posts from 2013 / 12

1. 

   December 30th, 2013 9:27pm

2. @alexeirrm @grahamvsworld pass 😃! Chocolate and Lactic w/ Oyster in stouts-I-will-skip. I prefer coffee, barrel, bourbon, smoke, bret, etc.

3. If you’d like to catch up on spycraft of five years ago and the NSA’s general strategy this is an excellent talk.

4. happy near-your-birthday. 😃

5. What Else I Endorse This Weekend: The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer, via https://t.co/iCQmr7EMmQ reading list: http://t.co/iSrSo7m1Hi

6. No memory of wishlisting Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, but now that I’m enjoying it, I want that thread back.

   http://t.co/TXS3iUpWrm

7. December 29th, 2013 12:34pm

8. Come on, that ppt deck is from 2008, lets be real. You just know at least one of the hyperlinks on the slides is a rickroll.

9. Tabs vs. spaces vs. realms, and a Tufte style smh’ing.

   http://t.co/6JCOha4oGv
   http://t.co/iwsGA9XILy

10. Land Mobile Radio radios have been reclaiming borrowed garage door opener frequencies since before the NSA was cool: http://t.co/VFqwPTs3xG

11. Happy birthday!

12. Happy birthday!

13. Happy late bday!

14. Happy Birthday! Miss you guys!

15. 

    December 28th, 2013 4:40pm

16. Happy birthday!!

17. Happy Birthday Grant!!

18. You’re older. I’m olderer. Happy Birthday!

19. “No Neutral Ground in a Burning World” by @quinnnorton & @Dymaxion is A++.

    Stream: http://t.co/mVcRBBfJho
    Synopsis: http://t.co/MZxSoIshq2

20. luckyshirt:

    laughingsquid:

    A Hilarious Parody Infomercial for ‘For-Profit Online University’ by Adult Swim

    This is supposed to be a joke.

    But take it from the idiot who teaches at a college and has been working there since the nineties…

    This is far closer to the actual future of academia than you think.

    And I welcome it.

    Don’t ever get me started.

    December 27th, 2013 1:42pm

21. @grahamvsworld thanks for making me consider a Peter Jackson version of “The Baroque Cycle”, I just. Ugh. Really, no. Shaftoes as hobbits.

22. @kshcsuf heh, flickr is the current best “put this on facebook, tumblr, twitter, and flickr now” iOS app, it started life as a flickr link.

23. Huh, there’s a Christmas tree in my Die Hard. http://t.co/ypvnSPZx2o

24. 

    Huh, there’s a Christmas tree in my Die Hard. on Flickr.

    December 24th, 2013 8:49pm

25. Every time you take down a service in production, you get a “kill” asterisk on your handle in the ticket tracker. — @grantstavely***********

26. @bbaskin I refuse to humor your joke and will instead explain how unrealistic it is. I’ve got a pal in the airline food biz and the deal is—

27. RT @tqbf: Slepak, direct quote: “It doesn’t matter if you met someone who calls themselves Kevin at some meeting”.

28. IRL mad that there’s no word for the dictionary-definition-intro trope that can be used to start an essay decrying definition-intro tropes.

29. https://t.co/6JHCfr2Xt7

    ELEPHANT.™

30. @grahamvsworld if anything is post hoc, it’s the collection of SI from every thing because one time it mighta been useful for some thing.

31. @grahamvsworld Our public servants are compelled by accountability to reject pragmatism and consider causality a rational attack surface.

32. New favourite joke:

    karlimeaghan:

    A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says ”Five beers, please.”

    December 19th, 2013 6:31pm

33. December 19th, 2013 10:59am

34. “@ubuweb: Steve Reich - A New Musical Language (60 min. documentary, 1987): http://t.co/vHKKO9u8YG” Thanks, @ExxonMobil

35. Stories From Around The Book

    The Gossip of John, Anecdote 10, Version 28: icymi.

    Rumors 6:24: nope.

    Maccabees: a funny name.

36. Bernal heights is a twilight zone set. Think Noe but older and younger at the same time.

37. @ssoper Excellent. How did it taste at packaging time?

38. /opt/bro/bin/bro-cut should be everyone’s first awk-like.

39. 

    The cognitive dissonance of “turned” and “drag” is a cool thing about language.

