September 2008
95 posts
August 2008
62 posts
“Even as a little girl, they wanted me to think of a future career, as a, you...”
– Céline - Before Sunrise
Beer of the week
312 Urban Wheat by Goose Island. Had it last night at Little Bar, and it was the best part of a pretty tame evening. Goose Island seems to be the most popular craft brewery around here, have also had their Honkers + IPA at other Columbus bars… all pretty solid.
Finding Balance.
liinmiami:
I live, eat, breath teaching. I’m tired of being a teacher, of taking a break from grading to plan, of relaxing by looking up chemistry experiments online. I’m tired of having no identity other than Ms. Enumah the chemistry teacher. Everytime you move to a new place, you have the chance to reinvent yourself a little, and so far my reinvented me is a very one-sided character. I...
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2008: Summer bests
Best…
flavor - Cucumber, as in the gimlets at Bourbon & Branch, and the Cucumber Piesporter Yogurt at Jeni’s.
meal - an evening of small plates at Tilth… mini duck burgers, sweet corn ice cream, all locally sourced.
performance - the queens (and judges) at Drag Idol at Neighbours (watch the videos!).
hotel - Kensington Riverside Inn in Calgary, despite my...
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2008: The Summer in Numbers
9 weeks on the road (of 10 weeks working)
27 nights in a hotel (20 of them in Starwood!)
34 nights in my own bed (48%!)
$87 - my rent per night spent in my apartment (The view: priceless)
27 flight segments (and god knows how many delays)
26,176 miles flown (plus ~15,000 for west coast trips in the spring!)
119,865 “points” accumulated (frequent flyer, hotel...
Threadless Tees Marked Down to $9 →
lenachen:
Helloooo, back to school sale!
hellooo lena rocking the street team points :-P
“Mankind is Noodlekind.”
– Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant ramen
(via NPR)
“There is nothing erotic that is not transgressive. Marriage has many benefits...”
– from NYMag - What Makes Married Men Want to Have Affairs
Life without constant email is so strange, pleasant.
Just flew a delta 757 with a very nice entertainment system - trivia ftw!
TinySong →
mrgan:
Type in a song name, get an instant list of results and a teeny URL to a stream of the song. Even beyond the sharing and recommendation potential of such a simple setup, this is the fastest way to just hear a song you don’t already have in iTunes.
However, the difference between the search UI - simple, small, fast, pretty, no-nonsense - and the playback UI - convoluted, big, slow,...
“You know, just your standard monkey funeral shot.”
– Billy Wilder’s response, when asked what he required for the pet monkey’s funeral scene in Sunset Boulevard.
Free at last from the blackberry!
Deleting old text messages, painful.
Goodbye pin:24628285
Daring Fireball: Raining on the OpenClip Parade →
marco:
John Gruber does a much more extensive article than I did on why OpenClip won’t last very long, including this gem:
And, indeed, in the 2.1b4 release of the iPhone OS, [cross-app file-read prevention] is enforced. The OpenClip demo apps, which work as advertised on iPhone OS 2.0.2, do not work in the current 2.1 beta, because apps are no longer able to read or even see other apps’...
drinking Duvel, eating pita chips (with brie), and oh so thankful for that trader named Joe
Crunch Time
liinmiami:
Anyway, being there has been good but overwhelming. I am apparently replacing the best of the chemistry teachers, which puts some pressure on me. All of my five classes have between 33 and 38 students. Each class period is 2 hours long. And part of me wonders whether I know (or ever knew) enough chemistry to be qualified to teach it. Not to mention, being without a paycheck for...
Dear iPhone Smart Keyboard
openletters:
Quit being such a prude. You can’t possibly think I want to type the word “ducking” that often, so stop correcting me already.
Profanity is a fact of life.
Sincerely, saramcpherson
Horribly frustrating, but still not as bad as using T9 (or iTAP) where you can’t even swear without a handful of extra button presses.
“A part of me longed to be absorbed into that elite circle of Ivy-educated...”
– Daily Intel (via IvyGate)
“So from one to ten, ten is exactly what i am, zero being everything I’m not. Tell me what you like. Is it less than five?” - “moab”
“washed beneath the blacktop/ gone beneath my wheels/ there’s nothing that the road cannot heal”
Really liking “Conor Oberst”
just bought “conor oberst” hope it beats “cassanova”
Consultant's Love Life: A BCG Analysis →
“Both the RNC and McCain’s campaign responded by urging Obama to call for...”
– CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com
I’m trying to sort out the chronology here.
1) Obama (correctly) suggests that being a bit more proactive on car maintanence could do about as much in terms of saving gas as offshore drilling. (Yes, I know about this article...
“Sausalito” is a rollicking daydream about camping out on a houseboat in...”
– omfg, cahnerrr shares my love of houseboats!
(via pitchfork)
Days with my father →
really touching, really amazing photography
(via dailymeh)
Fox News: Canada Bus Killer Ate Victim's Flesh →
danhacker:
This story gets more bizarre and horrific every day.
creepy creepy creepy
Want to read an account of the economics of new york street vendors