September 2007
116 posts
scottsimpson: What, you’d shoot me for this fucking midget?! (via Twitter / scottsimpson)
scottsimpson: Reason #75 to move to UK: Over there, “Scott” and “twat” do not rhyme. One less insult option for my enemies! (via Twitter / scottsimpson)
August 2007
151 posts
“If you want some example of legitimate hoaxes, you need look no farther than...”
– defective yeti: The Hoax
Do the Republican Bathroom Johns have a Facebook group yet?
scottsimpson: Sitting down to “Trapped in the Closet”, Ch 1-12. Expectations are running high (I’m looking at you, @fimoculous & @youngamerican).
Excellent (and depressing) piece from ABC on the prison Thriller dancers and their kooky warden: http://urltea.com/1cdb?iTunes
“All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature, but it shows more on some...”
– Will Cuppy (via)
Every Sunday, around 3:30, I remember why I own babiesarestupid.com.
Thinking about starting a Prius gang to combat the Los Altos 10-Speed Mafia. Weapon of choice? Carbon credits.
“I was amazed at the ease of use of this lens cap. It literally snaps RIGHT ON to...”
– Amazon.com: Review for Canon 58mm Snap-On Lens Cap Also from the forthcoming book It Did What It’s Supposed To Do!: David J. Ciesinski Shows YOU How to Boost Your Happiness EFFORTLESSLY!.
“Most of the coffee that grows in Latin America today traces its ancestry to a...”
– John Seabrook : “Sowing for Apocalypse”, New Yorker 8/27/07
Hamlet: educational email you sign up for but never read (e.g., “Word of the Day”).
SimpsonCorp, 2011: Every Friday at 3 PM, speakers blare Neil Diamond’s “I Am, I Said” so loud that workers must go home early. Also: beer.
To: my email program, Re: missing “L’s”. Let’s just give “pubic” the old dotted red underline, OK?
Sjöberg on "Life Hacking"
Q: Hasn't it been around for a while?
A: Yes, previously it was known as Hints From Heloise.
Q: But life hacking is different, right?
A: Judge for yourself. As I write this, the top entry at lifehacker.com is "10 uses for lemons."
Q: Yeah, but they're like cool techno-uses for lemons, like overclocking your Wii or shorting out surveillance cameras, right?
A: "No. 8 - Freshen up your dishwasher."
Link: http://urltea.com/1alu
Parker & Stone animate Alan Watts →
Great short animations of segments of Watts’ teaching. Watts has a podcast (iTunes) too; even a failed Buddhist like me can get into these.
Ham sndwch: Long email from my mom that I still haven’t gotten around to reading.
Had to convince my son to eat a marshmallow by telling him it was tofu. Somebody rescue this kid from 2007.
“As a recent college graduate, I can honestly tell you that I have learned more...”
– Katie Neuman : “Letter to the Editor” : Vanity Fair, 9/07
I never miss an opportunity to call it “Hump Day”, with a giggle; maybe that’s why my wife misses so many opportunities to have sex with me.
“there is a town so dull up here the tide went out one day and never came back...”
– Fred Allen : The Groucho Letters, 7/22/53
iPhone Guitar Tuner →
Handy, goes well with Rock Lighter.
Would like to hear the audiobook version of Waiting to Exhale, as read by Tay Zonday.
How can metal virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen’s name not have any umlauts? Did he have to pawn them in the 80’s to fuel a cocaine habit?
Jobs : Hall :: Woz : Oates Update: lonelysandwich pipes up with an HGV (Hot Graphical Version) of that selfsame analogy:
“i can’t wait to enjoy the latest music tracks geared towards me and my...”
– lonelysandwich, on the MTV/Verizon/Real announcement
Wow, M.I.A.’s _Kala_ is $7.99 at Amazon. I just had an Arulpragasam.
Wondering if other university-based Buddhists feel put out by the Dalai Lama’s pro-USC bias.
Inbox Nero
Scott, circa 8/20/07, couldn’t play along to “Green Green Grass of Home” on the ukulele. I can’t believe the person I once was.
Getting creative, Step 1: Silence your inner Wheezy Jefferson.
“A common use of zeroth outside computing is in the name of the zeroth law of...”
– “Zeroth” is the most made-up-on-a-schoolyard sounding word I’ve heard in a long time. I love it. “Zeroth” : Wikipedia
Season 5 of _The Wire_ is going to be the last. I just died a little bit.
“Specially trained security personnel” will be watching passengers for...”
– Newsweek : “Smile…Or Else”