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The thing about Ping is...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:16:38 -0400

I’m not 100% sure I’m ready for my friends to see me pre-order that Linkin Park album.

Perhaps I’ve already said too much.

internerd: 11:11 “I HAZ IT! I FINALLY HAZ IT!...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:03:59 -0400

internerd:

11:11

“I HAZ IT! I FINALLY HAZ IT! VICTORY!!!1!!”

Notes for the Old Lady In Front

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:00:56 -0400

Tonight I’m flipping through my old piano jazz fakebook from my high school days (where our non-school-sanctioned breakout combo played mostly bebop in retaliation against our too-straight marching-band-at-heart actual jazz band teacher) and the notes I left myself are pretty strange.

After Charlie Parker’s Confirmation I sketched out the melody line to Happy Birthday in pen.

Not sure why. It’s the only thing in here in pen. Everything else in pencil. Must’ve been important.

Before On The Sunny Side Of The Street I have a note that says “do as request after Charlie Brown band intros. Old Lady in front wants it.”

Before Fly Me To The Moon there’s a note in my piano teacher Nancy’s handwriting that says “try to add quartals, 9, 11, 13.”

I tried that tonight to mixed success. I still suck at voicing.

There’s also a significant amount of changes Nancy penciled in to Autumn Leaves since whoever edited this fakebook clearly got it wrong. I trust Nancy’s ear, and guess what, her changes sound much better.

And something horrible must’ve happened at a practice, because both Salt Peanuts and Girl from Ipanema are crossed out and I wrote “EVIL” in big block letters over them. Yikes.

Woodchopper’s Ball is also completely crossed out and a note that says “Shawn fucking hates this one.”

Next to Work Song I wrote that our dummer likes this around 140bpm “because he’s a white boy.”

And finally there’s a note next to When I Fall In Love that reads “Mr. Evans says Nate will sing this out of tune. That’s why he’s a sax player.”

Sorry, Nate.

Silly Season

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:58:02 -0400

…has begun. It’s almost 1am and I’m having a hard time sleeping and I have to be back at the office later this morning to make more TeeVee ads where we rightfully go after one (or possibly more) Republican(s) for being just terrible horrible people and saying and doing terrible horrible things.

So mark this, the weekend of Liz’s birthday, as the first weekend this election cycle that’s being eaten up by Silly Season Video Editing.

Hooray!

catbird: I LOVE READING TUMBLRS IN GOOGLE CHROME! Or, should I...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:53:50 -0400

catbird:

I LOVE READING TUMBLRS IN GOOGLE CHROME!

Or, should I say,

A AAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAA AA AAAAAA AAAAAA!

I get this all the time. WTF, GOOGLE?

This seems pertinent to the recent idiotic national discussion...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:58:37 -0400

This seems pertinent to the recent idiotic national discussion about a local New York lower Manhattan zoning issue.

incorrigiblerobot: via www.balloon-juice.com

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:43:13 -0400

incorrigiblerobot:

via www.balloon-juice.com

"Don’t hire an agency that does sample work before you’ve explained your problem. What could they..."

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:48:00 -0400

“Don’t hire an agency that does sample work before you’ve explained your problem. What could they possibly be solving? They’re trying to impress you with pretty. Look through their portfolio and make sure the work is polished, sure. But don’t buy design unless you feel comfortable the practitioners have a good problem-solving process.”

- Mike Monteiro

Yes, yes, and yes.

Oh, sweet baby Jeesus, HuffPo. Stop. Just stop.

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:13:05 -0400

Oh, sweet baby Jeesus, HuffPo. Stop. Just stop.

lookatthisfuckingteabagger: (via brooklynmutt) Makes sense to...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:09:46 -0400

lookatthisfuckingteabagger:

(via brooklynmutt)

Makes sense to me. Does it to you?

New haircut. New glasses. Same shitty call-dropping phone.

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:59:00 -0400

New haircut. New glasses. Same shitty call-dropping phone.

"Judge Walker has not ever confirmed to anyone in the media what sexual orientation he may be. And..."

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:17:00 -0400

“Judge Walker has not ever confirmed to anyone in the media what sexual orientation he may be. And yet most major media organizations, from the New York Times and ABC News to the Washington Post and National Public Radio, have reported on him as gay or had commentators saying it.”

