September 2010
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Portishead (14)
Never Shout Never (12)
In Flames (12)
Depeche Mode (11)
Slayer (11)
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August 2010
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
Raaz: The Mystery Continues Cast (2)
Jeet-Pritam (2)
Lata Mangeshkar & Udit Narayan (2)
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (2)
Adnan Sami (1)
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What I Carry in My Pockets
Dave and Patrick started this, so blame them if you think it’s boring. I love this crap, though. Front Left: Cash (on the rare occasion when I actually have any). Front Left: Keys, including a small LaCie thumb drive that I almost never use, thanks to Dropbox. Front Left: Plastic bound together with a Field Notes Band of Rubber. Front Right: iPhone 4. Back Right: Field Notes notebook which...
Things that are making me happy right now
The anticipation of an evening out with my lady celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary (tomorrow night). That said lady and I decided that anniversary gifts are off the table this year because neither of us could think of anything cool to give. There’s a new episode of The Talk Show. There’s a new episode of Macbreak Weekly. The Hold Steady How great it is that I get do a super cool...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
Flogging Molly (30)
Bad Religion (15)
Green Day (14)
Dick Van Dyke (6)
Concrete Blonde (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
The Killers (12)
Flogging Molly (11)
The Gaslight Anthem (10)
Me First & The Gimme Gimmies (6)
Death Cab for Cutie (5)
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The Costco Thing
Earlier today, I posted a toot about how Costco was on my shit list, but gave no explanation. I got a few replies asking me what the story was, so here you go. A few months ago, my wife and I were in the market for a new printer. We shopped around for a bit and, in the process, found ourselves at Costco, where we have a membership and shop occasionally. They had an HP OfficeJet 8000 for a...
Joana's Last Night at The Summit House!
Celebrating my lovely wife’s final shift after 9 years of loyal, sarcastic service.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
Death Cab for Cutie (15)
Muslimgauze (1)
Converge (1)
The Loved Ones (1)
Broken Social Scene (1)
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July 2010
18 posts
GPOYW - I Showed My Sideburns and Now Feel Dirty...
Pilots ejects seconds before hitting the ground
via youtube.com I won’t bother commenting on the song that’s playing since it’s already been said much funnier than I could hope to say it. (ht: @KimPrice)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Bad Religion (17)
Feist (11)
Death Cab for Cutie (10)
Panic! At the Disco (2)
Robert Uhlmann, Arash & Johan Bejerholm (2)
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About the Cumin Waffle Thing...
A few people have asked about the “cumin waffle” references that appear throughout Evernote Essentials (an ebook I wrote about Evernote), so I thought I’d share the (admittedly banal) story behind them. Several months ago, a friend of mine that I worked with was recounting a story about a young relative of his. On one occasion, this young boy’s family was having a...
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Flipboard is pretty sweet. They should c...
Flipboard is pretty sweet. They should charge for it to pay for infrastructure as it’s currently over capacity. via Osfoora
No, you're immature.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
Panic! At the Disco (29)
Aerosmith (9)
A.R. Rahman (7)
Simon & Garfunkel (6)
Vishal-Shekhar (5)
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Bad Sales Pitches
My scant 31 years on this planet has taught me that any unexpected knock at the front door on a Saturday morning is from somebody I’m not at all interested in seeing. Take, for instance, the teenager who just showed up at my front door a few minutes ago peddling subscriptions to the local paper. I knew before he finished knocking that I was going to be pitched on some super sweet deal on...
Crane Operator Likes To Start Day With A Quick 360
via theonion.com My love for The Onion grows stronger with each passing day.
Kick-ass Evernote iPhone Wallpaper
via flickr.com Brought to you by the inimitable @mercurystate at @kneadle
You guys know the part in The Godfather when Vito...
I’m the mortician and Sonny is the CSS I’m working on.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
Feist (12)
Flogging Molly (11)
The Gaslight Anthem (10)
Simon & Garfunkel (8)
The Beatles (6)
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Every couple of days someone posts an amazing... →
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Are You Using a Broken Tool?
nerdgap:
At our house, we have a set of plastic measuring cups. They look really cool - they collapse down to almost nothing when not in use, all that good stuff. Trouble is, we don’t put plastics in the dishwasher, so I have to wash them by hand. Washing these things is a huge pain, particularly if they’ve been used to measure anything extremely granular (like flour). Half the time when I...
Wherein I announce something pretty huge... →
June 2010
36 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
Flogging Molly (27)
The Dropkick Murphys (8)
Bad Religion (8)
The Beatles (8)
R.E.M. (8)
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“… as well as a food court.”
– I never expected to see these words in the summary section at the top of the Wikipedia article on Maynard James Keenan.
But there they are.
Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Help me show up..in the comedians directory..its... →
In related news, Pauly Shore hates words that feature two of the same consonant next to one another.
NB - clicking that link will actually do what he’s asking - your call.
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A Letter to Scarlett →
My tears of fear turned into tears of joy and hope, on that day our lives changed forever.
My good friend wrote this. One of the most touching, honest things I’ve read in a long time. It’s so easy to get caught up in the “business of parenting” - all of the tactical crap you do to simply maintain a semblance of order - that it’s sometimes hard to remember what our...
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About this Posterous/Tumblr Thing...
When I first read the post on the Posterous blog about the “get people to move off of their old blog platforms that suck” thing, I was actually impressed. Having waltzed around this blogging block a few times, I know that a great many folks are running their blogs on old, crappy software that has been all but forgotten (looking at you, Blogger) and that an easy way to move their...
If they ever hire me, my 20% time project will be...
WatchOne of my favorite Pedro songs - great cover.
Ben Gibbard covers Pedro the Lion’s Big Trucks
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
Flogging Molly (27)
Feist (8)
Simon & Garfunkel (6)
Muse (3)
Janis Joplin (3)
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“[Art] Garfunkel is the brother of Jerome Garfunkel, the former member of the...”
– Art Garfunkel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
