March 2012
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February 2012
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Question for web nerds
When doing layout/design, do you just write raw CSS with a text editor, or is there some nifty app you use (like Dreamweaver? do people still use that?) to lay out pages graphically?
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davio1962 replied to your audio post: Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) // Squeeze
Without looking up the lyrics, I have always thought that they painted various seaside resort scenes, from the perspective of one who works there. Close enough? Also, I bet this song was a bitch to play.
Oh, yeah, that was the plot summary, but I botched the script. Another brutal example: “A panda for sweet...
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Mark your calendars
I have a busy spring/summer coming up. Get busy with me. (What?)
Thursday, April 26, The Hideout, Chicago (with Tony Rogers)
Saturday, May 12, Galway, Elmhurst (The Recliners)
Saturday, June 9 (tentative), Martyrs, Chicago (The Good) postponed
Friday, June 15, Libertyville Days, Libertyville (The Bradburys)
Saturday, June 16, Mississippi River Valley Motorcycle Rally, Davenport (The...
Questions
When did McSweeney’s get all serious-like? What happened to the nice “Onion For The Overeducated” thing they had going?
Why do the bots at Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter all insist I should follow the same douchenozzle creepster?
Why did I tempt the Universe last week by saying work was going well?
Did the 5’11” waitress in that Mexican bar keep my glasses as a...
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Fuck Cancer
Got some bad news today—not about immediate family, but a close friend. Someone the kids absolutely adore.
Seriously, medical industrial complex? Get your FUCKING shit together. Enough with the boner pills and the statins and the other rich people bullshit that you waste your time and effort on and do something to FIX THIS SCOURGE already. Now.
Fuck.
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Guys, while I'm gone:
Don’t feed the fucking trolls.
WatchMexican Wine // Fountains of Wayne
Things:
I have Mexico on my mind. 25 hours to departure if no kids get sick.
Welcome Interstate Managers was the best album of the aughts. I bought it for “Stacy’s Mom” but by about halfway through this song, the first one, I knew I had something magical on my hands.
I would have liked to be in the middle part of this video very, very...
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My First Dream Post
I was discussing economic theory (inflation: supply- or demand-side influence?) with a Home Alone era Macaulay Culkin over a breakfast of bacon explosion. He was despondent because of what I was telling him (demand, duh).
This concludes My First And Probably Final Dream Post.
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stupon replied to your post: VD TT
Somehow I just noticed this. Thanks, Dan…buddy-old-pal-old-friend.
His bar down there is the saddest place in North America, btw. I bet it’s even more pathetic now that Dave’s back in the band full-time.
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VD TT
Win: I sent my doc a message via his website about my 4 week cold, he called in a prescription for a Z-pak, and I did not have to talk to a human.
Loss: he called it into the pharmacy where I used to live, resulting in a 90+ minute trip home.
I am washing the first dose down with a surprisingly not-terrible Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA. Bosslike.
I will be at latitude 23 in something like 100...
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blanddiva11:
I Will Always Love You: Whitney...
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mrsbadcrumble replied to your photo: It’s 10ºF (-12ºC, 261K) this morning. I heard some…
Enjoy diarrhea!
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
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I miss Favrd.
girl-detective:
wordishness:
Favrd started all of this.
I started Tweeting in January 2009. At first maybe once a week, then gradually more. I found hilarious, amazing people to follow, mostly just by browsing the follow lists of a few greats like badbanana and hotdogsladies. From there, I discovered Favrd.
I wish I could say it was some transcendent, amazing experience, but it wasn’t....
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work meme!
I manage software engineers at an options trading firm. Most of them are pretty senior engineers who are really good at what they do, so my role is mostly to make sure that they’re pointed in the right direction and then get out of the way. I set the overall technical strategy for my team, and to a large degree, the internal customers who use our products.
I also do all the non-technical...
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deanwormer replied to your audio post: China Town // Van Halen Let me say right up front…
Hey, leave Women and Children First out of this. And I think the Fleet Foxes just shit their hemp underwear because you left them out of your rant.
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T^2
I…I don’t understand what’s happening. Again.
I think the new Van Halen record is pretty good. Not great; it won’t make me forget VH I or II but it might make me forget Diver Down. (I’ve already forgotten all the Sam Halen records and I never knew the other one.) But goddamn if I didn’t need a band with some testosterone right now. A guy who can actually play...
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Your Software Sucks
You guys know the story of how Roger Ebert’s compendium of reviews of awful movies came to be called Your Movie Sucks, right?
Rob Schneider made Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, which was of course universally reviled. Patrick Goldstein, critic for the LA Times, wrote:
…including a follow-up to Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently...
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