July 2007
181 posts
Scott Simpson: “That’s why it’s called the podcast business, not the podcast friendship!” -Tom Scharpling, “Jordan Jesse Go” ep 30 (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Meanwhile, over at PopCap, the lone non-Flash game developer laughs ruefully, finally vindicated, as I fish my iPhone out of my bedsheets. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: 2.3x = the rate at which I buy books, where x = the rate at which I read them. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Urban Dictionary: adorkable →
“I would love to see what would happen if economists got the chance to run the...”
– Steven D. Levitt
Subject Line in My Inbox
Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Re: Re:
Scott Simpson: Invented a new style of facial hair with my patented Shave in the Shower™ method. I’m calling it “The Duck Pond”. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
“From Skokie, Ill., comes a sincere apology ‘to anyone that was...”
– I Thought KLIT Was Bad …
Scott Simpson: To: Mims, Re: why you’re hot. “I’m hot because I’m fly”? That’s what Tupac would call a tautological fallacy. Please provide other evidence. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: At the library, wondering why “What’s Happening to my Body?: For Boys” ends at age 17. I still have questions! (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: My wife claps along to music on the 1 & 3. After some research on WebMD, I’m coming to terms with the fact that disrhythmia is incurable. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: My son pretends he’s driving by turning an imaginary steering wheel and shouting GODDAMMIT. It appears my work here is done. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Today’s Los Altos Smug Level: Moderate. Children and the elderly should avoid stationery stores and gourmet grocers. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Abercrombie & Fitch smells like the reason I hated high school. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Your Fat Friend: Headline Highlights
Honorable Mention: Are your friends making you fat? Supersize Me—and All My Friends Obesity may spread in social circles Too fat? Thank friends and family Friendship can raise heavy issue Family, Friends May ‘Spread’ Obesity Obesity can spread like the flu, study finds Your circle of friends may expand your waistline Friends share the blame in obesity, US study says Through thick or...
Scott Simpson: Headline I hoped I would never live long enough to see: “Yacht Rock Renaissance” (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Congratulations! I’d be upset that a totally able person would park in the Handicapped space, but I’m just so excited at your full recovery! (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: “‘Why do birds suddenly appear?’ BECAUSE HE FEEDS THEM. You’re dating the gross pigeon guy from the park. Haven’t you noticed the smell?!” (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Well, that was fantastic. Michael Keaton just went off on a rant about the Carpenters. In my dream. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Staying in the “Kim Novak room” at the York Hotel in San Fran. When not starring in _Vertigo_, Ms. Novak apparently enjoyed stains. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: @leyink: “Wall St. is so emo”. Brilliant! Sums it up perfectly. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: Mass excitement @ HQ as the phones are distributed. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
“They sensed in him a kind of undergraduate universalism, a table talk at once...”
– Great description of a specific and prevalent genus of blowhard—the kind I am afraid of acting like. (The story is not really related to why I like the quote.)
Ze on Fair Game
Ze Frank is guest hosting PRI’s Fair Game today. Among the guests: Harvey Pekar.
Here’s the podcast episode in iTunes.
(via)
David Rakoff is Funny
DR: Knock knock.
JM: Who's there?
DR: Control freak OK this is where you say 'Control freak who?'
Source: NPR Weekend America, 7/14/07
“They’re hired feet, or, as the union calls them, temporary workers, paid...”
– Outsourcing the Picket Line
A Quick Note on My Anus
I will heretofore refer to it, in polite company and among doctors, as my “jailhouse billfold”.
Scott Simpson: At least my local Peet’s makes up for their slow service by being rude. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
I did not know there was an audience for that, Ch....
Wow, this guy (iTunes link) reads Bible verses like he’s doing the trailer for an action movie (or next week’s All New ER, where everything changes, and the first 10 minutes reveal a secret that has to be Seen. To. Be. Believed.)
Scott Simpson: If you don’t think Paul F. Tompkins is wonderful and funny, well, then I would have to politely disagree: http://urltea.com/11py?iTunes (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
WatchFlight of the Conchords : “Bowie’s in Space”
“Dahta back to Earth!”
Scott Simpson: Forgot to wear my belt again. Wondering why my subconscious has me on suicide watch. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: You know what’s scary? Hummingbirds. Bloodthirsty, bloodthirsty hummingbirds. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Harry Potter and the Death of Reading →
There’s a little crotchety death-of-the-novelism here; other than that, I’m on board. Plus this crazy-depressing stat: “In 1994, over 70 percent of total fiction sales were accounted for by a mere five authors.”
Scott Simpson: Bullet point #1 in my wife’s morning memorandum: my going to bed last night in a glow-in-the-dark T-shirt apparently “not a turn-on”. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Scott Simpson: You know that recurring fantasy where Thoreau comes back to life and you have to explain the crazy modern world to him? No? Me neither. (via Twitter / Scott Simpson)
Me: Good morning, buddy!
Sen: iPhone.
Quick Numbers Update: Sen
Avg number of daily potty visits before Wednesday: 0
Avg number of daily potty visits after Wednesday, when a candy-based reward system (1 for #1, 2 for #2) was introduced: 75