2008

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

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...

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...

Shovelglove: The Sledgehammer Workout

Reason 21 for hating Tumblr: Rampant incorrect overuse of...

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...”
— (via tumblinas: via Hollywood...

“…Who gives a fuck, you might ask? Actually, a lot of people. A few hundred thousands...

Rock Chalk

Flight Patterns animation

I’ve mentioned the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit...

i will turn your pain into an academic...

me: so i showed some footage of you
everyone thought you looked nicer than expected with your tucked in button down
i was like "oh yeah, he has a job and stuff"
J: Next time I'll get some fake tattoos and wear leather pants.
me: yeah i want some authenticity
i would like to come back maybe and interview some others
sometime
J: you should really interview Ned.
There's a dissertation's worth of dysfunction there.
me: awesome
thats what i like to hear

On the beach in Santa Barbara, this bird spoke to me.

 Santa Monica washout

Ok, I’m ready to come back now.

Site Meter and Cyberstalking

This is one of those things that I knew was possible, but sort of decided to unknow, you know? Not a...

So I found a cheap flight to LA. So I’m going on...

More than the budget we determined for...

My office has a gym and the woman who runs it has degrees in nutrition and exercise physiology. She...

(via yourdp) Downtown KC

Getting comfortable on the freshly washed sheets. What an...

“We shall distribute the company’s surplus earnings to all...”
— Masara Ibuka, again, this time...

Listen

Why I bought a stupid book that I didn't...

listen to this embarrassing story.a couple weeks ago i took remy to barnes and noble because he...

"I agree that subjective feelings of...

(via alexbalk) Great Moments in Journalism Dude, those...

I can see the St. Patrick’s Day Parade going by on 5th Avenue from my office. It sounds fun,...

“So if you are freaking out, join the club. I’ve been...”
— CT, of course.

Tax Crisis

I haven’t been very good about withholding money for taxes this year. To date, I’ve sent...

All but one of my good friends is in a serious relationship. I admit to thinking of them on the...

Happy Birthday yesterday, Amanda.

From the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit now thru 5.12...

GOOG 411. Directory assistance for free. But...

I will now do 22 minutes of work.

discussion of happy pills

Ahh, a great descendent of the brain in a vat hypothetical. Problem is, I would plug in to...

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer...”
— Edward Abbey

Kansas City is in Missouri

PHYSIQUE 57®

The Value of a Dollar

me: i dont know anything about this
P: it's a play
do u want to go or not ?
me: so im unlikely to pay $25 for a ticket...
P: i have tix
P: i like that you immediately went to the student discount price
me: ha well im definitely not paying 50$ to see anything
P: i'm going to the opera on wed
me: maybe id pay that to watch elvis costello brush Gravy
but thats about it

“This party will give me a chance to prove I’m more...”
— The 14-year-old subject of...

Such a promising opening paragraph.

pantaloons: WE WERE FRACTIOUS AND overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who...

On the post reblogged from Pantaloons...

Agreed. What more is there to say? Except that I think and I hope that this blatent sexism is in...

I'm not going to take it anymore.

pantaloons: “I’m stunned by the amount of offensively sexist Anti-Hillary groups that exist on...

Six word memoirs.

Wasted potential? Too soon to tell. Desk jockey for dough. Wants out.

Can you write your memoir in six words? I'm...

Y’all, there’s a little RSS feed button up top there. You know, in case you need to get...

The apocalypse is now. I toldja it was a...

Freshly bathed and fluffy.

FOR AMANDA claudia: srsly. Andre Jordan Doodles. 

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on...

doree: “So everyone’s creaming over MIT professor Dan Ariely’s new book, Predictably...

300-400 calorie meals

me: lets go to lunch next week
i know a neat place we can go
its a surprise
B: sure
i look forward to the meting we have scheduled
B: i am anxious to hear your ideas
me: i am anxious to hear about your anxiety
B: and feel that my attention to detail and teamworking skills will benefit your lunch experience
me: im a pro-active team player who loves to think outside the box.
me: the lunch box, that is!
B: HAHAHAH!!

Stuff White People Like

Listen

Things I am excited about

1. T minus 19 days until my most favoritest day. THE BEGINNING OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. 2. Rock...

One more, this one from Amanda. Okay, I know! But the...

"Your art doesn't know what the fuck it's...

dog!

Persepolis trailer in the lobby today, Celine Dion vids in the cafeteria. Both better than sad dead...

Let's do what this Tumblr is good at. Links...

I kind of hate this tumblelog now. All tumbleogs actually. Most of them are just ugly lists of...

NB for the below: “coded reproach” does not equal kiss or attempted kiss or anything to...

