August 2007
179 posts
July 2007
133 posts
lonelysandwich: what do you mean “the iPhone could not be updated?” what do you mean “you shouldn’t have hacked your new iPhone?” (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
Total Fuckin' Access
here’s me, a Blockbuster loyalist.
i owe much of my film education to the Big Yellow And Royal Blue. (my other alma mater is Violet - which would you go with?) this is like saying i owe much of my digestive regularity to taco bell, but you get the sentiment. call me nostalgic, but i connect Blockbuster with a sixteen year old Me walking the familiar inner aisles (avoiding the new...
lonelysandwich: if i were @ev ‘s new bride, i’d chuck his blackberry out the cargo hatch. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: Office birthday cake. Tall and chocolatey. Goddamn it. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
traitors to whiteness
on Mary Bucholtz, a UCSB linguist who has been studying nerds for 12 years:
“They often favor Greco-Latinate words over Germanic ones (“it’s my observation” instead of “I think”), a preference that lends an air of scientific detachment. They’re aware they speak distinctively, and they use language as a badge of membership in their cliques.”
assuming that everyone has a Simpsons...
“and then it became blindingly obvious: all the memory that everybody keeps...”
– Andrei Codrescu, from the book of essays “101 Damnations”, excerpted and featured on this episode of the public radio show radiolab, entitled “Remembering and Forgetting” - highly worth listening.
lonelysandwich: at home, when every port is filled on the macbook pro, i know it’s gonna be a good day. FTW. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
in dentristy, a sense of humor always prevails →
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — An oral surgeon who temporarily implanted fake boar tusks in his assistant’s mouth as a practical joke and got sued for it has gotten the state’s high court to back up his gag.
lonelysandwich: huge crush on miranda july. like tear-out-poster-on-the-wall-size crush. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: excellent character name, Meyer Dickstein. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: just saw peter gallagher leave the apple store with an iPhone in a bag. take that, Griffin Mill. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: who knew that Arthur Ashe named his daughter Camera? i didn’t. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
Vonage Rumer, SunRocket Tallulah
in a gesture of something, Ooma creative director and marketing guru Ashton Kutcher named the satellite box to his VoIP device “Scout,” after one of the daughters of his wife, One Crazy Summer’s demi moore. the device itself was designed by Fez. not wilmer valderrama - the actual character Fez. gag… and… yep, barf.
speaking of Ooma, i’m halfway inclined to...
lonelysandwich: turns out, seeing Goldblum play out is not as cool as it sounds. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: out on the street, white earbuds abound, the telltale status symbol is the mic button. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
“Fake Steve, as a concept, is downright old-school.”
– Caroline McCarthy, c|net
david foster wallace coined the term “image fiction” to describe the idea of fictionalizing a known personality. his short story ‘Little Expressionless Animals,’ imagines a whole private life for Alex Trebek.
lonelysandwich: i get to go see Goldblum’s orchestra tonight. yes, GET to. http://urltea.com/12ce (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: hey, urltea. please don’t automatically put http:// in the blank field. it mucks me all up. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: lunch by myself and a radiolab podcast. had to tweet this to make it a social event. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
lonelysandwich: first month’s AT&T bill - 80MB of EDGE data. a real achievement. (via Twitter / lonelysandwich)
Watchi don’t know if this can be considered abusive (i guess they all would have eventually tried a lemon at some point). but is it exploitative? hilariously so.
disruptive technology
do people really have the time to ingest the hours and hours of entertainment their devices provide? i am i alone in being overwhelmed by the unending stream of tv, movies and podcasts to catch up on, meanwhile maintaining relationships at work and home?
i hear the pundits talk of all that they consume through their portable tech. some of them, i’m pretty sure, have significant others. ...
“________ said at the meeting that, you know, there’s Facebook,...”
– one young dotcom minion to another, in line at the Baja Bud’s in Santa Monica. it was startling to overhear this industry’s conversation in this locale. it was like the spirit-building banter of talent agents’ assistants, bragging on who their bosses had just signed. out of...