exercise in futility
- Natalie: what are you up to?
- can i pick your brain on something?
- me: sure
- just at work
- Natalie: ok
- so i have to come up with ideas for how to make dell cooler
- me: hahaaaa
- Natalie: "like apple"
- i know
- my job sucks
My Little One Trick Pony
mylittleonetrickpony at gmail dot com
god wants a new edit
- Benjamin: awake?
- me: i just fucking lost the project
- attempting to salvage but it will not open
- Benjamin: gah!!
- me: horrifying
- 10 hours of work
- im trying to import from the cache
- now
- : i never even exported what i did last week to a QT so all thats gone if this doesnt work
- just had it as a project file
- motherfucker
- if there was anyone around to give me sympathy i would cry
- Benjamin: its still there you just need data recovery
- u can get it
- for 2 grand
- me: i can see it
- but reimporting it all and then re editing fuckkkkkkking suuuucksss
- so im trying to import this file called "timeline" from the cache
- we'll see
- anway
- Benjamin: god wants a new edit
I’m a little creeped out by the omniscience that “above all” suggests, but more than that, I can’t shake the image of fighter planes carpet bombing school computer labs.
N.B. Didn’t “cyberspace” gone the way of the VCR? Oh silly armed forces, you sound like somebody’s old dad.
rmndr from tufte
Pitching out corrupts within.
I got a guest pass to New York Sports Club. I asked the girl the other day when it expires. She says, “oops, they didn’t put any info on the card. you should go check with membership.” I do not go check with membership. The card continues to work. I think forever? I’m well past the two week guest pass deadline. Free neverending gym?
Shovelglove: The Sledgehammer Workout
For the (semi) cheap and (semi) lazy. Charming.
Update: looks like Lifehacker covered this about 2 years ago. Just consider me a revivalist.
Reason 21 for hating Tumblr: Rampant incorrect overuse of “parse.”
Scoring another Radar double double.I don’t hate Tumblr Radar, even though they sometimes feature Panic! at the Disco audio-streams as if this is 2005…and Xanga.
BUT.
I do hate the powers that be for forcing certain Tumblr-folk down our throat. I’m not saying that I have anything against Peter W. Knox, as I find him completely entertaining and earnest, but I do find fault in inundating the masses with the particular parsings of one person, especially if that one person (maybe not Peter W. Knox, maybe…well, I can’t think right now but) is posting a quote that another Tumblr ~*celebrity~* already posted.
Dumb shit by the same people on the Tumblr Radar mainpage: a reason to hate Tumblr.
And:
Using the phrase “double double”: a reason to hate Tumblr (though I’m sure Petey was just being silly. He would never actively try to sound so corny on the internet.)
date prep
- me: oh, its almost time
- this is exciting
- lucky you. you have a date with someone you like.
- B: yeah. game time!
- me: i am going to ride a stationary bike with 20 other people in a small hot room while a gay man yells at us over techno music
- B: its a fun feeling
- what the crap is that?
- ohhhhhhh
- work out
- me: yeah
- totallly fuuun
- whos the sucker now?
“ Warner Independent Pictures has optioned Lori Gottlieb’s Atlantic Monthly article “Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough” as well as the rights to her forthcoming book based on the article. Tobey Maguire and his Maguire Entertainment are producing.
(via tumblinas: via Hollywood Reporter)
Meh. Guh.
I’m consoled by the fact that most stuff that gets optioned never gets made. How do you fictionalize this piece and give it a cinematic arc? She’d have to finally meet some dude in end; the unlikelihood (impossibility?) of this is precisely the point of the article.
