February 2010
January 2010
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo à la Turk
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Talib Kweli vs MGMT - Time To Listen
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5yo’s first sleepover here and my wife is out with friends. Think I need a lawyer to handle these negotiations for me in the future.
Did you know that the collective noun for mice is “a mischief?” In other news, bourbon is smoothing out the 5yo’s sleepover party nicely.
Also, service that I shall not name: you want me to come check out my “party profile?” Seriously?
There are days when a deli bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll is better than any other breakfast you could possibly imagine.
Okay, New Yorkers, quick quiz: Mercury Lounge or Union Pool?
Marissa Nadler - Ballad To An Amber Lady (Pearls...
If Salinger wrote as much in the past 40 years as was rumored, he could totally beat out Tupac for posthumous releases.
Too soon? Really?
Hm. I guess it was too soon for the “he could beat out Tupac for posthumous releases” joke I just made, then, too. Oops. Sorry.
ryanbrown:
@RL_Stine:
My question is: Did J.D. Salinger leave many many manuscripts that can now be released? We know he was writing all these years…
A little over a year ago I Twittered the following:
I keep hearing “I hope Obama does what he says he will”…actually, he keeps talking about what you and I are going to do, folks. Let’s go.
Unfortunately, this is just the situation that I was imagining at that moment.
mikehudack:
justinday:
Last night our President made an impassioned plea to Congress, to the media,...
So here’s my one and only thought on the iPad…
I’ll be really surprised if it’s a success by the standards we currently apply to Apple products. No web sites tracking availability, no sales records, no techo-lust.
If it succeeds, it will be a quiet revolution. There will be a steady but unremarkable stream of sales. As the months pass we’ll stop remarking on the...
RIP Howard Zinn →
Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants →
A German man who stuffed 44 small lizards into his underwear before trying to board a flight has been sentenced to prison in New Zealand for plundering the country’s protected species.
(via benjaminpalmer)
One of the perks of working for the AP: every once in a while you get paid to write a headline like “man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants.”
So you know what’s weird? A new Apple device where the price tag is what’s most exciting to people. We’re through the looking glass, people.
“Netbooks aren’t better than anything.”
– Steve Jobs, just now. (via gbattle)
This line alone made the event worthwhile.
“Moses brought us two Tablets. Steve’s going to simplify it and bring us...”
– Andrew Parker, via Twitter
Also: yes, wife and children out for the evening and I’m too burnt out to do anything other than Twitter, for those who are curious.
Walking in NYC is awesome: today I learned that ESP-Disk’ now operates out of a storefront three blocks from my house.
I have this sneaking suspicion that my 12:30pm EST call tomorrow will be concluded, perhaps abruptly, before 1pm.
“Also, the more I think about a roomba, the more I’m convinced an owner needs to...”
– This is an excellent question. (via katiebakes)
mikehudack: It’s a problem. I’ve also been having a problem with my Roomba getting stuck on the sloped white base of my Ikea-made Saarinen Tulip knock-off table. The combination of the white color and the sloped nature of the base mean that the...
The last time I spent an hour or so waiting in my doctor’s office, I found myself wondering whether it would actually work out better for him to just give patients a window of something like three or four hours in which they can show up, letting game theory take care of the rest.
mikehudack:
RT @ewiesen: VCs are often late for meetings but people in the medical world treat appt times as...
Tallest Man On Earth - I Won’t Be Found
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Mobile app developers presenting without internet access. Irony is sitting in the chair next to me. #momobk
Very tired, but off to Momo Brooklyn.
7:15am. Two kids to get dressed, 28 emails in the inbox, two big docs to finish; one big thermos full of coffee.
Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me
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