January 2010
108 posts
“From an economic point of view, I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big...”
– Paul Krugman, “The Big Zero,” New York Times December 27, 2009
December 2009
74 posts
You Belong With Me
nicolemarietherese:
This song, which I just heard for the first time this morning, makes me wish that I was still in high school and had an unrequited crush so that I could put these lyrics in my AIM profile.
On behalf of those of us with unrequited crushes, no you don’t.
Top 10 Songs of 2009
nicolemarietherese:
digsyfinallyhasa:
I always do two lists, one of songs actually released in 2009 and one of songs from previous years that I heard for the first time in 2009.
Get ready to disagree with all of this.
Top 10 Songs Heard For The First Time In 2009 6. The Beatles “In My Life” 1965
What? How? Brett, you just broke my brain.
My first thought was that he had only heard...
Call for submissions: SAT analogies
I want to start a blog of SAT analogies. The College Board removed them from the test in 2005 because they are a bunch of idiots.
In case you are too young and/or have blocked out the memory of the test by shading it in with a number 2 pencil, an example analogy is
fart : butt :: speech : mouth
where “:” is pronounced “is to” and “::” is...
He might be into you
That comedian and his book say he’s just not that into you. If he hasn’t called or emailed or responded to such, they are probably right. But if he simply hasn’t tried to kiss you: that could be a side effect of overexposure to “Warning Signs of Date Rape” and other educational material. Any reasonable person already knows that “No means No”; after hearing...
Up in the Air
See it.
Pantone's list of 100 colors to see before you die... →
I’ve only seen 87 of them.
Windows is still terrible →
My brother got me an Eee PC mini notebook computer for Christmas. I want to say right off the bat that I’m very grateful for the gift: it will be useful for testing web sites on Windows as well as…
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The dude and his extended family with the screaming children have left the train. Now I am free to drink the Snapple.
On the train. Dude sitting next to me insisted on giving me a Snapple. As in, refused to take “no thank you” as an answer, three times. Eventually I relented, and now I have a Snapple that I feel I can’t drink without looking like a liar.
Ask me anything about anything →
I’m getting on the formspring train. But since my personal life is not that interesting, and I’m a know-it-all with a compulsion to offer explanation without provocation, I invite you to use it to ask me anything about anything.
You can also use it to state an opinion and I’ll disagree with you.
chrisreblogs:
chelc:
My aunt wants Myst, (the computer game) for christmas, but since it’s not 1995, what’s something LIKE that. For a PC, and there is mystery, but you don’t shoot people/aliens.
also, how do you make things questions on tumblr?
Tere are a lot of games out there, mostly for download. BigFishGames has tons. Sadly most don’t have the attention to detail and production value...
It took me about two hours to get home. The Fat Penguin Show ended a little after midnight, and everybody had plans or wanted to go straight home. A large portion of the two hours was spent standing on the 42nd Street ACE platform, listening to the public address system. Because of rail damage, E trains were being held, for service between 23rd St and 50th St take an A local train instead. Later,...
What English Sounds Like to Foreigners →
adambozarth:
An Italian rock star wrote a song intended to sound like English, but is entirely gibberish. It’s pretty rockin’ too.
This is always something I was curious about, and whenever I meet people who speak English as a second language, I ask them to imitate English sounds.
I asked a guy from India to do this, and he responded, “Oh, I don’t know. I do know that when I am home and I...
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I attended a speed dating event last night
Technically, I was an extra for a television show (What Not To Wear) that was crashing a speed dating event. Not enough men had signed up, so the producers recruited extras to participate.
It was kind of fun, mostly because I was there on a whim and didn’t have any stake in it. But after it was over I was able to overanalyze and become a lot more cynical about it.
I noticed that, as the...
In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a rundown... →
via ohhleary:
The New York City subway has the highest farebox recovery ratio of any public transit system in the United States. That is, the MTA relies on our passenger fares for over 60% of its revenue for the subway. As a basis for comparison, Chicago’s CTA has a ratio of 44%, LA County’s Metro has a ratio of 30%, and the lowly Staten Island Railroad’s passenger fares account for just 15% of...
psa
nicolemarietherese:
chrysilla:
The next new decade starts in 2011, just as the new century started in 2001. 2010 is the last year of this decade.
The more you know…
It does not matter how many times people explain either concept to me, it will never make sense until someone draws a diagram.
Nicole, you’re thinking like a programmer!
Cris thinks 2010 belongs in this decade because...
Short, Self Contained, Correct Example →
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A Question for My Improv Friends
sherrypop:
I have a question about teams and team member relationships. In order for a team to be good, do all the members have to be good friends? Do they even have to like each other or is simply respecting differences enough? Also should they have similar tastes and sensibilities?
I know this might seem like a stupid question, but it’s just something I’ve been wondering for a while now. So...
Fizz buzz explained on Wikipedia →
Questions containing 'fizzbuzz' - Stack Overflow →
Stack Overflow is a site for programming questions. FizzBuzz is a children’s game.
Enterprise Implementation of the FizzBuzz problem →
Code Golf →
Based on the original perl golf, Code Golf allows you to show off your code-fu by trying to solve coding problems using the least number of keystrokes.