January 2008
52 posts
(Aural) Inspiration
I do my best design work listening to The Flashbulb or She. What about you? — livejamie LTJ Bukem and STS9 are the very first two that come to mind. — poortasteBoards of Canada and Air
December 2007
64 posts
Courtney's New Wiki Knowledge - Glasgow Coma Scale →
The Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS, sometimes also known as the Glasgow Coma Score is a neurological scale which aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person, for initial as well as continuing assessment. A patient is assessed against the criteria of the scale, and the resulting points give a patient score between 3 (indicating deep unconsciousness) and either 14...
Introducing Tumblr Beacon: Once every hundred years, the way we discover products on the internet changes. — david On my lunch break I went and bought a book I had wanted to read that I saw mentioned by someone I’m following earlier today. Back when my boyfriend was packing up his stuff and setting off for a couple months in Australia/Japan I began reading the now defunct Yahoo News column...
mint →
is an online budgeting app. it was recommended to me by a friend. i’ve only just started to experiment with it, but thus far it seems very intuitive. — samreich
I tried it out and found the same issue all I have with most of these apps. It’s just not intuitive enough with how my bank (Bank of America) shows debit card purchases.
I use my debit card for everything and generally...
“OS X steals focus like a Pop-Tart in a Fat Camp.”
– Merlin Mann
Today’s gift on Facebook is a Kabbalah bracelet. I hope you saved up otherwise it’s $1USD. Just what I always wanted to get. A gif of an item related to a ancient mystic religion. Thanks Facebook. I’m so glad you’re on the pulse of what’s cool and can let me buy that coolness for my efriends.
HybridCars.com - The Great Hybrid Car Cover-up of... →
Wouk notified the EPA that they were ready for a final test. To Wouk’s surprise, Erik Stork refused to test the hybrid and threatened to drop the entire program. He saw himself as a regulator extraordinaire. Referring to Detroit automakers, Stork said, “I was their regulator. It was marvelous. It was a pissing contest at least every day, maybe two or three. Really makes the adrenaline flow and the...
The Roots Illadelph best hip hop album of my time? — poortaste The Roots - Things Fall Apart is the only album I’ll ever say changed my life. I’m not quite sure why or how but I haven’t been the same since the first time I listened to it through, and it’s one cd I have to physically have in my hands. I’ve scratched it and lost it and had it stolen enough that...
Benazir Bhutto 'killed in blast' | BBC →
from kiyo:
A very sad day for democracy.
Damn it. — toldorknown
xmas text #10 aka I'm boring in real life too
stranger: don't forget to tip your waitress.
me: tip her into what? the dessert tray?
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake....”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
you really should stop by #tumblrs
johnston: that would be the best. to get rickrolled at your own wedding
igowen: hahaha
johnston: like, the bride starts walking down the aisle then halfway through BAM
livejamie: if that doesn't ensure eternal happiness, i don't know what does
livejamie: HOLY SHIT YES!
livejamie: like in the middle of the wedding march
livejamie: NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
livejamie: holy shit yes
livejamie: make it happen
igowen: "dun dun dun duuuun... dun dun dun- WE'RE NO STRANGER TO LOOOOOVE"
igowen: *STRANGERS
“…and it’s thrilling to not know where you’re going.”
– Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Malasyia. There’s a marathon today on the Travel Channel and he’s floating on the river to meet someone and doesn’t know quite where they are going.
2 domains better than 1?
I’ve been paying so much time posting on my tumblr and refreshing the tumblr dashboard that I’ve really ignored my original blog. I’m not really sure there’s a need for more than 1 site, but they definitely serve separate purposes. I’ve never been one for sharing neat things I’ve found on attentionwhore. AW has always been the home for my personal ideas, and my tumblr is heavily focused on things...
Christmas is a secular holiday
I’m sick of religious media commentators being up in arms about the perceived secularization of Christmas. I agree that materialism is out of control in our culture, but humans all over the world have been celebrating the winter solstice time since long before Jesus. Roland Martin recently said, “we should continue to remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.” Well,...
wiki
I’ve decided creating a custom wiki for all the people, places and stories is the perfect family geneology preservation tool.
It’s a shame all those things are 1700 miles away. I’m really missing my family today.
Holy crap... Lakota Sioux Indians withdraw from... →
— tylerriewer
I wonder if they’ll take a part Cherokee…
Hand Bell Hero →
Holiday-theme, Guitar Hero-like action; it’s embarrassing how bad I am at this game. — cubicle17Jason is currently schooling me over Jingle Bells.
Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading →
— via bullshit
“…I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain...”
– Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and co-founder on building a tight team of very talented people. Via 37signals » 32 > Highest Common Denominator
Weblogs rack up a decade of posts →
“Official numbers are hard to find but some estimate that the size of the blogosphere in late 1998 encompassed only 23 sites.” I recently went on a search for my original site when I realized next year will be 10 years of me putting fumbling details of my boring life online. Back then it was a Tripod page where I hand edited the main page html to update with the newest occurings of my...
Sometimes my quote marks work, sometimes they throw in space.
“One of the most talked-about books of the last two years was “The World is...”
– World is not flat, academic says - Yahoo! News That explanation doesn’t make me want to read this book. It almost offends.
“We named ourselves after Midwestern dairy queen civility.”
– say hi / bio (a brief reference to their name Say Hi,formerly Say Hi To Your Mom in the band’s website bio)
Degree of Expectation
I have always worried that my lack of any college experience at all is offending and cheapening the value of those that I’ve worked with at equal level, not that it would hinder my own career.
This thought has been bothering me moreso lately as most people my age are on their first real job out of college and I’m interacting with them on a peer level and also as a (somewhat)...
Following...
I’ve come to the conclusion that every tumblelog in existance has at some point: posted a XKCD comic reblogged something from Jakob decided to follow Fred Wilson, Marco, and Rob Knowlton will immediately care about any new Lost/Wire/Batman trailer posted posted a photo from FFFOUND! emailed in a picture of themselves felt incredibly ‘meta’ and silly and redundant reblogging...
Seattle
Is there anyone else on tumblr in Seattle? I’ve searched and only found a guy who mostly imports his twitter feed.
Portland is well represented in my following list, but no one more local.
Sir Awesome's Review Revue - Things We Hate, Vol.... →
Things We Hate isn’t done nearly enough, but it’s always good. Check the archives. And if you don’t pay attention to Sarah Brown you should.
The man behind the puzzles →
Stewart Coffin clears a space on his dining room table and sets down a small rectangular wooden tray. Beside it he lays four wooden tiles, two triangles and two trapezoids. The object of the puzzle is to fit the four tiles within the rim of the tray. If you’re like most people, you start by fitting a square corner of a tile into a square corner of the tray. Coffin, 77, leans forward in his chair,...
Disappointed.
Jason just had Lake and myself watch 2 Girls 1 Cup for the first time. I giggled. What the fuck is wrong with me?
appeal
The only problem with my career choice is that there is zero sex appeal in freight transportation.
Gullible
Something interesting I found out tonight. The word gullible isn’t in most dictionaries. Seriously, look for yourself. — nostrich I have the vague memory that I learned this from an episode of Roseanne.
“In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow...”
– Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies - Yahoo! News (via LiveScience.com)