July 2009
38 posts
It's 2009
And your Airport/whatever still has to be rebooted if you dare change a single little setting. Not good enough.
Bonus bitch: Why are the wifi networks you’ve connected to (and thus painstakingly and painfully entered long and retarded passwords for) on your computer not synced to your iPhone?
That is all.
“Cops do not stress the (high) psychological danger of their job, because that...”
– TPM
“As the longtime publisher of this news-paper, it is my duty and unrestrained...”
– “Well, I’ve Sold The Paper To The Chinese” — T. Herman Zweibel, Publisher Emeritus. Several mergers today! The Onion is now owned by Yu Wan Mei Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Group.
Dept. of The Obvious
… but news to me: Wikipedia pages for obscure/provincial/small airports are the best way to figure if someone flies directly there from you city. They usually don’t, though, so don’t bother.
Amazon buys Zappos
“Our culture at Zappos is unique and always evolving and changing, because one of our core values is to Embrace and Drive Change. What happens to our culture is up to us, which has always been true. Just like before, we are in control of our destiny and how our culture evolves.”
Right, yeah. Nice, super. The real fun will start when you have to (have to) get on their Exchange system....
I forgot where I saw this first, but...
“… Words can’t describe!”
“Are you sure? That’s what they do, you know.”
"Buttercup Quittypants"
Someone called Palin this — in a comment on the internet, no less.
Anthony Lane Gets It Right On Sacha Baron Cohen
And I thought I was crazy… but I agree with this. “Candid camera” by any other name is lame and un-funny.
youngmanhattanite:
“I realized, watching ‘Borat’ again, that what it exposed was not a vacuity in American manners but, more often than not, a tolerance unimaginable elsewhere. Borat’s Southern hostess didn’t shriek when he appeared with a bag of feces; she sympathized,...
“years?? have u being involved in a project like this before? u said a lot of...”
– Commenter reacting to another commenter expressing doubt that it’ll be as easy and quick as 1-2-3 for Google to build an OS. I’ll try to think of a clever way to describe the comments on Techcrunch, but for now this will have to stand on its own.
Leaving Tomorrow
San Francisco → London → Copenhagen → Årslev → Copenhagen → Bornholm → Tallinn → Tartu → Tallinn → London → Heraklion → Chania → London — spread over the next 2 months.
I do not care to speculate on what the ratio of overtired children’s tears per air mile will be.
Or the average weight of bags carried on shoulders while attempting to prevent child from jumping from one’s arms...
“Valet bicycle parking provided.”
– Enrique Penalosa coming to San Francisco. Gotta love SF. Via @carter.
“Sarah Palin is a coward and a bully. What kind of politician attacks an ordinary...”
– Threatened by Palin, a Blogger Speaks Out.
The Case of The Misplaced Mustache
WOMAN: You look familiar … do you work for New Jersey Transit?
ME: Sorry, no.
Several minutes later, the woman came running over:
WOMAN: Wait, wait, I know! You’re Thomas Friedman, aren’t you?
Paul Krugman.
“What I’m wondering is: Has Sarah Palin undergone some kind of secret lobotomy?”
– Reihan Salam, in an article from earlier this year. I think we know the answer now.
“Britney Spears could be returning to film for the first time since...”
– FP Passport. Delicious.
June 2009
37 posts
