May 2008
100 posts
jessicap: For the first three years of my life I was an outgoing, sassy and enigmatic child. In my pictures I just hamming it up for the camera and I could tell that I was a kid who just didn’t give a fuck and was enjoying life. Then my little sister came along and it was abundantly clear that it wasn’t just about me, which as anyone going from being an only child to having someone else steal...
Above the Law - A Legal Tabloid - News, Gossip,... →
The best summer associate lunch I had was Zuni Cafe, and believe me, I ate a lot of summer associate lunches in my time.
Cities and Ambition →
mygoodeye: Paul Graham offers a nuanced comparison of what life is like in different American cities, mainly focusing on New York, the bay area and the Boston area. Reading the essay really made me think about how much I have been influenced by New York. I have always noticed that I enjoy every peaceful break I get from the city (I spend more than half my weekends away from it), though I get...
android monkeys →
sequentialist: approaching this? Star Wars isn’t the first thing I think of when I hear that monkeys are controlling robot arms with their thoughts. I’m thinking more Planet of the Apes, ya know. It’s not the technology that gets me excited, but the possibility for a new world order run by monkeys.
It's Not You, It's Your Books (NYT, March 30,... →
(via jessicap) The article discusses taste in books as a matter of compatibility but stops short when getting at the real issue: representation. Through listing our tastes on Facebook, we’re representing ourselves. Choosing a significant other is the most agonizing issue of representation in most people’s lives because that significant other is supposed to be the deepest representation...
Hallo
mezlle: Qu’est-ce qui se passe? Je suis la jeune fille (a la muzzy). Don’t expect much because I’m not capable of giving more than just a little. For now my life consists of school and work. That is all. Mr. Escalon should be a blogging celebrity in this universe as he was in the droner universe.
My dad gave my sister a balloon for her 27th birthday. My mom wrote the following email to my sister.Nance,Did dad ask you where is the balloon after you popped it? Dad did ask me when he walked from our car in the parking lot to where we were waiting in the front of the store.He told me after we got the balloon for you from Luby’s that he was once spanked badly by his parents that he...
village voice > film > Flight of the Red Balloon:... →
Suzanne’s situation may be an emotional jumble but, untethered by mundane reality, the balloon is free to roam—variously appearing as an image on the side of a building, a painting at the Musée d’Orsay, a character in Song’s movie, and itself, suddenly visible through a skylight, “watching” Song learning how to make crepes. In her last scene, Song—or rather her...
Follower/Following
A few people both follow me and are followed by me. Does that mean we walk together? How quaint.
“At present, it is only in Taiwan that the pleasure of eating authentic Chinese...”
– Pei Mei’s Chinese Cook Book Volume III, 1979.
“I could certainly imagine GM and Ford becoming the [Amazon Web Services] of cars...”
– Nicholas Molnar via Open Thread: Rethinking Detroit - Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque
Open minded yet underhanded
foodinmouth: Earlier Sarah wrote about being open-minded. And this is a tangent, but earlier in the day a few people reblogged this picture that said something like, “I am hot and smart enough to be a pain in the ass,” which basically says I am confident in myself to a degree where I could give less than a damn if everyone else thinks I am a pain in the ass. Well, I am happy enough as a person...
Tumblr and SEO
topherchris: Melissa Chang’s Why I’m kissing Tumblr a sad, sad good-bye is already a quick read (so go read it), but here’s the gist: I didn’t know this about Tumblr. I didn’t know that the pages wouldn’t be indexed well (or show up high) on Google. I knew that Tumblr doesn’t have comments. And I knew that Tumblr didn’t have a search engine built in. These things I decided to live with. ...
Billboard Album Charts - Death Cab #1 →
bronc-combo: Hey Walter, remember when we interviewed the bassist for Juno and he was in that other band? I guess they made it big, huh? It’s great to see Death Cab reach such levels of success. I remember during my first year of law school, a sorority girl that sat behind me in class talked loudly about going to see a Death Cab show. When Kevin and I met Nick Harmer in 2001, he was...
