Posts for Sunday, 27 April 2008
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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[S]he shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been masking for 50 years.” (via Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity - Boing Boing)](http://media.tumblr.com/bJomQ2i9D8bcnt2ndx1pIOox_400.jpg)
[S]he shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been masking for 50 years.”
(via Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity - Boing Boing)
Why does Snoop Dogg carry an umbrella?
I thought we really got the shaft on our Amazon editorial review, so I took action. If you have a moment, write your own review. Make sure to discredit the Amazon reviewer Bret Fetzer in the process though.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
(via www.caglecartoons.com by way of anthonyking + tuculescu)
They should draw an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don’t want any more than that.
Congrats to the Trojan Draft Picks
A remarkable slew of them, more than I can ever remember in one draft:
- Sedrick Ellis, DT - 7th overall to New Orleans
- Keith Rivers, LB - 9th to Cincinnati
- Sam Baker, OT - 21st to Atlanta
- Lawrence Jackson, DE - 28 to Seattle
- Chilo Rachal, OG - 39th to San Francisco
- Fred Davis, TE - 48th to Washington
- Terrell Thomas, CB - 63th to the Giants
- John David Booty, QB - 137th to Minnesota
- Thomas Williams, OLB - 155th to Jacksonville
- Chauncey Washington, RB - 213th to Jacksonville
More USC draft coverage over at TrojanWire
I’m shorting the word “douche.”
After a strong resurgence in 2005 and showing strong staying power through 2007, its day has come. Lately most of the people I’ve seen use fit into two categories, or a combination of both:
1) people over 40 who have finally had the word passed down the cool chain from their younger friends and co-workers
2) the “douches” originally being described themselves
Pretty soon even the douches won’t be calling people douches, which is when the stock will completely crash.
Here’s what I want to do next spring. I want to return to 1955 and listen to every game played by the Brooklyn Dodgers, in real time, several games a week through to the end of the season.