January 2009
18 posts
The President’s closing remarks at the staff...
Bright College Years!
Tonight will be the first time in a long while that time ticks toward a deadline while I am rapt by mildly interested in television. But despite a houseload of orphans and a city beginning to burst with people, no gang is assembled to watch Battlestar with me. It’s rare to wish to be in New Haven outside of 4-6 pm, but here we are.
Also, the slight dashboard redesign is not good.
Duh! It’s set at the University of Northeastern California. Per Robert Downey, Jr.’s character in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, “It’s literally like someone took America by the East Coast and shook it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on.”
seedz:
There appears to be a theme emerging in Undeclared. That theme is female insanity. Or maybe Undeclared is like a Rorschach...
del.icio.us
Is that an Eye of Jupiter cake? Why would you do that?
NYT:
It was a ridiculously small venue for Bird. In September, he drew some 13,000 people to the open-air auditorium in Chicago’s Millennium Park. The Hideout’s official seating capacity is listed at 73, though a few hours before the doors opened one of the bar’s owners told me, only half-jokingly, that the actual number depends on who’s onstage. “When Andrew plays,” she said, “we can squeeze in...
Recession hits Smith Street
WSJ:
Even Apple Inc. is beginning to suffer in this year’s dismal holiday season, and worries are mounting the recession will weigh on its business next year.
Apple, which has outpaced the overall personal computer market this year despite its strategy of eschewing discounts, showed its first signs of weakness in November.
Tip of the hat
A restaurant in Northfield, MN delivers you to the food rather than the food to you. Parties of five or more are picked up in a 12-pax, gratis, and taken door-todoor-to-door.
Bloomberg:
President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.
Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may...
Best of 2008
There’s been a culling; I’m tired of Best ofs. Here is the most important tumble of the year, titled “and another thing: THE INTERNET IS REAL LIFE.”
keyholez:
Fuck everyone like this (second comment on the Emily Gould article, “recommended” by 123 soulless idiot readers):
This is not life. This is an electronic box on your desktop connected to numeric transductions of...
Once A Runner
Slate:
On New Year’s Day 2004, a runner named Quenton Cassidy finished second among high-schoolers in the Resolution Run 5K in Atlanta. In 2005, he finished first among an all-ages set in a Massachusetts 5K and third in the Fifth Annual Cure Autism Now 5K in Maryland. A year later, he seemed to have lost a step, finishing fifth in the 2006 Des Moines Midnight Madness 5K.
Quenton Cassidy...