August 2009
88 posts
“Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand.”
– M to Bond in Casino Royale.
Contemplating midnight run to Apple store.
… mmm… nah. Morning will suffice.
WANTED: css/html/javascript warrior
On behalf of my friends at epix:
WANTED: 1 master of all things interwebs! epix [they’re also on tumblr… twice! -Marc] is looking for someone adept at converting Red Bull into HTML, CSS, and javascript for our movie delivery platform. It’s PHP based, so if you speak that too, great, otherwise our dev team will just have to make do (we keep them in the basement anyway). Your...
It's not the age demographic, it's the intent...
Barry Diller doesn’t, Ashton Kutcher does. Driven to Tweet, But Why? - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
“Yeah, just close the ticket with a comment ‘we have mastered back-button...”
– Me, being snarky.
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What awesome movie have I forgotten?
Well? What’s awesome?
“It’s like I’m channeling Paul thru my lap.”
– Alan K on using Paul’s old laptop.
“Well, we still need to support it in case the silly [redacted] can’t...”
– Paul on supporting an application. Emil, seriously, not talking about you.
Srsly.
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Go fail, but mix it up please.
Failure is not an option: it comes standard. Embrace it.
Most managers don’t know that it’s important to hammer that message into their employees, because the word failure has a negative stigma attached. So let’s pretty it up a bit: call it a mistake.
When an employee makes a mistake, embracing the situation as an opportunity to say: “It’s ok. This thing that...
Instapaper ♥'s me.
And if there was a way for me to save the handful of email newsletters that are worth, say, forwarding to my instapaper service… it would ♥ me even more!
</wink-wink option=nudge-nudge>
Tim Meadows would be proud.
Graham: I can't just put my apartment on foursquare.
Marc: Why not? That has potential to become a city landmark!
Graham: Yeah, for da ladies.
No Bowl, Stick! Stick! →
(via emilgh)
“Mountain Dew or Clamato Juice?”
The Tyranny of This Man
I’d demand tribute in the form of peanut butter cups. Minis are acceptable, but the full size ones get you a reprieve from something horrible. Share your currency of wrath-avoidance in your despotic country.
“Yeah, we did this thing for a guy called Bill Joy. Oh you’ve heard of...”
– [redacted to protect me :-) ]
Still good after 20 years.
Blanche: You know what I hate doing most after a big party?
Rose: Looking for your underwear in the big pile?
Green Programming Initiative
As part of our good-citizen efforts, effective immediately, all programmers will be required to begin recycling version numbers so as not to waste them.
Thanks to Graham-Grafx for this suggestion.
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“Get a haircut ya f’ing hippie.”
– Graham. He’s a hippie.
“Life is a haiku,
whatever I want now,
but within constraints.”
– me
