living in a shotgun shack

job description of the day

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:50:13 -0700

“Our Environment:

Bored developers make boring websites. We’ve got hundreds of online assets that attract millions of visitors for our partners - and that’s serious business - but we’re also serious about cultivating a work environment that’s as fun as it is challenging. We don’t think success requires a sterile and cold corporate culture. In fact, we encourage just the opposite. Our culture is casual, fast-paced and often pretty ridiculous. A sense of humor isn’t a plus, it’s a must. ”

Unwanted bubbles in wine was called ‘devil’s wine’ in the 17th century before...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:08:52 -0700

Unwanted bubbles in wine was called ‘devil’s wine’ in the 17th century before champagne wine with bubbles was desirable.

On the ferry to my first game of the season! Go GIANTS.

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:23 -0700

On the ferry to my first game of the season! Go GIANTS.

"and of political parties engaged in thuggish competition for local control"

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:24:22 -0700

“and of political parties engaged in thuggish competition for local control”

"Those motherfuckers aren’t real. Not one of these other ones is like us. They’ll be..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:20:55 -0700

“Those motherfuckers aren’t real. Not one of these other ones is like us. They’ll be faking the funk forever.”

- they’ll be faking the funk forever

luludemexico: Don’t bother me—I have a marrow bone

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:10 -0700

luludemexico:

Don’t bother me—I have a marrow bone

“I just don’t think fighting, killing someone, is the way,” said Dara.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:00 -0700

Seems like this should be bigger news: “Election violence was high. Around 40 people died,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:24:22 -0700

Seems like this should be bigger news:
“Election violence was high. Around 40 people died, including 11 killed by a big bomb in Karachi. The deaths came at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban, which abhors elections, and of political parties engaged in thuggish competition for local control.”

—The Economist

Somebody keeps driving by in a tangerine Lamborghini (or maybe a Maserati — whadoIknow) and they are...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:19:00 -0700

Somebody keeps driving by in a tangerine Lamborghini (or maybe a Maserati — whadoIknow) and they are making me jealous. Maybe they’d let me behind the wheel one time?

Tax and bomb conservatives vs tax and spend liberals.

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:53:32 -0700

Tax and bomb conservatives vs tax and spend liberals.

"Worse than wicked, the IRS’s behaviour was stupid; faced by angry citizens with a Don’t Tread On Me..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:29 -0700

“Worse than wicked, the IRS’s behaviour was stupid; faced by angry citizens with a Don’t Tread On Me loathing of taxes, the agency sent taxmen to tread on them.”

- The Economist

(Just thought it was clever)

this here is some spectacular lawyerese: “It is a mistake to draw any negative inference or ...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:48:16 -0700

this here is some spectacular lawyerese:

“It is a mistake to draw any negative inference or conclusion about a case or a particular defendant based on isolated taped conversations taken out of context.”

"It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:24:13 -0700

“It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity.”

- A.O. Scott, NYT

“The idea that everyone can have everything may be logically preposterous, but it is...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:57:13 -0700

“The idea that everyone can have everything may be logically preposterous, but it is ideologically essential to the imagination of a country that seems to be living simultaneously in the Great Depression and the Gilded Age.”

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:17:00 -0700

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

- Julian Barnes: Sense of an Ending

“Lost at Lake” | 2012 | oil on found landscape | 40“ x 28” | One...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:24:16 -0700

“Lost at Lake” | 2012 | oil on found landscape | 40“ x 28” | One of the original pieces from Disaster Series, currently on show at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.

via The Great Discontent article about Oliver Jeffers via Pikeys via Tumblr Radar.

I like this Oliver Jeffers

"Don't be ridiculous, Eddie, we're going this way."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:58:00 -0700

my neighbor to her dog

so cute

delightfully baffling

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:39:24 -0700

phrase of the day

—Paolo Sambrano in The San Francisco Appeal

"Scandal Machine"

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:45:51 -0700

The Republicans are looking for the Whitewater of the Obama administration — a manufactured scandal they can all rally around. They think they have found it with Benghazi. lame. How ‘bout you work together and fix shit?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/opinion/the-republicans-scandal-machine.html?hp&_r=0

ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTION

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:12:06 -0700

all-caps cuz I just learned that this is an area of study. eeeeeeeee.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pets/10044557/Dogs-to-get-their-iPaws-as-scientists-build-computers-for-animals.html