January 2008
just had a fantastic wrap for lunch. this is countered by having to install real player to watch a webinar. listening via phone instead.
more on being a "nedge"
[redacted]: shut up
[redacted]: he's not a nerd
me: i know
me: and neither am i
[redacted]: he's a nedge
me: nedge?
[redacted]: wanna know what that means?
[redacted]: [redacted] and i made it up
me: i do, actually
[redacted]: nerd with and edge
me: interesting
[redacted]: you don't have an edge
me: NICE
me: why don't i have an edge
me: i'm too much of an old man to have an edge, i suppose
[redacted]: and not old
[redacted]: wise beyond your years is better
me: gotchya.
[redacted]: only nerds say i am going to twitter about what you just said
me: so that is why i'm not a "nedge"
[redacted]: yeah
[redacted]: although you lke good music
[redacted]: you might be a nedge
me: i think i'm just a "nedge" with too many 1950s convictions
[redacted]: yes
a colleague just taught me about a new term that she and a friend coined. if you are a “nedge” that means you’re a nerd with an “edge.”
“It adds to that the fact that what people really want is the ability to connect...”
– Seth’s Blog: Tribe Management
when you’re lost in the woods, moss always grows on the north side of the tree. courtesy of WGHT 1500, the local AM traffic radio station.
“The problem with hype is that it transforms the use value of a would-be work of...”
– The Hype Cycle, n+1 (via cbp)
Nonstandard adjectives in mathematics →
dailymeh:Ranjit Bhatnagar once propounded the notion of a “nonstandard” adjective. This is best explained by an example. “Red” is not usually a nonstandard adjective, because a red boat is still a boat, a red hat is still a hat, and a red flag is still a flag. But “fake” is typically nonstandard, because a fake diamond is not a diamond, a fake Gucci handbag is...
“How do you win a race you might not even know you’re running?”
– Tyler Cowen on invisible competition and how it differs from… (kottke.org). well, duh. re-define the “race” and what you “win” so everyone else is playing your game instead of you playing theirs. just take control of what is important to you. plain and simple.
FW: Mr. Ratcliffe,
man, i hope i don’t miss friday’s unit test. ——-Original Message——- From: James Koterba [mailto:JKoterba@rock-hill.k12.sc.us] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:16 PM To: Ratcliffe-Lee, John Subject: Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Ratcliffe, Today we continued to work on our Imperialism notes. If anyone needs to catch up they can come by my room. If they’ve...
“This type of laugh seemed stronger to me, as they would be laughing at something...”
– Steve Martin on being funny - Boing Boing
“Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell
swissmiss: Is it possible to take a photograph of... →
i plan on participating in this.
“There is danger in theoretical speculation of battle, in prejudice, in false...”
– johnmayer.com mr. mayer lays down the sword and leaves us one less good read (via AP).
more signs that things are not quite right: my mom is far more active in second life than i am. took me by surprise to say the very least.
“We’re not living in a very creative era. That’s not good or bad; it’s just the...”
– Jean Touitou i knew it!
@sumrtime: that was actually by matt hurst (http://tinyurl.com/2jurzj) and imported from my google reader shared items. sorry to confuse.
analyzing google reader trends on a saturday night: 356 subs w/ 21k items read in the past month. only 2k of note and 5 that i shared. -twitter there is something more to this stat, i just can’t really put my finger on it. if i’ve read over 21,000 items inside of a month and only found 2,000 of them to be interesting enough to read/use/share later…i feel like that’s a...
Wired - The Secret Life of a Blog Post →
The current edition of Wired has an article which Frank Rose and I wrote describing what happens to a blog post once you hit the ‘publish’ button. The article has now made it to the web in the form of a snappy flash graphic which allows you to move around the diagram to focus on the details. I’ve been chatting off and on with Frank for a while about the social media space and...
sure sign that your week was pretty busy and you didn’t get nearly as much done as you wanted/intended to: 82 open, unread tabs in safari.
“equally silver spoon and silver lining.”
– NPR: What’s Your Six-Word Memoir?
oh north jersey, you slay me.
Fwd: transcendental
from allan day (GuyutileFleming@snopes.com) date Jan 24, 2008 3:06 PM “I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.” Robert Green Ingersoll having a creepy “oh-no-doc-brown-opened-the-letter” moment right now.
a moment of reflection about projection. how do you describe how your day is going most often? for me - “could be better, could be worse.”
“Grace under less-than-desirable conditions trumps just about every other quality...”
– Design View / Andy Rutledge - Falling Down
@bpp: i am! http://jratlee.com. or matt m. can find me through his dashboard b/c i just followed him. very cool look so far inside npr.
I propose
that when giving directions, we indicate to which street or avenue the location is closest. For example, if the location is closer to 2nd Ave than to 1st Ave, instead of arbitrarily saying 4th between 1st and 2nd (just because it’s consecutive), we should say 4th between 2nd and 1st. — dihard not only is this a great idea but it also represents some pretty on-point thinking about how...
“Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
there were lots of cops and jehovah’s witnesses on the road this morning. i’ve been searching, unsuccessfully, for a correlation of sorts.
gf stole iPhone but I beat her handily at wii, beer and pizza. yes those are sports and they might explain my doubled wii age, haha.
@katefinn is the coolest
my friend hasket (actor in chicago) would be proud. i actually stayed in the theatre until the credits had rolled. thnx @tombiro for tix.
“I like this lifestyle and I will do what I can do to protect it.”
– The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com…Home of the “Domain King”
@juliaroy: it is a big win for all. i’m a huge fan of streamlining identity management on the web (i.e. stuff like what claimID is doing).
just brought the majority of my colleagues back to circa 6th grade with my proposal to play a jock jams soundtrack during office hours.
I simplified zachklein.com →
— zachklein very smart. love the design. although, zach, secretenemyhideout breaks (at least for me) in safari. the background for your header, and what seems to be the main posts container, don’t line up and all is shifted to the right.
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Australian youth... →
just watch the interview.
“MBA” will become/is now already an over-used acronym. stevie j. did me a solid though with the apple tv updates being free in a few weeks.
finally found a flaw in GOOG reader recs. it just told me to read a blog who’s author died, tragically, a week before christmas. not cool.
@cthilk: i have failed you. please spare me, haha.
spent the evening plowing through too many feed items. hope zinc lozenges make sore throat go away before the AM. illness is inopportune.
@tombiro: i have a good friend who works at marvel and has been working on just that for the past year. he recommends it, obviously. hah.
spherical hang-ups
justin told me during lunch at edo (sushi joint) that he doesn’t eat fish because they come from a different sphere of existence. they come from the ocean and we occupy the land. i don’t have any similar “spherical” hang-ups about food but this is the same logic why i fear flying so much. i hear about the plane crashes and my usual reaction is “well, duh… we...