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onethingwell: Hosts adds a preference pane to your system...

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:49:21 -0700

Hosts adds a preference pane to your system preferences which lets you toggle your host file entries on and off, as well as add and remove them.

Thanks, @rcarmo

Journalism magnet school ... for first-graders

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:46:42 -0700

sasquatchmedia:

I’m so in love with this concept I could die. Why shouldn’t we start teaching journalism in first grade? It’s the linchpin of our democracy.

I’m not a parent but first grade may be too young for kids to start drinking.

"‘I sent a second-unit camera crew to Glacier National Park to shoot the title backgrounds but they..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:20:11 -0700

“‘I sent a second-unit camera crew to Glacier National Park to shoot the title backgrounds but they reported that the place wasn’t interesting. When we saw the test shots they sent back we were staggered. It was plain that the location was perfect but the crew had to be replaced.’”

- Stanley Kubrick, in conversation with film critic Michel Ciment, discussing the filming of the opening title sequence of The Shining. (via the-overlook-hotel)

Photo

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:47:00 -0700

Earlier this week, a friend of mine took his own life. He was 35. I keep turning things over in...

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:21:00 -0700

Earlier this week, a friend of mine took his own life. He was 35.

I keep turning things over in my head, looking up information on the internet and talking with friends to try and make sense of it— not the reason why Jeff took his life. That’s clear. He was bipolar and severely depressed and over the last couple years hit a succession of lower bottoms— I’m trying to make sense of myself.

One minute I’m overcome with emotion. Then, for the next hour, I’m studying the color and texture of birch, wondering how I’ve lived 40 years and never appreciated the beauty of bark. I see Jeff as he was when I first met him and on that last day.

Time is weird. More like plasma than a liquid or gas. I don’t even know what that even means? But it’s in my head. Time is weird.

I’ve learned things that I shouldn’t know, like the stages of death— palor, algor, rigor and livor mortis. There are three others but they don’t really have the ring of the mortises. I just needed to know.

I’ve also talked with friends and my darling Sweets. I’ve listened, too. I’ve cried. I’ve made terrible jokes. I cleaned my office and trashed hundreds of work emails. HA! I’ve laid in bed, just staring at the ceiling, dwelling. I’ve smoked, declared that I’ll never smoke again then smoked again. I’ve had no drinks and many drinks. I’ve done healthy things then followed up by eating poorly. I’ve felt so sad. I felt nothing. I felt everything. I’ve had clarity and been confused. And when I’m stuck, I talk with friends and my darling Sweets. In other words: I’m alive.

I feel selfish staying all up in my head. I won’t dwell. But I’ve decided that being selfish is what I need right now. Perhaps you need that too.

The day after, I went to a bar. I sat next to a young man who just returned from Germany and was enjoying his favorite meal there. We started talking. He was an Air Force loadmaster and asked if that meant anything to me. I told him it did.

“Yeah, we’re the jerks that tell you what to do on the aircraft” he said, joking.

“You were also the guys that gave us a box lunch on the way home.”

Suddenly, I’m remembering these box lunches. The cool, slightly damp cardboard, flat meat/cheese sandwiches that looked more like cross sections of a riverbed than food, an apple and condiments. But I could feel the felt-like texture of the bread in my hands. I could feel the sandwich paste stick to the roof of my mouth and it’s like I’m in the back of that plane again, returning from Haiti.

I remember feeling comfort.

That was all mine.

If you’re feeling suicidal, please contact a friend or family member. If that’s not an option, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK or go to their chat. You probably can’t see it now, but people do care about you.

City of tomorrow (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 04 May 2012 22:19:42 -0700

City of tomorrow (Taken with instagram)

the-overlook-hotel: The Shining trading card #224...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:42:45 -0700

the-overlook-hotel:

The Shining trading card #224 (1980).

Artist: Man is the Warmest Place to Hide

Want

Roger: Fine. How much do you want? Peggy: How much you...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:53:43 -0700

Roger: Fine. How much do you want?

