January 2012
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On anger management and social media
My name is John Scholvin and I have an anger problem.
Along with rugged good looks and luxurious, silvery hair, I inherited a vicious temper from my dad. I wish it could have been his jump shot or golf swing, but instead, it’s the ability to go from idle to redline in a couple of milliseconds.
I’ve been working on managing it for twenty years. My anger has damaged me personally and...
Truthful Tuesday
I am finding most corners of the Internets to be very unpleasant lately. Gonna spend some time away.
It’s not you, it’s me. (Except for when it is you.)
Love you more.
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Birthday (and other) Bullets
45 sounds a lot older than 44 for some reason. Feels about the same, though.
Past birthday: pre-kid, spent in St. Lucia, floating in a pool, resting a rum cooler on my belly, asking someone to push me over to the bar for another because I was too drunk to paddle.
Current birthday: post-kid, it’s 5 got damn degrees out there, just got back from skating lessons, ate Chinese takeout with...
gorillasushi:
therealcherilyn:
apparently, this is a list of companies that support sopa, and those who put this list together says they are going to boycott the companies.. no wait… those who put this list together say that YOU should boycott the companies listed.
pssst.. apple’s on this list.
let’s see how true people are to really fighting the good fight against sopa, huh? whattaya say?
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USPS
sblaufuss:
wordishness:
I just wrote snail mail to everyone that “represents” me to express my opposition to SOPA/Protect IP. Please do the same for your representatives.
A good, old-fashioned paper letter goes a long way when voicing your opinion. This is a good idea.
Yes, but one hitch: snail mail has to go through extensive physical security checks on the way in, and if the issue under...
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I wrote my senators
Senator {Durbin/Kirk}:
I write you again to express my opposition to the so-called PIPA bill in the strongest possible terms. While I agree and understand that intellectual property rights are to be respected and the laws around them enforced, this legislation as currently written gives powers that are far too broad to would-be censors.
For starters, it legislates against the engineering...
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In times like these, we’re reminded how desperately this platform needs a way to indicate that you are <3’ing the rebutting reblogger, not the OP.
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Replying with scary boat pictures:
you’re out of my will.
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Tebow
girl-detective:
mrsbadcrumble:
Listen, I don’t follow pro football anymore, I know nothing about him except what everyone knows - he’s a Christian.
If he’s ever said he’s specifically praying for a win, that’s one thing (although we could have a conversation about prayer as energy and a positive force) but as far as I know, no one knows exactly what he’s praying. The fact that he’s a...
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Blithering Heights
I see people are talking about height again…I will take this opportunity to restate Scholvin’s Theorem:
Internet people are never the height you think they are.
(And dog update: he’s doing well…had to leave him at the vet for some unpleasant procedures, but we hope to have him home tonight. Thanks for the mojo.)
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tumblr meta: HTML NAME tags not allowed?
I’m trying to footnote something using the HTML editor, and these motherfuckers are stripping out everything after a <a name=”foo”> tag I’m trying to enter.
Footnotes: how do you do them?
Update: Matt suggested using Markdown, which would work if the original post had been done that way, but this is an update to an existing which had been done in their rich text...
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truthin'
No usage of any form of the word “curate” is acceptable outside the context of a museum. The verb you’re looking for is “blog” or maybe “post.”
Using CSS to lay out web pages is like like using a framing hammer to demolish a skyscraper. It will eventually get the job done, but there have to be a thousand better ways, right?
I’m getting sick and I...
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Connections, today
A late start this morning brought me the moonset through the bare maple across the street. The lingering, thin clouds made it look like something from a horror movie, and I thought it’d make a good picture. No way the iPhone could handle it, so I went back in and got the big boy camera with the new lens and the tripod. I had a little time to futz with it while the car warmed up and...
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I went to the funeral of a 45-year-old man today.
Pro tip: don’t spend what little time you have here being a judgmental asshole.
Periodic reminder to hug your people
Just got word that a former coworker of mine passed away suddenly last week…he was just a few days older than me, basically working in the same job, basically the same family status, more or less fit and healthy, a musician in his spare time, etc…
Be sure your people know how you feel about them every day.
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8 things meme
Sure. Eight things I have done that most tumblroids haven’t:
Lost $500,000 of someone else’s money in about two hours
Made it back (took a while longer)
Shared stages with a bunch of semi- or formerly-famous bands (Collective Soul, Foghat, Dave Davies, Steppenwolf)
Won an air guitar contest
Lost a championship softball game to Joe Girardi’s team
Slept through and missed an...
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Celebrity Skin // Hole
(yeah, just ignore the...
Anonymous asked: Hey John - I hate it when my brain does this (which is more often than not these days): I remember only part of something but not enough to answer the question. Just enough to drive me crazy and make me go searching for the answer: I swear you had a post about a song you liked by a female singer that was either in an odd time or an odd chord that had an odd name (midi? something?). Everyone...
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