June 2009
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Dear College: Stop Asking me for Money →
May 30th
WatchWatch
I think it’s a little cliche to go to the opening night of a relatively hyped new movie, to enjoy it, and to tell everyone that mentions it something to the effect of, “Oh, you’ve got to see it. And watch it in 3D if you can.” That thought notwithstanding, go see Up.
May 30th
Thought While Dining:
I can’t remember the last time I ordered “just a water” and tried to sneak Sprite or lemonade at a restaurant that gave me a glass with ice and trusted me to get water at the machine. A few observations (in no particular order): In Junior High/High School, I really thought I was getting away with a heist when I would get soda. It was right under their noses, and they had no...
May 30th
XKCD →
This isn’t really news, but if you’re not subscribed via RSS to XKCD, you should be.
May 30th
ListenBackporch Majority — Branded
May 30th
May 29th
topherchris: I hope I still have this “Y2K Survivor” t-shirt when I’m an old man so I can tell young people a fantastical story about the survival of pockets of humanity after the loss of all modern technology at the stroke of Midnight on the last day of 1999. We all lived in abandoned office buildings… Tribes quickly formed… When the battle with the dicks on the 8th floor finally started, all...
May 29th
When a Mustache Changes a Sentence
Examples of sentences that are changed significantly when the person who’s talking has a mustache: You’re never going to believe what just happened to me. I’m headed to the baseball field … Today is Little League’s Opening Day. I’ve got a lot of respect for Michael Jackson. I’m thinking about getting a new van. Do you know how fast you were going? ...
May 29th
WatchWatch
That bird is a liar.
May 29th
Twitter's Support
Twitter’s “support” is agonizing.
May 29th
May 29th
200 notes
“We all have ways of coping … I use sex. And awesomeness.”
– “Larry Braverman” (Jack on 30 Rock)
May 29th
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May 28th
May 28th
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A Review: Max's Wine Dive
elizablr: Max’s Wine Dive opened a few weeks ago downtown - 2nd and San Jacinto-ish. Across from Rio Grande (the old Real World house.) Co-worker and I decided to check it out for a pre-run Happy Hour… Pros: The food was really good comfort food. We had the Gator Bites, Nacho Mama’s Oysters, the fries and the Max and Cheese. Co-worker said it was the best mac and cheese she’s ever had. ...
May 28th
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May 27th
Bottomed-Out Tumblarity
Dear Work, You’ve officially bottomed-out my Tumblarity. Thanks. -Kevin
May 27th
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May 20th
Question ...
Well, it’s a question that probably involves a test. If I had this question while a question was easily accessible on my dashboard, this post would be superfluous. If you reblog this question post, when yours is posted, do you have the opportunity to enable answers? Are answers enabled by default? Would Your answers show up in my answers?
May 20th
Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage: What You Need... →
If you dig it, then digg it.
May 20th
May 20th
I am so lucky!
gary: I have an amazing family, love what I do and love people so much in general, see life as not only half full but as FULL! I want to thank everyone and everything ….I am so lucky! Period Technically, that should read “I am so lucky Exclamation Point”.
May 19th
24 notes
Email Read Receipts
SENDER requested a read receipt to be sent when message “TITLE” is read. Do you want to send a receipt? YES | NO
May 19th
“Really, I love what you’ve done with the place. Must have cost...”
– Fletch
May 19th
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“The enemy in our time is not human capacity, or over activism, but the enemy is...”
– Dallas Willard
May 19th
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“In every company there’s one person willing to bring the big ideas forward. This...”
– Caleb Booker (via Jeff Barr)
May 15th
Email and Reply
Email Sent: Pages2Words888Characters (no spaces)4,212Characters (with spaces)5,087Paragraphs22Lines70 Reply Received: Pages1Words3Characters (no spaces)5Characters (with spaces)7Paragraphs1Lines1 You’ll never be able to guess it, but you can give it a shot … What was the reply? View on the site to see table formatting.
May 14th
Add Commentary to a Chat?
How do you add commentary to a chat post on Tumblr? A coworker overheard a great conversation about “The Tweets” and it wasn’t until I was ready to post it that I realized I couldn’t make an additional comment about the chat outside of the chat in the chat post. I guess an alternative would be to manually close the chat div in the entry box, but I think that would also...
May 14th
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The Tweets
Person 1: Have you heard about the tweets? My son keeps doing the tweet.
Person 2: Oh yeah, my daughter loves to do the tweet.
Person 1: What is the tweet? Why do they want it?
Person 2: Its some internet thing. My daughter asked me if I'd follow her. I told her I trusted her, but not sure what that means
Person 1: My son loves doing the tweet.
Person 2: When my daughter showed me the tweets on the internet, I still don't get it. Apparently they just type in whatever they are doing or thinking and people can see it. I mean, I don't see why this is better than using the txt or heck, if you want your friends to know what you're doing, just call them. Its not like she doesn’t have a cell phone all the time.
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(OH by U.V.)
May 14th
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WatchWatch
Interesting fact. This video was a single take, uncut. Wait. I can’t back that up.
May 13th
I'll Trade Ya
Ever wish you could trade lives with someone … just for an hour or two? I would have traded the last two hours with anyone on the planet (but not at The Planet … since that wouldn’t have helped). :-)
May 13th
Re: Notes on Permalink Pages
A follow-up to this issue … After doing some investigating, I found that something in the sidebar was disagreeing with the default position:relative; in the CSS for ol.notes. The fix: Adding float:left; to that class. See?
May 11th
marco: I disliked the “Awesome Bar” at first, but now I’ve become addicted to its URL substring matching for autocomplete: for example, to go to the Tumblr Dashboard, I just type “dash” (autocompletes to http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard based on the substring match), down, Enter. In Safari, I’d have to type “tumblr.com/d” at minimum, and I’ve never quite been able to reliably use Safari’s...
May 11th
Gmail Invites
Why do I still have 97 Gmail invites available? Actually, let me dissect that question: Why do I only have 97 invites to a service that is no longer exclusive? I gave 3 Gmail invites away before the public availability of the platform … why haven’t I regenerated those three invites? If someone has endured the ridicule of having a non-Gmail email address for the last four years,...
May 11th
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May 11th
I Haven't Run for a Week
Since the marathon, I’ve been beyond lazy … sleeping in late, eating the least healthy food possible and loving every minute of it. Next week, I’ll consider doing something active (since I can finally walk normally again).
May 9th
May 9th
Notes on Permalink Pages
Following my first “question” post, I realized I didn’t incorporate “Notes” into my theme, so I went for the simplest implementation of using the Notes Example style along with the “PostNotes” template bit so that the answers would be shown on the single post page. I might have something a little off in my CSS … The most recent note appears under...
May 5th
Canada & The Electric Slide
At the Team in Training “Victory Dinner” after the Vancouver marathon, we were lucky enough to have one of the best “bad wedding DJ” DJs cranking out the jams. Included in the first 20 songs: The Chicken Dance YMCA Shout Macarena Mambo No. 5 When he realized he couldn’t transition into “Butterfly Kisses” or “Remember When,” he rolled...
May 5th
Listenelizablr: You’ve got to know when to hold...
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