December 2008
“Subject: Wireless Printer
I’m loving it. I just printed out something...”
– Email from my Mom (I gave her an Airport Express for Xmas so she can print from her laptop!)
WatchThis is soooooo before-Christmas, but figured I’d post this pseudo Lift Talk intro Xtian and JJ put together.
What was that, a week ago? What a change… right now it’s 32 deg and raining and so foggy I can barely see the mountain. Wah!
“100x100 images are the most deceiving things on the internet.”
– Rex. (kind of a four-years later re-quote of Clay’s “everyone is cute at 60x60”)
Slacker At Work - Poor Googlers … no cash bonuses... →
Yikes (and only because I used to work at G and know how awesome the bonuses were). Not sure what kind of head’s up my pals at G got about this, but this reminds me flat out of Clark Griswald’s inground pool woes in Christmas Vacation.
Watch26 inches of snow + windy at summit = crazy pillow drops all down the right hand side of Upper Choke (@ Mount Snow, VT). You can’t really get the scope of it from the video (of course!) but these were huge and difficult and so much fun. (McD!!!!)
When it gets windy, all the new, light snow gets pushed around. The top 40 yards of this trail were 100% ice, but after that (where the trail is...
“Watch out, [person’s name we’re no longer mentioning] is now the...”
– Pete emailing me about our favorite recent grad. Congrats buddy!
Poker: Crazy RFID-Enabled Poker Table Knows Every... →
This poker table is *exactly* what i wanted to build in 2004 @ ITP… each card has an RFID tag and each seat has a reader under the table. Monitors would show knocked-out player / audience percentage stats, etc (just like on teevee!). Rad that someone pulled it off… 4 years later(, sucka!)
WatchCrazy Blizard Triple play!!!! #1 Big Dig trying to dig cars out of Medway blizzard, #2 my Wish I Wasn’t Stuck in Medway confessional and #3 another shameless Lift Talk plug.
I was in Boston on Saturday night for Ferrari’s graduation party (congrats buddy!) but then drove up to VT at 9am on Sunday AM to meet up with JJ and Xtian. Crazy snowy drive (one lane, 50 mph, about 4 hrs) but...
The Lil Bee: Hello my name is Dennis and welcome... →
Hey, it’s my very first “guest blogger” post! (on Mel’s Blog, The Lil Bee)
“Meancasting”
– Definition: Using lifecasting services (Twitter / Flickr comments / Facebook status replies) to spread your negative energy to the world. (e.g. “That kid is nothing but a meancaster!”)
(I didn’t coin the phrase, but I know who did!)
“Muntader’s action is the top of heroism,” said Farhan Khalaf, a teacher. “He...”
– I liked this piece in the NYT today that collected and translated responses to the Shoe Throwin’ Incident from all across Iraq. (I don’t necessarially agree with this quote, but it did get me thinking of how it could have been worse)
Iraqis Pick Up Their Shoes: Reaction From Around the...
WatchMy friend Mari made this video recapping summer 2008. This type of stuff just blows my mind because it’s just fits together so perfectly and I can’t even imagine the amount of time it takes to edit down a summer’s worth of pics so it looks so natural in video (Mari, I’d love to talk to you more about this). (ps; I make a cameo just after the 1 min mark)
Also, makes me...
June 17, 1994. (see desc below, Tumblr really...
Jennings: We have on the phone with us as well Robert Higgins, who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground and can see inside the van. Mr. Higgins.
Caller: Ah, yeass, ah, how are you?
Jennings: Ah, just about as tense as you are, sir.
Caller: Oh, my Lord, this is quite tenses.
Jennings: What can you see?
Caller: Ah, what I'm lookin' at ri' now is I'm lookin' at the van, and I see OJ kinna' slouchin' down lookin' very very upset. Now lookee here, he look very upset. I don' know what gon' be doin'.
Jennings: Can you... can you... can you see him doing anything specific? Is he merely sitting there?
Caller: He is just a-sittin' 'round, you know, just a-lookin' like he be very nervous
Jennings: Can you hear anything, Mr. Higgins?
Caller: It's just too much commotion, I here in the back of a news van, so I can' really hear that goo' but I can see it all. An' I see OJ. I see OJ, man, and he looks scared. An' I would be scared 'cause there's cops all deep in this.
