March 2008
1 post
on awkward and abrupt endings
this experiment is complete.
February 2008
44 posts
on negotiation
strange foriegn guy outside ohare: that line for cabs is more than a hundred people
tom: tell me about it
sfg: i have a towncar, i can get you home faster than you could find a cab here
tom: yeah?
sfg: $95
tom: you're insane, it's a $30 cab ride
sfg: $65
tom: can you take credit?
sfg: absolutely
tom: $45
sfg: let's go
tom: thanks man
sfg: no problem. you want a lifesaver?
tom: i'm good
if you stopped smoking right now... →
In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal. In 8 hours the carbon monoxide levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal. In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level. In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax,...
“i’m an open book and you’re a blank page.”
i have a verizon-branded blackberry 8130. i would like this phone to work with sprint. shoot me an email if you know anything about carrier-unlocking. the internet has failed me on this one.
thought
i wish antibiotics were a available over the counter
on moving
there is no better opportunity to evaluate and optimize one’s life. objectives, by march 15th - reduce clutter by 100% - reduce furnitre owned by 50% - reduce computers owned by 50% - finish reading books on symmertry and color theory - find a parking spot nearer my new apartment objectives, beginning march 15th - halve lunches eaten out - halve dinners eaten out - read at least two books...
mishell: my friend thought i would be funny to play a prank on me and my friend [redacted] on april fools 2 years ago. so she said, she did this funny game with her family when she was home where everyone was eating powdered donuts only you couldnt lick your lips at any point while eating..she said it was like impossible.
mishell: so i was with her while she bought the donuts.
mishell: me and [redacted] come over, her and my friend [redacted] are sitting there with the donuts and we all start chowing down.
mishell: i think the donut tastes a little weird but i am so distracted by [redacted] laughing and watching [redacted] inhale the donut that i dont think twice. i finish the entire donut.
mishell: then my friend informs me that we just ate plain donuts completely covered in baby powder
i wish tumblr had comments.
"20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in... →
“John F Kennedy didn’t look up at the moon and say, ‘nope, too...”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffwY74XbS4
“Obama extended his hot streak to eight consecutive wins over Clinton in a...”
– reuters, on tonight’s sweep.
when i think ‘audio post’ i think...
you can't fight it, yahoo. →
“what happened to your face?”
– brian
“the beard is looking fierce, dude.”
– tyler
“ok, you guys. what is going on with the facial hair?”
– julie
“Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal...”
– David Drummond of google, using three logical fallacies in a single paragraph to describe the potential microsoft/yahoo acquisition.
"Marlboro Intense" →
are you kidding me?
holy hostile takeover, batman!
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9cE_gI-aemyNxZQb7YOBC3rsNlQD8UHLJ780
January 2008
51 posts
Dear web developers,
jakoblodwick: Please set your cookies so that when I login to your site, I will be logged-in next time I visit, even if it’s months later. And please let me do this from multiple computers. I want to login one time per computer, ever. In a world without advertising, perhaps.
“I want, for once, someone I can vote for not because I dislike the other...”
– Randall Munroe of xkcd, endorsing Barack Obama. This is a merger or two supremely awesome things.
on keeping a low profile
you can sometimes learn strange things about your friends by google blog searching them.