Peggy: How much you got?

Roger: $400.

Peggy: Give me all of it.

Roger: Jesus. (Hands $$ to her) This better be good.

Peggy: You want me to take your watch?

“Helps” theatlantic: respecthesea: Seal helps...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:13:39 -0700

“Helps”

theatlantic:

respecthesea:

Seal helps turtle to get in the water!

Animal GIFs and Friday afternoons: A match made in heaven.

"The “scroll for more” function should be adopted by more iPhone developers. I’ll explain what it is..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:11:31 -0700

“The “scroll for more” function should be adopted by more iPhone developers. I’ll explain what it is but until you try it for yourself, you may not understand how sexy/cool this is.”

- —SeoulBrother

Something I wrote back in June 2009 about Birdfeed’s (new to me) “pull to refresh” feature. I was sure it shipped but Buzz and Neven say it didn’t. [confused-face]

obitoftheday: Obit of the Day: Wrote WKRP in Cincinnati...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:02:22 -0700

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: Wrote WKRP in Cincinnati Theme

Tommy Wells was a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in philosophy, who dreamed of becoming an Army pilot. Unfortunately, a heart defect prevented him from flying. But for the good of 70s pop culture Wells found a second calling: writing theme songs and commercial jingles.

Although much of his work was best-known in the Atlanta area, Wells moved to Los Angeles in 1974 and while there he was asked to write the theme song for a sit-com that focused on the exploits of the staff at a struggling rock station in Ohio’s third largest city. WKRP in Cincinnati would run for four seasons on CBS and earned ten Emmy nominations.

Mr. Wells wrote the music for the theme, while series creator Hugh Wilson (who also had an Atlanta connection, basing WKRP on his own experiences in Atlanta radio) wrote the lyrics. The song was sung by Steve Carlisle. It was as successful as the show and was released as a single hitting #65 on the Billboard charts in 1978 and hitting #29 in 1982 on the Adult Contemporary charts.

Tommy Wells returned to Atlanta after a few years in L.A. He died at the age of 70.

(Video copyright of CBS and courtesy of FoxConnect on YouTube.com)

"There is a surprisingly rich tetherball culture, including line etiquette and various sets of rules..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:08:44 -0700

“There is a surprisingly rich tetherball culture, including line etiquette and various sets of rules such as “Las Vegas way”, “California way” and “Cemetary way” where the kids play on their knees. This morning, for example, I learned the name for a particular game option I had seen but hadn’t heard named before. […]”

- Moltz: The Angry Serve

Hang in there. (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:59:54 -0700

Hang in there. (Taken with instagram)

"Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent iPad, this concept of..."

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:20:17 -0800

“Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent iPad, this concept of “apps as content” has gained a lot of currency, and now every media company in the world feels compelled to be in the business of developing native software as a distribution channel. Despite the press’s tendency to portray this trend as futuristic, I actually think of it as a bit retrograde—particularly since we’ve actually been evolving an incredibly sophisticated medium for content presentation and distribution for over 15 years now: the web.”

- Buzz Andersen, my pal and Director of Mobile Development at Tumblr

Couldn’t possibly agree more.

(via edp)

Reboot by Brandon Bird

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:09:35 -0800

Reboot by Brandon Bird

Can’t wait!

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:04:59 -0800

Can’t wait!

dummmmm, da da dummmmm, da da dummmmmm (Inspired by Shang)

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:00:06 -0800

dummmmm, da da dummmmm, da da dummmmmm

(Inspired by Shang)

Ankle monitored

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:30:27 -0800

Ankle monitored

How this guy feels about this meeting. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:50:24 -0800

How this guy feels about this meeting. (Taken with instagram)

This should be called “L’enfant Sans Maison”...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:06:45 -0800

This should be called “L’enfant Sans Maison” cuz it’s that delicious. (Taken with instagram)