With the advent of the new, new, New Sleekness, I’m thinking of turning this blog into something of a playground for me to fool around with Wordpress for a little while. Most of the blogging that I do these days fits better on the New Sleekness anyway, and the paltry number of readers who come [...]
I’ve wanted to write a post about my dreadlocks—the reasons I grew them and the reasons I cut them off—for a long time. It’s such a big subject to me, and something so personal, that I’ve shied away from it with a vengeance. The other day, though, reading a post by Tobias Buckell about dreads, [...]
I just spent the last hour and a half coming up with the nicest, cleanest, most organized cable management solution I could muster, and I think I did a decent job. Check out the rest of the images on Flickr.
I’m not a huge fan of Michael Hyatt’s, generally speaking. I don’t think he’s often as smart as everyone thinks (I’m also aware that this is probably an unfair bias of mine, a symptom of my ingrained dislike of anything to do with superstition and deism). I’m happy to be proven wrong, on occasion, and [...]
This is brilliant, and hilarious. My faves:
Ayn Rand
Workaholics seeking validation.
Michael Crichton
Doctors who went to third-tier medical schools.
John Grisham
Doctors who went to medical schools in the Dominican Republic. (NB: That would be my dad. I don’t think he would’a been into Grisham. Regardless: AW SNAP)
Hunter S Thompson
That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.
Gabriel [...]
Salon.com’s got a nice post-game on the Publishocalypse that went down earlier this month in Jason Boog’s “Read it and weep.”
Who will survive publishing’s Ice Age? Undoubtedly, the companies that can command developments in the impending digital book revolution.
Well thanks, Captain Obvious. The word “book” in the phrase “digital book revolution” is unnecessary—the so-called digital [...]
(Reuters) – Merrill Lynch & Co Chief Executive John Thain has suggested to directors that he get a 2008 bonus of as much as $10 million, but the battered company’s compensation committee is resisting his request, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.
The compensation committee has not reached a decision, but [...]
Oh please, please, please, don’t you be fibbin’ now, Opie…
Finger on the pulse of the pixel-stained techno-peasant, as always, Randall Munroe’s xkcd seems like a description of my life today:More xkcd.