May 2010

Conversations with quiet people always find me filling the gaps by saying stupid shit. My fault? Their fault? Fundamental incompatibility?

"There's no non-cute-based hotness." — @trammell

By God man how tightly can chains be pulled?! Alcatraaaaaazzz...

At JFK, whose speakers are treating me to Tears for Fears, Escape Club, Journey. I am 12 and anything is possible. Must I get on the plane?

Funny how the folks who warn of the evils of big government are totally cool with big corporations. nyti.ms/aXvUMw

If a corporation is legally a person, then Comcast must be a prostitute, since it seems to think I'm paying it to fuck me.

Hey, San Francisco. I will be visiting you this weekend. Tell your people to gimme a shout if they wanna hang.

I haven’t tried the Wired iPad app yet, but my nodding-in-agreement bordered on headbanging when I read this:

Let’s make this clear once and for all: at the current surface and resolution of the iPad, multi column layouts for long screen texts are sentimental nonsense.

JetBlue, I love ya, but burying your web check-in process in Flash is a total dick move.

Watching Lord of the Flies. Every second Piggy is onscreen makes me more impatient for what I know is coming.

If Kathleen Turner's husband in Body Heat was so loaded, why didn't they have air conditioning?

Really, guys? Plaid shorts are how it's gonna be this year?

On the rare occasion I use one of my apartment's light fixtures, I expect it to make visible the ghastly specter of a former occupant.

This canker sore deserves a name. I shall call it Bernard.

Such an awesome idea!

So, has any book ever not topped the New York Times Bestseller list?

Bolt Busing back to Boston after a stellar weekend in Brooklyn, hoping to catch up with friends attending @aneventapart.

"My Name Is Jonas" has looped in my head enough times this morning that I'm pretty sure the workers have all gotten home by now.

Updating my impressive portfolio of bad decisions.

Accustomed as I am to be being in the minority as a commuter cyclist, I’m not sure how I would adapt if the ratio flipped. This video is magical nonetheless.

Lest anyone be unconvinced that the concept of intellectual property is fucked beyond repair.

For a good time call: yfrog.com/3wn2cyj

May Ronnie James Dio rest in peace. His soul will occupy both Heaven and Hell, and both had better LOOK OUT!

The guy who has the Twitter username you want pretty much has to be absolutely the most boring person on the planet, doesn't he?

"Chick magnet right there, dood," he says, referring to his seatmate's Chihuahua, apparently oblivious to his own cockblock.

Lest anyone be curious about this film, I can attest that this review is spot-on.

This is great. I have long been aware that sitting down to write has always helped me clarify my thoughts on most anything. It is my best weapon against my poor reading retention and digital-age short attention span. But there’s lots to know and understand and I don’t have time to be regurgitating everything I experience in my own prose. Cue the text playlist.

Very, very insightful.

Am I alone in thinking that anyone who considers Marlboro's F1 bar code trick "genius" is far too easily impressed? bit.ly/903omR

Yes, please.

And it’s not even my birthday yet.

Woke up several times last night convinced I had contributed to a retail store's scheme to traffic uranium to terrorists.

My guess is that experience designing bicycle helmets has never shared space on a résumé with a BFA.

Hey, @dribbble users who don't use @dribbble, either get in the fucking game or give your accounts to people who will.

Harmonix is looking for a senior web designer. Is that you? tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/req…

Congrats to @vpieters on the launch of her beautiful new site redesign! veerle.duoh.com

Officially giving up on today.

Your weekly Comcast call about your awful service is usually dropped by AT&T, and you realize that there is a god, and that he's an asshole.

The Human Centipede is all bark and no bite, a hilariously grotesque premise and a plot that's DOA. Only shocking aspect is how tame it is.

"Let's see. Doomed to die, eating other people's shit, or rip my face off someone else's ass?" — @jyllish, on The Human Centipede

Judas Priest toured through the summer of 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the seminal metal album British Steel by playing it live in its entirety every night. Now fans can celebrate too by playing live versions of all nine tracks from the album in Rock Band!

Could Judas Priest’s landmark British Steel be the most metal album in history? Let us examine the facts. To begin with, the cover depicts either an ordinary man’s hand… See more →

Somehow, it's been years since I last did a Photoshop batch process. Forgot how satisfying it can be.

Using a Windows PC almost every day for the last seventeen months has left my soul a withered husk.

Judas Priest's iconic British Steel album is coming to Rock Band next week. Here's what I have to say about it: rockband.com/zine/judas-priest-br…

Ignorance isn't always bad. If I understood what Lost fans were talking about, it might not sound so retarded, and then I would hate myself.

My neighborhood, once a safe haven from entitled college drama, has been very shrill lately. Makes me miss the crackheads in Philly.

Attention: "Is there a market for it?" is not the same question as "Should I do it?"

Well, it didn't take the torture porn people very long to get bored with their own stupid ideas and just remake I Spit On Your Grave.

Pretty neat trick.

I am such a sucker for this stuff.

Tonight, a handful of coworkers and I will lead a fully orchestrated Beatles sing-along with the Boston Pops. bso.org/bso/mods/perf_detail.…

"Sing onstage with the Boston Pops" has been added to the to-do list and checked off.

Oh man.

Just finished @adactio's forthcoming HTML5 for Web Designers from @abookapart. Unsurprisingly, it is excellent. books.alistapart.com

Ethnocentric defense of USA's rampant monolingualism: Other languages seem superfluous when your mother tongue is effectively Esperanto.

Considering going to the Future of Reading conference next month at RIT. futureofreading.cias.rit.edu/2010…

An EMT at a red light just yelled across the street to me on the sidewalk to ask if I won the US Air Guitar championship.

Cloud computing would be pretty neat if there was such a thing as a reliable ISP.

My first guitar lesson was one year ago today.

Tech Retail 101: Restrict at least one register to people who want to make a simple purchase with no obnoxiously time-consuming questions.

Ours is not to question why. Ours is but to make another goddamned trip to Radio Shack.