The Clutch
bronc-combo: I think cluch in soccer comes through more in terms of consistency. Because scoring tends to occur rarely, it usually involves either a touch of brilliance or a mistake by the defence. While players may rarely acknowledge it, the more demanding the situation, the more difficult that genius may prove to find. By the same token, under extreme stress the odds of an error increase. ...
Racked: Muji Midtown Opening Day Madness: Free... →
I’m often impressed by how materialistic artists/designers/writers/intellectuals are in terms of acquiring/possessing/accumulating art/well-designed things. I remember a conversation with Deepal where he talked about kicking it with art students at NYU, and he pejoratively said how all they do is have wine and cheese parties. I said something like, what, art students can’t enjoy the...
me: i told someone today two goals out loud
1. i want to be absurdly rich
2. i want to be famous
Anand: dude, those are such crazy goals
i never knew the full extent of your egomania
me: ha
there ya have it
Anand: i see you doing it
which i guess makes me incredibly happy for you
but i can see it will require sacrifice
human even, perhaps
The Clutch
Is there a notion of the clutch or being clutch in soccer? The clutch seems predicated on a moment in which you can either rise to the pressure or wither under it. In soccer, unlike basketball and football, there aren’t tailor-made moments to shine or fail because the game isn’t discrete like basketball and football, so there are no moments, just one really long moment. That, probably,...
Koreans Miffed Over Park Snub →
South Korean football fans had been eagerly waiting for Thursday morning, shaking off sleepiness and turning on their televisions to see energetic midfielder Park Ji-sung of Manchester United waltz down the wing against Chelsea in the Champions League final in Moscow. … But Korean fans’ hopes turned into disappointment, as United manager Alex Ferguson deployed England’s Owen...
Houston - Restaurants - Fu Fu Cafe →
—or more appropriately titled: “Why White People Should Not Write About Chinese Food”
me: seagull.tumblr.com
a girl that writes out of austin. some of the stuff looks interesting
Kevin: eh, not much personality showing, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
me: rach.tumblr.com
this girl seems like she's at least cute
Kevin: i love the fact that you are using tumblr like match.com
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab →
“… Am I allowed to say that I think Umair Haque is a little… offputting? He’s got great things to say, but I just don’t like reading him.”… Before, it was just kind of wonkish fun for me to write about this stuff. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve gotten a little angry about the ways in which business is failing us. I’ve...
escapingwords →
Huh. This is disjointed isn’t it? Well, when have I ever offered a direct line from point A to point B? So much has happened while this has been dormant. I’m going to law school! I’m moving to a new city! The back of my mind has some neurons or something that are freaking out. But the rest of my slightly overcaffeinated brain is just cruisin’. I told Mihir that I thought...
Kevin: layout done for the moment. what do you think?
me: awesome
Kevin: really? didn't expect that.
me: i think the ugly aesthetic is part of tumblr
Kevin: that sounds more like it.
Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the... →
Ever the iconoclast, Nishimura scoffs at the idea [that Japan’s Web 2.0 boom is just beginning]. In a chapter of Why 2channel Will Never Fail titled “Debunking the Myth of a Bright Future,” he predicts there will be no more major innovations on the Web. He believes his success is a fluke and encourages young people who idolize him to keep trying to land one of the dwindling...
ESPN - ESPN The Magazine →
bronc-combo: I dunno anything about Miz, but I’ve always loved KG for his intensity. Yeah, sometimes it works against him, but can you blame the man for getting wrapped up in the moment? For all this time he’s been basically a one man team, dying out on the court with little or nothing to show for it, and now he FINALLY has his chance. For fun, watch KG after the whistle of the other team...
ESPN - ESPN The Magazine →
Sometimes, when Garnett’s adrenaline kicks in during crunch time it’s like watching a diabetic in the midst of a sugar rush. His body can’t handle it. When he succeeds, he loses his mind, pounding his chest, belting out profanities and hollering at the crowd like a crazy person. When he fails (and it’s happened a few times this season), his mistakes are unbelievably...