coliseum South Yarmouth, MA SBD (Disc 1 + text info and CD inserts).zip Uploaded 08/18/2008 | 78.82 MB
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1983-08-23 Cape Cod Coliseum South Yarmouth, MA SBD (Disc 2 Tracks 7-12).zip Uploaded 08/18/2008 | 73.75 MB
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slaughterhouse90210: “‘No sight so sad as that of a naughty...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:34:40 -0500

slaughterhouse90210:

“‘No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,’ he began, ‘especially a naughty little girl.’”

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Tonight: Food that looks like people.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:31:13 -0500

Tonight: Food that looks like people.

I like this guy.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:24:19 -0500

I like this guy.

The Internet exists so that I can keep up with silly culture issues that I don’t have the time...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:12 -0500

The Internet exists so that I can keep up with silly culture issues that I don’t have the time to be involved in personally. So, who’s going to tell me what happened on Mad Men last night? Email me, brianvan at gmail.

We are drinking our Polcari’s Coffee for breakfast, straight from the coffee grinder/brewer...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:38:58 -0500

We are drinking our Polcari’s Coffee for breakfast, straight from the coffee grinder/brewer machine. There aren’t words for how good it is; the taste of the coffee has completely outshined what was a perfectly good batch of homemade french toast with syrup. For the first time in a while, coffee has NOT made me ready to face the day; it has made me want to take a trip to wherever it comes from, and roll in it for the rest of my life.

So, um, hello Monday!

Google Wave

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:26:52 -0500

nudawn:

justcallmebecks:

I have 8 invites to give out.

people are going to start trading invites for sexual favors on craigslist soon. i can just see it now.

WANT. Will you take 3 Tumblarity as payment?

Overheard on 38th and 8th: “…My kids aren’t going to read Vanity...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:26:28 -0500

Overheard on 38th and 8th:

“…My kids aren’t going to read Vanity Fair…”

Sure, blame shitty tackling on the salary cap. File under “Stretch Arguments Gone Horribly...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:23:40 -0500

Sure, blame shitty tackling on the salary cap. File under “Stretch Arguments Gone Horribly Wrong.”

marseeah: Not appendicitis or anything bad. Either food poisoning or the stomach flu. Now I get to...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:49:11 -0500

marseeah:

Not appendicitis or anything bad. Either food poisoning or the stomach flu. Now I get to lay on the couch with soup.

And Maddie, of course. Get well soon! -BV & Carolyn.

Ahh, Boston. You never quit.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:09:41 -0500

Ahh, Boston. You never quit.

marseeah: Well I’ve never had one of these before. Yikes! What...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:26:10 -0500

marseeah:

Well I’ve never had one of these before.

Yikes! What happened?