November 2010
3 posts
#27
So if you’ve got talent, figure out what you have to do and go.
#26
Self-awareness trumps talent (alone).
#25
Hard work trumps talent (alone).
October 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
My Round up of The New Detroit Lions
Ndamukong Suh: Here’s what he looks like compared to a guy my size
Javid Best: 2009 Cal Highlights
Why he was the third running back taken: Scary neck injury
Why iPad naysayers are dead wrong:
When the original desktop GUI was invented at Xerox Parc, computers were used for creating content. Now they are more frequently used for consuming content for which windows don’t work so well. We’ll see more single function or fewer function devices.
— Cordell Ratzlaff, nine-year Apple veteran (former head of Apple’s human interface group during the time Apple acquired NeXT and...
March 2010
1 post
An Alex Chilton Story that I found today…R.I.P. →
Choire: What is your favorite Alex Chilton video, song or tale?
Paul: My favorite tale is from Our Band Could Be Your Life, when he shut down Gibby Haynes’s rampage through the Netherlands:
Moments later a man entered the dressing room and asked if he could borrow a guitar. “BORROW A GUITAR??!!! WELL, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU???!!! [Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers] screamed, eyes...
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
2 posts
President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize →
This would not have happened had an antithetical “Anti-Peace” Prize that they would have gone to the “President-who-shall-not-be-named”.
Or as Time Magazine calls it: “…for Not being George W. Bush”.
via Daring Fireball
July 2009
3 posts
iPhones on Verizon? What does Steve Lim think?
—I was asked this twice in one day, so I thought I should commit my opinion to type.
Heard? Not much…but I have a lot of educated guesses:
Because Verizon and Sprint are on CDMA, and the rest of the world is not, this puts them at a disadvantage as a candidate to be apple’s carrier.
—Making a phone that works for the whole world and then making another one for just the US, is something...
WatchThe best video I’ve seen in long time (not just because it’s the only video I’ve seen in a long time). Wow, when I first heard a snippet of this song on some BlackBerry commercial, my first thought, was: “This song sucks, —it is simply just not anywhere near as strong as the major single releases we’ve come to hear from U2.” But after watching this, I like this...
emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco →
San Francisco is the kind of place where nobody will tell you when you have a bad idea. That’s just how it is. In an effort to remain tolerant, people go out of their way not to judge. That can be a bad thing…
“Hey, dude, I think I’m going to pierce my eyelids with this sliver of depleted uranium for Burning Man this year.” “Right on, that’s cool.” No....
June 2009
9 posts
Philly Goes Back to Old Logo
Someone in Philly grew a brain and good taste. 76ers Go Back to the ’60s with Red, White, and Blue Logo
Former Sixer Bobby Jones:
“…It also represents some very good teams that have played under that logo.”
—That reminds me of all the crappy teams (despite having good players) that wore the worst Sixer uniforms.
iPhone 3GS owner uses "Find My iPhone" to... →
Can anyone chime in on the Medill Neighborhood of Chicago?
Getting choked up from a Pixar movie that I... →
Pixar grants girl’s dying wish with home viewing of ‘Up’
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the...
“Our brains are wired for narrative, not statistical uncertainty.”
New President Feature Revealed: Reading and...
Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight
In response to this: Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“There’s always this zero-sum way of painting any given industry or trend, while the reality will be more nuanced.”
I must admit I have to thank M$ for the “Laptop Hunters” ADs, now that Apple gave all Pro laptops a nice price cut!
via @gruber : That sweaty “Developers, developers, developers, developers” rant is probably the smartest thing Steve Ballmer has ever said.
Don’t believe the Airport Dog & Pony Security show: Handgun gets past TSA > http://bit.ly/thNsn
Sick of renting…
May 2009
7 posts
Time Warner cable uses twitter to prove it doesn’t care about it’s customers: http://bit.ly/1V7PZ #cablecompaniesmustdie
I feel much so much better: Matthew Stafford only guaranteed $17.05 million! http://bit.ly/ODSwA #agentssuck
Cool new logo, but the colors completely lack contrast: http://bit.ly/1qhZT
R.I.P. | Coach Chuck Daly
Post-Italy Steve is very strange: I have fancy wines, and I really want to drink them. Just can’t turn into this guy: http://bit.ly/48I3U
Detroit Lions Head Coach: “Our number one need was talent”
April 2009
6 posts
Bill Simmons on Joakim Noah: “He’s like a cross between Bill Laimbeer, Marcus Camby and Lisa Bonet.” http://bit.ly/xxQBy
Farewell Dikembe…
Phone update: service restored. I am now back to my developing world, proletariat phone.
Hi everyone, left my phone on the plane. It is gone; I can’t pick up the phone. Cell phone status to come soon…
Hi all, we are ok!
getting ready to be a stranger in a strange land…
March 2009
10 posts
Correction: Walking to the office for a bloody $250 font.
Walking to the office for a bloody font.
There is an old Vulcan Proverb: “Only Nixon could go to China.”
Lions: Finally the Stafford QB nonsense can end! http://bit.ly/OdDjR
The one thing I will say about www.cutandpaste.com, the dj knows the hits of the 70s…
Again, I seem to agree with almost everything David Edelstein has to say about a movie (Watchmen): http://bit.ly/HLKmy
http://bit.ly/OjKVc
Tony says: Please don’t take pictures of food. http://bit.ly/MXM1
February 2009
9 posts
Trying not to feel sad about the NBA: “Memphis makes about $300,000 per home game. That’s gross, not net.” http://bit.ly/RKHBT
“I hate the Oscars because I love movies.”
– Exactly. -via Daring Fireball
C-I-L-L. My land lord.
“What’s telling to me is that Microsoft’s new retail chief, David Porter, comes...”
– Put a nice smile on my face —via Daring Fireball
“The people who appear in People magazine need to be told what is cool by...”
– Goodbye Dubai | Smashing Telly - A hand picked TV channel