pizza slow (high quality)

posts from 2011 / 01

  1. “in the event of someone causing something to be wrong with a drain, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead compartment.”

  2. RT @toronado: event: Lagunitas SF Fusion Wed 2011/02/16 6:00pm, w/SF Fusion Imperial IPA brewed by Toronado Staff + other Lagunitas sele …

  3. My flight in Chicago: “There is something wrong with a drain, we have to stop boarding now and call maintenance.”

    Australian plane?

  4. Friday? Oh, nothin’, just hung out with some friends, launching a trebuchet using a robot. http://t.co/WtUVF6T

  5. @ddeighton I think @philip_daigle would’ve been heartbroken if there were no Shmooballs this year, but there definitely are.

    They’re red.

  6. “Where the information or data content, or, level, is low, the fill-in, or participation, is high.”

    —McLuhan

    http://t.co/8jP8XIG

  7. I’ve unlocked:

    • Red eye flight
    • 9 hour layover
    • Luggage left in the prior airport by the airline during the 9 hour layover

    +40 XP!

  8. I’ve lost about 8 pounds since last year’s @Shmoocon. If you think you see me but aren’t sure: the secret phrase is “Grant? Is that you?”

  9. Save me a seat at @CharmSec tonight.

  10. @oneeyedcarmen Congrats!!

  11. SOTU Click.

  12. “Sometimes you get so lonely—‘wank-wank’ guitar solo”

    — @vurtyou, singing along with Bowie

    “What? That’s what his songs are!”

    — @vurtyou

  13. Clever Porta-John owner: This time, I’ll drop it off door-down so’s nobody breaks in and pees in it!

    Clever crack-head: I can pee on this!

  14. “Sometimes you get so lonely—‘wank-wank’ guitar solo”

    — @vurtyou, singing along with Bowie

    “What? That’s what his songs are!”

    — @vurtyou

  15. Clever Porta-John owner: This time, I’ll drop it off door-down so’s nobody breaks in and pees in it!

    Clever crack-head: I can pee on this!

  16. Tickets to the Medeski Martin & Wood show in March at the Independent are only $30, I’m dragging Amanda Walker Stavely

  17. Shmoo’s CON-FLU (OK, it’s probably just a cold) is so strong I already have it.

  18. Shmoo’s CON-FLU (OK, it’s probably just a cold) is so strong I already have it.

  19. On the verge of boiling over…

  20. Science!

  21. Making a small 1800 mL yeast starter for tomorrow’s IPA. How’dya like my Erlenmeyer?

  22. @oneeyedcarmen @quadling I’m barcoded already. Thanks!

  23. We’re cycling down to the Embarcadero to pick up the flowers Amanda Walker Stavely forgot at the flower stand, then around the north of the city to A16 to try more gourmet pizza.

  24. Show, don’t tell.

    RT @washingtonpost: Milbank: I’m declaring February a Palin-free month. Join me, take the pledge! http://wapo.st/eLSl3w

  25. Errol Morris & Philip Glass.

  26. Synecdoche and Metonymy

  27. @MikD my saying that after not making the 5.10a was a bit crazy. Next time I’m getting a laminate belay card, and shooting for another 10a.

  28. I’ve spent the last few years building up an immunity to New Jack Swing in mixes like Wesley did with iocane powder.

    It’s a superpower.

  29. Ten hacks for cool new gadgets you need, including a facebook-killer, which may or may not be “dead”, after the “jump”: http://t.co/kgwdvzV

  30. Led Zeppelin: ★★★★★
    Acts heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin: ★★☆☆☆

    The Beach Boys: ★★☆☆☆
    Acts heavily influenced by The Beach Boys: ★★★★★

  31. Led Zeppelin: ★★★★★
    Acts heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin: ★★☆☆☆

    The Beach Boys: ★★☆☆☆
    Acts heavily influenced by The Beach Boys: ★★★★★

  32. @frednecksec sorry, that knuckle-headed nonsense was re: “Continue to be amused by folks that RT my paper.li spam…”—I agree, it’s amusing.

  33. THANKS FOR OPTIMIZING MY PERSONAL BRAND ON ENGINES AND STUFF #FF @FREDNECKSEC

    Page: 1 2 3

    Myself: facebook twitter RSS reddit

  34. Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel” is currently my favorite text, but I’ll keep looking.

    http://t.co/FFzxWOp

  35. Backscatter Cow is always already clicking.

  36. I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that Amanda Walker Stavely and I will take Dawn Metcalf to the San Francisco Zoo today to see the hippo crates.

