April 2009
The ability to filter out someone's twitter...
When do we want it?
NOW.
I think it's unacceptable for you to have never...
Yeah, I have a bad case of self-selecting bias. How much do you like me? I like me a lot. Which is fortunate.
I just blew my own mind.
I started to make a list of films where Bill Murray appears, and there is also someone in the film who wears a sailor’s hat. I’m starting to imagine people into his films, and they are wearing sailors caps.
Please help. What films DO have Bill Murray opposite someone in a sailor’s cap?
The last time something so adorable threatened to...
And I’m not talking about Jason Schwartzman.
The Human Resources Department got a different... →
Jarrod Woods, a game developer who works with leading Canberra-based game producer 2K Australia, embedded his resignation advice in a game he created which he then forwarded to his boss and colleagues.
- The Age
“It’s not hard to envision a world in which we look back on capital...”
– William Saletan.
This quote is interesting for a number of reasons.
At the moment it seems like people are looking back on torture through increasingly fond, or at least understanding, eyes. This is not what Saletan means, but hey, in for a penny, in for a pound.
‘Not hard to...
“If you think heat is a bad proxy for flu infection, ask yourself whether...”
– Slate.
Why I installed Google Analytics
So I could find out this fact:
3% of the traffic to my Tumblr is the result of people Googling “Hot Skinny Chicks”.
OH NOES I AM SORRY.
Apparently my Tumblr was causing some issues for people who use Firefox. I think it’s fixed. But you may never know.
No but seriously…
I just had to listen to all these people wax rhapsodic about how much better it is when a circus has no animals. “Oh, it’s wonderful,” they all agreed with one another.
It was a total Circle Jerk Du Soleil.
Seriously, that book is going to rule so hard. →
Sigh
Client: Well, we've got a bit of a problem. We don't think we want to go with any of the suggested logos.
Me: Oh? What would you like to do then?
Client: What do you mean? What normally happens?
Me: I give you an invoice, you pay it, and then I recommend you go to another firm.
Client: Hey, what?
Me: Remember how I gave you a return brief, outlining what we were going to do?
Client: Yes.
Me: And you also remember how after we made our presentation last week, I asked you the following words: "Would you agree that we have met the brief and done everything we said we would do?"
Client: Yes. Oh. Ohhhhhhhh.
Me: Yeah, you're pretty much locked in.
You know, not all latino people were in Mexico... →
Time is indeed relative.
A business relationship built up over years and bound together with thousands of hours of work can be unbundled in fewer than 90 seconds.
Related: anybody in the US want to give me a very highly-paid job?
“On the 10th of October 2007, Richard Pratt was formally accused of price fixing,...”
– All we owe the dead is the truth.
Here's how pathetic I am.
Right now, I wish there were other places I could type about my impotent rage.
So, who wants sexxin?
From the Owning Your Failures dept.
You know how I’m always banging on about having two businesses? Being all “Hey, look at me!” about it? Being a self-important fuckhead, basically?
Well, one failed today. No money owed to anybody, nobody got hurt, but I’m having what you could consider to be a bad run.
I’m not saying this to elicit sympathy – just making sure I take the good (wheeeeeee! success!)...
“Why the Defence Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the...”
– Really, Mr Bloomberg? Really? It defies imagination? You simply cannot imagine why the White House would want to photograph a prime symbol of American potency (Air Force 1) next to the prime symbol of American promise (The Statue of Liberty) and the symbol of unified purpose (The former WTC site)?
...
WatchSure, it’s long. Just fucking watch it, ok?
Adam Curtis’ The Power of Nightmares.
Hey, codefolk! Can you help with creating Tumblr...
Howdy, and thanks for reading.
You may or may not be aware that I’m a graphic designer of some years’ experience. I mean, like I’m old. But whatever.
I have a couple of ideas for Tumblr themes but I don’t have the code skills, nor the time, nor the inclination, to do the coding work to make them function. I know I should probably learn, but I’m a big fan of the law...
“But if this emergency rule-bending is then institutionalized, and kept a secret...”
– Hitchens, in his Slate column.
You know, thanks.
So yesterday was one in a lamentably long list of ‘days that can suck the peanuts out of my shit’. Terrible. Couldn’t sleep until maybe 4. Just woke up and saw that wordfind.
The first three words I saw were:
suicide
secret
scum.
Yeah, today is going to be chock-full of rad.
2.53 AM is the perfect time to have an existential crisis, but it’s dark and seriously, fuck Camus.
2.54 AM is the perfect time to look at porn then, I guess.
Hey! ShortFormBlog is actually kinda cool! →
I'm not an transport engineer or a mathematician...
This is a W-Class Melbourne tram. The model was introduced in 1927, and some still run today. It is 14.1 metres in length.
It seats 50.
This is a D-Class tram, introduced in 2002. It is 21 metres in length.
It seats a mere 32.
Melbourne has the largest tram network on the planet, yet we no longer make our own rolling stock, instead buying bullshit like this designed for eastern European...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Okkervil River (51)
Cat Stevens (17)
Man Man (12)
Spiritualized (11)
Sloan (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Seriously.
Just give me your username and password. I’ll fuck shit RIGHT up.
“Victoria has some of the tightest speeding tolerances in Australia, with...”
– Yes, that’s right. My state has the world’s most inflexible and impossible to obey anti-speeding laws.
From Wikipedia.
If you are worried about {animal name goes here}... →
Where the wave of the sexual revolution dumps some...
A little while ago, over a few drinks, a friend of mine opened up to me about a strange issue. She and her boyfriend have what I guess would be called an open relationship – they each sleep with other people apart from one another. You know, an ‘arrangement’.
Her issue was a strange one. She lamented a double-standard, but one that I’d never heard anybody bring up before. See,...
You're a dreamer, Delgrosso. A dreamer. Shine on,... →
Someday I will do a really super fun internetty project and every single one of you can be in it and it will be so much super fun and then we can all come back to my house and my mom will make s’mores and we will all laugh and everything will be sparkly and happy and no one will be sad and whiny.
