July 2010
5 posts
Jul 28th
Jul 14th
A (Now) Open Letter to Continental Airlines
Over the course of the last six days, I’ve sent two emails to refundshouston@coair.com, one to onepass@coair.com and reached out to get in touch with @Continental on Twitter to no avail. The topic: the way Continental Airlines handles upgrades. The response: Crickets (not even an auto-responder acknowledging receipt). Since I spent a couple long, cramped hours writing this on a plane, I...
Jul 12th
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“Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I’m somebody now!...”
– Navin Johnson (Steve Martin in “The Jerk”)
Jul 6th
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“Is the real point of my life simply to undergo as little pain and as much...”
– David Foster Wallace (reviewing Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky)
Jul 1st
June 2010
4 posts
6 tags
The Art of the Unexpected
A couple weeks ago, I was reading “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart” from David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster, and I couldn’t get over his explanation of why sports stars’ autobiographies are generally so dissatisfying: Of course, neither Austin nor her book is unique. It’s hard not to notice the way this same air of robotic banality suffuses not only...
Jun 22nd
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 11th
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May 2010
3 posts
May 29th
3,283 notes
May 21st
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May 4th
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April 2010
4 posts
“I used to tell everyone to go out and make art. I don’t do that so much anymore.”
– Banksy
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
Apr 15th
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Why do ESPN, ABC and Disney still redirect people to BRAND.go.com? Go.com appears to have died nine years ago. How is it a good idea to keep great domains (abc.com, espn.com, etc.) redirecting to awful subdomain equivalents?
Apr 2nd
March 2010
10 posts
Mar 16th
1 note
1 tag
Mar 16th
Mar 16th
45 notes
Tumblr Video Post
When posting a video on Tumblr, a user reads this tip: This can be a URL from video sites like YouTube or Vimeo, or the raw Embed-tag from any video/flash site. (ie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVEGfH4s5g) As a geek, my instinct is to copy that link into a new window to see what video gets to be the “example” only to find “This video has been removed by the...
Mar 15th
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Mar 15th
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Epic IRL Tumblarity
I met Marco, John, Jared, Meaghan and Tiffany at the SXSW party last night. If IRL Tumblarity existed, I’d have a featured spot in the directory today.
Mar 14th
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Mar 14th
All you jerks going to SXSW are jerks.
hellamike: JERKS! SUCKA!!!
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 8th
February 2010
12 posts
Feb 28th
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When Did This Happen? →
Zappos got a makeover. It’s a lot … whiter.
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
Feb 26th
How I Was Able to Ace Exams Without Studying →
Feb 23rd
1 note
2 tags
WatchWatch
“The Landlord” on Funny or Die just crossed 70 million views. And it’s still hilarious.
Feb 19th
Something, Something, Tiger Woods
“To all of those who believed in me in the past, I ask you to find room in your heart to believe in me again.”
Feb 19th
1 note
Incredible
staff: According to Andrew - at peak times, Tumblr is pushing more than 3000 pageviews per second. I guess that’s what all those servers are for! Have we told all of you how much we love you, lately? These next features should. :) Those must be really nice servers. Just sayin’ …
Feb 17th
604 notes
2 tags
Feb 16th
3 notes
WatchWatch
itsthereal: They Reminisce Over Ye: Wearing all black everything. Wait until the one-minute mark. You’re color-by-numbers, Mr. West is a Warhol.
Feb 16th
46 notes
Feb 15th
Something's Wrong With You
Ali: It needs to say "pew! pew! pew!" 'cause that's what the lolcats say ... pew! pew! pew!
Kevin: There's something wrong with you.
Katie: Truer words have never been spoken.
Feb 10th
6 notes
January 2010
14 posts
Jan 28th
984 notes
My Apple Tablet Request
Let me take the SIM card out of my iPhone and put it into the tablet to use 3G when I need it. I don’t want to buy another cell plan when I already have multiple internet-ready, cellular devices.
Jan 27th
Hosting for Haiti →
This has been a cool project to participate in … getting a chance to lay down the swords for a minute to work with some of our competitors to make a difference and provide some help to the American Red Cross in Haiti.
Jan 21st
Oh you people who reblog and remove credit...
Come here so I can tousle your hair. And punch you in the junk. At least the credit is in the notes, I guess. This is my personal sentiment. It was not influenced by anyone else. Especially Mike.
Jan 19th
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Ninjas Perform Most Deadly Nexus One Unboxing Of... →
mashable: Google has fronted the cash so that YouTube director Patrick Bolvin could make a viral unboxing video for the Nexus One smartphone. Gadget geeks on the Internet relish making…
Jan 19th
Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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“I’ve also found that the more I trust in Christ’s redemption to be sufficient,...”
– Donald Miller
Jan 14th
Marathon #2 by 26.2
On September 16, 2008, I set a goal to run 26.2 miles by the time I turned 26.2 years old. I met that goal well before my February 5, 2010 cut-off, and my second marathon (this weekend) would qualify as well! Fun fact: As of the summer of 2008, the longest distance I had ever run was about 3 miles … and I’m pretty sure it almost killed me.
Jan 12th
I wish I could reblog question-answer posts. Because I’d totally reblog: this one.
Jan 12th
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Jan 4th
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