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A collection of nearly useless things.

Sunday

 

Worlds colliding

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Wednesday

 
Katie wrote a piece for the signifier about TV theme songs called A Love Note To Theme Music. I thought the table of contents was particularly, if unintentionally, clever.

Katie S pens A Love Note To Theme Music


I don't know if they meant to put her full name, but I like that as much as Dakota's Myth.




Gmail productivity tips I already knew (you can learn to be really productive when you have time).

However, this was new to me:


Gmail query syntax is pretty flexible. You can rewrite
(from:alice@example.com OR from:bob@example.com OR from:carol@example.com)
as
from:(alice|bob|carol)@example.com





This seems clever, but too expensive. For 3 cents a page, those could have something already on them.




The Day After Thanksgiving, with Grandma and Grandpa




Ira Glass on story telling.


#1 - The one most viewed, but the least informative of the bunch. He refers to "video pods".



#2 - "Between a half and a third of everything that we try, we'll go out, we'll get the tape, and then we kill it."

"If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you could get super lucky."


#3 - "We get into this because we have good taste ... but for the first couple of years you're making stuff, it's not that good ... but your taste is good enough that you can tell what you're making isn't good to you ... a lot of people don't get past that phase."


#4 - "The first time we get a camera we want to sound and act like people we see on TV... there's a real Ted Koppel on the same TV you're going to be on."




Hacking Knowledge article that was published on my birthday. I love any article that tells me to go to bed and eat breakfast. I always forget.




Csiksczentmihalyi.




You can bet 長井長吉 and 緒方 章 were two of the hardest working guys you ever met.

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Thursday

 

Why are there less wires here?

My mom's desk

I was down in Corpus Christi this weekend, to visit my mom (my real mom, not my adoptive mother).

She had this giant intimidating desk, about seven feet tall, with cubbies and storage and a light. Made out of laminae covered particle board, I think it once was a NASA Simpit Simulator, used in training astronauts to see if they were ready to see if they were ready to handle the real thing.

Now, I love a good desk. Something that makes you want to sit down and work. I want to be invited to sit down and start something.

I suggested she use the antique writing desk. The transfer was simple, but when we were done, cables cascaded down from the desk on the wall, like some tropicable waterfall. I realized concealing cables had been done and over done already, with greater effort than I was willing to give.

(Here's my very first tiphaiku)


I put a poster
Underneath to hide cables
Problem f'n SOLVED!


Woah. I KNOW! This sort of ingenuity is why I am in business for myself.

What's that? Would you like to be in business for myself? Watching our recruiting (recruitment?) video? It may show you compelling reasons to apply yourself? I'm not sure about this paragraph?

Who cares? Who are we? We call our company
May2007 Enterprises - THE FUTURE FOR NOW!!!!!!

Check out MAY2007.COM for more information. Wait no, that's not right. SH!T Someone stole it out from under us. Nevermind the website. Having your actual business name as a URL is not important.

It doesn't matter. We are May 2007, literally the future. We are also a solution and a mixture). And as long as I'm here, could I crash on your couch for while? I don't wanna mooch or become a fixture, I'll be gone in a month.

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