July 2007
194 posts
randomacts: 10 pm: Wii-ed out for the night and completely exhausted…. off to bed early! (via Twitter / randomacts)
June 2007
199 posts
randomacts: 5 pm: theoretically done with work for the weekend… damn that stupid project horning into my vacation! (via Twitter / randomacts)
“If it’s not digital, why did you buy it?”
– MIL
randomacts: late to bed, early to rise leads to early to bed, late to rise (via Twitter / randomacts)
“Q: Why do you believe people are so up in arms about Sonic Youth aligning itself...”
– Thurston Moore
randomacts: just got my hands on my new lomo lc-a and fisheye camera… now to get some film! (via Twitter / randomacts)
randomacts: 6 pm: at “vacation” destination. 2 more interviews tonight and lots of work tomorrow, client call monday and hopefully vacation after that. (via Twitter / randomacts)
randomacts: 12:57 pm flight worked… now in the middle of hours of car time during which i am on my WAN card and conducting interviews for work (via Twitter / randomacts)
“Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t...”
– Isaiah Washington
randomacts: make that a total of about 2 hours of sleep… it’s raining so hard I really wonder if we’ll get out of here this morning (via Twitter / randomacts)
randomacts: finally going to bed after finishing… well, most of my work… but I have to wake up in 3 1/2 hours to go to the airport. ugh (via Twitter / randomacts)
““You’re getting divorced” “That’s right”...”
– Simon and Jack, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (RIP)
randomacts: hey, shouldn’t my twitter statuses (or is it statii?) be appearing on my tumblelog? (via Twitter / randomacts)
Speaking of live-blogging waiting in line for an... →
“As you can see, the overall effect of this twitter phenomenon is that there are...”
– Twitter Has “Ruined” My Life
Random Acts: signing up for twitter (via Twitter / Random Acts)
Although come to think of it, now they can suffer the embarrassment of potentially large numbers of Apple employees choosing to stick with another phone and explaining why they aren’t using their shiny new free iphones…
Did Steve Jobs just say everyone at Apple gets a free iPhone? And how much did that cost? At least they won’t suffer the embarrassment and lost productivity of workers calling in sick to wait in line…
Justices End 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors →
Does this mean it’s time to start trying price fixing?
It would be really cool if someone were out there live-tumblring (or twittering) their wait-in-line (I’m sorry… quest) for an iPhone
“The incident: dog excrement found on the roof and windows of the Romney station...”
– Shame on you, Mitt Romney
“4 percent of adults ages 20 years and older have never had sex.”
– CDC Report
How much do you know about the history of the ice... →
For someone who likes ice cream as much as I do, I didn’t do so well. 6/11. Go beat my score.
Wiiiiiiiii!: Nintendo Opens Wii to Indy Developers... →
What generation are you part of, really? Take this... →
Test your generation by your consumption of new media. I’m part of Generation X really, but in this test, I’m borderline Y. All I’d have to do is join Facebook and that would be it to push me waaay over the edge. Well, that, or acknowledge the fact that I sometimes take pictures with my phone. (PS, I would love to text to communicate with my parents, but they don’t think of...
“Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“To enjoy “Live Free or Die Hard” requires one imaginative leap of...”
– Old-school, bare-knuckle action — McClane delivers and then some Is it really that big of a leap? Beware those evil geeks!
Canadians use the web more than the rest of us...... →
ABC News: 100 Blogs We Love →
But apparently we don’t know how to actually link to these blogs. Or maybe whatever publishing tool we use doesn’t let us place links in our articles. Why would we want to? This is the web, after all. Can’t you just use Google to find these blogs on your own?
“Minister, the Anglican Church deciding not to bless same sex marriages can...”
– Sheila (via Your View: Anglicans vote No on blessing same-sex unions) I’m sorry… what?
The Yahoo! Exodus: Who's Next? →
“One phone number for all your phones, for life”
– GrandCentral, soon to be acquired by Google
“A judge ruled Monday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a...”
– Dry Cleaner Wins Missing Pants Case Thereby keeping at least some of my faith in our system of civil justice alive
Illegitimacy has risen despite--indeed, because... →
Disturbing. And all the more reason to favor wide distribution of very effective birth control methods
“I just don’t understand how fish got so removed from the compassion radar that...”
– Guess What? Fish Are Not Swimming Vegetables (via rickr) I have never understood this either. I mean, in SF people who said they were vegetarians were careful to specify if they were vegans vs lacto-ovo vegetarians. Then I moved away from CA and suddenly self-proclaimed “vegetarians”...
Now watching: Traveler →
Three grad school buddies embark on one last roadtrip, starting in NY… where one of them, Will Traveler, seems to frame his other two friends for blowing up a museum. Talk about a sleeper terrorist cell, huh? Still unclear exactly where this summer series is going. I’d really prefer it if it is a self-contained one-summer story rather than continuing next year but for now it’s...