February 2011
28 posts
Wikipedia's Missing Women →
jddunn:
The whole thing is fucked up and sad in general, but this bit in particular leaped out at me.
“It is ironic,” he said, “because I like these things — freedom, openness, egalitarian ideas — but I think to some extent they are compounding and hiding problems you might find in the real world.”
Adopting openness means being “open to very difficult, high-conflict people, even...
January 2011
35 posts
Car repairs
Make me feel super tough. Even if is just replacing the totally inappropriate battery in my car (apparently it had an ‘emergency battery’ which is roughly equivalent to a motorcycle battery!?!? WHAT?!)
Apparently the TSA searched my suitcase....
…because they forgot to close one of my pill bottles, and my 90 day supply of $5 a day pills are all over my suitcase and floor.
AWESOME.
FRIDAY NIGHT
Yes, my last post means I’m sitting around before midnight on Friday listening to dramatic cello music.
YES IT DOES.
Emily returns home tipsy.
“XBOX! XBOX! XBOOOOOOXXXX!”
“XBOX XBOX XBOX ZUUUUUUNE!”
“XBOX PLAY MUSIC!”
“OMG XBOX HOW DID YOU KNOW I WANTED TO LISTEN TO THIS!?”
Probably because I set it up that way. Yeah. Rad.
Today....
- The work reorg started to feel real and totally damning.
- I declared Xbox gamerscore to be irrelevant to some of the inventors of gamerscore.
- Read some of Richelle Mead’s fanmail.
Weird.
NYTimes on the Stuxnet worm →
I’m kind of sad I missed this story when it first broke, like back in August, but if you haven’t read about this — it’s a very impressive and devious piece of tech with a nice espionage narrative along with it.
When to hate being a band
I know every band has to play great show to empty rooms when they start out, but, just the same, I think we got screwed last night. We were supposed to headline on a Friday night for the first time, and worked our asses off promoting and trying to get people out.
1. The other bands didn’t include our band’s name when they were promoting the show (is that rude?)
2. The venue gave...
So I'm going to LA....
Anyone know what one is supposed to do in LA? What should I do? Where should I go drinking?
PS. I will have a car.
Fox News Corp. Likely To Shut Down MySpace By June →
ragdoll:
News Corp. will most likely shutter MySpace by June “unless we see a remarkable turnaround in the next few months,” Alan Gould, an analyst with Evercore Partners, said in a research note to clients today before the restructuring was announced.
Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, may lose $225 million this fiscal year, up from an estimated $180 million last year, Gould ...
News Corp likely to shut down MySpace by June... →
nebraska-admiral:
aatombomb:
shortformblog:
News Corp. will most likely shutter MySpace by June “unless we see a remarkable turnaround in the next few months,” Alan Gould, an analyst with Evercore Partners, said in a research note to clients today before the restructuring was announced.
Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, may lose $225 million this fiscal year, up from an...
I wish....
… I was still young enough to be stupid impulsive.
PS.
Shitty sleep night #6 in a row.
I really don’t want to play a show tonight.
Thoughts about this shooting
Even if the shooter was a mentally unstable kid, instead of a tea-party loyalist and Sarah Palin lover……
1. One of my good friends was the finance director of a congressional campaign in this last election season. Her candidate is on Palin’s map.
2. Because I’m awesome, I’ve been spending lots of evenings lately working on this blanket project, drinking wine,...
Fear
I keep acquiring guy friends that have girlfriends or wives. Can I just say, for each and everyone of these guy friends that I see as entirely platonic/off limits/etc, I carry just a little bit of fear that this is going to happen?
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/01/05/sl-letter-of-the-day-your-outer-dan-savage-disapproves
that moment when you go to the bathroom by...
ragdoll:
(via warofwords): “I know I’m drunk because I always stick my tongue out at myself.”
(via iena): “I stick my tongue out and give myself a “sexy” look and a thumbs up.”
Haha, I give myself quizzical looks or wink.
I know I’m drunk when I start to think I look super pretty. I try not to stare too long in case the world like, ends or something.
Monday NIGHT!
Has anyone else noticed that the Vice Guide To Travel is on Netflix yet? Because I did.
Not one of you has posted that awful Death Cab...
atomofconsumption:
I’m so proud of you Tumblr.
I was really close to doing this. I’m shocked I haven’t even listened to it yet.