I had a Pistons fan named Duane e‐mail me, “Watching LeBron’s performance in Game 5 made me feel like Ron Burgundy. LBJ pooped in my refrigerator, ate the whole wheel of cheese and I’m not even mad. That was amazing.”
Category: Tumbles
Word is the MicroTards are fuming at me for taking a “low blow” and comparing Windows to hell. Maybe they’re right. The analogy isn’t perfect. You can’t get out of hell. You can get out of Windows.
Prototype 1.5.1 released! If you’re still running 1.5.0, you shouldn’t be. The $$ optimization alone is worth the upgrade.
We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I’m not going to miss my festival.
The moment at which [Timothy] Dalton grabs hold of a redheaded boy and exclaims “Stay back, or the gingernut gets it!” is to my ears the noblest line reading since the demise of Sir John Gielgud.
Mark Pilgrim deconstructs the recent comments DHH made about Twitter. Yes, DHH is arrogant, but he’s also correct. (Know anyone like that, Mark?)
When you get to my age, if you get to my age, which is 81, and if you have reproduced, you will find yourself asking your own children, who are themselves middle‐aged, what life is all about… I put my big question about life to my biological son Mark. Dr. Vonnegut said this to his doddering old dad: “Father, we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” So I pass that on to you. Write it down, and put it in your computer, so you can forget it.
Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84. Cat’s Cradle was the first book (the first book book) I opened and started reading of my own volition. I was 14. The person I am, right now, sprang from those pages.
People seem to think that by posting in threads and agreeing with other people they are changing the world. They are not. They are posting in threads online. The universe will not be altered by forum threads, even those which are very wry. Being outraged online is a form of entertainment, and refreshing a thread to receive a hit of consensus packs the thrill of genuine activism without requiring any sweat.
30 Rock gets renewed for the 2007–08 television season. I’m incredibly relieved that for once a show I love dearly is not cut down in its prime.