Let's see, you've got your Twitter for your short posts, your Facebook for your real friends, your blog for the long-ass rants, and your Tumblr for the oh jesus fuck just shoot me now.
These are gold. My favorites:
- Do you pledge not to pursue war crime prosecution against the Taliban when they waterboard our soldiers?
- What Sharia laws do you support other than criminalizing homosexuality, shaming assault victims & legalizing theocracy?
- When you slash funding for the NIH, how will you notify parents that their children’s cancer treatments are being ended?
How many times have you been to a product website and seen big bold letters proclaiming that you can CONNECT and ENGAGE and DISCOVER? Every time I see that, I hit the back button, and I bet you do too.
It’s because it’s vague. It’s supposed to sound exciting, but it’s not. It doesn’t say anything about what you can really do with the app.
Nobody wants to connect or discover.
A closer look at the Electric Library smart cover. (view in HD to get a good look at the leather grain and microfiber inside)
More shameless self-promotion. I’ve sold four of these so far, and I figure there are likely more folks out there who’d love one for Christmas. So please, feel free to reblog if the spirit moves you :-)
For those who are interested in such things, this sale ends today. No info on the website, sale orders only accepted via email. I guess payment will be taken over the phone? I dunno, it’s kinda weird. (via lucky shirt)
Watching Stephen Colbert interview Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Sippin’ on good coffee. Makin’ things. (Taken with Instagram at Eagle’s Nest)
I’ve already sold the first three dark brown Smart Covers that I made, but there are more of those to be had. And, just now, I finished the listings for some black ones, and some reddish-brown ones. They’re made-to-order, for now, so I don’t build it until it’s ordered. Five of each are available. After they’re gone, unless I get a wild hair about a Kickstarter project, these are gone for good.
I guess I should maybe elaborate.
I’m sitting at a gate in the C-wing of McCarran International. Earlier, a male Transportation Security Officer approached a woman behind me in the security line at PDX for no discernible reason other than to compliment her body. The above paraphrases the line he opened with. The woman laughed it off, and the incident concluded. Ostensibly, she enjoyed it. So why am I, on her behalf, infuriated?
(Disclaimer: Being up to my molars in frothy first-world white male privilege, I am utterly unqualified to talk about any of this. But I’m gonna anyway.)
Click through and read the whole thing. I love the way Dan writes.
Reward. (Taken with Instagram at Tucker’s Supercreamed Ice Cream)
“EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL TO SOMEONE”? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? THEN EVERYONE IS UGLY TO SOMEONE TOO, SO YOUR SUGARY BROMIDE IS ESSENTIALLY MEANINGLESS!
‘I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL’ IS SOMEONE’S FAVORITE BOOK. LET’S JUST SCRAP SHAKESPEARE AND START TEACHING TUCKER MAX IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH!
I’M ALL FOR POSITIVE SELF IMAGE BUT LET’S GET SERIOUS! EVERYONE CANNOT BE BEAUTIFUL. THAT’S WHY WE MADE THE WORD BEAUTIFUL. HAVE ENOUGH RESPECT FOR ME AS A SELF-AWARE ADULT NOT TO SPEW HALLMARK SLOGANS AT ME LIKE I’VE NEVER SEEN A MIRROR! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!
I'm a web developer in the San Francisco Bay area. I'm teaching myself to become a Cocoa developer. My other tumblr is for iPhone rants. I like dogs more than I like cats, and I choose the Beatles over Elvis.
I'm not really much of a punkass, it's just a moniker that has served me well since college in the mid-90s. The only internet-fame I can lay claim to is from when I built my car, and then built it again.