    December 11th, 2013 9:15am

40. RT @windyoona: Tip of the day: Visualize SSH public key fingerprints using Unicode emoji! http://t.co/NuokPXOdmR

41. 

    runwiththegoldenwolf:

    http://goldenwolf.tv/project/7-days-of-funk

    December 10th, 2013 7:54pm

42. @grahamvsworld LOG OFF.

43. Sock puppet boxing gloves are themselves sock puppets with miniature sock puppet boxing gloves on their hands, infinitely.

44. @grahamvsworld @freecialis fourth paragraph http://t.co/x9zsRevWU0

45. 

    December 9th, 2013 8:26am

46. 

    Happy Holidays

    

47. RT @bad_decisions: @grantstavely I sell em. $7

48. The tale was being told in the barn area this morning of the guy who had been coming to the Kentucky derby for twenty years. Never once in that time does he bring his everloving wife with him. And finally his old lady insists that she accompany him. This is slightly more than somewhat embarrassing to the guy because his everloving might interfere with his drinking. But he orders a mint julep anyway. “Let me taste that,” she says, reaching for the glass with the grass in it.

    “Ugh,” she says, making a face. “That is horrible.”

    “You said it,” he says bitterly. “And all these years you have been thinking that I have been having fun.”

    — http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/to-the-swift-arthur-daley-on-churchill-downs/

    December 7th, 2013 10:28pm

49. Hey everyone involved with @baythreat, thanks for a fun Friday and Saturday.

50. I think it’s time to kill ‘its’. If the grammatical distinction even exists in 20 years, I will buy you a pan-galactic gargle blaster.

51. 

    nevver:

    Let’s dance.

    December 7th, 2013 9:42pm

52. 

    goodbyekellybelly:

    teayogaanddemons:

    emilyonthewall:

    bead-bead:

    upallnightogetloki:

    jynxwrites:

    cleolinda:

    kdhart:

    leahclifford:

    zapapplejammer:

    allonsyevans:

    beautyofsorrow:

    this-i-swearbythestars:

    sassypiratehooker:

    everkings:

    ludditeheart:

    britishmiraclediet:

    bakingwithsatan:

    ibeggedformercytwice:

    ifitsbritishimprobablyafan:

    plushmistress:

    OMG THIS.

    Dedicating this post to the word “plethora.”

    Chasm… I”ll never live that down…

    Most of the words within my vocabulary.

    prologue, epilogue, I salute you

    Debut AND autonomous 😄

    Epitome. 

    Genre. 

    Colonel….

    “asylum” was mine

    cacophony. i still maintain that i was right.

    chaos

    Coercion

    Island (in my defense, it was first grade)

    niche. Cherokee.

    Segue. Also, half my vocabulary in general.

    faux. *flush*

    ‘Invalid’ in reference to a person. I used to pronounce it like 'invalid’ as in 'not valid’.

    Also clandestine (Thanks, Loki, for reminding me last night)

    There are a lot more but I forgot

    Detritus.  (I said “dee-tree-us.”)

    Compromise (CAN-promise!)

    Funny how most of these words are from french.

    40% of the English language is from French

    December 7th, 2013 9:42pm

53. How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

    — Ray Bradbury (via cavum)

    December 7th, 2013 9:40pm

54. 

    hobolunchbox:

    Always Be Cobbling.

    December 7th, 2013 9:40pm

55. 

    thetenssf:

    Joseph Breast-Feeding the Baby Jesus. Santa Clauses.

    December 7th, 2013 9:39pm

56. The evasion of disputes is a defining tactic of smarm. Smarm, whether political or literary, insists that the audience accept the priors it has been given. Debate begins where the important parts of the debate have ended.

    — On Smarm (via merlin)

    December 5th, 2013 6:03pm

57. It’s so cold in my apartment I lit a fire. The Santa hat only goes so far.

    

    Sure there is, I left it on bake at 350F.

58. RT @ibogost: Seriously, stop what you’re doing and read @tomscocca’s “On Smarm”: http://t.co/I8zSBVL9KA

59. Disable your Gawker filters (you should have years ago anyway), this is a quality essay. Stay for the tone shift, I promise.

60. 

61. Clearly it’ll fit down to his shoulders, if only he’d sit still.

62. Something fleetingly clever about having actual madeline’s in our snack room re: Proust’s Remembrance of Things… http://t.co/rCiq1O1c4s

63. @electricfork please use 2104 for quality 2014 toots, I already have 2014 specubation in my filter list.

    https://t.co/uK6zJNn1rd