“The real truth is that, “in the land of the blind, the...”
— Just Some Guy

B: i got a harsh lesson in single life last night
as if god was telling me "stop and think a second"
me: wha happened?
B: i met up with my UK subetters at union pool
later at night
around 11
me: ok
B: i watched them descend into desperate UP behavior- havent seen this in years
me: UP?
B: union pool
we watch the band
they dance like idiots, entranced- the band is mediocre
they obsess over (guess who) the singer
me: you think lots of good bands are mediocre
B: true!
we get a table
men come over and just talk to them
scummy dudes- blatantly looking to get laid
terrible convo
they say the men are gross etc
yet still give out their # and flirt
me: everybody drunk?
B: one guy leaves whom they had been observing and one brit, laura, runs after him down the street asking him to come out and party with us
not terribly drunk
he says no thanks
B: whilst conversing with them i learn the following:
me: isnt this more terrifying for me than you?
B: YES
i learn this...
1. they are "looking to get laid and are too busy for relationships"
me: this is why i refuse to live in wmsbrg btw
B: HAHA i know
me: the girls are saying this about the boys?
or themselves?
B: themselves
they wana get laid
me: "i'm too busy to be loved."
B: 2. would not leave union pool until a hot guy was with them
me: haaaaaaaaaaa.
is that place jumpin on a weds?
B: 3. do not expect any man they meet in a bar to be decent- in fact they would HOPE he doesnt call again
(blatant lie)
me: "im too busy to eat that delicious chocolate ice cream. ill have this saltine instead."
B: yes
anyway
i left disgusted at 2
freaked me out
me: that place is a petri dish
like the 7th ring of hell or whatever
dont go there when youre weak

Just found this flyer from the best party we ever had on the...

I think I’ll go see this tonight. Have always meant...

The Stomach Turning-est Story Ever

goodnight

I’ve been in the paper hole for the past week and a half or so. Routines and resolutions have...

goodmorning

Fucking sad dead guy singing the world’s saddest song in the lobby again today. But! I...

The game is afoot.

About two weeks ago, someone without a photo or any details on his profile sent my sister a Facebook...

“I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who...”
— Eco, Postscript to The Name of...

Solojones gets press.

Getcher nose out muh kart. -passiveaggressivenotes

“It’s like watching the Wizard of Oz on YouTube.”
— My favorite analogizer, Ben,...

A great Q&A introduction to the terse, but...

 Are you in there, paper?

In the library now. Stumped.

ZZOMG!!!!1! Dog digs up dead best friend....

A restauraunt week concurrence.

Restauraunt Week Dinner.

Dinner tonight

“i get your point on timelines, but I guess to quote billy...”
— A quote of a quote. From M, in...

— via pantaloons

New Yere's Rezzohs Amendments and...

Okay, so my NYRs were a little too ambitious. Amendment: For now, I’ve narrowed the list of...

Casting for AIDS drug. Don't look too...

USAGE: TWO YEARS WORLDWIDE UNLIMITED, UNRESTRICTED, USE IN ALL BROADCAST. (NON-EXCLUSIVE)...

Thesis topic? Just detritus?

I often find weird notes that I’ve taken in class or while brainstorming ideas for papers....

Anxiously awaiting the completed...

pantaloons says: My current saving grace is listening to KEXP’s live performance podcasts....

Kelly Ripa works out at the same place I do....

Sausage legs.

But you don't really care for music, do...

The dozens of flat screen televisions in the main lobby of my office building often show music...

Dog in a blanket.

Christmas Recap: Gift Assessment...

me: my sister got me a ridiculous present
almost like she was fucking with me
a button down oxford type shirt
with a bodysuit bottom
like, it snaps underneath
B: whys that ridic?
me: who wears shirts that snap underneath?
B: i dont know
me: can you picture what im talking about?
B: ha
trying
i dont know what those words mean
underneath like yr groin?
me: yeah
B: geez
me: i knew some people who wore them in 6th grade
but i never did
(just to be clear)

But mine was blue. And that there white part is a thong.

Cheaper than Psychotherapy and at Least...

me: B, im having a crisis
B: i am here! whatup
me: this job is making me want to die
i just sit here and look at the internet for 9 hours
thats it
B: C., C. ...C.
is that bad?
thats as good as it gets!
me: i get headaches and feel panic-attack-y
not full on
B: i hear that
me: definitely increased anxiety as the day wears on
B: thats the "old human" trying to make you hunt sqirrels
me: like hunter gatherer?
B: yeah
me: im trying to look for new jobs
B: i understand though
me: problem:
so many people apply for jobs that you have to be uniquely qualified
and i am not uniquely qualified for much of anything except
[job I do now]
B: right
me: or i could take an internship
which i would probably hate equally
B: all roads lead back to disillusionment
me: you're right
but i used to believe!
B: make your [creative thing I aspire to do]- thats all that matters
the trying IS THE LIVING
well you might not be able to believe, but we still need to FEEL
something
me: all i feel is tired of the internet
B: 1. stop reading those blogs
2. write your memoirs
3. communicate with [industry I aspire to]
4. get something going you can do at work
program-wise
photoshop, pro tools, final cut, ullustrator, dreamweaver
me: oh, like, learn a program?
B: yeah
me: for awhile i listened to spanish podcasts
then for a few days i wrote one poem a day and sent it to amanda
B: hahaha- thats a start, for real
me: today i looked at [industry] internships
B: write comedy
there you go
me: you have to clean the kitchen at all of them
B: oh god
yeah yr 30
you dont need that
(anything past 24 is 30)

Preach, brother Jerry.

knew yeres rezzohs 2008

Keeping New Years Resolutions is hard. No one I know can do it; and most or my friends won’t...