    Yuk Yuk.

  37. Whenever someone tells me to check out something on a Beatles album, I recall the heyday of Johannes Sebastian Bach’s with his compositions.

  38. Dvorak’s insights about facebook are about as useful as your parent’s insights about music.

    Factual: Yes.

    A convincing argument: No.

  39. Amanda and Mom at Beretta for lunch

    mobile-uploads

  40. OH @grahamvsworld (with arms raised): HISTORGRA-a-vibrato-A-a-A-a-AMS!

    jazz-hands

  41. At The Paramount in Oakland for Disney's Fantasia

    At The Paramount in Oakland for Disney’s Fantasia

  42. Feeling stupid for booking an SFO->DCA flight landing at 10pm the same night as @charmsec in Baltimore.

    Considering the flight-change fee.

  43. Oh Jeepers.

  44. Feeling stupid for booking an SFO->DCA flight landing at 10pm the same night as @charmsec in Baltimore.

    Considering the flight-change fee.

  45. so how do you set up one of these shared sites on facebook? (like the golf thing I was talking about over xgiving?

  46. Rock minimalism?

  47. Folks, I’ll be at the Washington Hilton 1/27-30 ($95/night, go Shatner!) for the hacks, and in Frederick to see Lou Stavely et al the evening of the 30th.

  48. The pasture is not the territory.

  49. Started The Image Of The City, saw shiny, now my LaTeX resume uses \frenchspacing and \raggedright.

    I made it through Chapter 1 at least.

  50. Gang: If we all switch to CFL bulbs, the energy traders managing long term price contracts will get better bonuses.

    Let’s pull together!

  51. Gang: If we all switch to CFL bulbs, the energy traders managing long term price contracts will get better bonuses.

    Let’s pull together!

  52. San Francisco urban hike today: what neighborhood should we pick?

  53. This imperial stout I kegged in November, SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY, tastes great.

    But it reads my e-mail, won’t fix my computer, o.O, &c.

  54. Now it’s time for our wrap up.

  55. Grant Stavely has sent you a request in Cow Clicker.

  56. Corrections

    A toot on Monday suggested that I was in need of a Shmoocon barcode. I now have one. Two @charmsec regulars are still looking.

  57. One click, two moos: How do they work!?!

  58. This Snuggie keeps falling off when I walk around.

  59. This Snuggie keeps falling off when I walk around.

  60. Know of a @shmoocon barcode for sale?

    I’m buying.

    #thanksamillion #havebeentoeveryshmoocon #sadpanda #shmoocon

  61. @kingtuna @charmsec Sadly, Murphy’s won’t be close this year, @shmoocon is at a different hotel. (And I’m hoping to still get a barcode.)

  62. Please Read:
    A Cow Clicker Message from
    Facebook User, Grant Stavely.

  63. Hot Smoke & Sassafras.

  64. Ent Porn: http://flic.kr/p/96x4Me

    (at San Carlos and 18th St.)

  65. @ddeighton @bbaskin @reyjrar just watched Beer Wars.

    Show, don’t tell: unheeded.

    Axe grinding.

    I dig Sam, Charlie, Jim, Steve, &c.

    ★★★☆☆

  66. MLITBOG: http://goo.gl/GuhFN

    One 90s design antipattern after another, culminating in a broken remix player: http://goo.gl/LhKka.

    Sad. ☹

  67. Ent Porn: http://flic.kr/p/96x4Me

    (at San Carlos and 18th St.)

  68. TLDR;CON

    No barcodes, no lanyards, no balls: join me at the TDL Bar outside @shmoocon: Like a citysec, but at a con.

    http://goo.gl/KatOg

  69. All tickets allocated for this round of sales have been reserved. The next round of ticket sales will be on WEDNESDAY, DEC 1st, at NOON EST.

  70. Caught a ride tonight with a hack unmarked Towncar with three packs of Malboros instead if a meter. Giving him directions to not kidnap us.

  71. SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY

    —the Imperial Stout I tapped so’s we’ll have something to enjoy while bottling ME SO HONEY for @wardspan’s team.