February 2009
15 posts
mkbuild, an iPhone project build script →
"I'm up!" button
I hate waking up before my alarm, going into the bathroom, and then hearing it beep-beep-beep-beep-beep while I’m sitting on the toilet. Especially when I have a roommate.
Every alarm has a Snooze button, to silence the alarm once it starts. Does anybody make an alarm with an I’m up! button, to stop the alarm from sounding in the first place?
Things like this infuriate me
bridgecomedy:
johnrobertwilson:
Dying woman spends £40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore
A woman gets a lethal brain tumor, takes a life’s worth of savings and epicly fails. Forty thousand British pounds is $57,624. She’s taking money that her mother has been saving for her wedding, and is using it so she can look like Demi Moore in her casket. Her justification is, “I want...
“Your twenties are a crucial time, and I’d argue that it’s harder to discover...”
– johnaugust.com » On being here or there
Struck by Lightning →
“Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look...”
– Essay - Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy - NYTimes.com
I was told not to burn my bridges, so I don’t. In fact, I devote so much of my time attempting to maintain every damn bridge that connects itself to my island that I never have time to travel across any of them.
Solving the Plastic Bag Problem →
I completely missed a credit card payment recently, not because I didn’t have the money, but because I simply forgot to pay it. The ensuing periodic finance charges inspired me to finally get around to creating scheduled tasks in Things that appear around the time my bills arrive and are due around the time my bills are due.
This was harder (for me) than it sounds, because the bank’s...
I promised myself I could have ice cream after I caught up on sorting through and paying my bills. Now it is 2:00 AM, and although it is a bad idea, I am going to keep my promise.
