Anything worth doing takes long enough to do well that almost everyone massively underestimates how long it takes & how much time you spent.
Games & playing were created so kids practiced adulthood tasks & thinking. Now everything’s trying to get adulthood more like playing games.
Awesome, Obama hired my (& everyone’s) favorite info display guy, Edward Tufte, to track & explain the stimulus fund use: j.mp/9l35Xo
Best Oscar Commentary to @MoRocca for “Oprah’s going to give EVERYONE an Oscar!!” & “That acceptance speech was apartheid all over again!”
Saving as many Angie’s List pages locally before I canceling. Sadly, I haven’t found them worth much, but it’s better than randomly picking.
If she’d just said “Remember my dead husband? Turns out he’s alive. I’m going back to him,” none of this mess would’ve happened. #Casablanca
Are we better at math in the parallel universe where 1-10 are all 1-syllable & 11-20 are no more than 2-syllables? Curse you 7, 11,& 17!
It’s 12 years old, leaky, dirty, and worn, but it is the best car in the world that first warm day of near-Spring when you put the top down.
Wow, Ryan Seacrest anagramming to Aryan Secrets is almost as good as Ms. presByterianS. /@jimmyfallon
Nothing like @The_Real_Shaq tweeting you directly that he especially loves you to make for a pleasant, if surprising, Saturday morning.
Least favorite hand-dishwashing substance: dried egg yolk. 2nd place: oil. If I weren’t vegetarian, meat grease would be right up there.
Odd moment: Watching Cardinals, reference to @TacoInAHelmet leads me to research #TiaH leads to this j.mp/d1gELB link to our company.
So, @twitter says I “will only see replies in [my] home time line if [I’m] following both the sender & recipient” but that’s not true now.
My Macbook’s disappointing battery time works reasonably well as a “guess it’s time to end the meeting” marker.
The premise that you can eat the peel/skin of the kumquat feels like a prank to me. Sure you can technically eat it. It tastes like peel.
A cool thing about wikipedia causing people to wander in random thought directions is it makes it less weird I’ve done that my whole life.
The tuxedo industry is maddening. I can’t try on a tuxedo until AFTER I’ve chosen the one I want & paid for it. How’s that supposed to work?
An image that contains the same image (containing the same image) is using the Droste effect, named after Dutch cocoa: j.mp/HEBAF
Just saw a BE THERE II knit cap. It’s right about the 20th anniversary of those. Maybe the most helpful thing produced by the school system.
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