February 2009
24 posts
My new drink: highball glass of Maker’s Mark with eight 1” diameter spherical ice [spheres]. Not that I’ve had it yet, but that’s the one.
Steve Martin has released a bluegrass album playing the banjo? That’s … that’s … amazing!
January 2009
40 posts
I guess my ‘02 is now a collector car: http://is.gd/hRtG (w00t?)
Feeling lonely? Want heaps and heaps of unwanted attention? Try changing your Facebook relationship status!
WatchTrucking Duck
“I don’t consider Frank a duck. I just consider him a … friend.”
“As stupid as it sounds … maybe if more people had a duck in their life, we wouldn’t all be so mad at each other.”
…and showing, with data, just how terribly, terribly wrong they were.
One of the best parts about an AAPL Q’ly earnings call is @gruber trotting out all the idiotic quotes from pundits made over the last Q…
Satellite image of crowds on the Mall →
via boogah
What a great birthday present. Gee, thanks, America, you shouldn’t have!
Every damn online service I use is in under unannounced maintenance today. Great. (Except MINE, of course!)
“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
– E. E. Cummings (via tinyblip)
I think stackoverflow.com is just going to keep getting better and better. Awesome.
Back in Denver, late night at the office, where the bar next door is also … a bowling alley. Wonder if I can tell a strike by noise alone.
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a... →
via ivan krstić
Watching Woz demo the “Mac tablet” at the Axiotron booth. Woz!
Damn you, Tony Bennett. I still have “The Best Is Yet to Come” stuck in my head. (It’s not a bad song.)
Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel →
In San Fran, meeting up with Bay Area homies, remembering why moving here is still on my Big To-Do List.
Waiting to fly to SF for Macworld. Pretty stoked for the Philnote—MAYBE I’LL GET INTO MOSCONE THIS TIME if more people stay at home.
Was reading a poem until I realized it was Garrison Keillor’s voice in my head. Stopped short. Kind of disturbing.
PS: Check out the sweet photo Wikipedia has of him: http://tinyurl.com/youq6r (help)
Wish iTunes timestamped EACH time a track was played so my music-habits-over-time zeitgeist graph could track listening frequency, too #nerd
However, after cleaning my desk, my hands smell (taste?) like Simple Green.
English Breakfast does NOT taste like Darjeeling.
Friends! This is the year. Our year. Feel good about it.