- RT @capricecrane: MSNBC: "Up to 80 percent of women admit faking it." That is a good headline. So good. SOOO GOOOD. YES! #
- RT @eddiepepitone: Small town america is nice- a lot of obesity but everybody waves. #
Twitter: 2010-07-01
College World Series: USC 2, UCLA 1
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Whit Merrifield’s RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning gave South Carolina its first baseball national championship with a 2-1 victory over UCLA in the College World Series on Tuesday night.
It’s always a good bet to pick USC over UCLA.
Twitter: 2010-06-30
- RT @DanNaturman: Fake Book Excerpt: "The Nanny Diaries" – "I understand. But you should still pay me for the time the kid was alive." #
- RT @thesulk: In the guy from Your So Vain's defense, that song is about him. #
Signs That Things Aren’t Going Well
- All your money is tied up in a pack of lifesavers.
- You think celebrities are fascinating.
This Year’s Worst Sentence
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.
The Professional Programmer
The single most important trait of a professional programmer is personal responsibility. Professional programmers take responsibility for their career, their estimates, their schedule commitments, their mistakes, and their workmanship.
Aging Boy Bands
A Facebook friend posted some photos from the Backstreet Boys concert in L.A. last weekend. Most of the “boys” now have worse hairlines than I do.
Shouldn’t bands named Boys or Kids be forced to retire when they start to go bald?
Or at least change their name from, say, New Kids on the Block to Old Guys on the Porch?
BP Looks at the Bright Side
A Father’s Day Portrait
HIM: Did you smile?
ME: Not really.
HIM: I didn’t either.
Ask “What Would the User Do?” (You Are Not the User)
We all tend to assume that other people think like us. But they don’t. Psychologists call this the false consensus bias . . .
Users don’t think like programmers. They don’t recognize the patterns and cues programmers use to work with, through, and around an interface . . .
Twitter: 2010-06-28
- RT @mccarthyjim1 Insist that the work you do have a long-term, noble purpose. http://post.ly/l0Gy #
Bad Personal Ad
I enjoy sadness, long walks in the dark, painful arguments that have no closure, sugarless cough drops and Jimmy Fallon.
Pursuing the One True Good
Most of us believe in our hearts that there is only one good and that ideally everyone should pursue it. In a perfect centrally planned socialist state everyone is part of a hierarchy pursuing the same end. If that end is the one true good, that society will be perfect in a sense in which a capitalist society, where everyone pursues his own differing and imperfect perception of the good, cannot be. Since most socialists imagine a socialist government to be controlled by people very like themselves, they imagine that it will pursue the true good—the one that they, imperfectly, perceive. That is surely better than a chaotic system in which all sorts of people other than the socialists perceive all sorts of other goods and waste valuable resources chasing them. People who dream about a socialist society rarely consider the possibility that some of those other people may succeed in imposing their ends on the dreamer, instead of the other way around. George Orwell is the only exception who comes to mind.
The Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is really a synthesis of environmentalists and peace advocates with a few gay rights activists and public employee unions thrown in.
Twitter: 2010-06-27
- Did You Know? Benny Feilhaber attended Northwood High School in Irvine! #
Will Financial Regulation Make a Difference?
Banks are expected to find ways to offset the impact of the new financial regulations on their earnings, though they face a potentially complex process of adapting to the new requirements, analysts said on Friday.
The share prices of some of the biggest United States banks, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, were higher in afternoon trading, hours after a House-Senate conference committee completed work on a bill that would toughen financial regulations.
Analysts pored over the specifics of the deal as they emerged on Friday and expressed a wide array of views about the impact it would have. Some saw the bill as more of a political statement than a practical measure that could prevent another financial meltdown. Others said banks’ costs would increase, but banks would pass the increased costs along to consumers.
Sick Days
Arizona Restaurant Serving Lion Burgers
Arizona restaurant serving lion burgers
WAITER: We don’t get a lot of lions in here.
LION: At these prices, I’m not surprised.
Twitter: 2010-06-26
- RT @SarahKSilverman: Sometimes people act like the US isn't the only country in the whole world. #
- Ignore the influencers: The dangers of a social media world | Conversation Marketing http://shar.es/mIRWQ #
- Watching the World Cup unfold on Twitter at http://twitter.com/worldcup/home #
Northwood High School, Irvine, CA
— I see you’ve got a real international student body here.
— Um, not really. It’s 49.6 percent Asian, 49.6 percent white and 0.8 percent everything else. Try finding a black kid.
— I’ve seen a couple of black kids. They play football.
— Try finding one in a classroom. Try finding a Mexican kid. If a Mexican kid walks on campus, the whole school goes into soft lockdown.
