November 2009
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October 2009
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Windows 7 Launch Party: The Twitter Joke
The way I see it, this could’ve gone a few ways: Branded Event as Meaningless Gesture This morning, I hosted a Breakfast Sandwich 7 launch party. Later, hosting a Walk the Dog While Roasting in my Own Fever Sweat 7 launch party. Don’t forget chips for the fever sweat! This exploits Microsoft’s self-parodic attempt to create buzz from the painfully mundane and invites us to...
Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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Jokey emails
I make jokes in email, almost to a fault, without thinking. Just now I asked myself why I do this. Here’s what I’ve come up with, for future ref: The default tone conveyed by the email format is business efficiency. Business-speak is impersonal and humorless, and any message conveyed neutrally comes off by default as grumpy. As an empathetic person who, by default, assumes that my...
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Sequels I never knew existed
“Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby” (1976) “French Connection II” (1975) This is not a sequel, but a fascinating sequel-related tidbit: The official title of the first in the Police Academy series is “Police Academy: What an Institution!” (1984). Ghost-penned by Yakov Smirnoff? No way to know, really. Probably. Now, you and I both know that...
Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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ListenSomething terrifying is going on at the USAA call...
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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WatchWatch
“Rich Dicks” In the two months since I first saw this, I’ve thought about it most days. Everyone’s going crazy for Nick Kroll’s Bobby Bottleservice and Fabrice Fabrice these days, but for my money, the Rich Dicks are the two truest, most richly realized characters I’ve seen in funny web video in who knows how long. I tried to resist sharing it but I...
Oct 7th
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“You can’t change me. I’m a gypsy. I’m a sea cow. I know...”
– Maria Bamford
Oct 7th
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Oct 6th
My Top 5 TV Shows (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
Bored to Death (30) Mad Men (63) Glee (16) Community (28) Curb Your Enthusiasm (52) Imported from Apple TV by FreshPauper
Oct 5th
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Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC →
lowindustrial: Apple has been working on such a Swiss Army knife tablet since at least 2003, according to several former employees. One prototype, developed in 2003, used PowerPC microchips made by I.B.M., which were so power-hungry that they quickly drained the battery. “It couldn’t be built. The battery life wasn’t long enough, the graphics performance was not enough to do anything and the...
Oct 5th
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Oct 4th
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Oct 3rd
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Listen“Back to School” Overture (1986) by...
Oct 3rd
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Oct 1st
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