February 2010
20 posts
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Feb 25th
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“Ace Hotel NY is the city’s leading hipster hotel and hotspot. KAYAK...”
– (from an email I got from Kayak) You’re doing it wrong.
Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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“Heat 10 tablespoons butter in 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until...”
– Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies - Cooks Illustrated
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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So You're Watching the Winter Olympics
Since I was nine years old I’ve been somewhat obsessed with the Winter Olympics.  It was 1980, the year the Games were in Lake Placid and thus well-televised.  I grew up in Oklahoma, which featured neither mountains nor heavy snow, so all the sports were essentially unavailable to me except for the indoor ones, and as for those I never got to any Tulsa Oilers games (at that age I was barely...
Feb 16th
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Feb 12th
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“And just what does “at least half a dozen victims in the past decade” mean? If...”
– Kill Me Before I Sing Again Heh. “Journalism” exposed! But also: how have there not been more “We Built This City” killings?
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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“The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling...”
– Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord - NYTimes.com I’d just like it to be known that I have never been to the Philippines and don’t carry a gun. It wasn’t me.
Feb 7th
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“Closed system. This is the very opposite of what your customers care about. The...”
– How to compete with iPad » Matt Legend Gemmell (via Neven Mrgan’s tumbl) This nails one particular thing I hate about all the yammering on the internet, and not just about the iPad. “It doesn’t do X [which is important to me out of proportion to all other things] and...
Feb 6th
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“Microsoft’s huge profits — $6.7 billion for the past quarter — come almost...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com I don’t have a problem with Microsoft the company, but I’m not particularly fond of Windows or Office - because neither one shows much evidence of anybody ever being willing to take anything out, much less leave...
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Boobs. Thousands of Them. Get In Here Now!
tbridge: fedward: tbridge: I somehow got on Playboy’s email list awhile back, and their emails are worth it just for the subject lines, like the one above.  That’s an actual Playboy.com tagline right there.  And really, some salesmanship jobs are just easy… “Somehow.” I would try to explain, except it’s probably not worth it. You could try to explain, but I know what I’d believe...
Feb 2nd
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Boobs. Thousands of Them. Get In Here Now!
tbridge: I somehow got on Playboy’s email list awhile back, and their emails are worth it just for the subject lines, like the one above.  That’s an actual Playboy.com tagline right there.  And really, some salesmanship jobs are just easy… “Somehow.”
Feb 2nd
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In Which I Don't Get Hired By Apple
Not long after the Clarendon Apple Store opened, I applied for a job there.  At the time I was in there every couple months, either with a display problem in my PowerBook G4 or an overheating problem in my G4 Cube.  The process with the Cube had me convinced that I was somehow playing an unplanned game of Stump the Genius.  I could get the computer to crash at home, but in several days of them...
Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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