- Michelangelo Signorile: Judge Vaughn Walker Gets Smeared By the Media

The first time I heard Walker’s name was as a “Reagan-nominated” judge. Then I heard he was “possibly gay”. Next thing I knew, it was just “gay”.

Walker has never confirmed his sexuality. And it doesn’t matter. As Signorile says:

What will they say next? That Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg can’t rule on abortion because they have uteruses?

(via incorrigiblerobot)

Using the right wing’s logic on this one, even a hetero judge couldn’t make a ruling because his heteroness would interfere with his ruling. So we would need a unsexed jude. And then they’d say “how could anybody who doesn’t want to stick his wiener in anything be able to rule on this?” and we’d say back “YOU FUCKING LOST GET OVER IT” as we dramatically drop the printout of the 100some page ruling on the table and walk away.

weselec: everythinginthesky: There is nothing I can say that...

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:10:41 -0400

weselec:

everythinginthesky:

There is nothing I can say that would make this movie’s tagline, in conjunction with this poster, any less appropriate. And I just have to accept that.

via

I don’t get it.

And this is a kid’s movie?

Me: Ugh, what are you watching?

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:49:01 -0400

Me: Ugh, what are you watching?
Lady: 30 Rock.
Me: I know, but...do you notice anything weird about it?
Her: No.
Me: You see that big, black border around the whole thing, and how it looks and sounds all cruddy?
Her: No. I don't.
Me: Really? You don't see how the picture is all shrunk down in the screen and everything's a little chunky and blurry?
Her: No. I don't care.
Me: Okay, watch this. [Goes through the guide up to the 400s where the HD is.] Okay, are you watching?
Her: [Not watching. Playing with the dog and laughing because he did something cute.]
Me: Okay, are you watching? [Swaps channels, engulfed in a glorious wave of fidelitous sound and image.]
Her:...
Me: You see that?
Her: No. I don't care.
Me: ...
Her: ...
Me: I love you.
Her: [Laughs at the stupid dog.]

The Proposition 8 Ruling (in simple language)

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:16:59 -0400

squashed:

On August 4, 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which prohibits California from recognizing same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. The ruling was stayed pending appeal—which means that nothing will happen until a Federal Appeals court reviews it. As you might imagine, it will be appealed. The ruling itself is 138 pages long. I’ll summarize.

The previous lawsuit challenged Proposition 8 on procedural grounds. My post on that case is here. The California Supreme Court disagreed with me. Since the California Supreme Court gets the final say on the California Constitution, it got the last word.

The new suit was brought by two same-sex couples on different grounds. And, since it was brought in Federal court, the California Supreme Court doesn’t get a say at all. Something strange happened. California’s government was sued. The Attorney General said, essentially, “I agree that this thing is unconstitutional.” The other government groups said, “I’m not going to bother defending this.” So did a number of other people, including “ProtectMarriage.com - Yes on 8.”

The people who brought the lawsuit (“the Plaintiffs”) claimed two things. First, they claimed that marriage is a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (There is some decent precedent on this—the only question is whether the protected marriage is the one man/one woman kind of marriage). If the 14th Amendment protects same-sex marriage, the court reviews the case using “strict scrutiny” which I’ll discuss below.

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Marceaux said.. “Also I’m going to remove all gold-fringe...

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:19:51 -0400

Marceaux said.. “Also I’m going to remove all gold-fringe flags.”

—-

Umm…like the one you’re wearing?

How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:28:01 -0400

How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR:

(via rafaelfajardo)

onemansjunk: ladies and gentleman, the next president of the...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:28:02 -0400

onemansjunk:

ladies and gentleman, the next president of the united states: basil marceaux.

There’s more…

internerd: amandavackrinos: theduty: moneyries: Tumblr: Help...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:50:39 -0400

internerd:

amandavackrinos:

theduty:

moneyries:

Tumblr: Help Report Sarah Palin’s Ground Zero mosque note to Facebook for being “Racist/Hate Speech.” Click-through to do it.

DO IT.

Done

DO IT!

The New York Times is really going after that Digg linkbait,...

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:37:57 -0400

The New York Times is really going after that Digg linkbait, aren’t they?

And then you read the story.

And it’s nothing like what you were promised.