Jennings: Thank you, Mr. Higgins.
Caller: An' Bobba Bouey to y'all!
Jennings: The driveway of O. J. Simpson's home in Brentwood... Clearly an effort being made to have him come out of the vehicle... In the doorway of the house: his friend, Al Cowlings...
Michaels: Peter, by the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels. That was a totally farsical call.
Caller: Ah!
Jennings: Ahm.
Michaels: Lest anybody think that that was somebody who was truly across the street that was not. He said something in code at the end that's indicitave of the mentioning of the name of a certain radio talk show host.
caller: Ah!
Jennings: OK, thanks.
Michaels: He was not there.
Jennings: OK, we have them on every coast. Thank you very much.
“(see above, god does Tumblr suck sometimes)”
– June 17, 1994. Does anyone else remember this? No, not the OJ Bronco chase, but the prank call on national TV (ABC?) from one of the Howard Stern guys. This (not the chase, the call!) is one of those memories from high school that just doesn’t go away (we were all at Rob’s house,...
WatchAlex just fwd’ed me the trailer for Carts of Darkness - a documentary on the lives of homeless people in Vancover. Looks good. Too bad all the screenings are in Canada. (Lisa.E / Tully / DM lemme know if you hear of anything in NYC!)
(And note to self: resurrect movie-night / nerd documentary screenings at my apt! Resolutions 2009!)
We're all booked for our 2009 Jackson Hole, WY ski...
Ssshh - Don’t tell anyone, but Jackson Hole is the sickest ski area in North America and we’re heading back for Round 2 in January. (remember our quest to ski Corbet’s Coulier??)
I just got my confirmation from Will Travel (er, McD booked the whole thing! Thanks, buddy!)
“Dens, $JJ$, Giant, and McDz, You have been booked on a 4 Days skiing extravaganza in the...
The first mall →
Cool post by Kottke on the first mall ever (Edina, Minnesota 1956) and how the original idea was to “bring urbanity to the suburbs”, focused more on giving people a third space to meet / talk / etc than on shopping alone.
“Cat’s Pajamas: 1920s Lingo describing someone (something) who is great,...”
– Urban Dictionary: cats pajamas
Huh - I’m learning a lot today!
“It is not Hillary Clinton (Obama!)
and it is not John McCain (Obama!)
It is...”
– Get yer holiday playlist on! (“Barack Obama by Cocoa Tea… don’t ask how I found this one)
my dad: not so good at texting (reblogged from...
Noticing that the stock market and GE stock both had a good day, I asked my dad if he flipped his recently purchased GE shares. My dad is pretty new at texting, here is the exact exchange.
Me: GE up $2.11 today. Going to sell?
Dad: Sold all ge at three pm today sold at .p
Me: Sold at what? Learn how to type numbers
Dad: How do numbers
Me: Have mom show you
Dad: sleeping sold at seventeen thirty five
“i am gonna have this guy write my Dear Santa letter, i bet he get resultz!”
– Heather.D fwd’ing me David Plouffe’s latest email (Plouffe = the guy who sends all those emails on behalf of Barack). This may be the first time Plouffe isn’t hitting me up for more cash - happy holidays!
“The Register says: Gladwell’s fans are dim-wits who aspire to speak at New...”
– Says Mike.B in a “oops wrong window” IM to me (I’m assuming he was gonna tweet that shit)…
The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell [printer-friendly] • The Register
… anyway, I heart Gladwell, but not in book form (does that make me exempt from this quote then?) I...
Speaking of the WalMart disaster...
One of the better recaps I’ve seen - this one from someone who fell for the “$300 laptop @ WalMart” scam a few years ago (I love this blog)
Why does everything suck?: Walmart’s Black Friday Negligent Homicide
Barack Obama "commemorative" plate →
Ha, I was going to post something on this earlier, but JJ beat me to it. His #2 is sooo funny when you watch the ad (though I didn’t think he was a writer… I thought he was paying his bills or something: “If a black man can become president, surely I can find some way to pay this MasterCard bill!”
jonathancrowley:
Watch the video on the homepage. I wonder how many...
WatchReal quick: My buddy Christian (Xtian) has a four-year old nephew. His dad works at P&G and gets loads of freebee P&G paper products. Hence this awesome video shot in the basement of Xtian’s parents house.