October 2008
Late Afternoon with Conan O’Brien →
rachelking:
He moves to Los Angeles in the spring, and I was not letting him escape Gotham without hosting me (and Stephanie, Daisuke & Miguel) in his Rockefeller Center studios. I also lucked out with the…
“Republicans blow off the smart cities with the counterargument that they win the...”
– The Party of Yesterday - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Hostnames
pile:
nosmo:
There’s a certain level of geeky connection that comes from naming a computer or a device. Some people seem to have naming schemes and consistent themes. I generally don’t. So Tumblr, what do you call your machines?
At Vimeo, all the dev machines are named after secondary Top Gun characters. Merlin, Cougar and Hollywood so far.
all of my devices i name after cheese.
my laptop...
by the way
redoing the room, which involved:
lofting the bed
buying and making new shelving
framing all my prints for hanging
new lighting schemes
purging all of the things i don’t need
needless to say it felt good. nay, it felt GREAT.
Apple says NO to California's Prop 8 →
Apple, based out of Cupertino, California, is publicly opposing the ban on gay marriage in that state. According to their news site, “[W]e strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly...
“i may not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to...”
– voltaire
by the way
i just changed my name on facebook to ‘miguel hussein de leon.’
NYTimes endorses Barack →
as if you didn’t know already.
artsy fartsy?
i’m trying to write the essay for my photography project overview but i’m also trying to write it without sounding like a dick or a pretentious art fag. here’s a line that’s got me questioning why i think i might sound like one:
The where, so to speak, is magnified by this confinement of the urban large against the magnitude of the personal small.
too much like an artsy...
new theme
it’s white!
i know it’s only fall but it’s so much more fun when it’s winter time.
my favorite sarah palin nicknames
caribou barbie
bible spice
tina fake
sarah barracuda (or the shorter ‘sarah-cuda’)
twaddle
sarah failin’
moose-olini, moose-thong, etc
snowjob squareglasses
blunder woman
half-baked alaska
chick cheney
milf: mom i’d like to forget
the new co-host of the view
great white hope
dumb bitch
Oh, I live in Fake America.
dangurewitch:
Today, the McCain campaign decided that linking Obama to terrorism wasn’t despicable enough, so they should probably start referring to Republican areas of the country as the “real” parts of the country, be it “Real America” or “Real Virginia”:
Gov. Palin: We believe that the best of America is in these small towns, in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the “Real...
so.
i just got a dog.
Hug a shark if it attacks you:
robhuebel:
* Sharks tend to thrash prey around to tear chunks out of their prey, so if the person attacked essentially “hugs” the shark (latching onto it), they sharply reduce the risk of having large quantities of skin or limbs altogether ripped off of their body. Also, doing this prevents the bitten area from being stuck even more in the shark’s mouth, as shark teeth are pointed inward to lock...
new cool new group
1000lolz:
Thanks Amanda for creating such an awesome group. I like to keep my posts pretty SFW at 1000Lolz, but if you are craving funny, naked, perverted pics, definitely check out this site.
amandalynferri:
A lot of the time I find things that I want to post, but are NSFW. They are always hilarious, but involve n00dz. I have started a group for hilarious NSFW picture called NSFW,...
does anyone know a good printing house for a short run of pictures on newsprint? i’m thinking of formatting some of my work this way as part of a portfolio.
recent acquisitions.
polaroid type 600 film for my sx-70 model 2 (i’m hoarding)
fuji ‘cheki’ instax mini 7s ‘chocolate’
fuji instax mini film, 5 packs
lomography supersampler camera; mint green
lomography pop 9 camera; gold
lomo smena symbol camera (deadstock)
redscale iso100 film, 9 rolls
ilford b&w iso400 film, 5 rolls
kodak portra color iso400 film, 5 rolls (deadstock)
if...
“Think of the election as a job interview.
You’re the owner of one of the...”
– ChrisKula.com » Think of the election as a job interview (via charlietodd) 