January 2012
7 posts
we're getting rid
of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read.
seeing a writer on facebook
is like seeing a minister drunk off his ass at the track.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formula... →
December 2011
4 posts
best email of 2011
walk with me … I’n’I born&bred bergen county nj 07646 5/[XX]/57 teaneck holy name hospital rutgers 79 morgan stanley senior technical consultant 80’s the danger upon us is nefarious,maybe alien, timeless … SATANIC … it is SECRET … lIghtwOrkErs wIsEpEOplE mUst pUt thEIR kEys tOgEthER OpEn All thE dOOrs WE ARE IN GLOBAL COSMIC DANGER IT IS...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
14 posts
pro tips
“I will do my very best to be there.”
“Invite me to the next one, won’t you?”
nota bene
Say what you will about its founder—the Trump Soho boasts one of the finest free restroom facilities in lower Manhattan.
magnificentruin:
Joy Division Atmosphere
To be ruled is to be kept an eye on, inspected, spied on, regulated, indoctrinated, sermonized, listed and checked off, estimated, appraised, censured, ordered about … to be ruled is at every operation, transaction, movement, to be noted, registered, counted, priced, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected. — Proudhon
Legibility is a condition of manipulation. Any substantial state intervention in society … requires the invention of units that are visible … they must be organized in a manner that permits them to be identified, observed, recorded, counted, aggregated, and monitored. — James Scott
Public servants follow proper etiquette when addressing their masters. When a properly behaving servant is asked, “why are my shirts not ironed and folded Isabel?” she does not say, “Please take this matter up with the ironing lady”. She will instead, apologise, then run down to the ironing lady and ask why the DEVIL the master’s shirts are not ironed and in place. — Akin Fernandez,...
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QUESTION: If all of these man—Haldeman, Chapin and Colson—are clean and innocent of this, why are they not made available for questions? When we ask you questions to ask them specifically, we do not get direct answers.
—All the President’s Men, p. 209
http://nycga.cc/2011/10/02/general-assembly-minutes... →
novels recently read
The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth Crossbones — Narrudin Farah Spartina — John Casey Visit From the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan Scarface — Armitage Trail The Moviegoer — Walker Percy
… i might be forgetting something …
3 tags
… in police work ninety-nine percent of the effort is routine, unspectacular enquiry, checking and double-checking, laboriously building up a web of parts until the parts become a whole, the whole becomes a net, and the net finally encloses the criminal with a case that will not just make headlines but stand up in court.
—Frederick Forsyth
September 2011
8 posts
Blowing up Tony Hayward's spot for the London... →
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
tonite's epic match-up
Chip-on-his-Shoulder vs. Sense-of-Entitlement. Who will prevail?
“It has been difficult for me to figure out what crime, if any, was committed,” he says. “The three were engaged in writing exciting e-mails to important people.”
coffeeshop reviews - Argo Tea @ 23rd and Broadway,...
3/10. The music is too loud and makes you feel like you’re on amphetamines or coffee, not tea. And the iced tea is bullshit — they put in ice, then fill the plastic cup halfway with tea, then fill the rest with soda water. It costs three dollars. Compared to this place, Starbucks is like a really chill comfortable public library where you’re allowed to discreetly make phone...
1 tag
August 2011
11 posts
I’ve noticed over the years a quirk in myself concerning things that I deeply want to understand. I really don’t want previous ideas or perceptions explained to me because that viewpoint will now influence what I see. If I’m trying to do something differently than has ever been done before, then why look at it through old glasses? It’s a real catch 22, but it works for me....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpwz2qKqRbc →
this is why
1 tag
“Sunday morning: half dead but fully alive.”
– (via magnificentruin)
“Sunday, husk among days … even in happy times James felt like a nameless statue staring an empty plaza.” — John Updike
“Sunday afternoon is always the worst time for the malaise.” — Walker Percy
The secret whisper of the telegraph harp announced that the high purpose of all things in their creative misuse. — D. Graham Burnett, “The Singing of the Grid”
open letter
dear gimme coffee
early in the morning, before i’ve had coffee
i’m not in any kind of state
to choose between two different coffees
i kindly ask that you stop giving me a choice
thank you
The Royal Commission examines Thomas McFarlane, a...
RC: Do you live at Coley?
M: Yes.
RC: What do you do when you are at home?
M: I don't do nothing.
RC: How do you get your clothes; how do you live?
M: I don't do nothing.
RC: Do you live on air, and do nothing?
M: Yes.
We had to sell what was the worst in us in order to preserve what was the best. But after a few years the best was all that we had left, so we began to sell that off too, in small pieces, trying to slow the process down by charging too dear a price. — Orwell
open letter
dear person in this coffeeshop
your friend sounds garbled on the phone
don’t be angry — it is not their fault
try calling them back if you like, but be forewarned
they may still sound garbled
July 2011
10 posts
from the 9/11 Commission Report
No analytic work foresaw the lightning that could connect the thundercloud to the ground … It is therefore crucial to find a way of routinizing even bureaucratizing the exercise of imagination
from wikipedia
However, there are a large quantity of unusual, and confusing rules. One may not speak of the rules, and the rules vary from group to group, and even within groups. A chairman is usually elected before the first round, and generally whoever has won the previous round, is elected the new chairman. The chairman may edit the rules however he or she sees fit, but they still have to follow their...
from wikipedia
Gould was convinced that the institution of the public concert was not only an anachronism, but also a “force of evil”, leading to his retirement from concert performance. He argued that public performance devolved into a sort of competition, with a non-empathetic audience (musically and otherwise) mostly attendant to the possibility of the performer erring or not meeting critical...
