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.
Barack Obama’s Impersonation of Harry Truman
What has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny–our determination to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if we’re unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don’t yet know precisely how we’re going to get there. We know we’ll get there.
Or, as Harry Truman might have put it: There is as yet no consensus on where the buck stops. And so I’ve established a national commission to understand the buck’s velocity and the degree of kinetic friction between the buck and the surface across which it is traveling. Even if we don’t know precisely where the buck is going to stop, we know it’ll get there.
Don’t Send a Community Organizer to Do a President’s Job
My fellow Americans —
I’m angry. Not just because the southern coastline of our nation — including Louisiana, which I purchased from Napoleon in the sweetest deal of 1803 — is being destroyed.
Read these pathetic remarks from our president, Barack Obama:
The president also implied that anti-big government types such as tea party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.
“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said. “Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.”
So let me get this straight: If I didn’t support the government takeover of the healthcare industry — which I didn’t — I’m a hypocrite for expecting the president to show leadership in a crisis?!
SWEET SASSY MOLASSY! Community organizers don’t know how to handle oil spills, do they?
— Tom
Real Mayonnaise
Twitter: 2010-06-22
- Name someone who has ever objected to profiting from the devotion of the faithful. Other than Jesus, I mean … #
Tiger, Tiger
A Few Blocks from Home
Police received a call around 12:30 a.m. June 14 about a man hanging from a fence post in front of an apartment complex in the 800 block of South Baker Street in Santa Ana.
Later identified as Hipolito Tapia Bravo, the 26-year-old Santa Ana landscaper was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was just a few blocks from home.
They say most homicides happen within a few blocks of home. Especially if your home is in Santa Ana.
Or is that traffic accidents?
Happy Father’s Day
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
A wise son maketh a glad father.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later . . . that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called ‘Being a Father’ so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
Twitter: 2010-06-21
- RT @eddiepepitone: 2 unconnected thoughts?- tom cruise and cameron diaz star in a new movie. Banality is the true face of evil. #
- Chip Tip: Sun Chips and Cheetos make a tasty combination! #
