November 2009
50 posts
“For Western men, the good news is that we Western women do not intend to...”
– Gail Collins, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/western-men-are-doomed/. Normally, I avoid these Brooks and Dunn, I mean Collins, puff-pieces of opinion, but this one lured me in. It was worth it, if only to witness another habit of Western Men: the comparative classification of...
“Defeated politicians fade away (Mike Dukakis anyone?), but, in this day and age,...”
– The Next Paris Hilton? | The New Republic
Jason Zengerle sums up why SP’s current profession is celebrity not politician.
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I can’t get enough of the NYC street scene in the late fall. When all of the jumbled masses along 34th Street decide that it’s time to pull out that weird leatherette, faux-fur trimmed long coat in purple, you know that it is on, baby, it’s on. While certain moments during the warmer months can almost reach this level of sartorial babylon (the stretch zebra print mini-dress of...
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“At that point, I plan to turn my attention full-time to the production of...”
– The Notre Damers
What’s really LA is buying your Christmas tree from a tiny Phillipino woman who is home on break from her job with an NGO in northern India.
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Well, I guess that those 50 interesting articles I just found out about will be the last interesting articles EVER. Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages - WSJ.com
If the disaffection of the wiki-writers is causing a ten-fold decrease in their numbers, what has replaced it in their lives. Presumably, these are people who enjoy contributing to this type of thing enough to do it elsewhere, so what...
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The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
As if to prove his point, the first reply to the Copybot posting is someone hating on this selection. ”There are so many more interesting posts on Wikipedia.” Shame.
merlin:
mrgan:
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
Me, too, Neven.
If there were a page that best epitomized why I LOVE lists of links (and why I viscerally HATE the way webcocks have turbo-shat on the...
“… the International Energy Agency, at its “World Energy...”
– How Much Will $37 Trillion Buy Us? | The New Republic
Office Sunday. Blerg.
Beware the college reunion dinner arranged for no particular reason. It often has no particular reason.
Bars playing techno remixes of the Stones should lose their license. #I’moverthirtybutit’snotmyfault
WTF. I think the renovated brownstone next to my building is developing a Tiki theme. Now the tree planter has little stumps of bamboo in it
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“There are tearful farewells, acts of selflessness, the steady exploitation of...”
– Christoper Orr’s The Mini-Review: ‘2012’ | The New Republic
I think I’ve missed every movie Emmerich has made, but I have enjoyed reading as many panning reviews of his movies as I can get my hands on.
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Skill Aquisition? http://bit.ly/1qs347
Skill Acquisition: the Five Steps of the Dreyfus... →
I’ve been poking through in various Merlin Mann postings this afternoon, and I followed a link to this model of skill acquisition. It’s simple, which is nice, because I think I need a pretty simple scheme to check myself against right now. Right off the bat, I was fascinated trying to peg myself against this list in various categories of my life. It also seems like a good way to...
Weird landing at LGA in heavy cloud cover. We came in from the west (?) and pretty low. I swear we almost took the top off some church.
My plane is filled with hamburgers. How could they do this to us?
Back in the US and the not-so-welcoming embrace of Border Patrol Customs agents and the TSA. Why do they never sat welcome home?
There is a weird pas de deux going on between the drivers of a pair of those electric clubcars in our terminal in IAH. #danceswithwhales
I stumbled into some weird backwater of IAH where all of the pilots and stewards wait between flights when they don’t want to be found.
Sleeping like a grad student. Not good for me, not good for you.
Plane to Guatemala unexpectedly filled with Texan tourists. Ones next to me using a pocket translator for the first time. I miss Salvador.
In Salvador, I could have been snacking on a cheesy papusa or somesuch. No similar delights in IAH. Microwaved Starbucks the closest item.
Have they done a experiment on lab rats where they take away their bottled water at the plane’s gate? Did the control group travel by rail?
Too many working hours, not enough DJs.
I’m not sure how this cabby is steering since he seems to be hugging the dashboard. #crashtestdummy #payingforthepleasure
I really, really, really hate accent walls. I find it very distracting to be in the presence of one. Take note, TV decorator wannabes.
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I couldn’t tell you why, but I just can’t get enough of ‘Bert and I’ these last two weeks.
RT @reihansalam: Re: Berlin Wall: 20 yrs ago, Europe abruptly stopped being the center of the world. Wasn’t obvious at the time, but is now.
My outrage might be a little bit behind the times, but damn! Verdana? http://bit.ly/sqlRO
The disturbing about the lion in the redesigned NYPL logo is that he seems to be on loan from a Pert Plus ad. http://bit.ly/ptRPN
I just heard one of the temps on our project say something. For the first time. After a month. It was “Krispy Kreme.”
Shopping for a fireplace that won’t eat up the room I’m drawing it in. So Lutyens is no help…
“In other words, the newly born anti-Communists don’t get that what they are...”
– Slavoj Zizek, “20 Years of Collapse,” NYT Nov. 9, 2009
In the office. On a Saturday afternoon. The heat goes off. #triplethreat
Whole west side of Manhattan packed. Apparently, yesterday’s army of Yankees fans have yet to retreat to wherever they come from. Oof.
Happy hour of inscrutable delights: flat breads w/ black stuff, puff pastry à la green stringy filling, chemically smoked cheese cubes, dip.
Bloomberg compares salaries of designers and... →
“When you step back out onto the Grand Concourse after visiting the Bronx Museum...”
– Nicolai Ouroissoff, Grand Visions for a Faded Bronx Boulevard
Tetanus shot in one arm, injured rotator cuff on the other. Not much happy drawing can be done in between.
Just saw a marathoner hanging his medal on the junk of the 10-ft Botero sculpture in the Columbus Center lobby just for the photo op. Poor.
If that place were gutted, maybe I’d considered getting married there / And so who’s Linemaster Switch? / I only saw two gnomes and a Cupid.
White Eagle
After innumerable rides on the train through Bridgeport whereupon we travel through the outskirts of the city, and I, watching out the window, see an almost-derelict building in a more-certainly derelict block which queues the recording in my head—“I wonder what the White Eagle Club is, because I certainly like their logo”—I remembered to do something about it when seated...