April 2009
Is there any way to monetize my superhuman ability to demagnetize BART cards? So far I’ve only found ways to lose money with it.
March 2009
I’ll be in Utah for the rest of the week, where apparently it’s supposed to get 3-5 inches of snow and be in the high 50s. AT THE SAME TIME.
If it’s a crime to illegally download the complete DuckTales series from BitTorrent, then I’m guilty. Guilty of loving DuckTales too much.
Political question: If something is “too big to fail”, why shouldn’t it be nationalized and/or broken up into smaller pieces that can fail?
Why didn’t I think of this before: Subscribe to your Tripit.com calender in iCal and sync to your iPhone. So easy. http://bit.ly/klAj
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Beat Happening (55)
Heavenly (36)
The Decemberists (32)
The National (31)
Songs: Ohia (25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Amazon has 10 free sampler mp3 albums (100+ songs) from indie labels like Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian & Dead Oceans http://bit.ly/16pdt
Beat Happening – Angel Gone
What? Two Calvin...
Adventure update: Didn’t die or even lose a kidney. Did get a little sunburned and had a milkshake. Not a bad day.
Setting off on an adventure. I have no idea where I’m going, so you should start getting the St. Bernards with brandy casks ready now.
The most important thing I’ve learned today is that Fred Durst has a chest tattoo of Kurt Cobain hanging out with Elvis. http://bit.ly/15d8
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– Moltz (via amishrobot)
Accidentally made my own turducken interface: A carousel inside an accordion, inside a modal pop-up. The horror. http://bit.ly/11Ywtj
http://twitpic.com/2h6d0 - @amishrobot It’s just a wireframe, so I was using what I had on hand. I’d never do this in real life.
Right now I wish I had a dog I could severely overindulge.
Drafting in my family’s fantasy baseball league. This is bigger than Christmas for us.
Heavenly – C Is The Heavenly Option
I dare you to...
From a “future of the music industry” perspective, http://coda.fm is really, really interesting.
“Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to...”
– Rebecca Solnit, whose A Field Guide to Getting Lost is fantastic and quite possibly a very dangerous book for me to be reading right now.
Just signed up for a year of @evernote, didn’t realize it was an auto-renewing bill. I hate when companies do that (even @ancestrydotcom)
I’ve put in as much effort researching my fantasy baseball team as I have my 401(k) this year, and I expect them both to do about the same.
At what point did every advertising person start calling themselves a Social Media Marketer? I’m embarrassed for them whenever I hear it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22) →
Doom (57)
Jonathan Richman (44)
Frightened Rabbit (40)
Low (39)
Palace (39)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
At 1:30am I shouldn’t think how my last.fm data could be working harder for me – now I’m screwing around with APIs instead of sleeping.
It could happen to anyone
magicmolly:
Legendary rocker Brian Wilson’s weight exploded in the years after his failed first attempt to complete the SMILE recordings - because he was eating too many birthday cakes. He says, “I was eating a lot of birthday cakes. I was eating half a birthday cake a night.” “I shot up to 311 pounds. Why birthday cakes? Because I loved the taste of icing, it was so good.”
If there’s one...
The Decemberists – Grace Cathedral Hill
This is...
Links for 2009-03-19 [del.icio.us] →
TheInfo.org
“This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who…
Ladies, if your idea of a romantic evening involves watching Ghostbusters 2 with me you have 5 mins to get over here before the magic starts
When it’s 65º, sunny and I’m sitting next to an open window with a nice breeze, iTunes is only able to play Jonathan Richman songs. Weird.
Thanks to @rachelmulcrone, I’m very seriously considering hiring a part time PA. And a stylist.
Playboy and Deep Zoom →
In addition to a funny joke about looking at pictures of naked women, Jason Kottke also offers the best definition of Microsoft’s Silverlight I’ve heard yet. A question no one asked indeed.
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day by renaming dinner “Honey Bunches O’ Oats” and eating a green banana. It’s getting craaaazy up in here.
Hello burnout. I didn’t see you sneaking up on me.
Mount Eerie – Great Ghosts
This song is...
Sign that your HR department’s career planning software is bad: You seriously think about quitting rather than fill out the endless forms.
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because...”
– Gordy Thompson, former manager of internet at NY Times, as told to Clay Shirky
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
(via fred-wilson)
Every time I justify something with “I deserve it”, I end up full of regret. I don’t know if I hate myself or just stink at decision making.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-15) →
Phosphorescent (80)
Songs: Ohia (38)
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists (28)
Uncle Tupelo (21)
Telefon Tel Aviv (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Neil Young’s Zuma has to win some sort of award for the biggest quality gap between an album and it’s cover art. http://twitpic.com/24037