August 2008
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Sarah, Palin and Tall
The heartwarming children’s story of how a woman from Alaska was picked to be John McCain’s running mate.
Dad attempts Cassanova status via keyboard;...
Dad bought himself a birthday present: a Yamaha keyboard that accompanies him with grand orchestral backup as he plays. It’s like, piano hero. And now he won’t stop playing it. He stayed home all of Sunday to play it; he didn’t even answer the phone.
My mom told me to try it, and so I sat down to play Fur Elise - but my dad sat down next to me and played it on our real piano,...
Worst name for a website ever?
Who wants a Glogster?
I know they mean for it to be pronounced gee-logster, but it’s almost impossible for me to resist saying “Glog-ster.” Glog. Gloggy. Glogilicious, as Blayne might say. Glog-a-groan. Maybe this could become a new way to say “terrible beyond belief.” As in, “you’re wearing Nevin’s socks over your Rainbows so you can get into Asia...
Learned two new SF-exclusive concepts last night
zachklein:
1. The phrase Vesting in Peace, which means you work for stable company increasing in value, and you’re doing as little as possible until your stock options are worth something — just enough to be percevied as functional, but never to the point of exertion.
2. The Black Sock Coverup. Ever make the mistake of wearing your Rainbows to a shoes-required club or restaurant? Apparently,...
Random thought
The scrunchie is totally going to make a comeback. Mark my words. See, my text recognition doesn’t even recognize it as a word. But it will. Oh, yes it will.
Also, tie dye. But more the scrunchie.
Do you ever think your life would be better lived...
The Swan, who writes at the Express: (rips off price tag to my t-shirt, shows it to me, returns to her side of the cubicle)
Me: Thanks. You're keeping me cool.
Swan: No, I'm just making you unrefundable.
Me: (shakes fist) Damn you!
I can't tell whether this belongs in a comic strip, a commercial, or in a scene from a lousy remake of a superhero movie ("I made her unrefundable" "unrefundable?! My GOD! That--that's terrible!" "...I'm sorry. It had to be done.")
Flaws
From zachklein:
My sophomore year of college I competed for a scholarship that would cover half of my tuition and guarantee me a high-paying summer internship for the next three years in my choice of nearly any major American city. I was one of three finalists and word got back that the Director of the Foundation would come meet me a for personal interview. It was the first of only two...
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“NOBODY’S allergic to stone!!”
– My mother, triumphantly, in response to a Scattergories answer to the category “Things you are allergic to” beginning with the letter S
“I have an iPhone now!”
– Me, to myself, every 10 minutes.
OH. EM. GEE.
I suppose this may mean nothing to you, but today I received my word-a-day email (yes, I receive a word a day in my email), and it said this:
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg
nugacity
PRONUNCIATION:
(noo-GAS-i-tee, nyoo-)
MEANING:
noun: Triviality; futility.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nugax (trifling), from nugari (to trifle).
USAGE:
“For many, the Beachcomber column has been an oasis of...
Pick a Lock, Any Lock: YouTube makes it easy to... →
Locksmiths now must face the way the Internet likes to expose everything that someone wants to be kept secret — or as Stewart Brand put it, “Information wants to be free.” He was referring to its value, but the other definition of ‘free’ is appropriate here.
Written by Slate’s tech columnist, Farhad Manjoo, and available in podcast form as the Daily Podcast...
Breaking into the Internet? →
In the NYTimes, a piece written by veteran tech reporter John Markoff on how the Internet’s Domain Name System is, put simply, hackable, and how the information that traffics through the web — personal information, passwords — can potentially be stolen:
Published: August 8, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet’s workings, computer...
The final part of this four-piece thought on...
while watching the Olympics
Commercial: “if you’ve had a Coke … you’ve had a hand in helping every Olympic dream come true.”
My sister (in her sleep): SNORT
Watchfrom the sis:
kambr:
I would love to see Rihanna as vice president. She’s got to have at least some foreign policy knowledge behind that continent of a forehead.
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