May 2013
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Rob Ford Crackstarter →
Please help us raise enough money to purchase and publish a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.
Hey friends from that one part of Canadia! This might interest you.
They started an Indiegogo campaign to raise $200K to buy and publish the video of Rob Ford hitting the pipe. If you want him gone fast, this is probably the most effective use of your funds to make it so.
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ShortFormBlog: Thoughts on Tumblr and Yahoo (in... →
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obitoftheday asks: What do you think happens if Yahoo buys Tumblr? And why do we all agree that it seems like a bad idea?
» SFB says: I think Tumblr starts monetizing itself more effectively. For years they’ve tried to do everything but the obvious, but the problem is, they’ve turned down…
So we are all going to just pretend to ignore the fact that...
“While Cole discovered that loneliness could hasten death in sick people,...”
– The Science of Loneliness | New Republic (via kateoplis)
Oh great. No point in trying to be well.
Now, where did I put those donuts.
(via amassofhumanity)
All kidding aside: it’s a long read, but well worth it. An absolutely amazing article on the biological impacts of loneliness, touching...
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"You should try yoga!"
Yes. I’ll get right on that, maybe after I can tie my own shoes again.
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Opinion Poll
Let’s say you had a really bad experience at a doctor’s office yesterday. (Hypothetically.) He was disinterested, dismissive, unthorough, and a generally arrogant douchebag in a $300 shirt who didn’t give fuck one about your well being and spent less than 5 minutes with you before pronouncing you, essentially, fucked for life and unfixable. (Hypothetically.)
Obviously, you would...
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Angry enough to start political fights on...
All in.
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TT
Seems like everyone loved the recent Hyperbole and a Half about depression. “YES! THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT IS!” said pretty much the whole internet.
I liked it, too. Allie is brave and hilarious and talented, and I am glad she found the strength to publish again. And I am glad it resonated so deeply for so many. But I believe I speak for more than a few people who saw that strip and...
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A brief update
This weekend, I was planning to write a little about what I’ve been up to that caused me to take a breather from tumblr for a while. (The break was because I had realized that I was spending too much time here and it was hurting my productivity.) I was hoping to hit a big milestone that would be fun to share.
Instead, Thursday night, I bent over to pick up a catcher’s chest...
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April 2013
70 posts
break;
I’m gonna be away from the tumblrs for a good while. There’s no drama; I just need to focus on other things. If you need me, you can find me in the usual places (twitter, facebook, email, kik).
Namaste. And be lovely to each other.
Hello, new visitors!
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ENQ
I am having lots of fun coding again. That’s going well. The aforementioned rust relates to design—where by design, I mean object design, not making pretty web pages with giant fonts and too much whitespace. The design is coming around, too, slowly. Too slowly. This all needs to move faster. I wanted to be farther by today than I am.
Danny pitched in a real game last night. We purposely didn’t...
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Truth
Sometimes, the rust comes off in giant, heaving sheets that crash to the ground and explode in the most satisfying way.
Other times, the rust comes off one tiny spot at a time, and then only after days of backbreaking work that leave you too tired to raise your arms.
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To be *very* clear:
tbridge:
scholvin:
I would gladly pay real cash money for an ad-free version of Tumblr. (Or Facebook, and even Twitter, though I would miss that the least if it went away.)
I get a lot of value from this service and I have no problem paying my share.
So would I.
I think we’re also in the 0.000001% of people who would.
That means we won’t get that chance, so this is how they pay to keep...
To be *very* clear:
I would gladly pay real cash money for an ad-free version of Tumblr. (Or Facebook, and even Twitter, though I would miss that the least if it went away.)
I get a lot of value from this service and I have no problem paying my share.
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All Kinds Of Time // Fountains of Wayne
4:22 x...
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for my civilian friends
I know some people read this who are not tumblr or twitter folk…if you want to get some insight into the community I speak so much of, you can check out this documentary made about the Chicagoish tweetup (aka #chsh) phenomenon. The link is only going to be up for a while today, so move quickly if you are interested. There’s no way to compress the experience into a 20 minute film (or...
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chsh!
Another great one in the books, at least for me. It’s always so great to connect and reconnect IRL. You feel like you get to know people from what they post here, but you don’t know the truth about them, really, until you get a whiff of their breath.
It’s impossible for me to put an exhilarating, butt-and-boob-squeezy night like that into words, especially this morning when my...
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I think I only said one really stupid/awful thing last night, and failed to recognize only two people I should have known.
A pretty good start!
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Chicago area flooding pics →
I should point out to all #chsh attendees that there is almost no risk of flooding downtown near the hotel nor up in Lakeview at Mullen’s. Or, really, anywhere you’re likely to wander over the next few days. Most of what’s happening is west and north of the city…so unless you’re coming to stalk me at my house, you won’t be impacted.
No matter what, this is a...
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