June 2010
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This is summer
When the weather turns hot, I want sweet tea. McAlister’s Deli has good tea, but it’s $5 a gallon, and Speedway and QuikTrip gas stations recently started offering brewed iced tea instead of that concentrate-based Nestea and Lipton Brisk crap in the soda fountains, but it’s a bit of a drive to get to one.
And none of them have anything on this.
I have mint in the garden...
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Steve Carell leaving The Office →
Michael Scott has always been my least favorite part of the show. I’ve never enjoyed the “let’s see how uncomfortable and awkward we can get” aspect of the character, probably because I spend enough time feeling uncomfortable and awkward.
Even Jim and Pam are getting tiresome. The only thing they could do to really get me back would be if the focus of the show was Creed,...
Squelch
successisnotanoption:
phonezilla:
Reading Derek Powazek’s great post about the emerging mores of social networking sites set off a trip wire in my own brain regarding a feature I wish Twitter, at least, had: squelch.
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More than once I’ve wished that Twitter or a Twitter client supported squelching. There are times when I’d like to not read about a particular user’s goings-on, but I’d...
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I...
– William S. Burroughs
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Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think...
– From Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...
– Steve Jobs (via youmightfindyourself) (via dayofthedreamweavers) (via unequal-design) (via repose)
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People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated...
– Hunter S. Thompson
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing...
– Hunter S. Thompson