Daring Fireball: Burt Reynolds Dead at 82
“You just can’t have this many hits without being great.”
… Gruber
“Yes you can.”
… Me.
I remain at a loss (or do I?) why Collins and Murkowski are always seen as ‘saviors’.
Flake and Corker could give the finger to Trump .. they’re going anyway, they dislike Trump and his policies and what he stands for …. but no … once more .. no balls.
More Americans Taking ‘Facebook Breaks’
If you stop forever is it still ’a break’?
Uber CEO: ‘I had no fricking clue what I was getting into’
Really? He should have called me. Or read a news paper. Talked to people. You know .. they used to call it due diligence.
Answering the question how easy is it to contradict yourself in a single headline, we have this morning’s winner …..
Americans Trying To Locate Asian Countries On A Map Is As Depressing As You’d Imagine.
“We need better geography education in the country.”
Isn’t the ‘geography’ redundant?
Jeffries, Corden, Fallon and Kimmel … sometimes it’s good to watch a late night host not called Jim!
New News …. more on this separately (scroll to the bottom) - but a mystery is solved!
Thankyou Ulysses.
Note to self - read the manual!
PS - I don’t pay much attention to notes I write to myself :-)
Why Banks Need To Die
I logged on to ‘free up’ the situation - usually works - but no - please call this very specific number.
I do - I am on hold for over 20 minutes - I know - I can see.
Eventually my call is picked up.
I identify myself.
“Before we get going, I know it isn’t your fault, but I would like to point out that I have been on hold for over twenty minutes.”
Snaps back - “Well that shows you how busy we are.”
“Oh - good to know” - in my mind.
“Well I said - you have stopped my card because of possible fraudulent activity, which I can’t resolve through your web site, so essentially you are asking me to call you - because you have stopped my card and then failing to provide a reasonable response time to help me - a customer - solve your problem.”
“Do you want to get this solved?”
I moved on. Five minutes later, all was confirmed that yes - the purchases I made with the card are indeed my purchases - you will note that I have bought from these enterprises in the past …. etc etc …
Deaf Ears.
“Your card is good to go.”
Hang Up.
Ok - and thank YOU for being my credit card company - I say to a ‘dial tone’ (remember those kids?).
Thirty minutes later the card was refused.
Not having another spare half hour today, I just tried to log on. This is what I got.
Says it all really.
Yes - the Internet is working - that is how I managed to post this!!
”You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you’re up in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.”
As Kottke says a blast from the past … what web pages of our favorite sites looked like waaaaaay back …. sadly there are too many current sites out there today with exactly the same look and feel.
All this chit chat about commas … oxford, discretionary, et al … reminded me of a recent Gladwell podcast that highlights the importance of same.
Funny how nobody robs Google or Microsoft stores…
If you pronounce it ‘Pareeeee’
Why pronounce it ‘Melborn’?
Dimwits. Halfwits. Idiots. just updated with a pithy comment from Dave Pell.
The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Chicago, Procol Harum, The Doors, The Who, Ten Years After, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Moody Blues, and Jethro Tull. To Name A Few
Remember the micro blog swag that @modernlittleme and I were talking about - summarized here
Not forgotten, stuff got in the way and now starting to get back on track.
If you aren’t on the list (remember no commitment) let me know and so will you be added.
Thinking Aloud About People On Micro Blog
Back in the day when I was using Dave Winer’s 1999 - he used to have a class of user called ‘POETS’ … in his mind they were the ‘non tech’ crowd.
I see a lot of tech and non tech peeps on micro blog … and it got me to wondering if everyone on micro blog self selected that they were ‘primarily’ either ‘POET’ or ‘TECHNOID' (we need a better word) … it might help discover like minded people - and of course un-like minded people for each of our communities.
Maybe there is a different spectrum that could be applied?
Maybe there are Five Descriptors and you get to distribute 10 points across the 5? So your personal proloctivity shines through?
Thoughts?