January 2012
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"He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I... →
Hemingway, in response to Faulkner
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“An article on Monday about Jack Robinson and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college...”
– From this week’s New York Times. Sorry, Bronies, she’s taken. (h/t Paul Johnson)
December 2011
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“The most remarkable attribute Krugman has brought to the Times is rudeness. The...”
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Because Paul Krugman Didn’t Keep His Calm - Reasons to Love New York 2011 — New York Magazine. Two responses:
Re: the first paragraph. If what you’re about is “explaining why mistaken beliefs are wrong,” then you’re not trying to “arrive at truth”: you believe you already possess it. Also, the...
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“Frank Bruni is going to be so embarrassed when he finds out these Facebook...”
– Hamilton Nolan’s is as good an explanation as any. I tend to think something like an ill-fated mushroom trip before the switch to op-ed addled dude’s mind.
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Watchmajorillness:
Danny Brown - Monopoly (Official Video)
New Danny Brown video.
This video put me in such a good mood today. Fun fun fun.
November 2011
10 posts
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“If A.J. Liebling represents the best tendencies of The New Yorker, then you,...”
– Adam Gopnik says H.L. Mencken wasn’t New Yorker material … Hamilton Nolan GOES IN.
I love this shit.
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“As the crowd got more aggressive, so did police officers. Some protesters fought...”
– The Penn State rioters are more violent than Occupy Oakland. (NYT)
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"the muthafucka most likely to have a gateway to... →
doctortaco:
Drizzy or Aubrey or jus Aubs
the Artist Formerly Known as Wheelchair Jimmy
The Kitten Whisperer
The Harvester of Pauses
The Taio Cruz of Hip Hop
Young Garnier Fructis
the pre-cum baby
Jennifer Aniston’s favorite emcee
the muthafucka most likely…
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Way too nice out today, probably the last weekend like this for the year. Better finally get around to taking the new video camera and a notepad down to that Occupy Detroit campsite.
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“At least she was interested in a great player. It was probably the best decision...”
– Chuck Klosterman, naming Glen Rice the 23rd best college basketball player of all time, in Grantland.
No Fab Five on the list.
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“The big banks have actually figured out a way to make unemployed workers a...”
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Angela Martin, executive director of Economic Fairness Oregon, quoted by Janell Ross in Banks Extract Fees On Unemployment Benefits (via quotingthecrisis)
Just another way modern America kicks the poor in the teeth. The nickel-and-diming from the financial world (major types of insurance...
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“… these days workers with a college degree but no further degrees are less...”
– Krugman, yesterday
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October 2011
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“I told Hansen every time I vote for reconstruction money in Iraq and...”
– -Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) explains why she’s cosponsoring Democrat Hansen Clarke’s bill to use Detroit’s federal tax dollars to rebuild the city. Nice sentiment, but maybe tone down the “parents’ sins” talk next time.
(h/t Yahkind)
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Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are breaking up(!!) First time I’ve ever felt sad about a celebrity divorce.
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Watchjoshsternberg:
tiffanihillin:
Watch as the idiots reveal themselves. Love, courage and endurance to all you freedom winners out there. I am right behind you. Solidarity.
enjen:
FOOTAGE. Woman arrested at Citibank 555 Laguardia (around East 14th Street). She’s wearing a business suit, clearly not protesting, just there to close her account with the bank as part of a group action. NYPD...
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“Not since Saint Lawrence has anybody suffered over a grille like Acura.”
– From the WSJ review of the Acura TL. Great opening line.
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In one of those fuck-the-world moods. Post-Tigers, this evening is about getting drunk on McClelland’s, listening to violent music and ordering expensive audio equipment. Yeah, I should be good by morning.
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That awkward moment when phishers spam your email...
Clearly time to step up my Web security game. This just miiight be karmic retribution for making fun of Gov. Snyder on Friday for getting his identity stolen and computers malware’d.
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CBC Books: How one man had sex on the moon →
stellar.
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Good week at work:
Getting to know more coworkers, and the others are getting cooler the more I know them.
The boss came through big today with the praise and the financial incentives. Not gonna lie, that was awesome. Looks like I may need to move to NYC sooner than expected. (Kevin follows me here, shouts out if you see this.)
An old story of ours landed on Reddit and got outrageous traffic,...
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"Tough Nerd" techie governor is clueless about... →
“Snyder, without providing many details, said his personal financial information had been compromised about five years ago. A multi-millionaire, Snyder said he learned his identity had been stolen when he started getting “harangued by collection agencies” over bills he didn’t have.
“It took over two years to finally clean it up,” he said. “That was a...
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Steve Jobs found the Gawker redesign "too tame"
Brian Lam’s piece on Jobs on his new blog is worth reading in its entirety, but here’s my favorite part:
“From: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Gizmodo on iPad
Date: March 31, 2010 6:00:56 PM PDT
To: brian lam <blam@gizmodo.com>
Brian,
Parts of it I like, and other parts I don’t understand. I’m not sure the “information...
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Did you know Dave Weigel is only 30? God damn it
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If you're not adding Kim Jong-il's grandson to... →
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