May 2012
7 posts
When a VC invites me out to a fancy dinner, I'm...
runningastartup:
Who the hell signed me up for Hilton Honors...
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money… but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you never do this again, that will be the end of it - I will not look for you, I will not...
“if it’s too loud ur too stoopid”
– walt
I hate shitty recruiters
Go away.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:36 PM, <a_sue@sonlightinternational.com> wrote:
How are you doing today?
Please Note: If you are not interested in receiving our JOB POSTINGS reply me with REMOVE in the subject line, we do apologize for any unintended inconvenience.
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April 2012
27 posts
If you use mixed-case for your email address on your business cards, it may as well be printed in rainbow-colored comic sans.
A summary of this morning's events.
thefrogman:
“Enjoy your tea and boring. I’ll enjoy my beer and fun. I guess you’d...”
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations →
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”
– your mom
Support email to Xmission
The AP at Caputo’s isn’t handing out IPs. Very distressing. Have lost appetite and will to live.
“Vive le pork!”
– me
“In America we have a song - “Ding-dong, llama-wonny. Jumpin’ with...”
– Mitt Romney
“The meek shall inherit. The bearded will take whatever the fuck they want.”
– me
“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older...”
– David Foster Wallace
finger was kind of cool →
The Tendency: How to look like you know what you... →
thetendency:
A few months ago my friend got his first real bar tending job and asked me for some advice. He wanted to know any tricks and techniques and also what drinks he should memorize specs for. I was so excited to nerd out with him about it all and I thought I would share some of the thoughts here.
…
“The IQ of a group is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of...”
“My name is the hamburgers with balance. Over.”
– via Google Voice voicemail transcription
“If you are serious about web design, you should get a copy of Adobe Photoshop....”
“Dear Diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped...”
–
wat
Recruiter voicemails are the best.
March 2012
52 posts
Guernica
patrick: i did all this layout for the site in chrome
patrick: firefox rendered it perfectly
patrick: safari rendered it perfectly
me: I'll bet it looked like a goddamned picaso in IE
patrick: internet explorer looked like a goddamn picaso
patrick: hahaa
me: hahaha
patrick: you beat me to it!
from job description
It would be great (but not mandatory) if you…
have Solaris experience (we’re always experimenting)
experimenting with what? time machines?
F-
this game company in the bay
is using the insanity wolf meme to advertise for jobs on the bart
they just have
WORK AT KIXEYE
BE AWESOMER
top/bottom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurafire/6642312081/
F-
time to put a wrinkle in my brain
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/
on the preparation of Anaheim chiles
paige: nice - talk to me about anaheim chiles for one moment then we'll return to what you're trying to talk about
me: fresh?
me: roasted?
me: canned?
paige: do I have to roast the skins off?
paige: yes
paige: fresh
me: roast them
paige: dammit
me: mmm...
paige: I suck at that
me: it's best that way, at least
paige: how?
me: just burn the little bastards up
me: free flavor
me: you have electric, don't you?
paige: yes
me: poop
me: no grill?
paige: let me see if my gas grill works
me: that would be ideal
Today's Tomorrow: The 5DMKII VIEW CAMERA →
todaystomorrow:
Well almost… I’ve had this Piccolette Contessa-Nettel (1919) folding camera for ages. Its been a great piece of photo history sitting on my shelf. Was curious if it could make pictures again, so I hacked it onto my 5D. Here are the results. WOW!!! IT’S ALIVE!!!
Zeiss Ikon 7.5cm f6.3 (wide…
“Don’t cry because it happened.
Smile because it is over.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Battle of Trafalgar
cassette tape culture →
“Something about getting drunk first thing in the morning and watching cartoons...”
– PocketFullofAssholes