amateur comedy and professional karaoke
new wednesday hangout?
June 2011
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amazing analogy stolen from Reddit
Using a Mac is like living in a rural farm land with all your doors unlocked and windows open.
Using Windows is like living in the bad part of New York with bars on your windows and chains on your doors.
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If I had more creativity/ambition, I’d create a blog devoted entirely to the random objects that people leave outside the laundry room in my apartment building.
Today’s entries would be one framed picture of the Queen Mother and a lamp that looks like a duck.
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“The YouTube comments section is the saddest place in America.”
—Fast Chat: Judah Friedlander, AdWeek
“This “Net” thing was going to be a big deal, I remember Bob telling me, but it could create a few problems. One was that it was going to empower crazies, since geographically diffuse nut jobs of all sorts would be able to find each other online. Another was that it could hurt democratic culture by encouraging narrow-minded folk to burrow deeper into their holes.”
—Is Web personalization turning us into solipsistic twits?, Slate.com
Today I learned about.... →
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Canadian English
We spell the word ‘cheque’ that way because our financials were originally tied up with British banks.
We choose motoring words like ‘truck’, ‘gasoline’ and ‘trunk’ instead of ‘lorry’, ‘petrol’ and ‘boot’, because the Americans were the ones to introduce us to the automobile.
“But, as we’ve said along, Dirk’s always been nearly this good, and all this “soft” and “choking” business is only in the heads of people who need this sort of thought-lozenge to get them through the news-cycle. Maybe something to keep in mind as the vultures descend on the Heat.”
—The Dallas Mavericks: Your Transition-Year NBA Champions (Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That), GQ.com
